Email Author Abel Folgar

2011 Stories by Abel Folgar

• Sammy Gonzalez from Jacobs Ladder Brings Classical Guitar to Miami

  published Oct 26, 2011

  rHailing from one of the most hardworking outfits in South Florida, one would assume that young Sammy Gonzalez has all he needs. But while we're sure that rocking for ten years with Jacobs Ladde... More >>

• Pepe Billete Takes His Wacky Act and Cubanismos to El Zol 95.7 FM's Airwaves

  published Jul 19, 2011

  rAt first, we thought our ears were deceiving us yesterday morning. Surely, no one in their right mind would give this man, Pepe Billete, a job. Yet it turns out that in the Magic City -- a... More >>

• Six Questions With Stand Proud's Adam Huss

  published Jun 30, 2011

  Adam Huss is no stranger to the local music scene, having tenured in the wildly popular Dreams You Die In. He's also known to hardcore kids across the US as a solid booker from The Alley days. After ... More >>

• The Axe and the Oak, Pretty Please, and Fight Like Animals at Grand Central, May 13

  published May 16, 2011

  The Axe and the Oak With Pretty Please and Fight Like Animals Grand Central Miami May 13, 2011 Better Than: Feeding ducks at the park. Last Wednesday evening, I sliced my hand open while trying to ... More >>

• Five Questions with Out of the Anonymous' Ulysses Perez

  published May 13, 2011

  Out of the Anonymous is a long-running local outfit that's spent years making beautiful soundtracks for dreamers and paranoiacs. And while we've already had the opportunity to interview bassist Henry ... More >>

• The Silky Jazz of Sybil Gage at the Van Dyke Tonight

  published May 12, 2011

  Sybil Gage is one of those rare chanteuses in the world of jazz who is capable of evoking some decidedly un-jazz feelings. Often compared to greats like Nina and Ella, Gage shares more with Janis Jop... More >>

• Score the Getback's Right About Now Album for Free!

  published May 06, 2011

  The Getback Right About Now (IOU Records) myspace.com/thegetback When this album dropped back in January 2003, the immediate buzz that it created among our group of friends was incredibly electric. W... More >>

• The Delicious Haitian Voodoo Jazz of Monvelyno Alexis at the Van Dyke

  published May 05, 2011

  Using Voodoo connotations might rile the wrong feathers. But the bottom line is Monvelyno Alexis studied the nuances of Voodoo rhythms in his native Haiti after taking up the guitar at the age of 18.... More >>

• Escoria Films' Pepe Billete Talks Cuban Translations of Live, Rick Ross, and Major Lazer

  published May 05, 2011

  Well, it was bound to happen. After springing out of nowhere with some serious observations on '90s retreads Live, local hip-hop boss Rick Ross, and those swell white kids behind Major Laze... More >>

• The Mexican Super-Ultra-Pointy-Boot Dance! The 21st Century's Newest Dumb Dance Craze

  published Apr 28, 2011

  Yesterday, my Crossfade colleague Sean Levisman alerted us to the five dumbest dance styles of the 21st Century. And while daggering and choque are fairly creepy examples of taking sex (and sexual inj... More >>

• Your Mother Likes Drugs! What the Hell, It's Roach Motel!

  published Apr 26, 2011

  Roach Motel What the Hell, It's Roach Motel (Destroy Records) myspace.com/roachmotelrules Take the Dead Kennedys' linguistically progressive rants, the social critique via saxophones of CH3, water it... More >>

• Four Fantasy Cover Requests: Shroud Eater vs. Motorhead vs. Hawkwind

  published Apr 26, 2011

  On my second Fantasy Local Covers List for 2011, I kinda challenged the gals and dude of Shroud Eater to come through with a cover of any Justin Bieber track. It was originally done as a shits-a... More >>

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  La Pingueria Continues With the Cuban Interpretation of Major Lazer

  published Apr 25, 2011

  Last week, we brought you a double dose of YouTube hilarity with Cuban interpretations of Rick Ross and Live. And today, it is our utmost pleasure to present el Cubanito's take on Major Lazer. ... More >>

• "The Precursor" Off Serum's Upcoming Album P.C.P. (Pre Campaign Propaganda)

  published Apr 25, 2011

  I get a lot of complaints (or suggestions) that I don't promote local hip-hop enough. And I apologize. But as a matter of fact, I've really been enjoying the local stuff recently. So much so, that o... More >>

• The Getback's Halfway Home Is a Kickass Power-Pop Punk Rock Blast

  published Apr 25, 2011

  The Getback Halfway Home (Livid Records) myspace.com/thegetback I must preface this by stating parts of my personal involvement with this band and its members. Almost a decade ago -- or was it more... More >>

• Five Questions with Beings' Beatriz Monteavaro

  published Apr 20, 2011

  South Florida artists wear many hats and no one wears them better than Beatriz Monteavaro. A darling in the contemporary visual art scene, Monteavaro's revered as a living legend by fans of sludge-p... More >>

• Teen Prodigy Tony Madruga at the Van Dyke Cafe This Thursday

  published Apr 20, 2011

  Most children hate piano lessons when they are forced upon them by overambitious parents. And sometimes, children in musical households don't necessarily follow mom and dad into music. But neither of ... More >>

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  La Chusmeria Continues With the Cuban Interpretation of Rick Ross

  published Apr 19, 2011

  Yesterday, we brought you a trailblazing (and clearly drunken) Cuban riff on a video by those alternative rock retreads Live. But the real gem is this dude's take on a Rick Ross song. And it's not f... More >>

• Marimbero's YouTube Riff on Live: Only in Miami... and That's a Good Thing!

  published Apr 18, 2011

  Last week's local YouTube sensation was a marimbero who took it upon himself to reinterpret a couple of choice musical numbers, including a video by '90s alt-rock retreads Live. The lively running co... More >>

• Jamoneando a la Novia to The Antiques' Simply Antique

  published Apr 15, 2011

  The Antiques Simply Antique (Funny Records) The Antiques' website I am not going to sit here and claim to know every goddamned thing about Florida's proud musical tradition. A good case in point was ... More >>

• Five Questions With Pocket of Lollipops' Tony Kapel

  published Apr 14, 2011

  Tony Kapel is a sun-bathed and tropical version of the Renaissance man. He is a visual artist, writer, musician, scuba diver, and part-time animal wrangler for local cable access television. And he'... More >>

• Four Fantasy Cover Requests for Dade County Sludge Metal Gods Cavity

  published Apr 11, 2011

  The time for subterfuge and obfuscation has come to an end. I will no longer employ cloak-and-dagger tricks in order to make a Cavity reunion happen. No. It is time for action! I have already covered... More >>

• Displace the Bullshit With Orion's "Tru To Self"

  published Apr 08, 2011

  Admittedly, dear readers, I've never been the savviest of hip-hop scribes. Nah, it would be a sham to claim so. I was born out of my father's Bossa Nova and my mother's disco. I smashed my head on the... More >>

• To Be Hated's Bootcamp for Whores Help Fight Old Age

  published Apr 08, 2011

  To Be Hated Bootcamp for Whores (Sour Grapes Records) myspace.com/tobehated Keeping with my tradition of doing things ass-backwards, we have To Be Hated's second full-length effort, the provocatively... More >>

• The Drug Czars On Venus Thanks to the USSR

  published Apr 06, 2011

  Drug Czars On Venus (Fruit Bat Entertainment) myspace.com/drugczars Last time we looked at the Drug Czars, we drew little lines separating the old from the new and identified these guys as potential ... More >>