This weekend, flashy events — Fashion Week Swim and the like — occupy most of the usual Miami-Dade party-circuit stomping grounds. So it’s as good a weekend as ever to keep things in downtown Fort Lauderdale. There, Saturday offers two intimate shows worth checking out if your ears are open to unexpected and, often unapologetic, [...]
Last night’s Corrosion of Conformity show at Grand Central may not have been packed, but it brought out some of the best Miami metal has to offer. Local favorites Shroud Eater, Consular, and Holly Hunt warmed up the crowd for CoC, who blasted the audience with some loud guitar and heavy-punk muscle when they took [...]
Last night’s Corrosion of Conformity show at Grand Central in downtown Miami wasn’t exactly packed. Blame it on the fact that it was a Monday night, or more likely, on the band’s extended absence from the area (and, recently, the Billboard charts). The group’s last show in Miami was in 1997, and if you’re an [...]
Monday’s show at Grand Central marks a rarity for South Florida metal and hardcore heads. When Corrosion of Conformity appears to headline the sprawling downtown Miami venue, not only will it be the band’s only Florida show on its current run, but it’ll be the band’s first in our pocket of the state in 15 [...]
There’s a schtick assigned to most artists, an aesthetic framework with which their viewers associate them. The visual and aural signifiers of Miami musician and artist Gavin Perry, though, are broad; while the columns and canvas paintings in much of his installations often have a rich, candied appearance — thanks to his frequent use of [...]
Last Friday’s Floor reunion show at Churchill’s was, unsurprisingly, entertaining enough just for its audience. With a crowd ranging from lifelong Kendall bros to facially tattooed crusties, those assembled represented almost a who’s-who of anyone with any vague connection to the band over the past two decades. As many in the crowd had aged gracefully [...]
At Janette Valentine’s day job, it’s all press-on eyelashes, pin curls, high glamour, and behind-the-lens flattery as the creator of Terribly Girly Photography. But outside the 9-to-5, she serves as the bassist in Miami stonery-sludge outfit Shroud Eater. It’s the dirty rock and roll yin to her otherwise primped girlie-girl yang. Together with guitarist/vocalist Jean [...]
Like many who were kids during the band’s heyday, Miami-based artist and musician Beatriz Monteavaro was first attracted to playing rock and roll by KISS. But her instrument of choice, perhaps, came as a direct corollary of her household pet of choice. “When I was like 7 or 8, I had some friends that lived [...]
There is a darkness lurking beneath the sunny beaches and smiling faces that make up Florida’s public facade. All that sunshine eventually blisters and burns, inspiring those left scarred to seek out a dimmer, more Stygian existence. With that in mind, it makes perfect sense that a recently released digital compilation, spearheaded by the merry [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
