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Eyehategod at Churchill's Pub March 31

Eyehategod's Mike IX Williams: "I Can't Damage Myself Too Much Anymore or I Might Wake Up Unconscious Forever"

​The members of New Orleans sludge metal band Eyehategod don't worship Satan. They don't kill virgins, hang them upside down over a tub, and wash themselves in blood. They don't dance inside circles of fire during full moons at midnight. They don't castrate babies, put hamsters in blenders, or m ... More >>

Gene Simmons vs. The World: KISS Frontman's Top Five Feuds

Gene Simmons is a smarmy motherfucker.​Maybe we were born too late. Or in the wrong part of the country. But quintessential '80s hair-metal extravaganza rockers KISS have always come off as kinda goofy. Alice Cooper, The Stooges, Black Sabbath ... Now there's some blues-derived din that knew how ... More >>

Santa's Enchanted Forest's Owner Offends Limo Workers

Gene Simmons is a smarmy motherfucker.​Maybe we were born too late. Or in the wrong part of the country. But quintessential '80s hair-metal extravaganza rockers KISS have always come off as kinda goofy. Alice Cooper, The Stooges, Black Sabbath ... Now there's some blues-derived din that knew how ... More >>

Brian Shectman, Santa's Enchanted Forest Owner, Insults Limo Workers

​'Twas one Friday night in January last year when the owner of Miami's longest-running holiday festival failed miserably in his attempt to mack on a woman at a limo company.Brian Shechtman, who along with his brother has operated Santa's Enchanted Forest since 1984, had dialed Aventura Limousine t ... More >>

Top Five Rock 'n' Roll Plane Crashes

Blink 182's Travis Barker defies death. ​Rock 'n' roll makes ordinary men and women immortal. Almost. They're regular people who were born unfamous and will someday die, just like us. But because they're awesome at playing the guitar or howling into a mike (you know, rocking), they become the ce ... More >>

Big Business's Jared Warren Talks Miami, the Melvins, and Eating Deep-Fried Garbage

Big Business's Jared Warren with tiny dogs.​If you were to mix the arena-style hard rock riffage of AC/DC with the drumming of Rush's Neil Peart, throw in some Man Is the Bastard-style crusty sludge, a teaspoon of Black Sabbath, and garnish it with a cup of minced Thin Lizzy, the music would sound ... More >>

Girl Talk at the Fillmore Miami Beach May 19 and 20

Big Business's Jared Warren with tiny dogs.​If you were to mix the arena-style hard rock riffage of AC/DC with the drumming of Rush's Neil Peart, throw in some Man Is the Bastard-style crusty sludge, a teaspoon of Black Sabbath, and garnish it with a cup of minced Thin Lizzy, the music would sound ... More >>

The Spastic Science! Girl Talk Is All About Confetti, Sweat, and Scientific Rigor

Photo by Paul SobotaHard-core party scientist Girl Talk.​Have you ever slipped into a pair of wet jeans, popped a pill, shared drinks with a stranger, rubbed private parts with 4000 people, and danced so hard you blacked out before waking up for another night of the exact same thing? Well, get re ... More >>

Snakehole Comes Out of the Garage to Talk Vaginas, Dicks, Blood, and Other Stuff

​Snakehole has a suggestive name and provocative lyrics. Though the band is only four months old, it's already making heavy waves in and out of the local music scene. Last weekend alone, Snakehole played both Will's Pub in Orlando and the Miami International Art Fair at the Miami Beach Conventio ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ Troy Kurtz

​Snakehole has a suggestive name and provocative lyrics. Though the band is only four months old, it's already making heavy waves in and out of the local music scene. Last weekend alone, Snakehole played both Will's Pub in Orlando and the Miami International Art Fair at the Miami Beach Conventio ... More >>

Concert Review: Floor Reunion Show at Churchill's on Saturday

Photo by Betty MonteavaroFloor, sitting on the ground​FloorChurchill's Pub, MiamiSaturday, March 27, 2010 As I live and breathe here in South Florida, I know a freaking thing or two: Floor is slow-thudding metal royalty. The kind that blue-blooded region rockers will sell their future babies ... More >>

