glad i never made no damn decision

A piece in the Miami New Times interviews Fabio of Destroyio Records about the upcoming show at Churchill's. It's good to see decent local music get written up. The flier art's not bad either.

Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Churchill's Pub (5501 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL) - Belt Buckle Death Sentence, O.P.S, Johnny Sexfuk & The Fleshrockets, Installing Chaos, Nobody's Hero, Unit Six, DJ Skid Mark
9pm, $5, 18 and up


Country, hillbilly, psychobilly and jangly bluegrass fills up Churchill's on Friday night. A few different people have referred me to Everymen and Black Weather Shaman. I have a serious distaste for Boise Bob's nasally monotone singing though.

Friday, December 18th, 2009
Churchill's Pub (5501 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL) - Wicked Whiskey, The Wreckenstein Brawlers, Baker Acted, Boisebob & His Backyard Band, Everymen, Black Weather Shaman
$?, $5, 18+


Some good local hardcore punk shows Miami Beach how we do on Friday at Love Hate Lounge. I've never been, but I saw a flyer posted nearby yesterday so hopefully some local traffic is drummed up too. Go check it out if you're not catching pop sensation Surfer Blood at The Vajayjaybond

Love Hate Lounge (423 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL) - Nobody's Hero, Unit Six, M-66
8pm, ?, 18 and up?


update O'Malley's hosts some more punk on Caturday with Howitzer, Nobody's Hero and some other bands i'm not familiar with. According to their Facebook page, Howitzer will not be playing this show.

Saturday, December 19th, 2009
O'Malley's Sports Bar And Grill (1388 N St Rd 7, Margate, FL) - Howitzer, Sunset City, Nobody's Hero, History of Monsters
8pm, free, probably 21+


Thank the lawd, it's Can I Say IV! The continuation of the unique microcosm of punk subculture in record collection, live music and film. Free, all-ages, downtown ft. lauderdale. Pretty cool!

Sunday, December 20th, 2009
Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6th St, Ft. Lauderdale, FL) - Howitzer, Soundstar, The Shakers
7pm, free, all ages


The little hatian pub of legend hosts more punk come nightfall.

Churchill's Pub (5501 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL) - D.N.R., Los Topos
9pm, $5, 18 and up


Next Tuesday is a free Joe Strummer tribute show at Churchill's accompanied by the movie The Future Is Unwritten. There's few other places you can get that much entertainment for free on a Tuesday night.

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Churchill's Pub (5501 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL) - To Be Hated, Installing Chaos, Jolly Badfellow, Gringo Starr, Here's to Nathan, DJ Skidmark
8pm movie 10pm show, free, 18 and up?

tons-o-punk this weekend, new event next month

This weekend is action-packed full of good shows.
Thursday is a new (hopefully recurring) Thursday night punk show @ PULP Live!.
Friday is an Oi and Hardcore show at Churchill's.
Saturday The Queers return to Respectable Street, and The Independents return to Zoo Bar.

The most productive and interesting event is this Sunday with the continuation of Can I Say, the monthly movie screening, punk show and record swap at Cinema Paradiso. I still find myself at the fringe of this collection of Old Punk's casual and experienced scenesters, or at least I assume they might have been. They're all well informed on homegrown music from a time I barely knew existed. Ah well, they sell booze at the theater so passing the time depends largely on my wallet. Parking is free on Sundays around these parts (which I am apt to forget again).

The movie this time around is "Llik Your Idols." It's about the early New York underground film scene. (Mr. Pollack, I think I am seeing the trend here) Here's a brief excerpt from a review of the film's topic:

"This arthouse-cum-grindhouse -cum-madthouse-influenced low budget Super-8 filmmaking movement was a loose coalition of lost, angry, damaged, searching, confrontational extreme artistic personalities who found themselves drawn by their personal neuroses and psychoses to the black hole of the Lower East Side during the late 70s/early 80s, during the period of time after punk had razed that city's artistic pretensions and expectations and the No Wave musical scene was enveloping New York's edge-dweller artists in its nihilistic smothering discomfort blanket."

Arguably a potential winner of run-on sentence of the month.
Don't forget that after the film there's 3 very good local Hardcore/Oi/Street Punk bands - three of my favorite local bands actually. The space and light doesn't lend itself to moshing but my mind is usually bruised enough to make up for it.

Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Cinema Paradiso - No Class Action, Howitzer, Nobodys Hero
music at 8pm and movie at 9pm, free, all ages


Also next month is another punk show (keep 'em coming!) at the relatively new Propaganda in Lake Worth.

