With the first week of 2013, we can still hold on to the last gasps of music list-making!Over the past couple of weeks, we weighed in on the top pop albums and top alternative albums of 2012, but clearly there are a few more genres out there. At Salty Eggs, we are already predisposed to [...]
Wearing short pants, short sleeves, and a neck bandage over a brown-spider bite, Matt Preira lamented still not being able to escape the humidity, and the sweat pouring out during his frenetic errand running — from making sure the plugs on the back patio work to smoothing over line-up issues — suggested he would melt [...]
Juan Montoya is the Kevin Bacon of heavy music. Seriously — if you’ve spent any time around various metally genres, or time around any kind of music in Miami, you’re at most one degree separated from the curly-maned guitarist. Nationally or by casual fans, he’s probably best known as the one-time guitarist of Torche — [...]
The news still stings for fans of underground and somewhat artsy heavy music — two days ago, the venerable Los Angeles-based Hydra Head Records announced it would, essentially, cease operations. In a post on its Hydra Headlines news blog, label founder (and Isis frontman) Aaron Turner refused to mince words: “Years of imbalance between creative [...]
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 [...]
When Miami/Gainesville/Atlanta act Torche first started gaining media steam some five or six years ago, it was most often as part of breathless trend pieces on a supposed wave of metal revivalists. (Though Torche themselves never got stuck with the tag “hipster metal,” around 2006, they were often name-checked in the same articles about bands [...]
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 [...]
