South Florida Rocks: Vol. 8 '87 — '97

Many of these independent, non-signed bands in this twelve-album series aired on the South Florida airwaves of the non-commercial outlets of WVUM 90.5 FM and WKPX-FM, as well as WDNA 88.9 FM—before that station became an all-jazz outlet—broadcasting as a non-profit public access/variety station that aired many alternative music blocks. A few of the bands earned airplay on the “Locals Only” programming blocks of the mainstream/commercial radio rock outlets WZTA 94.9 and WSHE 103.5 in the early ’90s, as well as on specialty show blocks at WAXY 790, around 1993 to 1994, when it was a brokered programming outlet.

The “classic local” songs were heard on the early-to-mid ’80s airwaves of WCKO “K-102,” which held their annual “Homegrown Rock Festivals,” while a few more (Z-Toyz with “Miami Breakdown,” for example) had a video that aired on WKID-TV 51 Fort Lauderdale’s weekend local music video show: the days of Cryer, Young Turk, Slyder, Tuff Luck, Stranger, Lifeforce, and Vandal, the Eat, and Charlie Pickett and the Eggs.

 

Track Listing: Band/Song (45:55)

1. The Bobs – White Gazebo (classic local)
2. Lyrics for Lunch – Close Your Eyes
3. Some People’s Children – Via Satellite (George Zhen, later of Love Canal)
   
4. Deloris Telescope – Oliver Brown (Tampa)
   
5. Dania Morris – Prince Charming (ex-Lyrics for Lunch)
6. Sixo – Driver’s Seat (Rene Alverez of Forget the Name; also of Milkcan)
7. Naomi's Hair – I Can See (Orlando)
8. The Cichlids – Missionary Man (classic local) 
9. Six Silver Spiders – Insane 
10. Notch Above Kafka – Gone But Not Forgotten 
11. D.T Martyrs – Miami Last Night (classic local) 
12. Cell 63 – Uptight (Miami punk)
    
13. The Itch – Trippin' at the Beach