14 January 11-17, 2024 miaminewtimes.com | browardpalmbeach.com New Times | music | cafe | culture | Night+Day | News | letters | coNteNts | Live Music Planner Ten concerts to look forward to in Miami in 2024.BY CELIA ALMEIDA AND DOUGLAS MARKOWITZ W e may be mere days into 2024, but it’s already time to make your con- cert plans for the year. Major stars will visit Mi- ami, from Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour finally gracing Hard Rock Stadium to Bad Bunny heading to the Kaseya Center for a three- night run. The Miami Beach Bandshell will welcome critical singer-songwriters from across the Atlantic, while cult punk and prog- rock bands will play at Revolution Live and Factory Town. Below, check out New Times’ top choices for concerts in Miami and beyond in 2024. Playboi Carti at Kaseya Center, January 23 Mainstream hip-hop is in a bit of a weird place right now, but if there’s one major rap- per fans should continue to get excited about, it’s Playboi Carti — and not just because he’s in album mode. The Atlanta native continues to innovate and invent, keeping fans asking the question, “How did he make his voice sound like that?” There was the “baby voice” on tracks like “Kid Cudi,” the snarling punk voice he employed on Whole Lotta Red, and on recently dropped tracks like “H00D- BYAIR” and “BACKR00MS” he’s doing something totally different, manipulating his voice with Auto-Tune into some kind of lean- soaked hybrid of Future and Young Thug. The seedy, subterranean beats only add to the effect. Whatever he’s got planned for 2024, Carti’s Antagonist Tour at the Kaseya Center, with openers Destroy Lonely, Ken Carson, and Homixide Gang, promises to be an unfor- gettable experience. 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Janu- ary 23, at Kaseya Center, 601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 786-777-1000; kaseyacenter.com. Tick- ets $44.75–$195 via ticketmaster.com. DOUGLAS MARKOWITZ Mitski at Fillmore Miami Beach, January 26 and 27 The queen of sad-girl indie is finally return- ing to Miami. Mitski’s bracing singer-song- writer pop inspired a generation of female-fronted rock and pop acts from Boy- genius to Weyes Blood and a legion of fans who have found her reflections on identity, loneliness, and the alienation of the modern American landscape a balm for their own troubles. And those fans are intense in their devotion, sho much so that when she an- nounced a tour of historic theaters behind her album The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, her gig at the Fillmore Miami Beach immediately sold out. A second date was added, which also promptly sold out. Both shows have sporadic resale tickets available on livenation.com, so not all hope is lost, but be prepared to pay through the nose. Belgian- Egyptian singer Tamino will open. 8 p.m., Fri- day, January 26, and Saturday, January 27, at the Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7300; fillmoremb. com. Sold out. DOUGLAS MARKOWITZ Olivia Rodrigo at Kaseya Center, March 6 Three years ago this month, Olivia Rodrigo released her debut single, “Drivers License.” The ode to crushing teenage heartbreak be- came an overnight sensation, catapulting the singer-songwriter from a Disney starlet to a household name. Her first album, Sour, fol- lowed four months later, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, yielding three more top-ten hits, and earning Rodrigo a Grammy for “Best Pop Vocal Album.” When it came time to launch her first headline tour, though, Rodrigo surprised fans by opt- ing for theaters and other midsize venues instead of the arenas she could have easily filled. “I don’t think I should skip any steps,” she told the Los Angeles Times of her decision. Now, having handily avoided the sophomore slump with the success of her second album, Guts, Rodrigo is set to take the stage at the Kaseya Center in March, and rightfully so. The phrase “Fame fucker!” was practically written to be screamed in a sea of tens of thousands of people. 