DIE
ANTWOORD
LIVE
Like several of their contemporaries (i.e. Kreayshawn), the Johannesburgbased Die Antwoord released a video (“Enter the Ninja”) that went viral and contained themes that left viewers -- especially American journalists -- wondering if it was sincere, or a joke, or just a heavilyexaggerated appropriation of another culture. The reality is more complicated: Yolandi Visser and Ninja of Die Antwoord’s zef aesthetic is linked to the South African movement of the same name, a subculture supposedly analogous to hiphop elsewhere in the world -- one that’s about being fresh and posh even when you don’t necessarily have the means to. Zef, though, is a post-apartheid entity, so it’s rife with more questions about race than about class; Yolandi and Ninja may or may not be adopting the style of their black or mixed-race counterparts. In interviews, they’ve insisted that race is a particularly moot point for the average South African. Once the academic dialogue is removed from the Die Antwoord equation, it’s less difficult to decide if you love them or hate them: post-viral video, Yolandi became a sex symbol (while her style is undeniably great, the girl is hot); the songs are horribly vulgar but fun; their live show is, as Ninja described in an interview with New York, “a mind fuck.” You can decide for yourself when they play at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale at 8pm on October 22. By Monica Uszerowicz of SaltyEggs.com
SKELETONS
ON
PARADE
Despite South Florida’s large Hispanic population, La Dia de Los Muertos doesn’t get a lot of play down here. The simple explanation is that the Latin American world is not a monolith, and the Day of the Dead is a primarily Mexican celebration, with a few notable exceptions. But the festivities Friday, Nov. 2, should bring the holiday a good deal of notoriety, at least to the denizens of Fort Lauderdale. If you’re not all skeletoned-out from Halloween, the Day of the Dead will cap off that spooky time with a traditional processional through the heart of town, from the Museum of Art on Las Olas Boulevard, up Andrews Avenue, to the FAT Village Art District beyond Northwest Fifth Street. If you want to view the parade, lineup on the west side of Andrews by the time things kick off at 6:15 pm. But if you’d rather march, meet at the museum by 5:45. The parade will skeletons, pirate performers, and touchstones will
feature the expected skeletons, including little skeletons, giant skeleton puppets, skeleton circus so on. Also, other traditionally Mexican cultural march, including mariachis and Aztec icons.
As with the American bastardization of St. Patrick’s Day, which has turned a religious Irish holiday into an American one filled with booze and drunken sing-alongs, so we have turned a day generally spent privately honoring deceased family members in Mexico, to a skeletonfilled parade. Which is not to say that such things do not exist in Mexico, but they aren’t exactly the point of the Day of the Dead. So, while you’re checking out this year’s parade, don’t forget to tip one to the homies. Day of the Dead festivities take place Friday, Nov. 2, at FAT Village Art District in Fort Lauderdale. Festivities begin at 6:15pm with a parade from the Museum of Art in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Admission is free. By Dan Sweeney of SaltyEggs.com
Monday, October 1
