The Remnants

     Hanging out by the pool tables in Churchill's talking with friends.  Bands have been playing all night and we wander over now and then and check them out and wander back to the other side again.  Another band has taken the stage and we become conscious of the music again.  We head towards center stage and begin to listen and watch.
    This band is good. We look at each other, smile, and nod our heads.  A peek at the set list - looks like it's the Remnants.  Commit that to memory. This band is good.  But who are they?
     Much to our surprise The Remnants turn out to be a local band.  This time of night you expect to be seeing national acts.  A bit of research reveals that they describe themselves as a "generic rock quartet out of North Miami offering up another sad rehash of three-chord rock and roll à la the Rolling Stones."  Well, maybe three chords and maybe Stones influenced but this band is kicking ass.  Generic is not a good word here.  This is some fine punk rock. Iggy, The MC5, Johnny Thunders and The Pretenders come to mind.  Blend them together and you get the idea.
     The Remnants are Cynthia DuVall (vocals), Russell Moore (drums), Jim Potts (guitar) and Dominic Sirianni (bass).  From what we can gather the band is made up the "the remnants" of a bands such as The Pin-Ups, the Hooples, and Avarice.  
    The band has a self titled CD described as "Soft-punk in the vein of a gaggle of love children spawned from an ill-fated sexual union of ABBA and the Dead Boys. Six songs from Miami, Fl's least favorite sons and their worst daughter. These losers have been making noise in SoFl for the last two years and this is what they came up with."     You can pick up a copy at Blue Note Records in Miami or on-line by clicking here
    We've heard that they also released an EP titled  "A Few Evenings with the Bastard" which was produced by Miami's own Rat Bastard. Apparently this was released on vinyl only????
    The band has a few mp3s available on their website . one of which is a song called "The Wait."  We downloaded it earlier and much to our surprise it was one of the numbers that they played the other night that we really all liked.  Grab it while you can!!!!  It's a Pretenders cover done Miami style!