“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.”
I’m sure you’re super excited for The Mountain Goats tonight. Save some gusto though, because Tycho will be performing Friday night at Crowbar in Ybor.
Ambient? No. I don’t know. Chillwave? Still not getting it. I don’t know what to call Tycho. Ear candy? Chocolate is too sweet. Sweet ear meringue pie. Yes, that, there we go. Light, soft, not too tart, but just right. It’s like floating on a cloud but then also biting into it and realizing the cloud is actually made out of Scarlett Johansson and you were in a bathtub all along and your father is not your real father, it was Mr. Rogers.
Tycho – The Daydream by Tycho
Before that though, you’ll be exposed to the stylistic endeavors of Navigateur. Upbeat, tacky, delicious. It’s like if Com Truise had a better haircut. That’s not all though, Beacon will be opening too. Don’t even get me started. How these dudes haven’t blown up yet is beyond me. I can’t remember the last time where I was as this excited for the openers as I was for the headliner. This is going to be a pretty magnificent show, even if Scarlett won’t actually be there.
Tickets are $9 in advance, $12 at the door. Wait, what? Yes, for about an hour’s wages you get to see all of that hot mess. It’s ridiculous. In a way, you’re a criminal if you go to this show, because you’re essentially stealing from the artists at this price. How dare you.
Facebook event for the braggarts. And for the cherry on top, The SRRs will be DJing in the back. Safe. 9:00PM, see you there.
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… +Continue Reading
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.
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.
Our staff, as well as our growing forum community (the “Brasky Society” over on Facebook), have been committed to following music this past year. Inevitably this means having to endure countless tracks that land well outside our preferred genres, but it’s a necessary toll before you can make sweeping assertions about what music is the “best”.
After critically evaluating a few hundred albums in one year (for our best albums of 2011 selections), I found myself developing surprisingly precise, abstract ideas about how everything fit together and what that “means” about the state of all creative music. It was a long year but I finished the whole thing (with a little help from my Brasky frands).
Here is an accurate summary of what’s going on:
Right-brained thinkers should feel satisfied and can stop reading.
For the restless and curious, here are a few more thoughts on the past year in music. +Continue Reading
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. +Continue Reading
The following editorial is: 1) A review of Skrillex’s “The Mothership Tour” show at the Ritz last Friday or 2) The rudiments of a manifesto on dubstep sociology.
When I found out I had a list spot at Skrillex’s show, I was surprised by how intrigued I became with the show. The Brasky forums know that I’ve been critical of Skrillex since his Deadmau5/Youtube-fueled emergence, but:
I enjoy live bass music and stick up for dubstep in this spirit
I’ve been curious to understand Skrillex’s popularity since noticing that his track “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” has surpassed 50+ million views, putting Skrillex in Lady Gaga territory. And, for the most part, he has done it without the visibility gained via mainstream media exposure. How? I needed to get to the bottom of it.
Upon arrival at the show I started ravenously observing the diversity of showgoers that were rolling in. It was clear that Skrillex was reaching a lot of different audiences within the electronic world, with most everyone represented.
8 Types of Skrillex Listeners
1.
Those half-naked rave girls, decorated with fluorescent doodads/trinkets/gewgaws – specifically, those Clydesdale ankle muff things. They are on drugs, but I’m not sure which ones.
2.
“Getting laid guys” (credit: Louis CK) in collared shirts, hooting at the fluorescent dancer girls (who of course are immensely detached from the people around them).
3.
Awkward computer nerds with Skrillex tees (I think these are the guys who relish the Transformer/dubstep correlation. Note: This correlation has been a terrible thing for dubstep. Also terrible: Zealous YouTube comments about “the drop” or “filth” that are so slobbery you can almost feel the mist)
4.
Suburban hipster looking people dressed very randomly with the jean shorts and wayfarer sunglasses and whatnot. I was wearing suspenders so I think that automatically lumps me here.
5.
Goth/metal couples on dates. (preemptive correction assuming this class may care greatly about this distinction: “cyber-goth”)
6.
People on ecstasy. And weird dudes in masks giving them nose-grazing neon hand jives while they sucked on lollipops and pretended to be rolling hard enough not to notice how REALLY WEIRD THIS LOOKS. IN PUBLIC.
7.
Vintage (2000-2005) screamo kids
8.
Clusters of white girls who appear to be dressing up to mimic the possibly-sincere fashion guidelines of any combination of the preceding. Most are unfamiliar with Skrillex but they’ve heard of dubstep and they like that band.
Now that I’ve judged 99% of the people in the building, let’s judge the final 1%–the performers. +Continue Reading
Some call it “dark rave”, others prefer (yes-it-still-requires-quotations) “witch house”. We’re calling it a pretty awesome debut video from an upstart duo out of Miami.
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:
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. +Continue Reading
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. +Continue Reading
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