Orange You Glad Music Festival

“Orange You Glad Music Festival returns in spring 2012 with a four-day festival in Orlando, FL from MARCH 8-11. Each day will transport concertgoers to a different area of the city, meaning you’re not only sampling the sounds of more than 60 national, and local acts, but you’re also enjoying a taste of each of Orlando’s finest venues, rotating between concert halls, pubs, coffee shops, record stores and more. Featuring music headliner CULTS, performing their critically-acclaimed, self-titled debut, comedy headliner EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE!, touring with a new show and full-length film, and notable local and regional acts Hundred Waters, Saskatchewan, and Great Deceivers, Orange You Glad, in its quirky, reverent way, concocts a perfect mash-up of what’s relevant to Orlando show-goers at an affordable price. In addition, vendors, artists and food trucks will populate the parking lots for between-show action and enticements.”

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“Keep Saint Petersburg Local” Launch Party

Want to learn about “Keep Saint Petersburg Local” and how shopping locally impacts our community? Want to have a marvelous night of eating yummies from our treasured local restaurants and listening to local music?

Of course you do! Join us on Jan. 31th at one of the most swanky venues in town, Nova 535.

“Keep Saint Petersburg Local” will present on the organization’s mission and our role in the local community.

CONFIRMED ATTENDEES INCLUDE:
Mayor Bill Foster
Council Members
President of the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce
Representatives from several City of St. Petersburg departments
Representatives from business associations and civic/non-profit organizations
Local media (including Creative Loafing)
Local business owners and members of the community

Please bring your promotional literature to share with attendees.

If you are a local restaurant and would like to bring a platter or two of your signature dishes or appetizers to share as part of this community potluck, please e-mail keepsaintpetersburglocal@gmail.com.

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Mountain Goats, Orlando 1-24-12

Brasky.org officials found themselves in a unique spot this week. Brasky is offering Tampa denizens an exciting PREVIEW of a well-hyped upcoming show… The Mountain Goats, the indie superstars behind one of the most emboldened and passionate acts in music today, have shows in Central Florida on back to back nights. Brasky staff attended the show in Orlando on Tuesday night and are fully prepared to simultaneously discuss the proceedings and TOTALLY SPOIL the Wednesday night show in Tampa. Read on if you dare…
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Mountain Goats, Nurses, Etc, Etc

It seems like all we do is smoke candy cigarettes, drink soft cider, and go to shows at Crowbar these days. Derek was growing a mustache recently, so that was taking up some of our time as well. It isn’t as easy as it looks – the public relations for this sort of thing is very taxing. Getting the permits was quite the task as well.

The Mountain Goats lead singer John Darnielle rendezvous with Samuel Beam

Our next outage as the greater Brasky seems to be this Wednesday at Crowbar. The Mountain Goats will be headlining with a personal sweetheart of mine, Nurses. How they managed to find time in between releasing seven million albums, I’m not sure. But they managed.

This is where I say things about the bands. Personally, I prefer Nurses. I’m not allowed to say that, however, since The Mountain Goats are the main getup. So I will say that I’m arriving at the predetermined show time of 8:00PM and staying until the goats finish their set. That’s all you’ll get out of me. You’re not my real Mother, and you can’t tell me what to do.

Besides that, you should hear some samples of ‘dem goats here, and one of my favorite Nurses trax with an x, here.

So, we’ll see you there. Don’t forget your $14 tickets, and to say you’re going on the Facebook event page here, or else your friends won’t know how cool you (we) are.

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Cats in the Basement to release Glow-in-the-Dark Vinyl

CATS would like you to have more fun

Cats in the Basement is “a musical performance project” by Sarasota’s Greg Ferris joined by a cast of “library-turned-dancehall” friends and musicians.

To help stir up some fanfare for their upcoming EP–mercilessly entitled “DOO BEE DOO LA DEE DAY DUM BE DUM DRINK YOUR BLOOD“–they are pressing some magical “glowie” vinyls.
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Debut: Sugar Nights’ “Untitled” Video + Interview

Sugar nights is Khadija Bhuiyan and Michael Donaldson. The high-school friends, having high musical compatibility and an affinity for a variety of instruments, decided to form an eclectic electronic group under the name Sugar Nights. For their sultry track, “Untitled”, the two teamed up with Richard Vergez to put together a time-synced video collage that seems to perfectly translate the song’s dark moods:

Untitled by Sugar Nights

If you like what you hear, hop over to the Sugar Nights’ Soundcloud. Most of their tracks tease with seductive moods, fluctuating between dark/witchy trip-hop and more Miami-flavored house music (hints of the 90s?). Their recent self-titled EP dropped this year under Overthrow Music Authority, and has been well received both by Miami’s indie/electronic scene as well as the interweb’s blogger underground.

In usual Brasky fashion, we got after them with some questions.
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Universus Vol III: A Post Dubstep Affair?

Circuitree Records is back with the part 3 of 4 in their Universus compilation series.

Universus Vol III takes the campaign in a new direction, with more artists–13–and a greater variety of styles. The prevailing theme? You guessed it: The description-less “post-dubstep” (Remember when I sheepishly described Mount Kimbie as post-dubstep? Hint: there is no such thing as post-dubstep. Or dubstep.)

Circuitree is letting us share a highlight track from the mix – a hi-fi heater with FlyLo-esque soundscapes from Aligning Minds.
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Meet: Spies on Bikes

Let’s be honest: music geeks like to parade the most exclusive, unknown music they can find, a process that often means friends of said geek must endure mediocre tunes. I’m probably as guilty as anyone. Truth is, even the indiest of indie music comes into our awareness through the marketing efforts of small labels, so it’s rare that we can offer something truly fresh and un-hyped. Today we offer local newcomer looking to self-publish his first EP – Spies On Bikes.

Catahoula by Spies On Bikes

Home by Spies On Bikes
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Victor Florence Drops New EP

Just when I thought I had my sexual orientation figured out, resident musician and general misanthropy enthusiast Victor Florence has to go and ruin it all with his lovely voice and flowing melodies.

Born in the eighties, or nineties, or something, Victor is actually 48 years old by heart. When not typing on type writers, being leased by Seaworld to serenade penguins, or impregnating women with his voice alone, he can sometimes be found at coffee shops or studying at the University of South Florida.

So, go and grab his newest EP here: Autumn by Victor Florence.

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Brasky Presents: Florida Indoors, Vol 1: Bedroom Beats

Brasky.org is proud to present Bedroom Beats, the first installment of Florida Indoors, a free compilation series setting out to showcase creative electronic music around Florida. Our inaugural mix proudly serves up 19 tracks from artists living in or originating from Florida. Some of these tracks are being released for the first time. Headlining the compilation are nationally recognized artists Machinedrum (originally from Orlando area) and MillionYoung, Miami’s chillwave maven.

Sample It

Promotional Mini-Mix (Youtube)

Download It (Free):

http://music.brasky.org (Bandcamp)

For the last 9 months we have been working with artists and labels with the aim of properly representing the beats scene around Florida. We organized the compilation into 3 “sides” that we hope conjure images and feelings tied to life in Florida:
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