Every neighborhood has its own sound. From salsa in Little Havana to art-house sets in Wynwood, here's where to go and when.
Coconut Grove is the oldest neighbourhood in Miami and it still feels like somewhere separate from the rest of the city. Low buildings, heavy tree cover, the bay at the end of most streets. The music follows from that: more acoustic and jazz than electronic, a lot of it outdoors, and much of it in […]
Downtown Miami is where the city stays up latest. This is not a neighbourhood of quiet wine bars. The rooms here are built for dancing, several hold licences that run past sunrise, and the programming leans house, techno and the international dance circuit rather than bands. If you want a late night in Miami rather […]
Coral Gables drinks differently to the rest of Miami. The Gables is older, lower and quieter, most of the good rooms sit within a few blocks of Miracle Mile, and the music tends to be jazz and blues rather than house and reggaeton. That makes it the easiest part of the city for an evening […]
Miami has no shortage of rooftops. What it has fewer of is rooftops where the music is the point rather than the background. Plenty of hotel terraces put on a playlist and call it a night out. The places below actually programme something, whether that is a resident DJ, a salsa night with a floor […]
A day by day guide to DJ nights in Fort Lauderdale clubs and Wilton Manors bars, including the free weekly parties running on Wilton Drive.
A guide to West Palm Beach nightlife on Clematis Street and Delray Beach nightlife on Atlantic Avenue, and the DJs holding down weekly residencies on both.
A guide to the DJs in Miami and the rooms they play, from Club Space after hours sets to Wynwood vinyl bars and weekly Latin, reggae and Afrobeats nights.
Hollywood, Florida packs karaoke bars, a country saloon, and real live music into a compact strip. Here is where to go.
Little Havana is still the heart of Miami's live salsa scene, and Wynwood has built one of its own. Here is where to go.
Reggae in South Florida is spread thin but real, from a South Beach rooftop to a Mizner Park patio. Here is where to find it.
Open mic nights are where South Florida's next generation of musicians and poets gets built. Here is where to sign up.
West Palm Beach's jazz scene is small but real, and Lake Worth Beach just south rounds it out. Here is where to go.
Fort Lauderdale Beach and the Las Olas corridor pack a real live-music bar scene into a short stretch of A1A. Here is where to go.
South Beach's Ocean Drive strip has live music and karaoke woven through the party scene. Here is where to find it.
Fort Lauderdale's dive bars are concentrated near the beach and downtown. Here is where to find cheap drinks and a real band in the corner.
Fort Lauderdale's jazz and blues scene is smaller than Miami's, but the rooms that do it, do it seriously. Here is where to go.
Delray Beach packs a real live music scene into a few walkable blocks around Atlantic Avenue. Here is where to go.
Boca Raton's karaoke nights are spread across sports bars and neighborhood pubs. Here is where to sing, night by night.
Boca Raton's live music scene is small but real, and Delray Beach just up the road makes the night a lot longer. Here is where to go in both.
From Clematis Street bars you can walk between to a legendary blues room in Lake Worth Beach, here is where West Palm Beach actually goes for live music.
From a jazz courtyard in the Design District to a punk dive in Allapattah, here is where Miami actually plays live music, night by night.
From a beachfront rock bar to a candlelight jazz concert inside an art museum, here is every real spot to hear live music in Fort Lauderdale.
Cash only karaoke, a punk institution in Allapattah, and Miamis most legendary rock dive. Here are the real dive bars, no velvet ropes.
Downtown rooms, a Little Havana institution, and a house dedicated entirely to jazz. Here is where to hear it away from the beach.
From a downtown institution on Clematis Street to private rooms in Boca Raton, here is where to sing across Palm Beach County.
Downtown stages, neighborhood dive bars, and private rooms just south of the city. Here is where to sing in Fort Lauderdale.
From a thirty year old cash only dive to a private room with 60,000 songs, Miami has a karaoke bar for every kind of singer. Here is where locals actually go.
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Brickell has grown up. What was once Miami's quiet banking district has evolved into one of the city's most active after-dark destinations, and the live music scene has grown right alongside it.
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Calle Ocho never really sleeps. On any given weeknight, the smell of Cuban coffee and the sound of claves and congas drift out of the bars along SW 8th Street. On weekends, the whole street feels like a festival.
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Miami Beach has always had a complicated relationship with jazz. The music has been here since the early hotel lounge era, drifted into the background during the neon-and-nightclub decades, and is now quietly asserting itself again.
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By day, Wynwood is all gallery openings and artisan coffee. By night it transforms into one of Miami's most reliably exciting music destinations, a dense few square miles where the programming ranges from intimate acoustic sets to full-band blowouts.
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For years, Fort Lauderdale existed in Miami's shadow when it came to live music. The venues were there, the talent was there, but the critical mass of venues, audiences, and media attention always seemed to flow south.
