tons of tunes to titillate tumultuous times

*edit* I just noticed this post looked like last week... updated post time. This post is for the week of October 12th, 2009.
*edit* added a last minute Toxic Thursdays show for Thursday, October 15, 2009 with lots of bands @ Pulp Live

Another jam-packed week of punk in SoFl. There's shows in Miami, Ft. Laud, West Palm and Lake Worth so no matter where you are you don't have an excuse to stay home.

Thursday's a three-fer: Teenage Bottlerocket & Cobra Skulls @ Respectables, Murder Junkies @ Churchill's and Stuck Backwards at Pulp Live. If I do venture out this week it'll be for the Murder Junkies. Or Stuck Backwards, because it isn't in Miami.

Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Pulp Live - Stuck Backwards, Break On Through, Here's To Nathan, Guilty Fingers
10pm, $4, 18 and up

Respectable Street - Teenage Bottlerocket, Cobra Skulls, The Crumbs, The Ridicules
7pm, $10, all ages

Churchill's Pub - Murder Junkies, To Be Hated, Murderous Rampage, Maruta, D.A.G., The 1%, Social Fucks
probably 9pm, $12, 18 and up



Friday is a Palm Beach day, with shows at Propaganda and Respectables.

Friday, October 16th, 2009
Respectable Street - Viva Le Vox, Black Weather Shamen
9pm, ?, ?

Propaganda - Jason and the Punknecks, To Be Hated, Installing Chaos, Angry Pudding
9pm, $5, 21 and up


On Saturday a more hillbilly/country punk show comes out at Poor House. I heard Hawg Jowls and the Bacon Fats the other day and they're really quite good at old-school country covers (Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, etc).

Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Poor House - Jason and the Punknecks, Viva Le Vox, Hawg Jowls and the Bacon Fats
10pm, free, 21 and up


And Sunday is a really interesting show: standard 3-band set of acts, plus one for Punk Karaoke. The idea is that they (The Sick Boys) will have covers of over 20 songs. You sign up to be MC for one or more of them. The result is madness or genius, or both. Lots of old-school punk classics, so if you can sing every verse to every 1970's or 1980's top-o-the-punk-pops tune you'll want to be here.

Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Churchill's Pub - The Sick Boys, Brain Damage, Badass, Mehkago NT
8pm, $5, 18 and up

more weirdness than you could shake a poo stick at

Tonight, Tomorrow and Sunday are more shows for your punky selves.
To Be Hated is still trying to organize the Thursday night punk shows at PULP Live!, and the management is dedicated to it, so if you know a band that wants to play tell them to look up To Be Hated and get booked.
UPDATE: Added a show on Friday & Saturday.

Tonight is actually more of a Folk/Hilbilly/Whatever thing, I don't know much about the bands other than Viva Le Vox is always cool.

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Zoo Bar - Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank, Viva Le Vox, Black Weather Shaman
9pm, $5, ?


Thursday is a rare pop-punk night at Churchill's. Boy Prostitute and Bulletproof your Limousine (who I think is actually somewhat of a melodic hardcore or punk band or something?) and JSF round out the main stage, while some half-decent smaller acts play the back stage. If you like the lighter side of punk and hearing something new, check it out. Under 18 with parental guardian.

Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Churchill's Pub - Johnny Sexfuk and the Fleshrockets, Boy Prostitute, Bulletproof your Limousine, Dead Right, The Ticks, Misguided Missles, Facelift, The 1%
7pm (yeah right), $10, under 18 accompanied by an adult


Friday is a house party in Miami. I don't know anything about the place, but if there's a flyer i'll post it.

Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Izzy's House (11421 sw 192nd street, miami, fl 33157) - Baker Acted, One-21, To Be Hated, No Line, Thomas and A.r.t
after 6pm, free, all ages


This Saturday, hardcore band Get The Ammo is playing Brogues in Lake Worth. The show is free, and judging by their myspace samples they're the real deal. Should be interesting...

This Sunday is yet another Lake Worth punk night, with a sort of celtic folk/punk band Cutthroat Shamrock and locals The Ruins & The Ugly Hearts.

Sunday, October 4th, 2009
Propaganda - Cutthroat Shamrock, The Ruins, The Shakers, The Ugly Hearts
8pm, $5, ?


Also don't forget next Friday is Rock vs Mark - a tribute to the seminal hardcore punk of the midwest. Covers of some of the best midwest hardcore by some great local bands.

And the week after that, The Murder Junkies come to town. They're probably one of the most frightening punk bands i've ever heard of, so I love it.

it gets more difficult here

Since i'm new to this whole blogging thing as relates to shows, it's becoming quite obvious that i'm learning about shows months before they'll happen, so blogging about them now seems almost stupid. I suppose it would make more sense to just put them down in the calendar and blog about them a week or two before they come up. Eventually i'd like to make it so people can simply click through a bunch of metadata (venues within a certain area, artist/band names, times, ages, whatever) and find the shows they want to go to.

Until then i'll just stick to the recent calendar bit. Check the calendar to the left of the blog for dates this weekend - there's a lot. Here's some more:

Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Propaganda - Murderous Rampage, Tongues of the Heartworm, Lazerbeast, Thunderbeast
8pm, ?, ?


Official afterparty for the Queers/Leftovers:

Saturday, September 26th, 2009
One For The Road (3613 S. Military Trail, Lake Worth, FL) - Oma's Zwerge, Routine Scheme, Jolly Badfellow, Lights Out
11pm, ?, ?


Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Propaganda - Black Weather Shaman, Kill Now?!, BBDS
8pm, free, ?


Damn, I really need to automate this.
So anyway, all told there's 9 shows this weekend starting Thursday and ending Sunday. Holy fuck. You really cannot say punk or a particular music scene is dead when nine fucking shows happen in one weekend. I'm going to continue bragging about its significance to me for a while but i'll probably only catch one of them. Funny...

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