Oski and Queen of the Scene Present Colossal Music Fest at Tobacco Road and Churchill's This Weekend

By Arielle Castillo Mon., Sep. 21 2009 at 3:00 PM

Categories: Concert Preview, Local Music

Another weekend, another Tobacco Road-centered music festival sponsored by the tireless Oski Gonzalez and Queen of the Scene. No, seriously, this pair comprises two of the most unfailingly positive movers and shakers in the local scene. And if they put on so many multi-stage, million-band festivals, it's because they really care. The Colossal Music Fest lacks a genre theme -- as many of their events do -- and instead focuses just on being very, very big and very, very local in scope. The main departure is this edition doesn't actually take place solely at Tobacco Road -- its second day, Saturday, September 26, moves uptown to Churchill's.

Friday at Tobacco Road features three stages, in the club's parking lot, outdoor patio, and upstairs "cabaret." That second-floor space is home to most of the heavier acts of the evening, featuring, among others, a set by Madsic, a quintet that deserves a metal for being possibly the only industrial metal band from Boca. On the patio, highlights include the Coffee House Gypsies, a feel-good, folk-rock kind of act with a particularly rabid Internet fan base.

The following day, Saturday, manages to squeeze some three stages out of Churchill's, too. Inside, we endorse a scheduled set by local blues rocker Uncle Scotchy, who usually plays at Bougainvillea's in South Miami (click here to get a free MP3 from him). Outside, it's worth checking out the hip-hop/Latin/rock fusion of Miami act the Cornerstoners, or, at another end of the musical spectrum, the high-energy hardcore/punk Fort Lauderdale quartet We Fight Back.

All of the local independent acts are worth supporting, though, so check out the full line-up for each day, after the jump.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 - TOBACCO ROAD

Parking Lot Stage

7 to 10 p.m. - the Five Ninez

10:30 - 11 p.m. - Coffee House Gypsies

11:30 p.m. - 12 a.m. - Fate Suspended

12:30 - 1 a.m. - the Cornerstoners

1:30 - 2 a.m. - Don Sha

Patio Stage

10 - 10:30 p.m. - Ashley Gata

11 - 11:30 p.m. - Eric Vick Band

12 - 12:30 a.m. - The Human Condition