Striding across the polished marble floors of the lobby of the posh Hotel Inter-Continental in downtown Miami, miles vocalist Tod Oenbrink sticks out like a sore thumb. Tall and lanky, decked out in a flannel shirt and long cutoffs, with a shock of platinum-blond hair and fingernails painted electric blue,…
Willy Chirino Asere (Sony Tropical) Family-style salsa pop with a light dance beat best suited for conservative hips has propeled Miami’s Willy Chirino to the top of the Latin tropical-music ranks. And here we go again: His new release, Asere, is as predictable as the menu of a Cuban restaurant…
“I’m very much opposed to Christian fascism and people listening to everything Christianity has to say,” expounds vocalist, lyricist, and bandleader Marilyn Manson. “But what if everybody listened to everything I have to say? On a couple of different levels, I think it obviously would be better, but at the…
South Beach alt-rock quartet Muse recently signed a multialbum recording deal with Lava, a subsidiary of industry behemoth Atlantic Records. The group, which released its own CD in May, will travel to Los Angeles in January to record its debut for the label. “We could not be more pleased with…
The first thing you notice is the gleaming and colorful clothing. Orange and silver vinyl, red leather, psychedelic swirls on thrift-store polyester. Then the hair. Dark curls, purple braids, and blond crimps. And when the punky, percussive music starts, it all swirls into motion, like a carnival ride or an…
“Day after day, innocent people are being deported, interrogated, and tortured,” Sascha Konietzko yells through a bullhorn in KMFDM’s “Terror,” a track on their most recent album, Nihil. “Fundamentalist forces are undermining the integrity of liberal and democratic political structures/Radical anarchists, fascists, and terrorists are responsible for the violence.” Not…
Cheers, the SW Seventeenth Avenue lesbian bar that has featured punk bands two nights a week (Thursday and Saturday) for the last year, expands its schedule beginning this Saturday, October 7, when the club will start bringing in bands that play rock, acoustic, and alternative music. The lineup for opening…
Jack Vigliatura sat alone at a tiny table at the Stephen Talkhouse, wearing a tricornered Paul Revere hat and big white sunglasses, dressed for Halloween in the middle of April. He didn’t look like a typical fan of Forget the Name, that evening’s headline band. People gawked, but he sat…
When divers come up from the depths of the ocean too quickly, they risk getting the bends, a painful and potentially fatal condition caused by having too much nitrogen in the blood. The Bends is also the title of the second album by the English quintet Radiohead, and it serves…
Fireworks boom and crackle outside, smoke fills the streets, and bottle rockets emblematic of revolutionary bombs burst in the air. Inside, four young men — members of the band Orgasmic Bliss — are sitting in a sprawling Florida room. However, instead of partaking of the Fourth of July traditions of…
Thanks to the regional college radio success of their single, “I’m Beautiful,” the Wilcoxes have gained a reputation among local scenesters for being a band that hails from some supercool bastion of alternative rock far, far away. Not so. The Wilcoxes — vocalist Spring McClure, guitarist Kelly Fulton, bassist Claudia…
Artists and musicians, even those regarded by most as unorthodox, sometimes choose to do things by the book. But if the South Beach-based band Muse were sticking to the book, it would be a tome from the lost city of Atlantis or the wreckage of some UFO from far, far…
Even one listen to his My Love, Sex, and Spirit CD reveals James Hall to be another moody British pop auteur, crooning and posing in decadent affectation. But in fact Hall is a Nashville-bred Southern boy currently living in New Orleans, an appropriately steamy, seamy place for his brooding tunes,…
The first year in the life of ‘Cane Records — the student-run record label based out of the University of Miami — has been kind of like that of a baby: one long learning experience complete with tears, temper tantrums, and lots of late nights. After overcoming a number of…
So often it begins on a whim: As an antidote to otherwise soporific college life in Gainesville, For Squirrels bassist Bill White recalls, he and fellow UF student Travis Tooke bought guitars at a pawnshop and taught themselves to play. Less than two years later, hard work and good luck…
