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Coral Springs' Millionyoung Becomes a Band and Tears Off Chillwave Tag on Full-Length Debut

By Jonathan Garrett
Jan 6, 2011

Nostalgia is a tricky word." Mike Diaz takes a long pause and surveys his surroundings. It's an unseasonably warm, cloudless day in late November, and we're seated on a park bench at the edge of a small pond in Coral Springs. In this neighborhood, Diaz and former and now-once-again bandmate...
Toro y Moi's Chill Waves Wash Over Electric Pickle

By Jonathan Garrett
Sep 16, 2010

In contrast to Washed Out's idyllic, well-manicured Life of Leisure, Causers of This, the first full-length from Toro y Moi, AKA Chaz Bundick, is an intentionally chaotic affair. But it turns out that the subgenre chillwave, even in deconstructed form, has its virtues. Though Causers is an undeniably piecemeal assemblage,...
Local Chillwave Artist Millionyoung Plays During Art Basel Week

By Jonathan Garrett
Dec 3, 2009

It was really only a matter of time before chillwave found its way to South Florida. A fledgling, blog-fueled movement, chillwave, also known as glo-fi or hypnagogic pop, is an offshoot of the synth-based psychedelia of albums like Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion. Chillwave, however, takes the sound in a...
Cold Front

Local act Opus Finis is heading a national revival of dark, minimal electronic music.

By Jonathan Garrett
Jul 2, 2009

"It's not full of sunshine." Fixing his gaze out of the window, Carlos Oni could well be referring to the weather — the streets outside the Gables Diner in Coral Gables are still slick and damp from an early-morning downpour. But in fact, he is attempting to describe the type...
The Killers Will Kill You

A writer sets out to trace the success of Las Vegas' premier rock group

By Jonathan Garrett
Apr 19, 2007

Back in early 2003, the Killers were just another name littered in the demo piles of A&R departments across the country. Few people in the music industry knew much about the Las Vegas-based rock group or if it would amount to anything beyond being a four-man band with a heap...

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