Friday, October 16, 2009
Propaganda - Jason and The Punknecks, Morgan Knockers, To Be Hated, Angry Pudding
9pm, $5, 21 and up


*UPDATE*

I thought he was coming but I wasn't sure... but sure enough, Thursday the 24th the evil motherfucker from tennessee is back! This time he's at Zoo Bar so go check out Joe Buck Yourself.

Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Zoo Bar - Joe Buck Yourself, Viva Le Vox, Boise Bob and his Backyard Band
9pm, $7, ?

This weekend's shows & new one in Sept

This weekend will be hectic.

Tomorrow (Friday, August 28th, 2009) is Friday Night Riot at Churchill's. Put together by Riot Agents, this show continues to impress with its various random moshing and more than decent bands.

Churchill's Pub - Riot Agents, Guahiro, Nobodys Hero, Los Imigrantes (if this is the same band I saw last time with what looked like all mexican day laborers, it was damn good), Crash Fist Fight
probably ~9pm, $5, probably 18+ (Flier)

Saturday are 3 shows: one in Lake Worth, one in West Palm Beach, one in Sunrise. The really cool thing? They're all all-ages and free!! If you're anywhere near any of these shows go check them out - you cannot beat free entertainment and great music.

J & P's (1600 North Dixie Hwy, West Palm Beach, FL) - The 1%, The Livvers, O.P.S., 1 Hit Left, To Be Hated, Fall of Olympus, Xterminatus, Routine Scheme, Free Radicals, Anger The Gods, Hate Machine, Installing Chaos, Black Weather Shaman, Jolly Bad Fellow, The Clockouts, Nation of Decay
3pm to 3am, all ages, free (Flier)

Radio active Records - Jolly Badfellow, The Strikeouts, Birds Make Bombs Not Feathers (The Clockouts dropped out)
6:30pm, all ages, free (Flier)

Propaganda (6 South J Street, Downtown Lake Worth, FL) - Kill Now?!, Die Stinkin', The Ridicules
10pm (Flier)

Sunday, August 30th, 2009 is the best event out of all of 'em to me... A record swap, A punk movie, and a live show - all free! You can't beat these free shows.

Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL) - The Ruins, Tongues of the Heartworm, Anchorman
8pm, all ages, free (Flier)


There's a new show for next week, too:
Saturday, September 5th, 2009 - Murderous Rampage, Band No. 12, Chambers, Break On Through, Anteaters and the Women Who Love Them, Catalonia, Dooms De Pop @ The Bubble.
This is an all-ages show for $5 at an art space. Lots of kegs will be in attendance, so sounds like a good deal...

Upcoming events for August 2009

We're already halfway through the month and there's more shows a-comin'.
Also this month is the second punk record-swap-movie-show event "Can I Say II".

There are three different shows on August 29th. To me this indicates a lack of communication between punk promoters down here, but what the hell do I know?

	Date: Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 Time: doors at 8pm, bands at 10pm Venue: Propaganda (6 South J Street, Downtown Lake Worth, FL) Bands: The Hard Richards, East Coast Envy, Routine Scheme Access: 21 and up Cover: $5
	Date: Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 Time: 10pm Venue: O'Malley's Sports Bar (1388 N State Road 7, Margate, FL‎) Bands: No Class Action, The Shakers Access: ? (probably 21+, it is a bar) Cover: ?
	Date: Friday, August 28th, 2009 Time: ? (probably around 10pm) Venue: Churchill's Pub (5501 NE Second Ave, Miami, FL) Bands: Riot Agents, Guahiro, Nobodys Hero, Los Imigrantes, Crash Fist Fight Access: ? (probably 18 and up) Cover: $5
	Date: Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Time: 3pm to 3am Venue: J & P's (1600 North Dixie Hwy, West Palm Beach, FL) Bands: The 1%, The Livvers, O.P.S., 1 Hit Left, To Be Hated, Fall of Olympus, Xterminatus, Routine Scheme, Free Radicals, Anger The Gods, Hate Machine, Installing Chaos, Black Weather Shaman, Jolly Bad Fellow, The Clockouts, Nation of Decay Access: all ages Cover: free
	Date: Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Time: 6:30pm Venue: Radioactive Records Bands: The Clockouts, Jolly Badfellow, The Strikeouts Access: all ages Cover: free
	Date: Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Time: 10pm Venue: Propaganda (6 South J Street, Downtown Lake Worth, FL) Bands: Kill Now?!, Die Stinkin', The Ridicules Access: ? Cover: ?
	Date: Sunday, August 30th, 2009 Time: 8pm Venue: Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL) Bands: The Ruins, Tongues of the Heartworm, Anchorman Access: all ages Cover: free