The Taxpayers at Sweat Records January 5

Hare Krishna hardcore? Screamo? Whatever-the-fuck-Flogging-Molly-plays? There's no denying it: Punk rock has gone through some seriously bizarre permutations.

Location Info

Map

Sweat Records

5505 NE Second Ave.
Miami, FL 33137

Category: Retail

Region: Midtown/Wynwood/Design District

Photos

7 user reviews	Write A Review
Save to foursquare	0

Details

With the Wild and Montage. 8 p.m. Thursday, January 5, at Sweat Records, 5505 NE Second Ave., Miami; 786-693-9309; sweatrecordsmiami.com. Admission is free. All ages.

Related Content

• The Taxpayers Bring "Goof Punx, DIY Music, and Jimmy Buffett" to Sweat Records
  December 29, 2011
• Tabou Combo's Kapi Talks Jimmy Buffet, Royalties, and Restavek
  April 11, 2012
• Jimmy Buffett at the American Airlines Arena January 28
  January 26, 2012
• Jimmy Buffett Will Kill You! Nine Ways to Die in Margaritaville
  January 24, 2012
• Tabou Combo at Rhythm Foundation's Big Night in Little Haiti April 20
  April 19, 2012

More About

• Jimmy Buffett
• Defiance (Ohio)
• Soophie Nun Squad
• Punk Rock
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Music Newsletter: Keep your thumb on the local music scene with music features, additional online music listings and show picks. We'll also send special ticket offers and music promotions available only to our Music Newsletter subscribers.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

And in keeping with the big-tent genre's habit of making bedfellows of once-disparate subscenes (like suburban U.S. skate-punk and Jamaican ska), Little Haiti's favorite holy house of wax and vegan cupcakes, Sweat Records, will host an epically random punk showcase, headlined by Portland's the Taxpayers, a band that champions "goof punx, DIY music, social awareness, and," of all things, "Jimmy Buffett."

Taxpayers' shows sound like a pop-punk marching band let loose in a zoo. And they look like it too. Riding the last bit of momentum from the Plan-It-X Records folk-punk era of the early to mid-'00s, the 'Payers find precedent in big and wacky ensembles such as radical musical-theater extravaganza Soophie Nun Squad and anarcho-folk act Defiance, Ohio. Both groups used instruments that aren't typical of punk rock — violin, trumpet, upright bass, trombone, banjo — while playing them fast and sloppy like true punx.

Similarly, the Taxpayers run on vegetable oil, toothy grins, and unwashed, dorky dancing.