A glance at the event’s flyer can afford you a hint about the night’s steez — some cloudy, spacey, picturesque goodness, at least as far as half the night’s acts can provide. Hear Hums’ name makes us think of the actual hum, the phenomena that occurs when a low-frequency humming…
“Hi fi never sounded so lo fi” — this is the tagline on Last Phone Booth’s MySpace. That tagline is a requisite space to be filled, but if we are speaking literally, it ought to be reversed; Last Phone Booth sounds pretty hi-fi for a band with such lo-fi influences…
Sonic Reducer — Propaganda’s first dance party — is going to have an incredible kick-off party, which we’ve just been informed about by Sumsun himself. It’s super last-minute, and we’re still super amped. More awesome still is that it’s Two Dollar Tuesdays — that’s a $2 cover, $2 wells, and…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Alexander.Ryan Alexander is a superhero. When I met with him to ask him about his band (entirely his brainchild),…
Propaganda is going to host a night of drunken, monster-inspired ridiculousness – and there’s free pizza.* Zombies! Organize!!’s 8-bit high-pitched raps about brains and liking turtles will be buoyed by The Freakin’ Hott’s sultry powerpop — before they combine forces to unite as supergroup Dick Knuckle, which will surely prove…
A lot of post-hardcore and post-emo is removed from its origins — but when the two combine, it forms something else entirely (think screamo or crabcore). And thanks to the internet, these derivatives keep on coming. So in an era as saturated as this one, it’s noteworthy when a post-hardcore/emo…
Sumsun’s Judson Rogers has been busy with two upcoming releases detailed here, and taking his sparkling, R&B-inspired magic (thanks to syrupy vocals by Cleverly Hustle, AKA Beverly Russell) to more northern sects of the state. Still, he found the time to remix Young Jeezy’s “And Then What” featuring Mannie Fresh.Considering…
In anticipation for their show tonight night with Lagues at Propaganda, it is important — necessary — to get oneself into the right headspace for the Band In Heaven. Indeed “headspace” is the right term for such foggy, fuzzy stuff recalling both outer space and My Bloody Valentine, the Orlando-based…
At the tail end of their Fishscales tour (this is not a pun), Lagues are playing alongside the equally fuzzed-out the Band in Heaven, though the latter’s namesake is a hint to its distortion being of a softer, prettier variety. Lagues, a husband-and-wife duo from Orlando, plays gritty (awesome) psychedelica…
Impose Magazine deemed Lake Worth’s the Jameses “another reason Florida doesn’t completely suck”; this is slightly true. They’re deserving of a headline based less on the supposed suckiness of their surrounding environment and more on the quirk-and-catchiness of their banging lo-fi, which Impose went on to fairly acknowledge.It’s the nature…
The upcoming To Hell With Poverty at Respectable Street makes for a good trifecta of tributes: to birthday boy Brian (we’d put his last name here for formality’s sake, but it would be creepy), to Lavola, now picked to play at the Silversun Pickups/Against Me!/The Henry Clay People show next…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Boca Raton’s Goolsby.Goolsby’s music creates the best sort of soundtrack for youthful escapades like making out and riding your…
The Dewars are a magical set of twins who make hazy songs that are so dreamy and good and sometimes tucked in between Leonard Cohen covers when played live. Anthony Dewar was awesome enough to email me “Pedophile Pete,” off their EP Songs from the Neverglades. It’s told from the…
Local act Sumsun — a mostly one-man project — is all beautiful synth and glowing chimes in a nebula, anchored by old-school R&B grooves and vocals. Given that bassy nostalgia, it’s as close to the 1980s as glo-fi has been trying to get, but certainly not in production: this stuff…
Friday night’s Big Trouble/Little Munich show – which happens the last Friday of every month at German pub Little Munich (806 Lake Ave., Lake Worth), courtesy of the “Lake Worth Village Green Preservation Society” – has been veiled in a cloud of mystery. That is, two flyers have been posted…
Babe-fronted, Delray-based A Hunter’s Pace has churned out aggressive indie rock energy for less than a year, and already the band is garnering attention for both an earnest vitality and vocalist Sheila Hafsadi’s adorable stage presence. You’d be lucky to catch them at Respectable Street this Saturday. It’s a bummer…
The State Of exemplifies that oxymoronic moment when something sparse becomes atmospheric — like the most electronic form of analog, or vice versa. The Miami duo of drummer Nabedi Osorio and pianist Steph Taylor — both of whom sing — has developed a melodic sound that is tender and haunting…
Often characterized by eclecticism, Seattle indie pop group Minus the Bear just released a refined fourth album, OMNI, that is more mature than all of its past efforts combined. Unveiled May 4, the band’s first LP on Dangerbird Records features a new producer and a new attitude. Ahead of Minus…
