The Mud Flappers have a new album for you
The wild-eyed, retro-folk-swing that the Mud Flappers indulge in is, typically, a treat best enjoyed live. The band’s energy is infectious, and even if you’re not the type who typically listens to 90-year-old acoustic music on your iDevice, seeing the band in concert makes you wonder why you don’t. The group is currently working on…
Band in Heaven on new comp, also in Sleigh Bells remix contest
Woozy news from the camp of sorta-local shoegazers Band in Heaven: First up, the band is featured on a new compilation from Killredrocket Records. Jesus in Space 2011: The Resurrection is a 28-track set of syrupy, noisy goodness, featuring BiH’s “Summer Bummer” alongside tracks by the Vanity Press, Bloody Knives, Inifinity Rider, Dead Leaf Echo,…
The fizzles of October
Hey, remember that supposedly incendiary JFK miniseries that was coming to the History Channel? It isn’t. At the 11th hour, the network has nixed the controversial program, which Robert Greenwald and others had assailed as a smear job guided more by executive producer Joel Surnow’s well-documented right-wing bona fides than by anything resembling historical accuracy.…
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Live Music This Weekend [Pauses CD release, Sons of Tonatiuh, The Adolescents, more]
This week was pretty sleepy, but this weekend is anything but. TONIGHT: A weekend of great shows kicks off with a fantastic bill of local and semi-local talent at Will’s Pub, including the alt-rock of Tallhassee’s Only Thieves, the burly pop of Mother Night, the Superchunk-y goodness of the New Lows, and the joyous, life-affirming wonderment…
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Some New Concert Announcements [Beacham Theater’s bow, Marnie Stern, Trouble]
The Beacham Theater opens for rock ‘n’ roll (or something closely approximating rock ‘n’ roll) on March 11, with a concert by G. Love & Special Sauce. Tickets are $20 advance/$25 day of event. [youtube _tF77_yU39g] The irascible, opinionated, innovative, shred-tastic, and extraordinarily awesome Marnie Stern is out on a co-headlining tour with Tera Melos,…
Fake pot is going down swinging
As it turns out, Mr. Nice Guy isn’t so nice to everybody. Just ask very pissed-off mom Nancy Ferreira, who, as the Sun-Sentinel reported yesterday, rushed her 14 and 17 year old sons to the hospital on New Year’s Eve after they smoked the “incense” marked “not for human consumption,” but well known as a…
PunkNews.org ?’s Orlando bands
In the last couple of days, PunkNews.org has given a good bit of love to a couple of Orlando punk bands: First, on Tuesday, the site gave a pretty positive review to the Attack’s Of Nostalgia and Rebellion CD, calling it “a pretty fun punk assortment.” Then, yesterday afternoon, the site began hosting an exclusive…
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Live Music Tonight [Two-Piece Band Mini-Fest, Donna the Buffalo]
Remember, way back when, when we told you about the Two-Piece Band Mini-Fest going down at Will’s tonight? (You should remember, we told you on Monday.) Well, tonight’s tonight, and you can catch eight (!) two-piece acts, including The Knots, Yogurt Smoothness, Juan Pablo, Halloween, Disasteroids, Color by Deluxe, Caramellow Fudge, and, sadly, the final performance…
Stun Lola stun
Sushi Lola’s
Out of the blue
Trendy azure-hued taqueria is a model of efficiency
Poison in the well
The EPA’s investigation of a toxic site in Parramore took two decades. How many more will it take to clean it up?
Words get in the way
XX-XY/Gender Representation in Art
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Van Snowden
Puppet Master
Savage Love
I’m a 27-year-old divorced woman
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve,” mused 19th-century author Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Advice that wild could just as well have been dispensed by a feral saint living in a cave in the woods.…
Happytown
Nobody likes Rick Scott, liberals (still) love Alan Grayson, Bill Nelson hates chromium and you can’t interfere with destiny!