The year’s top ten list for metal music features four ties

Photo by Betty MonteavaroFloor, sitting on the ground​FloorChurchill's Pub, MiamiSaturday, March 27, 2010 As I live and breathe here in South Florida, I know a freaking thing or two: Floor is slow-thudding metal royalty. The kind that blue-blooded region rockers will sell their future babies ... More >>

Top Ten Thursdays: Top Ten Halloween Songs (Sort Of)

​The season for spooking is here, and to help awaken your inner ghoul who's been lying dormant, here is a list of ten songs to celebrate the holiday. Some are obvious, some have loose, vague, or quirky affiliations with Halloween themes (you'll be hard-pressed to find some of these on other Ha ... More >>

South Florida According to Brooklyn: Q&A With Tommy Newman of Murderous Rampage

​This week I decided to try something new -- an interview. I asked my friend Tommy Newman of Murderous Rampage ten questions about his band. Here we go. Please let me know what you guys think. Brooklyn: What bands have you been in around South Florida, and what did they sound like?Tommy Newma ... More >>

Q&A With Rob Halford of Judas Priest!!! Show is at the Hard Rock Next Monday, August 17

​Judas Priest is so influential, so part of the original heavy music, that the band was already rocking when the term "heavy metal" was invented. Formed by guitarist K.K. Downing and bassist Ian Hill, the band originally came together in 1969 over a shared love of bands like Cream. Their hometown ... More >>

Concert Review: Green Day At American Airlines Arena, August 4

Photo by Sayre Berman​To view a full slideshow of pictures from the show, click here. Green DayTuesday, August 4American Airlines Arena Better Than: A show by any other pop-punk outfit playing today. The Review: Green Day rules, despite the fact they're all grown up. Sure, in their early da ... More >>

The Best Christmas Albums of 2008

Have a headbanging holiday.

Youth Shall Be Served

The barely legal members of Orlando's Band Marino are already making pop music for the ages

Blue Crush

An independent record store finds its own level

The Bad Jazz!

As in good, but different. Move aside, nearly deads.

Metal Magic

Loud rock music, sleight of hand, and life in a trailer. What a combo!

In Darkness There Is Light

An artist exorcises his creative demons

Set List

An artist exorcises his creative demons

The Sweat Science

Postmodern boxing's hype & politics

Do the Math

The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. A UTD prof says it ain't.

Folk in the Family

That's the way they became the Webb and Bukstel Bunch

Shake

This land is pa'ti, pa'mi

Shake

Miami's Grammy Booty

Still Alive!

Peter Frampton, the golden god of the Seventies, is, once more, Almost Famous

The Devil Inside

Behold the awesome power of Danzig

It's a Family Affair

Hank Williams III hopes country gold comes in threes

Rotations

Bob Marley tribute, Mark Lanegan

Boy Wonder

Bob Marley tribute, Mark Lanegan

Rotations

Bob Marley tribute, Mark Lanegan

Careful with That Ax, Lilith

Bob Marley tribute, Mark Lanegan

Letters

Bob Marley tribute, Mark Lanegan

Reverb

Bob Marley tribute, Mark Lanegan

What's Really in a Name

Bob Marley tribute, Mark Lanegan

Calendar for the week

Bob Marley tribute, Mark Lanegan

Grunge History 101

Bob Marley tribute, Mark Lanegan

Back in the Driver's Seat

Bob Marley tribute, Mark Lanegan

Rotations

Bob Marley tribute, Mark Lanegan

Welcome to Their Nightmare

Bob Marley tribute, Mark Lanegan

­Viva Albita!

You might think Cuba's glorious traditional music is hundreds of yeas old. You're wrong. It's 31. It's wearing tight jeans. And it's called Albita Rodriguez.

Power Plays

From South Florida to the big time with the traveling circus

Danzig In th Dark

These devil's advocates give the hard rockers their due

Alice Unchained

Reality from the ground up, brutal and rocking

The Manson Murders

Reality from the ground up, brutal and rocking