This season Miami is bringing sonic rituals, where every show cracks open a new portal for the city’s true music heads. September and October deliver a wave of visionary artists rewriting the rules of rhythm, from hypnotic house and psychedelic rock to future funk and experimental pop. Expect nights when French synth architects, Argentine indie dreamers, and boundary-pushing collectives collide with disco tricksters, soul-soaked funk crews, and festival giants.
French 79
When: September 4
Where: ZeyZey Miami
Marseille’s electronic dreamweaver arrives with a set that glows like neon reflections on Mediterranean waves. French 79 conjures widescreen synthscapes built for motion, balancing intimacy and grandeur in equal measure.
Phantoms
When: September 5
Where: ZeyZey Miami
Phantoms channel a restless pulse that slides between club euphoria and pop’s emotional undercurrent. Their live energy folds shimmering hooks into kinetic beats that demand sweat and release.
WHYNOTUS
When: September 5
Where: The Ground
The Miami collective explodes with genre-mashing urgency, fusing jazz, funk, and hip hop improvisation. WHYNOTUS transform every stage into a workshop of sound, spontaneous yet razor sharp.
Âme & Julya Karma
When: September 6
Where: Space Miami
Innervisions architects Âme sculpt a night of hypnotic minimalism, stretched across deep, glacial grooves. Joined by Julya Karma, the journey promises equal parts shadow and transcendence on Space’s cathedral-sized floor.
Stereo Lab
When: September 16
Where: The Miami Beach Bandshell
Texture, drone, and pop collide in a set that promises equal parts theory and thrill. Stereo Lab’s avant-pop legacy plays out like a blueprint for indie experimentation under open Miami skies.
Bandalos Chinos
When: September 18
Where: The Miami Beach Bandshell
Argentina’s indie darlings spin retro synths and tropical inflections into joyous, sweat-slicked singalongs. Bandalos Chinos know how to turn melancholy into dance fuel, a hallmark of their global appeal.
Berlioz
When: September 20
Where: The Fillmore Miami Beach
Jazz meets house in Berlioz’s deft hands, creating grooves both intricate and effortlessly cool. His sets unfold like conversations: playful, thoughtful, and always unpredictable.
Nimino
When: September 26
Where: The Ground
London’s Nimino stitches delicate electronic layers with R&B sensibilities, crafting soundscapes that ache with both warmth and longing. A set for hearts that want to move and feel in equal measure.
Magic City Hippies
When: October 1
Where: ZeyZey Miami
Miami’s hometown psychedelic funk trio returns with humid grooves and elastic jams. Magic City Hippies radiate beach-born hedonism, a soundtrack to neon nights and sun-baked mornings alike.
Noga Erez
When: October 4
Where: The Miami Beach Bandshell
You can’t put Noga Erez in a box. A sonic force born from truth, fire, and fearless reinvention; she fuses raw lyricism with genre-defying production, blurring the lines between hip hop, electropop, and everything in between. With her creative partner, Ori Rousso, by her side, Noga channels the pulse of the world around her and transforms it all into explosive, cinematic sound.
Allah-Las
When: October 11
Where: ZeyZey Miami
Dust-coated guitars and sunset harmonies define the Allah-Las sound, psychedelic rock with California sand still stuck to its edges. Their music drifts like a highway daydream, nostalgic and eternal.
III Points
When: October 17-18
Where: Mana Wynwood
Miami’s cultural heartbeat returns. III Points is not just a festival but a collision of art, sound, and light, a labyrinth where techno meets trap, avant-garde installations collide with street grit, and the city becomes the stage
HIT Week featuring Calibro 35 + Joan Thiele
When: October 18
Where: The Miami Beach Bandshell
The free annual showcase of fresh sounds from Italy is back. Calibro 35 channel the grit of classic Italian cinema with deep funk and cinematic groove, a sound that feels both retro and future facing. Joan Thiele carries a magnetic voice that drifts between soul, electronica, and Italian pop, carving out her own space with raw elegance.
Lila Iké
When: October 22
Where: The Miami Beach Bandshell
Lila Iké is one of the most powerful voices in reggae today. From her beginnings with Protoje’s In.Digg.Nation Collective to global stages, she has crafted a sound that blends reggae, soul, R&B, hip hop, and dancehall with fearless honesty. With major collaborations and awards already to her name, she now brings her new album Treasure Self Love to the Bandshell.
Joe Goddard (Hot Chip)
When: October 30
Where: ZeyZey Miami
One half of Hot Chip steps out with his own kaleidoscopic vision; electronic landscapes equal parts house thump, pop sensibility, and soul searching warmth. Joe Goddard builds worlds that shimmer then explode.
Hocus Pocus
When: October 30
Where: Factory Town
Halloween night turns industrial with Hocus Pocus, where shadows, strobes, and pounding beats blur the line between rave and ritual. Expect chaos dressed in spectacle.
Franc Moody (Live) + The Sponges Afterparty
When: October 31
Where: ZeyZey Miami
Franc Moody ignite the stage with infectious funk built on rubbery basslines, space-age synths, and magnetic swagger. When the sweat dries, The Sponges keep the delirium alive with a wild, house-funk afterparty.
