Win VIP Tickets to Jack Daniel’s Motel No. 7

Jack Daniels is bringing its new Motel No. 7 experience to five different cities. And this Thursday, it makes its stop in Miami. What exactly is Jack Daniels Motel No. 7? Well, it’s not easy to explain. Still largely shrouded in secrecy, Motel No. 7 is the liquor brand’s attempt…

Remembering David Bowie’s ’72 Miami Concert

I only had an opportunity to see the late David Bowie once, at one of his rare South Florida appearances on November 17, 1972 when he and his Spiders from Mars (famously consisting of Bowie, guitarist Mick Ronson, drummer Mick Woodmansey and bassist Trevor Bolder) played Miami’s Jai Alia Fronton…

Rapper Robb Bank$ Is a Phenomenon Among Millennial Hip-Hop Fans

Upstairs, in a dressing room backstage at the Orpheum in Ybor City, Robb Bank$ walks in small circles, winding himself up like a spring, mike in hand and awaiting his turn onstage. It’s about 9 p.m. Saturday, November 14, the last date of the 21-year-old rapper’s U.S. tour, an all-ages…

Rick Ross Is Offering $10,000 to the Best Instagram Twerker

Asses of America, stop what you’re doing and listen.  Rick Ross has offered up $10,000 to the best booty-shaking, ass-quaking, poop-making rear end on Instagram.  Carol City’s own is launching a marketing campaign for his new album that they won’t teach you in Intro to PR. Rozay took to Instagram last…

Miami’s Ten Can’t-Miss Concerts of the Week

10. The Miami Chapter of the Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis’ Seventh-Annual Block Party with People You Know. Saturday, January 16, 5 to 9 p.m. Hillstone, 201 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables; 305-529-0141; hillstone.com. Tickets cost $50 via thebuonicontifund.com/miami, or $60 at the door. Party for a cause and help the Miami Project and Buoniconti Fund to Cure…

Drake Has Become the Unpredictable Lover He Sings About

Dear 6 God, Why have you forsaken us? You know us, the streets? The ones you said you could never ever let down? I know you left your condo last week. You were here in Miami celebrating New Year’s Eve at E11even just a short drive from where you used…

Concert Pick of the Weekend: Danny Krivit at Electric Pickle

After an aspiring DJ named Danny Krivit met James Brown, the young Krivit’s vinyl hobby evolved into a full-blown profession. Raised in 1960s Greenwich Village by a jazz singer mother and a father whose music experience stretched from managing Chet Baker to owning the Ninth Circle disco club, Krivit was…

Miami’s Cécile McLorin Salvant Is Jazz’s Next Great Hope

Cécile McLorin Salvant’s voice is a bittersweet lullaby: haunting and sweet. The 25 year-old jazz singer is known for her theatrical vocal flair. At a recent performance at Midtown Miami’s Lagniappe, she gently coos, placating the audience into an intimate trance. As she flushes into the depths of her vocal…

Donna the Buffalo’s Journey of Being Taken Seriously

“Excuse me, but I have to eat while we talk. Do you mind?” Tara Nevins is at home doing what most people do as part of their morning routine, scrambling eggs — sorry, “fluffing them,” as she points out — while also attempting to answer the questions posed by an…

SunGhosts Break Down New EP Track by Track

SunGhosts, our reigning readers’ choice for Miami’s best band, just put out a new four song EP, Parhelion. The title keeps with the Kendall band’s solar obsession. Parhelion is the scientific name for a rainbow halo phenomenon seen around the sun in case you were wondering. Recorded in both Davie…

Even Without Sly, the Music Lives on for the Family Stone

In the mid ‘60s, the division between the races was never more distinct. Despite the emergence of Motown and the assimilation of soul into the musical mainstream, most pop ensembles remained sharply segregated, with musicians of one race or gender rarely performing alongside musicians of another. While bands like the…

France Camp Promises Raw Fish and Dirty Old Men at Gramps Show

Jay Simonson’s prediction for Friday’s show: “It’s going to be loud, and I’m going to climb on stuff.” It’s one of the few straightforward answers Simonson, lead singer of the Minneapolis garage-rock band France Camp, was willing to give over the phone, where he was joined by drummer Dylan Rosebringeth…

Miami Music’s Craziest Moments of 2015

Maybe it’s the heat, or the traffic. The perhaps easily available flakka probably doesn’t help either. But Miami has always been a magnet for insanity. So why should we expect any less from Miami’s music world? 2015 is officially in the past, but before we leave it there completely, it’s…

1349’s Lead Singer Breaks Down the Finer Points of Black Metal

When asked to define black metal, there is a long pause from Olav Bergene, the lead singer of Norway’s 1349. A second passes and then another and then, in his Norwegian accent, he explains the fundamentals of the loud, fast and heavy musical genre that his life revolves around. “Black…

Miami’s Ten Can’t-Miss Concerts of the Week

10. Electric Piquete. Performing live on the Pineapple Stage with DJ Kenyi Succar. Hosted by Joe Cardona. Presented by Miami Boheme. Friday, January 8, 9:30 p.m. Ball & Chain, 1513 SW 8th St., Miami; 305-643-7820; ballandchainmiami.com. Admission is free. Ages 21 and up. If you haven’t experienced Little Havana nightlife yet, shame on you. But,…