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 6, at Kaseya Center, 601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 786-777-1000; kaseya- center.com. Sold out. CELIA ALMEIDA Sampha at Miami Beach Bandshell, March 26 It’s a shame this show isn’t closer to Valentine’s Day because this British R&B singer’s set at the Miami Beach Bandshell will likely be the most romantic show of the year. Sampha emerged in the early 2010s and became something like Britain’s answer to Frank Ocean, a soulful crooner whose deep, sonorous voice and slight accent made him a magnet for post-dubstep producers such as SBTRKT. He has also featured or produced for artists as varied as the xx, Beyoncé and Solange, Drake, and FKA Twigs. But it’s his solo work that really sets him apart, starting with the heartfelt debut album Process in 2017. The Mercury Prize- winning bedroom R&B record offers intimate songwriting on tracks like “(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano” and dramatic moments such as “Blood on Me.” Last year, Sampha finally followed up his debut with the album Lahai, highlighted by the hopeful, broken beat- inflected single “Spirit 2.0.” 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 26, at Miami Beach Bandshell, 7275 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 786-453-2897; miamibeachbandshell.com. Tickets $57.86 via dice.fm. DOUGLAS MARKOWITZ Circle Jerks and Descendents at Revolution Live, March 30 Two giants of Southern California punk rock are coming to Fort Lauderdale this spring, both spoken about in reverence among fans of heavy music. Founded by original Black Flag vocalist Keith Morris and guitarist Greg Hetson in 1979 after leaving the legendary hardcore punk progenitors, the Circle Jerks instantly took the irreverence and heavy shredding of the other band into spectacular new territory on albums like the recently reis- sued Wild in the Streets, becoming a major force in the alternative rock wave of the 1980s and ‘90s. They’re still led by Morris on vocals, whose guttural shrieks give the band its de- fining edge. Descendents, meanwhile, basi- cally invented pop-punk. Their melodic approach to hardcore on 1982’s epochal Milo Goes to College set the stage for platinum-sell- ing bands like Green Day and Blink-182, with the latter in particular citing them as a major influence. If you couldn’t afford tickets to see the latter band’s show at the Kaseya Center in June, by the way, this might be a decent alter- native (plus, you can actually mosh!) 7 p.m. Saturday, March 30, at Revolution Live, 100 SW Third Ave., Fort Lauderdale; 954-449- 1025; jointherevolution.net. Tickets $37.50 via ticketmaster.com. DOUGLAS MARKOWITZ Madonna at Kaseya Center, April 6 and 7 Madonna last performed in Miami in 2019, when she played a seven-night residency at the Fillmore Miami Beach in support of her last studio album, Madame X. She sang a handful of her best-known songs or nodded to them in interludes, but the set largely es- chewed her biggest hits in favor of tracks from the album. This spring, she’ll finally re- turn to Miami for back-to-back appearances at the Kaseya Center for her Celebration Tour, a career-spanning show celebrating 40 years of music and paradigm-shifting artistry. Another reason to celebrate: the tour also marks Madonna’s return to the stage after a serious health scare that landed her in the in- tensive care unit in June 2023. She was origi- nally set to play Miami last September, but the show was postponed to April, with a sec- ond date added once the rescheduled dates were announced. 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 6, and Sunday, April 7, at Kaseya Center, 601 Bis- cayne Blvd., Miami; 786-777-1000; kaseyacen- ter.com. Tickets $40–$520 via ticketmaster. com. CELIA ALMEIDA José González at Miami Beach Bandshell, May 1 The son of Argentine dissidents who fled to Sweden, José González made a lot of noise in the mid-2000s with the quietest music possi- ble. His somber acoustic guitar music on al- bums like Veneer blended the darkness of his Nordic upbringing with the brightness of his Latin-American heritage and caught interna- tional attention in the process. His cover of the Knife’s “Heartbeats” became a ▼ Music Olivia Rodrigo’s sold-out show at the Kaseya Center arrives on March 6. Photo by Nick Walker THE PHRASE “FAME FUCKER!” WAS PRACTICALLY WRITTEN TO BE SCREAMED IN AN ARENA. >> p15
