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Miami’s Ultra Fest gets ultra expensive for 2014

Next year’s Ultra Music Festival — the crowning event of Miami’s annual March madness of electronic dance — is going to seem ultra expensive to all but the fastest-moving ticket buyers. 1373580358

Latin music

Carlos Vives reviving singing career with tour that plays Miami July 13

For a decade, Carlos Vives was one of the biggest stars in Latin music. The Colombian singer appeared to have it all, artistically and commercially: From the early 1990s to the early 2000s, he boasted record sales in the millions, arena-filling tours and ardent fans as well as critical and artistic respect for pioneering tropi-pop, a genre that combined Colombian folk music with international pop. Before Shakira and Juanes, Vives made Colombian music popular around the world.
Concert review

A re-energized Juanes brings jubilant ‘Unplugged’ tour to Hard Rock

The Juanes Loud & Unplugged tour that hit a sold-out Hollywood Hard Rock Live on Thursday is ostensibly a standard promotional outing for the Colombian rock star’s MTV Unplugged album. But it also marked the rejuvenation and, perhaps, reinvention of one of the biggest acts in Latin music, as a grinning, exuberant Juanes romped through a two-hour show for a warmly enthusiastic crowd. After personal and professional crises led to his absence from performing for almost three years, both the singer and his audience were thrilled to be together again.
Movies

Singer Darlene Love thrives ‘Twenty Feet From Stardom’ in documentary

A documentary opening Friday pays tribute to backup singer Darlene Love and her peers
music

Natalie Cole records dad Nat King Cole’s Spanish-language classics

When she was 8 years old, Natalie Cole went to Mexico City with her father. And while Nat King Cole’s daughter was accustomed to his stardom, she was startled by the adulation he received.
- Nat King Cole performing Acercate Mas
- Nat King Cole performing Quizas, Quizas, Quizas

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Brazilian singer Marisa Monte brings technically dazzling tour to Fillmore Miami Beach

Brazil’s top contemporary music and art come together in singer Marisa Monte’s cutting-edge show
Concert review

One Direction wows S. Florida fans in opening concert of U.S. tour

No, they’re not the Beatles. But One Direction, the British tween/teen heartthrobs who’ve re-...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and famed Calle 13 rapper Residente will write a song together Thursday night

Which goes further or has more impact – documents leaked online or a song? Famed Calle 13 frontman R...
Music

Local band plays eclectic mix

Members of Fusik call their style “soul funk,” which includes elements of hip-hop, soul, jazz...
Concert review

Two fresh takes on Latin pop-rock at Revolution Live

La Santa Cecelia and Jesse & Joy, two captivating Mexican-rooted bands with innovative though very differen...
Catherine Russell, masterful interpreter of vintage jazz and blues, opens Gables summer series

Vocalist Catherine Russell grew up with jazz as a second language. Her dad, Panamanian-born bandleader and ...
Fleetwood Mac cancels Sunrise appearance

Fleetwood Mac has canceled Saturday’s concert at the BB&T Center in Sunrise.
Pre-eminent jazz vocalist Kurt Elling closes South Florida series Saturday

Trying to define jazz singing is asking for trouble. Go one way and you box yourself into an essentialist v...
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Bieber listed as underage guest at Chicago club

Pop star Justin Bieber is listed as an underage guest on a citation that Chicago police issued to a nightclub.
Justin Bieber apologizes for presidential antics

Justin Bieber apologized by phone to Bill Clinton, the former president's office said Thursday, for cursing...
Stars pray for Randy Travis after brain surgery

Country music stars and fans joined together to urge prayers for Randy Travis on Thursday after he underwen...
Toshi Seeger, wife of Pete Seeger, dies at 91

Toshi Seeger, folk singer Pete Seeger's wife of 70 years and a close partner in his social and environmenta...
Jazz musician Allison Miller's profile keeps growing

LOS ANGELES - Drummer Allison Miller's album "Boom Tic Boom" with her band of the same name was one of the ...
Toshi Seeger, wife of Pete Seeger, dies at 91

Toshi (TOH'-shee) Seeger, the wife of folk singer Pete Seeger for 70 years, has died. She was 91.
Black Keys make Ohio boys' baseball jerseys a hot item

It's the Instagram photo seen around the world, suddenly thrusting one Akron boys baseball team into the gl...
Mudhoney to play atop Seattle's Space Needle

SEATTLE - You won't be able to hear it without a computer or a phone and you probably won't be able to see ...
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