Miami’s Best Concert of the Week: Merchandise at Gramps

Bands with a single common noun as their name are usually either attempting to remain obscure or have a shit idea of what makes for good marketing. Of course, that’s only true until they hit it big and bury both Merriam-Webster and Oxford in Google search results. British bands have…

Kanye West Is a Genius, and It’s Time We Acknowledge It

You don’t get to see a whole lot of Kanye West during the Kanye West concert. The light above him is hazy and pallid, somewhere between brown and yellow. Sometimes he’s just a spasming shadow. Instead, the real show is below him, where his floating stage lights up the general admission…

The Miami Concerts That Have Us Excited for the Weekend

Hey, there. It’s me, weekend. What’s that? You’re bored and your ears and hungry for frothy melodies? Well, why didn’t you say something earlier? This weekend we’ve got the Miami Music Festival from Around the World happening all weekend at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center at FIU. It’ll be classy as hell,…

Life in Color 2017 Moves to Wynwood

Now entering its tenth year, Miami’s messiest concert, the “World’s Largest Paint Party” known as Life in Color, is moving to Wynwood. After starting at a house in Tallahassee, LiC has taken over the newly renamed Hard Rock Stadium for much of its existence. But for the next installment of the neon Bukkake…

SoulFlo Are the Mercenaries of Miami Live Music

Miami suffers from a severe lack of live music. That’s not an opinion, that’s a well-known and discussed fact. The 305 leads in electronic music and even benefits from a worldwide reputation in rap, but when a Miamian wants to leave his or her house and hear a full band…

Stargazer Lilies Stop by Gramps to Help Prepare for Bumblefest

Guitarist John Ceparano was holding some flowers one day when a stranger approached, glanced at the blooms in his hands, and asked if they were stargazer lilies. “We thought that was such a cool name for a band,” Ceparano remembers. “It informed our sound. We thought, What would a band…

Miami Musicians Band Together to Save the Everglades at Gramps

Since the first settlers sank a boot into the swampy expanse of Florida’s Everglades, the area has been under near-constant threat from environmental issues. These days, under the not-so-watchful eye of Florida’s governor, the assault continues. From lowered water standards being legally challenged by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, to…

Flume Proves Himself the Leader of the New School in Miami

The undeniable king of future bass has officially been crowned. Flume’s latest LP, Skin, broke the top ten in five countries and topped the charts in his native Australia as well as the dance charts in the United States. He also just nabbed his first certified-platinum plaque in the U.S. for…

This Week In Miami Hip-Hop: Bobby Biscayne, Kent Jones, and More

We’ve been giving South Florida plenty of reasons to love #NewMusicFridays over the last few weeks, but this week is special. Kent Jones released his follow-up single to “Don’t Mind” earlier than expected. Pitbull’s prodigy Bobby Biscayne has finally given us his debut project that we’ve all been waiting for. …