Tag Archives: Miami

Band in Heaven Among Groups Playing Churchill’s Pub Friday for Beatriz Monteavaro’s Birthday

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The West Palm Beach-based Band In Heaven — veritable local darlings — recently released a video for their song “High Low” to much web acclaim. (They count Vice and Brooklyn Vegan as fans.) The video features a couple eating magic mushrooms and driving around Miami, taking in the now-hazy, purple-tinged sights. It’s an appropriate set of [...]

Dear Allen: In Which Our Distinguished Congressman Fields Your Questions

Note from the Editor: In the tradition of “Congressman’s Corner,” Salty Eggs has invited Rep. Allen West  to field questions from his South Florida constituents. Until we get a response to our query, we will do our best to answer questions on his behalf, based on what we know of his temperament and politics. Dear [...]

Holly Hunt’s Gavin Perry Values Aura of Process in Music and Art

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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 [...]

Review: Elliott Sharp’s Performance Was Complex, Overwrought

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Guitarist, composer, and artist Elliott Sharp operates on a very, very different wavelength from the rest of us when it comes to how he approaches his craft. Even relative to the avant-garde guitar-tweaking cognoscenti he calls friends and co-conspirators, Sharp’s musical works are stand-outs, resulting in listening experiences that are unusually challenging on both sonic [...]

Lindifference

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It was tough being a Knicks fan this week. Even before it happened, Miami fans were insufferably smug about the Heat’s victory over the newly ascendant Knicks. On the ugly morning of that ugly day, February 23, the Miami Herald published this snotty editorial from sports columnist Greg Cote, in which Cote ascribed the international excitement recently generated by [...]

Q&A: Janette Valentine of Shroud Eater, Playing Churchill’s Friday

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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 [...]

Betty Rumble: Drummer Beatriz Monteavaro Opens Up About Her First Loves — Music and Art

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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 [...]

Avant-garde Guitarist, Science Geek Elliott Sharp Comes to Miami

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Elliott Sharp’s not the kind of figure prosecutors want to see in a jury pool. With his clean-shaven head and soul patch, the 60-year-old guitarist and composer looks every bit the downtown NYC experimental-music scenester he is. Attorneys might further note his anti-Vietnam war activism; his arrest for flipping off a cop while studying at [...]

Swamp Abyss Sorcery: Florida’s New Heavy Metal Manifesto

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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 [...]

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