Jill Johnston
By Her Own Write
Gone but not forgotten
Some local notables who died in 2010
Inspector Bellamy
Mystery master Claude Chabrol leaves with a gentle goodnight
Culture 2 Go
In a small gallery just off the lobby of the Orlando Museum of Art, there’s an engaging – albeit small – exhibit of wood cuts, engravings, bright folk-art acrylics and letterpress books that’s worth its weight in, well, ink. Ke Francis, Recent Small Works is part of a new program at the OMA that’s offering…
Patricia Neal
The Eyes Have It
Brand new brand
Orlando indie trio the Pauses suit up for success
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes stock of the local music scene on the occasion of the new year and finds it better than ever before
Art Clokey
Frame by Frame
Live Active Cultures
Top 10 Worst List for 2010
Benoit Mandelbrot
Dr. Tie-Dye
Rammellzee
The Future
Nobody knows anything
11 films to look forward to in 2011
People who died
A tribute to the late and near-great but mostly obscure
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Lineup and location announced for Antemesaris 2011 [UPDATED]
Chris Bell’s Antemesaris Rock ‘n’ Roll People’s Party. It’s the festival that’s not a festival, the gathering of friends that means you meet a lot of new friends, a massive party in the middle of nowhere with great bands from around the region, tons of beer, free barbeque, primitive campsites and a vibe that’s on…
Sneak a listen to the new 7-inch from Garbo’s Daughter
OK, it’s not really “sneaking” if they put it up on Bandcamp for you to listen to, but the Spin & Melt 7-inch by Garbo’s Daughter is available for listening at this link. The record’s “coming soon from Surfin’Ki Records.”
Orlando’s running dry
Today the Orlando Business Journal scooped us (sort of) on a story we’re going to have posted online later this evening. Recent droughts and water overuse have put the city on pace to face a water shortage as soon as 2013. The OBJ gets its info from a November 2010 post on The Atlantic’s website,…
Steel your livers: Flogging Molly’s coming to town
It’s that time of year, lads and lasses: Flogging Molly is hitting the road for their 7th annual Green 17 Tour, which means a stop at the House of Blues, where pint after pint after pint will be raised, chants will be chanted, and punks will hug each other like they’re long-lost Irish clansmen. It’s…
The Bruise Cruise will be flying under the flag of the Nation of Ulysses
Man, that’s one tortured headline, isn’t it? Sorry. Regardless, thought you might want to know that if you haven’t booked your passage on the Bruise Cruise yet, you may well be enticed by the recent announcement of Ian Svenonius as cruise director/master of ceremonies. Yes, the maniac soul-man behind The 13-Point Program to Destroy America…
simplifried is on your side
If your New Year’s goals include cooking more often but you have kitchenphobia, this new site could help: Simplifried, launched by the life-hacking folks at Unclutterer, promises to “end mealtime stress.” Posts so far include “How To Avoid a Mountain of Dishes” and a recipe for baking, not boiling, rice (a basic that can challenge…
The Sweetkisses offer up a “Bastard” of a free track
Local twang-rockers the Sweetkisses just posted “I’m Not A Bastard” to their site and it’s free for download. The song is, according to drummer Larry Fulford, a “previously unreleased demo of a previously unreleased song,” which is probably why it’s free, but hey, it sounds pretty good to these ears and free is free, right?…
Say farewell to Wilbur at the Two-Piece Band Mini-Fest
According to a post on the duo’s Facebook page, Wilbur will be one of the first bands to make it into the “Most Dearly Departed” section of Bao’s 2011 edition of the Undie Awards: Their show at Two-Piece Band Mini-Fest at Will’s on Thursday will be their last. No reason was given, but since Wilbur started…
Newly announced “Florida’s largest” music festival sounds Orlando-shady; probably isn’t
I will likely live to regret writing these words, but there’s good reason to believe that the glad-handing press conference held today at the Amway Center announcing the arrival in Nov. 2011 of “Florida’s largest music festival” may actually wind up being a good thing. Typically, whenever our city officials dip their toes into large-scale…
Local Indie Calendar for January
As always, dates are subject to change. 1/1 – bumbling terrorist comedy Four Lions (Enzian – pictured) 1/7 – French detective mystery Inspector Bellamy (Enzian) 1/14 – Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as grieving parents in Rabbit Hole (Enzian), Sally Hawkins fights for women’s rights in Made in Dagenham (Winter Park) 1/21 – epic wilderness…
Mike Watt’s Coming To Town!
Mike Watt is one of those alt-rock icons that really makes you glad to be alive. The guy’s brimming with charisma, enthusiasm, niceness, and ethics. You love him and you’re pretty sure he loves you. Well, the time to share the love is coming soon, as the storied bassman is hitting Orlando on his upcoming…
Kaleigh Baker and the Legendary J.C.’s bringing some soul to Hard Rock Live
Among this week’s concert announcements from Hard Rock Live was a show that should definitely be of interest to local lovers of soulful music. Next Saturday, January 15, the venue will host one of its “Livewire” locals-only shows, and this one will feature the Legendary J.C.’s and Kaleigh Baker, two of this city’s finest purveyors…
The Pauses named “Artist of the Day” by the Tampa Bay Times
Congrats to the Pauses. First, of course, for the impending release of their debut album, A Cautionary Tale (pre-order it here). Second, of course, for the upcoming CD release shows for said debut album this weekend (Friday in Tampa at New World, Saturday in Orlando at Back Booth). And, third, for getting the attention of…
