Wynwood Venue and Bar Gramps is Closing

Gramps — the Wynwood mainstay that helped define Miami’s underground music scene for over a decade — has announced it will close for good in January 2026 today via instagram.

"After 13 years, hundreds of bands, thousands of events, hundreds of thousands of back-and-forth emails, Gramps in Wynwood is closing," the post opened.

Since opening in 2012, the venue has served as a community anchor in an increasingly commercialized neighborhood. With its two stages — the open-air patio and the intimate room inside Shirley’s — Gramps welcomed everyone from local garage bands to touring acts, spanning indie pop, metal, hardcore, poetry, and drag.

Many of us remember getting spit on in the face by Peaches on the back patio, sweating through darkwave sets from Boy Harsher and The Soft Moon, or divi