What’s a rock band to do? While the White Stripes-Hives-Strokes-copycat-set suck the Sixties and Seventies dry, other rockers come on like ever-weaker aftershocks from the Nineties’ “alternative music” explosion (Pearl Jam-lite swaggerers Creed; MTV darlings du jour the Vines). Although decidedly of the latter camp, the Miami-based Stop Motion manages…
Eladio Irala arrived in Miami in early October with a simple plan: He wanted to ship his motorcycle to Haiti, take a boat or plane there himself, and island-hop all the way home to South America. He had no idea exactly how to do this, and he didn’t know anyone…
Given the current craze for anything in a mop-top and skinny tie, it will be no surprise if Kindercore Records’ the Agenda becomes the next MTV mod-revival darling. The music industry is gaga for garage rock, and the Agenda fits the bill (dollar signs were visible between the lines of…
Miami ska-punk stalwarts Going Nowhere are doing just that, calling it quits after five years and one CD.Thousands of bands (you’ll find at least one in any college town) have paired basic punk with ska rhythms, creating a sound no less enjoyable for its predictability; Going Nowhere was as dependable…
Eight Hialeah bands kicked off the Eighth Annual Miami Rock Festival at Churchill’s Friday, a celebration wherein the pub known mainly for live rock music hosts a month of, you guessed it, live rock music. “Rock” means just about anything here. From blues rocker Jon Paris (September 21) to Miami…
bird gets the smile seems to be the kind of band Miami needs. Stocked with a couple of veterans from the local scene, BGTS makes sounds of the sort commonly defined in Webzines by a morass of hyphenated music-geek terms. A quick review of online descriptions suggests that BGTS is…
It took some determination to find the unmarked Soho Lounge, but several hundred indie rock kids were rewarded for making the effort August 2, when the weekly Friday-night party Revolver christened a new venue with a typically schizophrenic mix of live music and DJs spinning everything from James Brown to…