MIKE MINEO @ Dada B-Sides - FILTHY STILL, JAMES HUNNICUTT @ Propaganda
Tuesday, October 2
SOLSTICE, BRIE, NO ONE’S HERO, NEW N USED. Then @ 10pm 21+ SHOW: THE HATE ASH BURIED, THE SOLUTION, HOT TUBES @ Swampgrass Willys JOURNEY @ Cruzan Amp NIGHTWISH @ Revolution Live
POETRY SLAM @ Dada PRETTY LIGHTS @ The Fillmore CONFLICT RHYMES PRESENTS (Hip Hop) @ Propaganda
Sunday, October 14
Wednesday, October 3
Monday, October 15 THE SWANS, A HAWK AND A HACKSAW @Respectable Street
INDUSTRIAL GRADE WEDNESDAY @Respectable Street BLUES @ Dada THE RESOLVERS @ The Funky Biscuit EOTO @ Revolution Live DJ SPEECHLESS PANDA @ Propaganda
Thursday, October 4
KILBILLIES @ O’Shea’s Irish Pub WARM HEARTS PET RESCUE BENEFIT @ Dada BOND & BENTLEY @ Propaganda
Friday, October 5
KILBILLIES @ O’Shea’s Irish Pub PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED @ Grand Central VICTOR WOOTEN @ Culture Room ANA POPOVIC @ Bamboo Room EMILIE AUTUMN @ Revolution Live THE VIOLET WEST, BLACK FINGER, STEREOTYPES @ Swampgrass Willys 6pm - RESCUE KID, BREAK BLOSSOM, BAD WOLF, AMERICAN PHOTO CLUB @ Propaganda 10pm - GET THE AMMO, OUT OF SORTS, GUNFIGHT, ARMAGEDDON MAN @ Propaganda
Saturday, October 6 STITCH ROCK 6 @ Old School Square
KINGDOMS & CROWNS @ Dada EVERYMEN, ADULT CRASH, LAVOLA, DVNO @ Propaganda GIRLFRIEND MATERIAL @ O’Shea’s Irish Pub UNKNOWN HINSON @ Bamboo Room Psychobilly show with TWISTED IN GRAVES and GO GET GONE @ Five Points Lounge BAND OF SKULLS @ Culture Room ALBERT CASTIGLIA BAND @ Maguire’s Hill 16
Sunday, October 7 GOLDEN Celebration @ ActivistArtistA
THE MIGHTY QUINN @ Propaganda GOTYE @ Klipsch Amp, Bayfront Park ALLEN STONE, SISTER SPARROW & THE DIRTY BIRDS @ Culture Room
Monday, October 8
ANDREW BIRD @ The Fillmore B-SIDES INDIE NIGHT @ Propaganda
Tuesday, October 9
OPEN MIC @ Dada BRIKAZA RECORDS & 7TH INFANTRY PRESENT @ Propaganda
Wednesday, October 10
BLUES @ Dada SORNE, WAVEFUNCTIONS, & MIL0 @ The Funky Buddha BEATS ANTIQUE @ Culture Room DOPAPOD @ Guanabanas DJ SPEECHLESS PANDA @ Propaganda
Thursday, October 11
SWEET CHARIOTS @ O’Shea’s Irish Pub SPRED THE DUB, RUDE HECKLERS @ Propaganda KREEPY CIRCUS with THE RECKLESS DAMES & LONEWOLF OMB @ Five Points Lounge CAT POWER @ Grand Central O.A.R. @ Pompano Beach Amp Australian Pink Floyd @ The Fillmore SEAN PAUL @ Revolution Live
Friday, October 12
BOMBTOBERFEST @ Respectable Street LUNA REX, FUNCRUSHER @ Dada FUTURE PRESIDENTS @ O’Shea’s Irish Pub REHAB, WEB THREE, THE MUTHASHIP, SICK FOR BRAINS @ Propaganda RANDY MCCALISTER BAND @ Bamboo Room DOPAPOD, FUSIK @ Funky Buddha BORGORE @ Revolution Live JP SOARS AND THE RED HOTS @ Five Points Lounge BUNGLED & BOTCHED, SOUTH SIDE DUB @ Swampgrass Willys EX NORWEGIAN @ Tobacco Road
Saturday, October 13
CHRIS PICKERING @ Dada 1 HIT LEFT, THE LIVVERS, SCAR OF THE TROPICS @ Propaganda KILBILLIES @ O’Shea’s Irish Pub ACROSS THE UNIVERSE A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES @ Bamboo Room ALL AGES SHOW @ 6pm-10pm with BLUE WATER
10 YEARS, RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS @ Revolution Live JESTER @ Propaganda
B-SIDES INDIE NIGHT @ Propaganda
Tuesday, October 16 OPEN MIC @ Dada
BAND OF HORSES @ The Fillmore
INGRID MICHAELSON, SUGAR + THE HI-LOWS @ Culture Room CONFLICT RHYMES PRESENTS @ Propaganda
Wednesday, October 17
BLUES @ Dada MICKEY HART @ Revolution Live DJ SPEECHLESS PANDA @ Propaganda
Thursday, October 18
