Duos, duos, duos – what the fuck? They are everywhere, crowding the music scene with interesting variations of electronica, pop, and rock. Of course there are The White Stripes and The Black Keys, but it goes way beyond that. Let me see, there’s The Big Pink, Sleigh Bells, Phantogram, Crystal Castles, The XX, Ratatat, Dirty [...]
Wow. Passion Pit is pretty popular. The long line in front of Firestone and down Orange Ave. told the story. That and the fact that I, personally, digitally molested about 394 people on my tedious walk from the front door to the back bar, and for that I’m sorry. Tokyo Police Club was in their [...]
This was indie buzz bonanza weekend for Firestone in Orlando. Friday night saw West Palm Beach’s own Surfer Blood open for 80′s pop-sters The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Actually, a last minute switcheroo had Surfer Blood headlining. The Firestone is a challenging place (at best) to sound good in. It sucks because of [...]
This was one of my favorite songs when I hosted The Red Eye on 91.5 WPRK at Rollins college. It is “Evil Scurvy Love” by Jonny Polonsky, a short and bitter little ditty about yearning for a toxic love. [media id=42]
Yay! Music videos. I almost completely forgot they were making them again for the Interweb. I will try to make this a regular feature and bring back the mind raping time-suck of watching videos. This is “The Ghost Inside” from Broken Bells, the second release from Danger Mouse and James Mercer. I think the chick [...]
Beyond the stellar line-up of performances, this year’s New Orleans Jazzfest saw the convergence of two colossal talents working in unison to record the magic of the music on canvas. Legendary performance painter and New Orleans mainstay, Frenchy, worked side-by-side with Colorado by-way-of-Orlando artist Kevin “Scramble” Campbell. These 2 artists share a similar style which [...]
I had no idea a bunch of synthesizers, drum machines (an occasional real kit), a good female lead, and one giant guitar could be so fun. Brooklyn duo, Sleigh Bells, pounding, screeching, infectiously delicious noise pop explodes on their debut album, Treats. Songs like “Riot Rhythm” and “Kids” sound like anthemic Le Tigre singalongs [...]
I don’t know much about this band other than one of the guys on SIRIUS XMU’s Blog Radio started a record label (a dubious undertaking these days) and Cults is one of the bands – another indie duo actually. If you pop their name in a search engine, you better add “the band” or “music” [...]
I recently took a jab at Black Rebel Motorcycle Club for remaining comfortably in the retro, DIY, garage pocket they helped to define, but surmised that since they do it so well it might not be such a bad thing. Another group that could easily follow the same path is The Black Keys. To the [...]
You may ask yourself, “Where is that large automobile?” No, really – you may ask yourself, “What the fuck is chill wave?” Well some may call it a breakthrough new trend in the world of rock music while I would call it a nifty sub-genre of a sub-genre (Rock>Alt Rock>Indie Rock>Chill Wave). Either way, there [...]