Archive | July, 2012

Gallery: Toadies and Helmet at Revolution in Fort Lauderdale Wednesday

The resurgence of a beloved, but near-dead musical group can feel both hopeful and depressing. Hopeful because of the cloud of nostalgia and time; depressing because the reality of said band (and concert atmosphere) living up to the magic delivered back whenever is not a promising one. Last night’s three-band bill wasn’t a total exception. [...]

The Casualties, Playing Grand Central Tomorrow, Are Still Unapologetically Street Punk After More Than Two Decades

What, really, does “punk” mean any more? It’s not really the kind of stuff that winds up on the Warped Tour, though many of those bands, whether you like it or not, owe at least some of their guitar stylings and speed to punk. It’s not really any longer about its original aesthetic hallmarks; these [...]

Misael Soto Brings Giant Beach Towel Installation to Fort Lauderdale, Sunday

My first encounter with Misael Soto’s work was indirect: I saw photographs a friend had taken of his piece, I can’t see you, but I can feel you, in which Misael and several participants stood — on bustling Wynwood sidewalks during Art Walk — facing walls or lampposts, eyes closed, as if oblivious to the [...]

Q&A: John Waters, Performing ‘This Filthy World’ Saturday at Parker Playhouse

When I spoke with John Waters, he was on his way to Los Angeles to pick up an award at Outfest and to do two performances of This Filthy World, which he brings to Fort Lauderdale’s Parker Playhouse Saturday night. This is a big summer for This Filthy World. Not really. I’ve been doing this for [...]

Danation: Florida’s U.S. House Races

In this, my final edition of the Great Danation Congressional Report, we’ll take a look at Florida’s U.S. House races. For those of you who may have missed it, I’ve also given a rundown of every state House race and state Senate race. But these are the big ones, the folks that represent us up [...]

When Helmet Plays Revolution Wednesday, What’s Old Will Sound New Again

In absolute historical terms, the early ’90s wasn’t very long ago at all. In musical history, though, that might as well be eons ago, and in many ways, it was a period that was arguably more creatively free. In some ways, fewer channels of distribution meant less micro-splintering and attendant micro-marketing of subgenres, which meant [...]

Toadies’ Clark Vogeler Says Band Enjoying More Freedom This Time Around

By every marker of band mortality, Toadies should be deader than a pet rock. Runaway hit single from a debut album? Check. Overwhelming pressure to repeat the success? Check. Seven years between albums? Check. Eventual break-up? Check. Guitar player Clark Vogeler, for one, saw little if any future for Toadies once they disbanded in 2001 [...]

John Waters: Moral Authority

John Waters, the filmmaker, raconteur, author, “Pope of Trash,” and gentleman of the world, is bringing his one-man show, This Filthy World, to Fort Lauderdale’s Parker Playhouse on Saturday. Salty Eggs is co-sponsoring the appearance, along with Radio-Active Records, Cinema Paradiso, FLIFF, and Strong Reaction Booking. Our all-purpose editorialist, Brandon K. Thorp, spoke with Mr. Waters last [...]

With Bikini Kill’s Upcoming Reissues Scheduled, Here Are Four Other Riot Grrrl Releases That Deserve a New Look

It’s been 25 years since Bikini Kill released its self-titled proper debut EP, a six-track offering that, in retrospect, as the closest thing to an official opening salvo of the riot grrrl movement as there ever was. (That’s how music history has been written, anyways — the band went to great lengths to explain they [...]

Deicide: A Primer (of Sorts)

Like so many others, Deicide were one of the first death metal bands I really got into, alongside Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel. I remember 15-year-old me shoehorning “Bible Basher” and “Satan Spawn, The Caco-Daemon” onto the countless mix CDs I’d burn to listen to on the bus to school, couching them between less intense [...]

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