JJ GREY & MOFRO @ Culture Room KILBILLIES @ O’Shea’s Irish Pub ROOTS SHAKEDOWN @ Propaganda
Friday, October 19 THE TOASTERS, THE HARD RICHARDS, GOOD SHEPARD @ Respectable Street
SBTRKT @ Grand Central SWEET CHARIOTS @ O’Shea’s Irish Pub LAKE WORTH BLUES, BREWS & BBQ PRE PARTY FEAT. LITTLE FEAT GUITARISTS PAUL BARRERE & FRED TACKETT, THE NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS @ Bamboo Room Halloween Costume Ball with CUPCAKE BURLESQUE @ Five Points Lounge 900 SECONDS, MONTY WARREN, ELEPHANTGUN @ Swampgrass Willys HIALEAH FEST w/ HUMBERT, THE BRAND, RADIOBOXER, LAVOLA, STOP THE PRESSES, ELECTRIC PIQUETE, THE BUM HIPS, PLANELIFTER, MIND YOU, CHANGE IS GREAT, AGRO, THE VILLIFIERS @ CHURCHILL’S PUB DJ NEEDLEZ PRESENTS ROCK THE MIC @ Propaganda
Saturday, October 20 ASSEMBLAGE 23 @ Respectable Street
MERRY FRANKSTERZ @ Dada THE FUNKY NUGGETS, SOULNAR, DR. MARTINO @ Propaganda FISH HEAD SOUP @ O’Shea’s Irish Pub LAKE WORTH BLUES, BREWS & BBQ AFTER PARTY FEAT. HONEY ISLAND SWAMP BAND @ Bamboo Room Kreepy Luau- POLYNESIAN SHOW and THE NECROPHILES @ Five Points Lounge HIALEAH FEST: BLACK JACKET, NAG CHAMPAYONS, HAMERHED, JSF, THE DEADLY BLANK, THE HOLSTERED, THE BELLRINGERS, RIOT AGENTS, THE KUT, MEDINA @ CHURCHILL’S PUB ANI DIFRANCO @ Culture Room MIGUEL MIGS @ The Vagabond GWAR @ Revolution Live
Sunday, October 21
THE TEMPER TRAP @ Grand Central LAKE WORTH BLUES, BREWS & BBQ AFTER PARTY FEAT. LOWDOWN 13 @ Bamboo Room CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD @ Culture Room
Monday, October 22 DIE ANTWOORD @ Culture Room MINUS THE BEAR @ Revolution B-SIDES INDIE NIGHT @ Propaganda
Tuesday, October 23
OPEN MIC @ Dada XAVIER RUDD @ Culture Room SHPONGLE @ Revolution
PASSION PIT @ Hollywood Arts Park TREE HOUSE @ Propaganda
Wednesday, October 24
BLUES @ Dada PIERCE THE VEIL @ Culture Room BADFISH, A TRIBUTE TO SUBLIME @ Revolution Live SPEECHLESS PANDA @ Propaganda
Thursday, October 25
BOYNTON BEACH ART WALK @ Boynton Art District DJ MORRISSEY @ O’Shea’s Irish Pub PENNYWISE, STREET DOGS, MXPX, UNWRITTEN LAW @ Culture Room REGGAE @ Propaganda GEORGE CLINTON @ Revolution Live
Friday, October 26
RED SHADOWS: THE MASQUERADE @Respectable Street
WPB ZOMBIE CRAWL @ Clematis Street
TIM BURTON MOVIE NIGHT @ Five Points Lounge LOCAL CONTRABAND, 1 HIT LEFT, S.L.A.P @ Swampgrass Willys ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO AND THE SENSITIVE BOYS @ Culture Room TWISTA, SOUTH SIDE DUB, ERIC BIDDINES, LMS, NICO BROWN, RE. B, DJ DSMOOTH, DJ NEEDLEZ @ Propaganda LYNYRD SKYNYRD’S SIMPLE MAN CRUISE PRE-PARTY @ Grand Central JAMES ZABIELA @ The Vagabond IGOR & RED ELVISES @ Bamboo Room AESOP ROCK @ Revolution Live
Saturday, October 27 MOONFEST 2012 @ Clematis Street (500 Block) SWEET CHARIOTS @ O’Shea’s Irish Pub EDDIE SHAW & THE WOLF GANG @ Bamboo Room CAPTAIN RON DUO, ME AND MY ANIMAL FRIENDS, THE MIDNIGHT HOUR @ Swampgrass Willys ARBOLES LIBRES, TBA @ Propaganda MARIA MULDAUR, SISTA MARY BETH @ The Funky Biscuit THE AP TOUR @ Revolution Live
Thursday, November 1
THE WHO @ Bank Atlantic Center
Friday, November 2 JAKE SHIMABUKURO @ Kravis Center NOUVELLE VAGUE @ Grand Central
3RD ANNUAL SOFLA DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATION @ FAT Village BLACKBERRY SMOKE @ Culture Room HUMANE SOCIETY FUNDRAISER @ Dada
Saturday, November 3
MAYDAY PARADE @ Revolution Live THE HARD RICHARDS @ Dada
November 2-4
FLORIDA FLOW FEST @ Bryant Park
