Tag Archives: Sweat Records

Six Cheap, Locals-Only Musical Options for Memorial Day Weekend

Memorial Day Weekend in any major vacation destination is a huge clusterfuck, so bemoaning this over and over again every year is pointless. Okay, so you don’t want to get anywhere near South Beach — that’s fine, what with the current police state there, you probably won’t easily be able to enter the island anyways [...]

Catch Part III of the History of Record-Making at Miami Art Museum This Thursday

This Thursday marks the final installment of MIAMI VINYL, a series of panels on the history of record-making in the titular city, hosted by the Miami Art Museum. The history of local record-pressing and music-making in our city is as dense as it is —perhaps to outsiders — unexpected. And it’s no wonder the panels [...]

Axe and the Oak Emerge From Their Cave to Play Sweatstock

Above all else, Miami trio the Axe and the Oak trade in scarcity and outsider-ness. The band, whose core is frontman Sander Willig and bassist Myles Kaplan, seem to almost deliberately cultivate mystery. Their live performances are rare, spooky, spookily polished, even. Their sound is tight but twangy, full of minor-key reverb and Willig’s emotive [...]

Pool Party Will Make a Big Splash at Sweatstock Saturday

Here’s the story of cult punk foursome Pool Party as they — and their small, but rabid circle of longtime fans — would have you believe. The members first met some 10 years ago when they bumped into each other while searching for drugs on the bathroom floor of the long-defunct South Miami club 5922. [...]

Q&A: Lauren Reskin of Sweat Records Talks First Mix Tape, Sweatstock, and What’s Next

As this is the week that over 700 independent record stores gear up for Record Store Day 2012, it’s more than appropriate — and almost sacrilegious not to — to spout off about the evils of corporate record store chains. But once in a great while they can help serve a higher purpose — like [...]

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

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 [...]

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C&I Studios: The Art of Production and Altruism in Fort Lauderdale

by Monica Uszerowicz

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 [...]

Tonight: Littman Theater Makes Tribute to Venezuelan Composer, Aldemaro Romero