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Familiar Orlando roots rockabilly faces Skinny McGee + The Handshakes release debut album

'Chattanooga Trigger Man' is the name, don't forget it

By Bao Le-Huu

Jul 24, 2024

In the book of Central Florida roots music, few figures loom as venerable and true as Skinny McGee. His longtime combo Skinny McGee & His Mayhem Makers were sterling fixtures from the storied era of the original Will’s Pub location by Loch Haven Park dating back to the early 2000s...

Skinny McGee & the Handshakes.release a new album

Review: Zach Bryan turned the Kia Center into a ‘Great American Bar’ dream

Or 'Great Orlando Bar Scene,' as Bryan called it

By Gabby Macogay
Jul 22, 2024
Central Florida's Virginity release 'Bad Jazz,' maybe their best record yet

It’s a jackpot for those who like their melodies as big as their guitars

By Bao Le-Huu
Jul 17, 2024
Orlando post-punk outfit The Synthetics release shimmering new collection 'Glimpses of Heaven'

'Gothic-pop alchemy'

By Bao Le-Huu
Jul 10, 2024
Brightline hopes to get Swifties swiftly to Taylor Swift's Miami show with 'sing-along trains'

Are fans 'ready for it'?

By Matthew Moyer
Jul 9, 2024
Young Orlando hardcore band Watts release thrilling new album 'Retribution'

'Nasty guitars, bludgeoning beats and feral vocals'

By Bao Le-Huu
Jul 3, 2024
Lakeland's Spirit and the Cosmic Heart return with new songs after years of silence

'A dance of shimmering reverie'

By Bao Le-Huu
Jun 26, 2024
Orlando indie-rock supergroup Acoqui release new album 'Drive By Dream' this week

It's the group's first new body of work since 2017

By Bao Le-Huu
Jun 11, 2024
Orlando metal project Blade of Phanes release debut album 'Absence of Light'

Extreme music for extreme times

By Bao Le-Huu
Jun 5, 2024
Lost Orlando conceptual pop act Claire and the Potatoes makes a surprise return for a sole single

Of course it's called 'Obligatory Reunion Song'

By Bao Le-Huu
May 29, 2024
Orlando sludge-metal band Hollow Leg live again, and have new 'Dust' album out

The band are as grisly, virile and prime as they've ever been

By Bao Le-Huu
May 22, 2024
Former downtown Orlando venue and restaurant Ace Cafe looks to reopen in Sanford

"It's on, and it's official."

By Matthew Moyer
May 16, 2024
Hydra-headed Orlando metal group Thrull release album 'Hard Mental Reset'

Featuring members of Witchbender, Freakazoid and Burn to Learn

By Bao Le-Huu
May 15, 2024
Underground lifers Los Jarritos release appropriately titled new album 'Lifers'

'Lo-fi and crude as hell.'

By Bao Le-Huu
May 1, 2024
Orlando folk ensemble Vestis release spectral new album 'Vestis II'

'Explores folk music’s experimental fringe with slowcore’s glacial emotion.'

By Bao Le-Huu
Apr 24, 2024
K-pop star Bang Yongguk plays solo show at Orlando's Plaza Live, to the delight of longtime devotees

'This is my first time in Orlando, and I love you guys.'

By Maisie Haney
Apr 21, 2024
Ten10 Brewing to unveil beer collab with ska group The Toasters just in time for Record Store Day

'Pick it up' on Saturday.

By Matthew Moyer
Apr 19, 2024
Central Floridian swamp-rockers C.B. Carlyle + the Desert Angels release new mini-album 'The Howling'

'The band ride hard on thundering grooves like apocalyptic horsemen'

By Bao Le-Huu
Apr 17, 2024
Orlando music lifer Steve Garron's Guarantees release new 7-inch single, 'Tupac and Kurt Cobain'

Timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Cobain’s death

By Bao Le-Huu
Apr 10, 2024
College radio documentary '35,000 Watts' screens in Orlando this week courtesy Rollins station WPRK

Keeping terrestrial radio weird for decades

By Matthew Moyer
Apr 9, 2024
Orlando musician Renee Arozqueta releases new album with Ladybits, 'Little Dreams'

'Our songs are about the bits and experiences of being a lady, or person, or you know, being alive.'

By Bao Le-Huu
Apr 3, 2024

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BetterU CBD Orlando

1420 Lake Baldwin Lane, #91

VidaCann

1700 N. Semoran Blvd., #160

MÜV Dispensary Orlando – Garland

101 S. Garland Ave., Suite 110

Sunnyside Medical Cannabis Dispensary Fern Park

134 Fernwood Blvd.

Ivanhoe Village

Fluent Cannabis Dispensary

1901 N. Orange Ave.

VidaCann

7400 Southland Blvd., Suite 110

Trulieve Orlando Millenia

4192 Conroy Road, #111

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