Wine & Beer: ------Feature • Nonpoint------What’s Bubbly? Check out our selection of good-for-your-heart organic and sulfite-free/no- Saturday, July 21 • 2pm: Cooking Demo sulfites-added red wines. Roasted Potato Salad w/ Also, check out our new An Evolution in Metal line of gluten-free beers. Lemon Pesto Vinaigrette By Ryan Smith but still faithful to the original song, the single was Hours: an obvious choice for radio rotation and ultimately [Co+op Deals Flier Recipe w/Kimberly] Mon.-Sat. 8am-9pm Floridian alternative metal five-piece band Non- reached No. 75 on the Billboard Pop 100. The second Sun. 10am-8pm point have been mixing it up since 1997. That’s the was a little tune called “Bullet with a Name” which Monday, July 23 • 1pm: Cooking Demo year that the band, originally a foursome, formed in came from their 2005 studio album To the Pain. Dis- 1612 Sherman Miami around the talents of vocalist Elias Soriano, tinctive and heavy but catchier and with a more an- Green Bean Feta Salad Fort Wayne, IN 46808 drummer Robb Rivera, guitarist Andrew Goldman themic chorus than much of the band’s catalog, the 260-424-8812 and bassist KB. single caught on with rock radio and remains in fre- [Salads w/Sheila] www.3riversfood.coop Nonpoint are known for mixing hard-hitting heavy quent rotation to this day. Those two songs also made rap-metal components with funk, hardcore and moody instrumental sections and for vocals that rang- ing from shouting and clean sing- ing to rapping in both English and Spanish. In the intervening years their lineup has changed somewhat, with Soriano and Rivera the only remaining founding members. Now featuring a second guitarist, their Tuesday, Thursday sound has evolved slightly, with their material growing increasingly & Now Saturday Wing Night streamlined with each new release. Now in their 15th year, the band Bone-In Boneless has produced seven studio albums and has an eighth, self-titled LP on the way later this year. The album was recorded this February and 40¢ 45¢ March in Chicago and was pro- NONPOINT a dent in Hollywood, as “Bul- duced and mixed by Johnny K, let” was featured in the 2007 Marketplace of Canterbury • 5731 St. Joe Rd., Ft. Wayne • (260) 486-2822 known for his work with Dis- w/CALL ME NO ONE “Stone Cold” Steve Austin turbed and Megadeth, among Friday, July 27 • 8 p.m. vehicle The Condemned, and others. The band has stated Piere’s Entertainment Center the Phil Collins cover was the via its website that it will be theme for the 2006 Miami Vice released later this summer, 5629 St. Joe Rd., Fort Wayne film starring Colin Farrell and and on June 1 of this year, the Tix: $12 adv., $15 d.o.s. thru Jamie Foxx. It is exactly that band made a studio track from maintream success, of course, the album, entitled “I Said It,” Ticketmaster or Piere’s box that has turned away some of available as a free download office, 260-486-1979 their dyed-in-the-wool heavy through its website. metal fans. Despite the presence of several new faces in its Prior to that, the band had initially built up an lineup, including Dave Lizzio (guitar), Adam Wolo- audience outside of its native southern Florida scene syzn (bass) and Rasheed Thomas (guitar), all formerly through touring with the likes of Linkin Park, Staind of Chicago-based band Inn cinema, the single harkens and Sevendust, as well as landing a spot on the 2001 back to the band’s earlier, rawer sound from songs like Ozzfest tour. THIS WEEKEND • JULY 21 2000’s “What a Day” that initially caught the ears of In its early years, the band caught almost as much heavy metal loyalists. attention for their multiculturalism as for their music. On the album and the new additions to the band, Sorian and Rivera are both ethnically Puerto Rican Soriano commented via a press statement, “We’re but hail from the northeast, while the remaining two Todd Harrold Band proud to officially announce the new members of founding members were both white. Soriano is a na- Nonpoint. Dave Lizzio, Rasheed Thomas and Adam tive of New Jersey and Rivera was born in Manhattan; Woloszyn have been chased by bands in the Chicago Rivera also lived in Puerto Rico for a time where he area for years, and somehow by a stroke of luck and fronted a band called Nonpoint Factor, from which timing we now have three of the freshest, most talent- the band drew its name. Sorian also drew upon his & Ambrosia ed players on our team. These guys are great players bilingual English-Spanish skills as a vocalist; while and even better people.” the majority of the band’s lyrics are English, Soriano The new lineup made its live debut on Sunday does occasionally sing and rap in Spanish. Adding NEXT WEEKEND • JULY 28 May 27 of this year at the Rock Monkey Ruckus at to the band’s appeal was an edgy and raw sound and Rockford Speedway in Rockford, Illinois, according street-level perspective which contrasted with many to Blabbermouth.net. And on July 10, the band re- mediocre and watered-down bands that were vying for leased the first official single from the album, entitled a piece of the rap-metal pie in that time frame. “Left for You” via the iTunes music store. The new All of the above helped the band gain traction, Tommy single, studio track and lineup have created more of as they were able to better stand out from the crowd, an internet buzz surrounding the album than the band especially in the diversity-friendly late 90s. While has experienced in recent years, with fans awaiting its the band’s multicultural status continues to this day release with a renewed amount of anticipation. – with their ranks now including Puerto Rican, white, Castro While the band was known in heavy metal circles and African American members – that element now almost from their formation, they did not really begin receives less attention in the culture-phobic, post-9/11 to break through in the mainstream until nearly a de- media marketplace. cade later, with the release of two singles from back- Their current tour is in anticipation of the upcom- to-back albums from the mid 2000s. ing album’s release, and the band will be introducing The first was a cover of Phil Collins’s “In the Air some of the new material along with its new members Tonight,” from Nonpoint’s 2004 LP Recoil. Heavier to their fans. 6------www.whatzup.com------July 19, ’12