Best Concert of the Week: Matisyahu at Fillmore Miami Beach

In what’s beginning to look like a yearly holiday event, Matisyahu returns to South Florida to fill our warm winter evenings with sumptuous religious reggae. The Jewish rapper and singer, best known for his hit single “One Day,” was also here last December for the tenth anniversary of his album Live at Stubb’s.

Five Underground South Florida Hip-Hop Artists to Watch in 2017

Your current music rotation of South Florida artists is probably easy to guess. You listen to Kodak Black to kickstart your morning. By lunch, you’re bobbing your head to Denzel Curry to get through a rough day at the office. On your way home, you blast Wifisfuneral because you’re 100 percent over your shitty job. And then, right before bed, you run through Robb Banks’ “C4” just because it’s that good.

The Voice‘s Paxton Ingram Won’t Quit Calling Miami Home

As a singer who’s made it to primetime, Paxton Ingram has learned to improvise both onstage and off. He’s quick to pull out a stick of incense from his backpack and light it during stressful moments like, for instance, when his interviewer is 45 minutes late and panicked because she…

Trifecta of Miami Music Veterans Buy Club Space With Plans to Reinvigorate the Venue

Imagine coming to Club Space on a Tuesday to catch a live act. The show ends around midnight, and if you’re feeling frisky, you stop at Libertine for a well-crafted nightcap. You get home around 1 a.m. and wake up the next day to find your phone hasn’t been stolen, your jaw doesn’t ache, and you — shockingly — don’t feel the urge to dive headfirst into a bag of McDonald’s breakfast and take a 48-hour nap.

SunGhosts and Friends Celebrate Winter at Churchill’s

Floridians don’t really know how to handle winter. While the rest of the country is shoveling snow and huddling around trash-can fires, we’re wearing shorts and hitting the beach. But we still find ways to celebrate the season — for example, with “Lots of good…

Pop Stars Invade South Florida at the Annual Jingle Ball

Top 40 radio is a beloved institution for a vast number of listeners. And few stations in America have been playing the hits as long as WHYI-FM. Better known around these parts as Y100, the pop station has been broadcasting whatever the kids happen to be listening to that week…

Miami’s LCD Soundsystem Fans Get an Appetizer This Friday

Where were you when Hurricane Matthew screwed up your III Points plans? I wasn’t even in Miami. I was planning to head down from college in Jacksonville when the storm steered its cruel, windy gaze toward the Sunshine State. The six-hour drive became too dangerous to attempt as the storm…

Wax Is OK With Being Sort of Famous

With the advent of social media, our culture’s come to know nontraditional ways of attaining varying levels of fame and the unique artists that often take advantage of those unconventional paths to success. These avenues weren’t available decades or even years ago. And because of that, some rocket from the depths…

Edan Archer’s New EP Is a Southern-Gothic Fever Dream

“I look like a flower, but smell like an ashtray,” sings Gainesville-raised Miami transplant Edan Archer on her new single, “Cutthroat.” It’s the closing track on new her alt-country EP, Cruel Mother. Not only is the lyric an apt summation of Archer’s eagerness to challenge modern expectations of femininity in…

Buskerfest Is Out to Make Miami Entertaining Again

If you don’t know what a busker is, you’re not alone — especially in Miami. For all of South Florida’s weird and wonderful talent, we’re not exactly known for our “people who entertain in a public place,” as Webster defines the term. “Miami has a ton of performers, but except…

Does Pitbull Owe Us a Castro Comment?

Though he’s recently had albums titled Global Warming, Globalization, and the upcoming Climate Change, lately Pitbull has not been the most political of rappers. His verses in “Timber” had nothing to do with deforestation, and “Give Me Everything” makes no mention of where he comes down on tax rates. But…

Mija Brings FK a Genre Tour to the Hangar This Week

For Los Angeles-based DJ Amber Giles, AKA Mija, the musical obsessions that make up her frenetic, mercurial sets come quickly, burn brightly, and fade fast. “A year ago, it would’ve been trap, a year before that house,” she says. “I go through so many phases, but right now, my favorite…