On board, Baroness’ performance is small and intimate before returning to United States for a charitable event in South Florida later this summer. Baroness Elisa defines best in cabaret theater and South Florida audiences are invited support leading Gay and Lesbian organization, Compass,in a spectacular charity fundraiser in Delray Beach on Sunday, August 7th.

Every once in a while a band comes along that really changes way you perceive music, for me one of these bands was Rage Against Machine. I’ll be first to admit that I, like most angsty teenagers was lured into Rage’s music by their anti-authoritarian songs, and honestly dude, they said “fuck” a whole lot. Not only did vulgar language lure me in but instead of writing about girls and cars, they took time to write music about something that actually mattered, politics. Gimmick or not, music was compelling. Soon after I first heard Bulls on Parade on radio I started to really question why I was listening to a lot of other music that interested me at time. Slowly I began to drift away from happy songs about love and sunshine, and turned to songs that really had a purpose. That being said, I was very excited when I first heard that one of my favorite bands of all time was going to reform, and motherfucking Chris Cornell is going to be their singer. It was like some sort of early-90s rock wet dream. Soundgarden and Rage against Machine coming together to form a band that would revolutionize rock! Or so they all said.

Fast forward to today; Audioslave has released Out of Exile follow-up to their self-titled debut released in 2002. Rock doesn’t seem to have been revolutionized; in fact it seems almost exactly same. Just as with their self-titled released, band has crammed in as many publicity stunts as possible, playing on streets of LA; resulting in a riot, and an even larger stunt in Cuba in front of 50,000 fans at Havana’s Anti-Imperialist plaza. Brilliant marketing, but does their album measure up to amount of hype band has surrounding them at all times? After all they are a supergroup consisting of 2 of most successful rock bands in history. The answer to this is an unenthusiastic ‘No.”