Wednesday, November 7
DIRTY BOURBON RIVER SHOW @ Dada TAKING BACK SUNDAY @ Revolution Live
Thursday, November 8 WEEZER @ Hard Rock Live
Friday, November 9
DR. DOG, COTTON JONES @ Culture Room NEEDTOBREATHE @ Revolution Live
Saturday, November 10
ALL TIME LOW @ Revolution Live WALK OFF THE EARTH @ Culture Room
Monday, November 12 DENNEY AND THE JETS, TRISTEN, THE DEWARS, WAKE UP @ Propaganda Tuesday, November 13 PLAINS, DENNEY AND THE JETS, TRISTEN, SOUND SLEEPER @ Churchill’s Pub Wednesday, November 14
WAKA FLOCKA FLAME @ Revolution Live
Thursday, November 15
DANCE GAVIN DANCE @ Revolution Live
Friday, November 16
DONAVON FRANKENREITER @ Culture Room FALLING IN REVERSE @ Revolution Live
Saturday, November 17 BélO @ Kravis Center
Sunday, October 28
STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO, LIONIZE @ Culture Room SMOOTH & THE BULLY BOYS @ Propaganda
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, CHELSEA GRIN, STICK TO YOUR GUNS, CROWN THE EMPIREUPON THIS DAWNING @ Culture Room KELLER WILLIAMS @ Revolution Live
Monday, October 29
Sunday, November 18
Tuesday, October 30
Friday, November 23
‘DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: AN EXHIBITION OF LIFE & DEATH’ @ Howley’s
Tuesday, November 27
B-SIDES INDIE NIGHT @ Propaganda OPEN MIC @ Dada
BILL “THE SAUCE BOSS” WHARTON @ Boston’s
Wednesday, October 31 Hell Of A Party feat. WHOLE WHEAT BREAD, THE HARD RICHARDS, REMAIN CALM, CIGARETTE BUTTS AND BOTTLES CAPS, MINORITY ASSEMBLY@ Propaganda JOHN DIGWEED @ The Vagabond SOL DRIVEN TRAIN @ The Funky Biscuit ELECTRIK CIRCUS @ Revolution Live
DILLON FRANCIS, CLOCKWORK @ Grand Central MEN WITHOUT HATS, 80’S REWIND @ Grand Central BOYS NOIZE @ Revolution Live PENTATONIX @ Revolution Live
Friday, November 30
PERPETUAL GROOVE @ Culture Room EDDIE VEDDER @ Broward Center
Saturday, December 1
EDDIE VEDDER @ Broward Center SEVENDUST @ Culture Room BARSTOOL BLACKOUT PARTY @ Revolution Live
Sunday, December 2
NAPALM DEATH, MUNICIPAL WASTE @ Grand Central
Friday, December 7
PAPADOSIO, GREENWISE LOUNGE @ Culture Room
Sunday, December 9 SUM 41 @ Culture Room
Sunday, December 16
NEW FOUND GLORY @ Culture Room
Friday, December 21
THE STARTING LINE @ Revolution Live
Thursday, January 3
HOLY SHIP PRE PARTY @ Revolution Live
Wednesday, January 9
MELVIN SEALS, JGB @ Revolution Live
Friday, January 25
GALACTIC @ Revolution Live
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BOW
WOW
WOW MEETS MOONFEST #20
Moonfest, the downtown West Palm Beach time-honored tradition of lowering one’s inhibitions for a night and dressing up like a halfnaked zombie or drunken troll, rolls into its milestone 20th year on Saturday, October 27. Event organizers look to bring this ghastly bash back to its ghoulish adult fun-time roots. Moonfest will be strictly 21-and-over this year, and attendees can expect to pay a nominal entrance fee. The costume contest prize money has been raised to $1000 for first place. As with every edition of the yearly twilight revelry--that packed as many as 70-thousand people in the 200 through 500 blocks of Clematis Street last year,--Moonfest will feature a bevy of musical acts. If the same vein of previous years, we expect the exact number of performers to be 20-- in honor of this, the platinum (20th,) anniversary of MoonFest. Local favorites such as post-punk purveyors Mission Veo, groovesters South Side Dub and crusty folk punk