Music

Living in Miami means having the luxury to celebrate the new year outside without getting frostbite. The temperature dips below 70 degrees only on occasion, so while your friends up North are bundled up in five layers, you’re hanging out on yachts, rooftops, and beaches in December. Bid adieu to 2017 and celebrate the new year in true Miami fashion. From fireworks cruises to oceanside bashes, here are the best places to watch fireworks on New Year’s Eve.

This year was an epic 365 days for music in South Florida. But along the way, we lost some of our state’s finest artists, from hometown legends to local talents who hit it big on the world stage. As the year draws to a close, we remembe Florida’s fallen musicians of 2017.

Electronic-music producer Nghtmre is known for extremely fast-paced sets — he usually cycles through a song a minute — as well as absolutely insane light displays and wholesale exploitation of the build-drop, build-drop dynamic. He’s clearly taken some cues from Skrillex, the messiah of wobbly, party-forward dance music who helped launch Nghtmre’s career during a Miami music festival a few years ago.

Holly Gleason’s Woman Walk the Line explores how women in country music affected the lives of some of the leading figures in entertainment and journalism.

From a Marley brothers reunion, to a surprise pop-up performance by Shakira, to the “Evaculation” song, 2017 gave Miami reasons to find joy in the midst of a tough year.

When it comes to ringing in the new year Miami-style, there isn’t a shortage of things to do. But it’s no secret that those über-fabulous things will cost you a pretty penny. From fireworks to bars serving free drinks, here are the ten best free ways to ring in the new year. Save your money, party responsibly, and spend your cash on ridesharing.

With 2017 winding down, an important decision needs to be made: How will you ring in 2018? This being Miami, that choice won’t be hard. There’s a plethora of parties happening all around the city, and venues and nightclubs are quickly booking acts and offering the promise of a free…

Life came at you fast in 2017 — and not just the political part of it. Musicians, festivals, venues, and other nightlife-adjacent entities kept Miami’s music scene just as lively (and sometimes, just as embarrassing). Here are the biggest things that happened in Miami music in 2017. 1. Rolling Loud…

“This ain’t no joke team, I ain’t panicking, I just gotta figure it out.”

We might very well be on the path to nuclear war, but somehow we’re still looking forward to 2018.

But then there is the MatzoBall. This holiday bash has been bringing together party Hebrews for 31 long years.