The beer is cheap. The noise is glorious. The ladies’ room is disgusting. The men’s room is worse. For 35 years, Churchill’s Pub has stood at 5501 NE Second Ave. in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood. That 73-year-old guy with the thick white hair and beard sitting in the shadows, sipping…
It is Miami’s embassy of punk, rock, metal, noise, and pints. After 35 years under the ownership of beloved founder Dave Daniels, the cultural landmark otherwise known as Churchill’s Pub has been sold. Some are worried about drastic changes. Others expect the place to see another million mosh pits. In…
Wax on wax on wax! Tomorrow night, Radio-Active Records revamps its monthly vinyl night with RPM. It’ll be held the last Thursday of each month and feature a wide array of DJs spinning a mix of new and classic records from several genres — all in vinyl. Radio-Active’s co-owner Mikey…
For a musician, there’s nothing quite like taking your child to their first concert. It’s a loaded event, one you hope and pray doesn’t take place in some enormodome watching Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus lip synch. Thankfully, my daughter Jade has pretty good taste for an 8-year-old. Hence, her…
Over the past few weeks, we took a look at some of the best punk bands to come out of Miami. While the general consensus was that the 305 did not invent or expand on the subculture back in the day, it will forever be noted that due to its…
There was a time when every tattoo was scary. Ink was reserved for criminals, freaks, and cartoon characters. But now, tats have gone mainstream. Gone are the days of swastikas chiseled into prisoners’ skulls using ballpoint pens and dissolved Skittles. Now pop stars and accountants rock Chinese characters on their…
The world is irreversibly fucked. Sure, every generation has had its own hyperbolic exclamations of the end being nigh, but millennials are experiencing some seriously unprecedented shit that just can’t be overlooked. Don’t buy it? Let’s run the numbers. We have warmed the globe enough to finally push the polar…
Neon Trees quickly transitioned from a band with one radio hit to a sensation that demands our full attention. As their fan base grows, so does the strength of their songwriting and the frequency of costume changes. And with so many people looking, the little band with a big sound…
Time-travel machines might still be hard to come by, but with Respectable Street’s yearly ’80s flashback to the past within your reach, it’s like yesterday is today. The eighth ’80s prom was a full-on spectacle, as well as the only place where it was proper to dress like Freddie Mercury,…
For those out there that wish Bob Dylan were wordier, Drive-By Truckers might be the band for you. The Athens, GA, quintet combine rock, country, folk, and punk to chronicle the American dream from the bottom of a bottle. Ten albums into a career that spans almost two decades, their…
It’s probably safe to assume that Palm Beach County’s bar-lovin’ patrons have two things in common: They like to have a good time and they have seen the Killbillies live. This talented band makes its living crafting songs that stick in your head and put on live shows that demands…
This week’s local’s show at Revolution Live with Civilian, the Goddamn’ Hustle, Kids, and Pretty Girls isn’t just bringing the same old. Nope, at this juncture, all four bands – including some of the area’s fine pop and indie rock acts – will also present new material. This is the…
No matter how shitty your shitty day was, even the mere idea of Keyboard Cat’s return is enough to make the sides of your frowny mouth turn upward. But what if the internet’s most talented musical cat performed one of the best songs of all time? For sure, that’d make…
Triple Crown Records-signed band Foxing has quite the busy schedule ahead of them. Aside from a nationwide tour, the band releases their debut full-length The Albatross on May 27. The band will even be making a visit to Pines’ recording studio-rock club Talent Farm tonight. The St. Louis band consists…
Funk superstar Bootsy Collins returns to South Florida to play his own music for the first time in 36 years. He’ll be performing at the Kinfolk’s Soul Food Festival tonight and tomorrow in both Broward and Palm Beach counties. Usually, even the most talented and forward thinking musicians have a…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Keeping up with Camacho. The late James Brown was once referred to as the hardest working man in showbiz. However, if he were still alive (RIP, Godfather of Soul) he’d…
Sticklers will tell you summer doesn’t start until June 21. These are probably the same people who don’t believe in global warming. The sweat on the back of your shirt and the daily storms tell you summer is already here and if the weather isn’t enough proof for the changing…
Bring out your pink ruffles, giant dangling earrings, and white tux. We’re gonna get Footloose and party like it’s 1982 at Respectable Street’s Eighth Ever ’80s Prom! And since you were a lanky, flat-chested teenager with braces all over your mouth and only scored a free, crappy meal with bland…
Whoa! Check it out! The internet did something funny again! Oh, internet. You’re too much. The latest soon-to-be-viral phenomenon addresses a serious issue that many aren’t sensitive to in our day and age — that it’s hard out here for a white person. So damned hard. And for those porcelain-fleshed,…
Adam Matza makes music and does spoken word. And though he’d taken a break from the music scene for a while, he’s returning reinvigorated with a vengeance and a focus on bringing experimental live sounds of the verbal and (in the broadest sense) instrumental sort closer to his Broward County…
Say Carlos Mencia three times in a comedy club and see what appears. Could be a frown, a hateful rant, maybe even a defense, but chances are you’ll get something out of the comedy community. That’s because, not too long ago, Carlos Mencia was one of the most controversial –…
Tribute bands sometimes find themselves stifled by having to hew to the music made by those they’re emulating. In many cases, they’re little more than cover bands with a singular focus. But with Crazy Fingers, a Grateful Dead tribute band, that’s never been the case. They not only emulate the…