troubadours Everymen are slated to take the stage. All eyes will be on new wave progenitors Bow Wow Wow however, and its alluring front woman Annabella Lwin. Not to be confused with West Coast hip-hop idol Snoop Doggy’s nephew with a similar moniker (minus the one bow,) Bow Wow Wow rose to prominence in the early ‘80s. the group’s debut album, featuring a 14-year-old Lwin naked on the cover, stirred up some quick controversy for the band. A project that was the brainchild of Sex Pistols’ manger Malcom McLaren, Bow Wow Wow would eventually put out two mega hits in ”Go Wild in the Country” and ”I Want Candy.” The latter would make a profound impact on director Sofia Coppola, who cites that number and Lwin as a huge influence in her cinematic biopic of French teen queen Marie Antoinette. Lwin is reunited with original Bow Wow Wow bassist Leigh Gorman to perform at this year’s MoonFest. It is only one of two dates scheduled for the fashionable and influential group, MoonFest party-goers should considered themselves lucky. By Alex Rendon
SWANS, HOT PANTS, MONEY SHOT Swans, obliterating eardrums since 1982. What a fitting bumper sticker slogan that would be for the aforementioned bombastic noise-rock act from Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Alas, the group’s enigmatic front man, 58-year-old Michael Gira, would never agree. Although much has been made of his group’s audible assault throughout the years, Gira feels that notion has been overblown. “We are loud, but I doubt we are any louder than My Bloody Valentine or AC/DC was.” Gira quantifies his brand of clamor. “[Swans] is not loud because of an aggressive intent, the electric instruments we use sustain in such a way, and the overtones we emit are more pronounced, that a sort of whirlpool is created for listeners to fall into.” The jarring whirlpools of sound heard on Swans’ 1983 debut, Filth, quickly made Gira and company’s leaders of New York’s no wave scene. Fast forward 29 years and 12 studio albums later and Gira is still knee deep in swirls of sonic fervor. Swans latest effort, The Seer, released in August, is his group’s most ambitious effort to date. It is a dense, multi-layered, post-rock 2-hour long opus that showcases Swans’ entire bag of tricks. An instrumentally inclined effort, the album contains lengthy numbers, such as the wrought 32-minute title track, which challenges listener’s attention spans. “We just follow the thread of where the music is going,” said Gira about his newest album. “We went for whatever seemed to be necessary, without any consideration for commerciality or audience appeal.” Luckily for Gira, Swans has a number of avid fans that seek out wherever his musical inclinations land. Swans performed before a packed house at West Palm Beach live music dive, Respectable Street Café, in 2011. “I liked the young ladies in hot pants,” said Gira about his fondest memory of performing in West Palm Beach. Besides being assaulted by the Swans’ abrasive music, concert goers might have noticed the heat, as Gira demands that air conditioning is turned off when he performs. Gira explains that there are a couple of reasons why he does this; “the A.C. causes my vocal chords to seize up, it is a very common demand amongst singer. And, I also like the physical trial aspect. Turning the air off makes the shows like an ordeal, but one that leads to a money shot.” By Alex Rendon