Florida Weekly: Underground Music in Fort Myers

The underground music scene resurfaces

If you walk around the downtown Fort Myers Music Walk, it is not hard to find cover bands powerchording you to death from their local night spots; Their monotone Sublime covers and Dave Matthews renditions assault your Friday night until a few cocktails comfortably numb your taste in music.

News-Press Article: HOWL Leaving Downtown Fort Myers

Popular business set to make move next month.

For four years, Andy Howl has worked tirelessly promoting Art Walk and Music Walk in downtown Fort Myers and also running his Broadway tattoo parlor/art gallery.

Well, maybe not tirelessly.

Just ask his wife and Howl Gallery co-owner, Alainna Zwiernik.

“Art Walk and Music Walk have been extremely time-consuming,” Zwiernik says. “Andy works around the clock — with breaks for sleeping. There are days when he forgets to eat.”

Howl, understandably, could use the break.

And he’ll finally get one on May 1. That’s when Howl Gallery moves from downtown Fort Myers to its new location in Miracle Plaza, across from Edison Mall on Cleveland Avenue.

HOWL GALLERY MOVING TO LARGER SPACE ACROSS FROM EDISON MALL

HOWL GALLERY WILL BE RELOCATING TO A LARGER 3,300 SQ FT RETAIL SPACE ACROSS FROM THE EDISON MALL ON CLEVELAND AVE. MAY 2013.

Fort Myers, FL - HOWL Gallery, an established tattoo studio and art gallery in downtown Fort Myers will be relocating to Cleveland Ave (US 41) beginning May 1^st, 2013. The new space is over 1,000 square feet larger than the studio’s current downtown Fort Myers location, which they have occupied for the last 4 years. The new facility will feature a large parking lot, more gallery and retail space, and larger work stations for employees.

Reading Rocks: Teen Battle of the Bands

Voting has ended.  Click here to see the videos.  The winning top 3  bands will perform at the Reading Festival on March 16th.

Mike Fite @HOWL

Mike Fite will be tattooing at HOWL March 19th til 23rd.  Call now to book appointments.  (239) 332-0161

HOWL Gallery Voted Best Tattoo Shop in Fort Myers

Spot Magazine 1st Annual Awards.  HOWL Gallery was voted Best Tattoo Shop in Fort Myers by popular vote! 

Gulf Coast Times Interview with Derek Hess

Deliver Me from Clever Art: Artist Derek Hess returns to HOWL Gallery/Tattoo

Derek Hess, 48, is a celebrated internationally recognized artist who studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and The Center for Creative Studies in Detroit. Known for reinventing rock concert poster art in the 1990’s, Hess’ artwork has become part of the permanent collection of the Louvre Museum in Paris, The Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame, MTV, VH1, and in countless books, magazine and rock albums around the world.