Weedeater Will’s Pub, Feb. 27 The stoner metal group from North Carolina, Weedeater, takes Will’s Pub near downtown Orlando Feb. 27. Although Weedeater’s latest album, Goliathan, came out almost eight years ago, the band has been steady in playing festivals and touring. Tickets are on sale now. Photo via Weedeater/Bandcamp Credit: Photo courtesy Weedeater/Bandcamp

There’s either some real good love or some real good pot here in Orlando, because North Carolina sludge masters Weedeater keep coming through on the reg.

Whatever it is, may it never run dry so that their impressively noxious Southern doom will continue to crush us into sweet oblivion.

But just as notable, and less frequent to Orlando, are New York City tourmates Rebelmatic, whose funk-strutting hardcore is putting rock’s original Black pulse back into punk. Fishbone’s Angelo Moore appeared on their latest record (2022’s Mourning Dove EP), so you know these dudes are down. When HR says that Rebelmatic reminds him of Bad Brains then, boom, case closed: They are officially a must-see.

Homegrown openers Hollow Leg and Stoned Morose will keep it nasty and neck-deep in the smoked-out tarpits of doom and sludge.

(7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, Will’s Pub, $20)


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This article appears in Feb 22-28, 2023.

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