Best of 2000: Best Hispanic Headbanger Bands

Club Sevilla
Rock en Español,
Monday nights
555 Fourth Avenue,
Gaslamp Quarter
(619) 233-5979

Where can one find imported hard rockers with the kitsch and clothes of '80s hair bands like Warrant, Ratt, and Poison? Club Sevilla serves up a metal mix stirred with salsa each Monday for a diverse crowd of dancers and drinkers. Bands such as General Humano and Liquido are more Metallica than Mötley Crüe, but the atmosphere and fashion, both on-stage and off, is freeze-framed somewhere around 1985 with red leather pants, pink miniskirts, poodle haircuts on boys, and fur-trimmed boots. Munchies from Cafe Sevilla include tapas and paella. Admission is $5.