Concerts

Daddy Yankee at 90 Degree December 10

Araabmuzik at Eve December 14

Über-producer Diplo and noisy electro-rockers Sleigh Bells have a Valentine’s Day present for Miami. It comes in the form of their joint Paradise Lost tour, hitting the Magic City on February 14 at Grand Central. The local date is part of an eight-city Florida sprint that’ll take them to Tampa,…

Where will you be when the Mau5head drops on 2012? Well, if you happen to be a club rat worth his or her weight in gourmet cheese and all-you-can-drink champagne, then you’re gonna be holed up at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach ordering entire wheels of Roquefort and endless bottle service…

Last month, Agnostic Front punched us in the throat and it changed our life. The New York hardcore crew and Churchill’s Pub shook Little Haiti harder on a Tuesday night than anywhere else in America any night of the week. Now, it’s Madball’s turn to take a whack at Wednesday…

​See the full 20-photo Janet Jackson at the Fillmore Miami Beach slideshow. Janet Jackson Number Ones: Up Close and Personal Tour Fillmore Miami Beach December 5, 2011 Better Than: You could imagine. All throughout Art Basel Miami Beach week, musicians of varying talent levels strummed, sang, banged, and twiddled with…

UPDATE Red Hot Chili Peppers have postponed their 2012 US Tour and rescheduled the South Florida show. There was a time, circa 1991, when being a funky white boy meant doing whacked-out jumping jacks to the beat of “Suck My Kiss” while wearing a sock on your cock. But these…

GZA The Stage Miami Saturday, December 3, 2011 Better Than: Waiting for anyone who wasn’t GZA. He arrived about two and a half hours late. We should have known — Wu-Tang is notorious for being tardy to shows. In any case, GZA, the Genius, one of the founding members of…

See the full 38-photo Basel Castle 2011 at Overthrow Castle slideshow. Basel Castle With Pharrell Williams, Yelawolf, Penguin Prison, Caligula, Heroes x Villains, Tamara Sky, and a million others The Castle Saturday, December 3, 2011 Better Than: Getting stuck outside. Somewhere around 2 a.m. on Saturday night/Sunday morning, in a…

DFA’s 10th Anniversary Party With Holy Ghost! DJ Sets by Nancy Whang and Juan MacLean BardotSaturday, December 3, 2011 Better Than: Spending midnight in Paris. DFA Records, the label masterminded by LCD frontman James Murphy, Jonathan Galkin, and Tim Goldsworthy, celebrated its 10th anniversary on Saturday night with an Art…

​TV on the Radio Spotify’s Music Loves Art Ricochet Bar & Lounge Thursday, December 1, 2011 Better Than: A Big Mac. Last night, eating a double cheeseburger, drinking a Perrier, and considering trying Spotify’s Kool-Aid, about two hundred people took iPhone pictures of TV on the Radio at Ricochet…

See the full 26-photo Yelle at Fillmore Miami Beach slideshow. Yelle With Housse de Racket Fillmore Miami Beach Friday, December 2, 2011 Better Than: Joining an actual safari. We were a little worried before heading to the Fillmore Miami Beach on Friday night. With all of the free shows, pop-up…

YACHTElectric PickleThursday, December 1, 2011Better Than: Yachting on Biscayne Bay.”Anybody have any questions?” asked frontwoman Claire Evans three songs into YACHT’s set at the Electric Pickle last night.”I love you!” someone shouted back.”That’s not a question,” she answered.True, but we really do love you, YACHT. And last night’s show might…

See the full 38-photo slideshow from Toyota Antics with Special Disco Version and Black Lips at Grand Central. James Murphy and Black Lips Grand Central Thursday, December 1, 2011 Better Than: 28 MPGs in the city, 35 on the highway. New York City hipsters, Pitchfork-approved band, hand-rolled cigarettes, ironic facial…

Nas With Theophilus London Spotify’s Music Loves Art Ricochet Bar & Lounge Thursday, December 1, 2011 Better Than: Seeing Nas perform from a distance greater than ten feet. It was only $14,000. No big deal. Nas slapped a bit of watercolor and scribbled some washable marker onto an oversized sketchpad,…

MOCA LA Beach Bash with SoulwaxWednesday, November 30The Raleigh, Miami BeachBetter than: Being surrounded by candy ravers at Ultra.We’ll start out by saying that MOCA LA’s Beach Bash is one of the parties you couldn’t get into unless you were invited. Or a member of the media who sent an…

Santigold With Wale Wednesday, November 30 LIV Better Than: Waiting in line at a Basel party for free drinks. Nightclubbing … Aside from the 1977 Iggy Pop track, we pretty much hate everything about it. The stringent dress codes, blatant superficiality, remixed dance versions of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic…

Whether you’re dropping mad bills on contemporary art at such-and-such satellite fair or stalking celebrity art collectors at the Miami Beach Convention Center, there’s one thing about Basel week that everyone can agree on — it’s all about the afterparty. Case in point: Electric Pickle. Next week, the North Miami…

The night of Thursday, December 1, 2011, a waxing crescent moon will hang, dead and icy, in a jet-black winter sky as the souls of a thousand damned witches scream for mercy while being burned at the stake inside an abandoned house consumed by fire. And it’s gonna sound amazing…

There’s a pretty solid chance that in James Murphy’s personal day planner, the first week of December is perennially empty, except for a short, four-word phrase, presumably written in fat, blood-red block letters: Art Basel Miami Beach. Last year, mere months before officially and finally disbanding his adored dance-rock band,…

When French electro-pop outfit Yelle last visited Miami in 2008, it gave the city a one-two punch, performing at the Polish American Club and then returning barely two months later to perform at Art Basel’s Art Loves Music event. So does Yelle have a little crush on the Magic City?…

After the Wu-Tang mother ship crashed full force into pop culture with the release of the 1993 gangsta rap classic Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), the first order of business was to send out the pods. Method Man was the first to strike out solo with 1994’s stellar and intensely…