When Striking Matches take the stage at Revolution Live in support of American Idol winner Phillip Phillips this Saturday, the bandmates’ faces will likely be new to most of the crowd. But if the audience is familiar with the music of the hit TV show Nashville, they might already be fans.

Indie retro pop duo Juliette Davis and Joachim Polack, known together as Pearl & the Oysters, first began making music together as university students studying musicology in Paris. The French capital has long been romanticized as an artists’ mecca, but Davis dreamed of moving stateside to create music in another…

Were you crushed that you never took a drunken girls’ trip to see Britney Spears’ show in Las Vegas before it ended? Britney knows. After wrapping up her landscape-shifting Piece of Me residency at Planet Hollywood after four years this past New Year’s Eve, Spears has just announced she’ll take the production on tour in the States and Europe this year, including three shows at the Hard Rock Event Center in Hollywood.

Singer and guitarist TJ Cronin has been stepping into Tom Petty’s shoes for five years as the frontman for the nationally touring tribute band the Petty Hearts. But after the longtime leader of the Heartbreakers broke fans’ hearts with his sudden death in early October, Cronin had to take on an even tougher role: consoler.

Janet Jackson, especially during the Control era, laid out the blueprint by which the pop stars of today rebel against their creative limitations.

Catch three Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees at this weekend’s RockFest 80’s.

People don’t typically think of cityscapes or any place near concrete buildings as the ideal setting for a music festival, but in many ways Miami is the optimal locale to host a gathering of music and art freaks. The Magic City boasts plenty of event spaces and venues, such as Mana Wynwood and the North Beach Bandshell, that have become go-to spots for festivals both large and small.

It would be difficult to overstate Salt-N-Pepa’s significance for many of today’s biggest artists. Beyoncé could never have sung “Can you lick my Skittles/It’s the sweetest in the middle” if Salt-N-Pepa hadn’t rapped “Felt it in my hips so I dipped back to my bag of tricks…/Lick him like a…

Khalid knows you don’t need radio support when you have SoundCloud.

“I think probably what’s happened is that society has just sort of caught up to the things I’ve been complaining about for years,” Isbell says. “Had my last record come out now, I think people would feel the same way.”

When the South Florida pop-punk pioneers of New Found Glory take the stage at Revolution Live Friday, May 12, they’ll celebrate 20 years together as a band. But drummer Cyrus Bolooki wants to be clear: This is not just another nostalgia tour. Unlike some of its early-’00s peers, New Found…

Coachella made headlines in that other sunny state, but South Florida is no slouch on the festival circuit. With the development of newer events such as Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, III Points, and Rolling Loud and the evolution of mainstays such as Ultra, the original Miami megafest, South Florida offers a wide range of genres and artists at big gatherings.

Shovels & Rope, performing at Culture Room, balanced caring for their newborn and recording their latest album, Little Seeds.

Too few female performers mar an otherwise exciting Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival lineup.

Lucinda Williams talks writing about heartbreak, loss, and politics.

The year is already shaping up to be a banner one for live music in Miami: Homegrown festivals are popping up with growing frequency, and more artists are recognizing that making the trek to the Magic City is worth it. Here are some of the coming year’s most exciting opportunities.