At the same time, though, the media and entertainment industries were rapidly evolving, and the modern celebrity was born.

It has been a prolific year for the local music scene, from indie rock to jazz and R&B, here are the best albums of 2025.

From tongue-in-cheek antics poking fun at the music industry to heartfelt odes to salsa, here's what we loved this year.

In 2024, the D.C. rapper teamed up with the German-Iraqi producer for a three-song EP titled Hardc0re Dr3amz. The video for one of the singles, “H.O.T,” shows both artists having fun around Miami, ...

Some years, a handful of songs dominate our playlists, festival stages and social media trends. In others, the playing field feels a lot more level, greatness more evenly distributed. The last 12 ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

Daniel’s Miami in Coral Gables was named one of the top 10 steakhouses in North America after only four months in business. The Louis Collection It has only been open for four months, but Daniel’s ...

Sixty-eight songs and 135 scores have been included on checklists sent to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Music Branch who will vote in the Best Original Song and Best ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amber Love Bond is a Miami-based food + beverage and travel writer. Every December, Miami Art Week floods the city with an ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...