The gusanos in Miami are thrilled with the arrival of Gorki via Mexico.
The no doubt funded his trip so they could trot him out the day before
Juanes, the grammy winning Colombian singer performs his HUMANITARIAN
concert in Havana.
Clearly, as soon as they wring out every drop of propaganda value from
him he'll be flipping burgers and wondering where are my new amigos?
The issue here is that right wing elements are using him for their cause
and he ended up as a pawn though he started as a genuine rebel. Last
year those elements manipulated the media over a story of his arrest.
Mika and others here discussed this recently. The New York Times picked
up on it ... and if you search on his name those false reports are still
there to give you an impression he is the real thing, an important Cuban
dissident, and not a loud and unpleasant neighbor who was disturbing the
peace! (He got a twenty dollar fine).
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1239408.htmlCuban punk rocker Gorki Aguila to speak Friday in Miami
Cuban dissident punk rocker Gorki Aguila is in the U.S. for 15 days to promote his new CD, but he's not sure if he'll be able to return home because of his sharp criticism of the Cuban government.
"I'm scared," said Aguila, who has repeatedly been arrested there.
"But I have to do this. This is the path I've chosen," Aguila told reporters in Miami on Friday as he began a tour to promote "The Faded Red Album" - a dig at the Cuban government's communist ideology.
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Cuban punk rocker Gorki Aguila visits US
Cuban dissident punk rocker Gorki Aguila said Friday he hopes to be able to return to his country despite his sharp criticism of the Cuban government and of the historic rock concert planned this weekend in Havana.
Aguila's 15-day tour in the U.S. for his latest CD, "The Faded Red Album" - a dig at the Cuban government's communist ideology - coincides with a massive, international peace concert Colombian singer Juanes has organized in Cuba.
"I'm scared, I've always scared. In Cuba you live with fear," said Aguila, who has repeatedly been arrested there.
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Juanes concert useful tool for Castro
Juanes concert useful tool for Castro
I n the wake of his ``Peace Without Borders'' concert in Colombia last year -- an effort to ease tensions between his native country and Venezuela -- Colombian rocker Juanes is feverishly planning a performance in Havana for September.
I figured that as part of Juanes' ``Peace Without Borders'' campaign he would invite Cuban performers who are on the opposite side of the Cuba's totalitarian equation: Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Willy Chirino, Lissette Alvarez, Hansel & Raul, Albita Rodriguez. Perhaps also include Cuban musicians on the island who are not sanctioned by the government's ministry of culture, like Gorky Aguila of the alternative rock band Porno Para Ricardo, who has been jailed multiple times for his refusal to yield to the regime's censorship.
As it turns out, it was nothing more than my wishful thinking.
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Tuesday | Have a `Breakdown': Green Day
Tuesday | Have a `Breakdown': Green Day
TUESDAY
HAVE A `BREAKDOWN': GREEN DAY
Pop-punk superstar band performs hits including Longview, Basket Case, When I Come Around and Boulevard of Broken Dreams, plus tracks from its new album, 21st Century Breakdown.
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Churchill's Pub celebrates 30 years of nurturing Miami's music scene
Churchill's Pub celebrates 30 years of nurturing Miami's music scene
At the witching hour of a balmy night in Little Haiti, the 300 people jammed inside Churchill's Pub buzz with anticipation as local-boy-turned-rock-star Interpol drummer ``Slammin'' Sam Fogarino, takes the plywood stage with his old band, The Holy Terrors, for the first time in 14 years. The reunited Terrors have stepped up their game -- playing with more energy and verve than they managed in their early-1990s heyday, lest their famous, dapper and still-skinny 41-year-old drummer show them up.
Twenty minutes into the set, the veins of frontman Rob Elba's throat pop out, giving him the look of a postal worker contemplating a shooting spree. ``This revolution's gonna turn!'' Elba bellows over Fogarino's jackhammer funk beat. Guitarist Dan Hosker drops an angular metal lick, and suddenly he and bassist Will Trevajo are off to the races. Fogarino puts his head down and plays a four-on-the-floor stomp -- until the quartet picks up enough momentum for him to break into his signature lick, an accented hillbilly
Cuban punk rock musician Gorki Aguila, leader of the dissident Cuban punk band Porno Para Ricardo, will host a press conference in Miami on Friday to promote the release of his band's fifth album. Aguila's unexpected appearance in Miami comes on the eve of the Havana concert being presented Sunday by Colombian rock star Juanes. Aguila, a raucous Cuban singer, was frequently mentioned by Cuban exiles as a dissident artist who should perform at that event.
Aguila, who has been arrested and banned from radio and public performances in Cuba for scathing songs that openly mock the revolution and leaders Fidel and Raúl Castro, was arrested in late August and charged with ``social dangerousness'' and ``subverting Communist morality.'' He was let off with a fine, and has lived with family members in Mexico since then.
A spokesperson said that Aguila had not defected, but had received a visa to come to the United States and that he would also visit Washington, D.C., and New York City to promote his CD, Disco Rojo Desteñido (Faded Red Album). She said questions about whether the record would be released in the United States, or whether the band would perform here, would be addressed at the press conference.
-- JORDAN LEVIN
The Miami Herald
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