Kodak Black is not known for holding his tongue — and his recent statements about slain rapper Nipsey Hussle’s longtime girlfriend, actress Lauren London, are just the most recent efforts in his apparent crusade to become hip-hop’s most antagonistic outlaw. Hussle was gunned down outside his clothing store in Los…
Entering its seventh year on the white sands of Fort Lauderdale Beach Park, Tortuga Music Festival remains a unique and mostly positive option on South Florida’s steadily growing list of music fests. Known primarily for its bill of country music all-stars and earnest ocean conservation efforts, Tortuga has thrown…
There’s no need to wait for summer to get excited about concerts and festivals. In Miami, spring brings a whole new season of musical events to anticipate — and more hours of daylight to enjoy it all. Once the craziness of March’s spring-break invasion has worn off, you can really…
Tortuga Music Festival returns to Fort Lauderdale Beach April 12 through 14. Here are the festival set times, including those of headliners Jason Aldean, Maren Morris, and Kenny Chesney.
Though many of the ska-punk bands associated with skate/surf/punk subculture culture in the late 1990s and early 2000s have faded away, Less Than Jake is still here.
There are some pretty stellar crate-digging options to explore in South Florida on Record Store Day, including Confusion Records, Radio-Active Records, The Record Rack, VP Records, and We Got the Beats.
Brightline and Lyft’s “Electric Jungle” offers a convenient commuting option from West Palm and Broward to Miami Music Week at a time when transportation logistics are a concern for many Ultra attendees.
After almost a decade and a half, the organizers of Wanee Music Festival say they might be calling it quits on their extravaganza in North Florida. But fans of the annual event started by the Allman Brothers Band in 2005 need not mope: A new tradition (closer to home) will…
Kodak Black should know better than to sexually harass a woman. Yet he is — and his target isn’t just any woman. It’s openly gay fellow rapper Young M.A. Black’s persistent comments about Young M.A, sandwiched in song lyrics and Instagram Live sessions over the past month, describe in detail…
Since becoming the first band to sell out London’s new Wembley Stadium in June 2007, Muse has been crisscrossing the globe, bringing increasingly dazzling stage shows to arenas in cities from Tampa to Tokyo. The British rock trio’s past four albums — The Resistance (2009), The 2nd Law (2012), Drones…
These are the five best concerts in South Florida this week.
As Kurt Vile’s profile has grown in the decade since the release of his debut album, he’s striven to make indie rock a more inclusive space.
Like many South Floridians, Matthew Redler found there were more local events he wanted to attend than he could afford. “I was priced out of exploring all the sports and music events Miami had to offer,” the Plantation native and University of Florida student says. Out of that disappointment sprang his eureka moment…
These are the five best concerts in South Florida this week.
Remember the band Squares from the ’80s? No? Well, don’t feel too bad — neither does anyone else. The group never released an album. “We were the hardest-working, least successful band of the early ’80s,” says Squares guitarist and vocalist Joe Satriani, laughing. A 15-time Grammy nominee, Satriani has since…
Every misfit’s hero, every mother’s friend, and every bully’s nightmare, P!nk has been disrupting the status quo for decades. Her 2001 single “Don’t Let Me Get Me,” from the album Missundaztood, was the soundtrack of my teenage years. Almost 20 years later, now that I’m a mother, she still grabs my…
Willie Nelson, Christopher Cross, the Fab Faux, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, February 25 through March 3.
On March 29, 1969, “Time of the Season” by English rock group the Zombies hit number one on the American Cashbox singles chart — despite the band having broken up 18 months earlier. Fifty years later to the day, on March 29, 2019, the Zombies, with founding members…
Jake Shimabukuro, Sarah Brightman, Bad Company, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, February 18 through 24.
Melly’s hit song “Murder on My Mind” went gold last month, moving half a million units — and this past Wednesday, the 19-year-old turned himself in to Miramar Police on two counts of first-degree murder in the October deaths of his friends Anthony Williams, 21, and Christopher Thomas Jr., 19.
It’s difficult to imagine the honor of being tapped to be the lead singer of the Doors after Jim Morrison’s death. But that is exactly what happened to Bad Company’s Paul Rodgers. The only thing is, no one told him about it. “It’s apparently true,” Rodgers says of…
Head north and catch these five road trip-worthy tours coming to the Sunshine State.
