The Broward-birthed four-piece Nonpoint came up in the late 1990s, a particularly fertile time in South Florida for experimental heavy rock. At clubs like Cheers, Fubar, and other one-named venues long defunct, they'd share the bill with other arty-but-loud local leading lights like Endo, Darwin's Waiting Room, and the Groovenics. And although Endo was briefly signed to a major label, and it appeared like bigger things would happen for those other peers, Nonpoint was the only act of that scene t
Saigon Kick was arguably South Florida's biggest rock export in the early '90s, a band with some major hits that remains somewhat underrated, perhaps, because of the time at which it appeared. At first glance, the group, originally a quartet, had all the aesthetic stylings of a glam-metal act. But their first album didn't come out until 1991, the famous year when Kurt Cobain and his cohorts began their swift work of taking down arena rock.But while Saigon Kick was more or less a "metal" band,
