Best Punk Band


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Readers' picks

Best Bar
 The Poor House, Fort Lauderdale

Best Concert Venue (Tie)
 Culture Room and Revolution, Fort Lauderdale

Best Rock Club
 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale

Best Strip Club
The Cheetah III, Pompano Beach

Best Coffeehouse
 Chocolate Moose Music Café, Davie

Best Sports Bar
 Bru's Room, various locations

Best Movie Theater
 Muvico, various locations
 
The Mary Tyler Whores
www.themarytylerwhores.com
In picking a band for this category, we immediately dismissed all pop-punk pretenders. Then, we cast aside hardcore because it gives us a headache. Next, we looked at the band that best defines the word punk but also plays well -- after all, Sid Vicious is a textbook definition of punk, but he couldn't play the bass for shit. After narrowing it down this far, the obvious choice was The Mary Tyler Whores. Armed with a new drummer and a more open-minded attitude about where it will perform -- witness a recent show at less-than-punk locale Automatic Slim's in Fort Lauderdale -- the Whores are prepared to take over the South Florida punk scene. In fact, they already have.