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Music columnist for Orlando Weekly // Freelance culture writer applying serious opinion to unserious matters

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Paper Aviator ponders whether to stay or go in affecting new song - Orlando Weekly As narrow as the sonic inspiration is for “I Don’t Want to Leave,” its theme and emotions are very relatable, especially for those of us here in Orlando and other bubbles of sanity. It’s a lovely litt...

New Orlando music: Paper Aviator digitizes Midwest emo and mulls the dilemma of living in today's Florida (performing SAT at Lil Indie's for Halo Halo Music Fest).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #digitalfusion #emo #filipinx #lgbtq
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08.10.2025 15:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Indie-rock notables Boston Marriage return to an Orlando stage after a lengthy silence - Orlando Weekly After emerging in the late 2010s, Boston Marriage are miraculously rising again to show us what music of true indie integrity sounds like.

Concert pick: Montgomery Drive presents the long-awaited return of Boston Marriage with Like Father, Funeral Homes and Lowtalk (TUE at Will's Pub).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #indie #rock
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03.10.2025 17:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Orlando bands San Francisco Renaissance and Alien Witch release split album - Orlando Weekly The eight-song album is evenly split, with the first four songs penned by the San Francisco Renaissance and the last four by Alien Witch.

New Orlando music: The mighty psych convergence of The San Francisco Renaissance and Alien Witch (Alien Witch plays FRI on stacked bill with Black Wick, Snotnoze Saleem and Los Jarritos at The Falcon).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #psych #rock #music
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01.10.2025 21:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Master percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo plays intimate Orlando gig this week - Orlando Weekly There probably isn’t a greater or more native way to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month than with Latin-jazz icon Giovanni Hidalgo.

Concert pick: Latin-jazz percussion legend Giovanni Hidalgo to do two shows in one night (FRI at Timucua).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #latin #jazz #percussion #conga #puertorico #boricua #afrocuban #hispanicheritagemonth
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01.10.2025 21:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Folk guitar virtuoso Molly Tuttle to shred (quietly) in Orlando - Orlando Weekly Rock hogs the spotlight when it comes to guitar heroes for obvious reasons. But Americana has its greats, too. And without question, Molly Tuttle is a young god

Concert pick: The dazzling Molly Tuttle and the excellent Joshua Ray Walker (WED at The Plaza Live).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #folk #bluegrass #roots #americana #country #indie
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27.09.2025 18:29 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Undercover Orlando band Teen Suicide makes rare local return to Will's - Orlando Weekly Teen Suicide are already well-known as the breakout Baltimore band formed by noted indie artist Sam Ray. Somewhat less known is that they’re now Orlando-based.

Concert pick: Montgomery Drive presents rare hometown show for Teen Suicide with Please Be Kind and Sunday Morning Revival (WED at Will's Pub).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #indie #rock
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27.09.2025 18:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Orlando Girls Rock Camp wants 'Youth to the Front' for all-ages concert - Orlando Weekly This latest edition features outstanding neo-shoegaze pacesetters Saucers Over Washington, political alt-rockers The Pinko Beats, young pop rockers Dismera and brand-new OGRC shoegaze product Physalia...

Concert pick: Orlando Girls Rock Camp all-ages show ft Saucers Over Washington, Pinko Beats, Dismera and Physalia (SAT at Will's Pub).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #ogrc #shoegaze #indie #rock #alt
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25.09.2025 17:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Genre-curious Orlando musician Preston Hardwick releases two very different mini-albums - Orlando Weekly Seeing Preston Hardwick on stage laying down the rock hard and heavy with noted Orlando bands like Weak and Audible Parts will give you certain ideas about where his artistic passions lie. But on his ...

New Orlando music: EDM nomad Preston Hardwick expands his horizon even wider with two new back-to-back releases.
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #edm #idm #dnb #drumnbass #jungle #ambient #electronic
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25.09.2025 17:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ugly Orange presents a Battle of the Cover Bands at Will's Pub and you're not ready Band battles and cover bands. Individually, they’re eye-rolling enough. Put ’em together and that’s a special realm of hell. Well, except if Orlando promoter Ugly Orange is involved.

Concert pick: Ugly Orange's Battle of the Cover Bands, partial proceeds go to Orlando Girls Rock Camp and Central Florida Public Media (FRI at Will's Pub).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music
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17.09.2025 19:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Boseby throws Social Decay Showcase to spotlight crucial Florida sounds The stacked program includes an immersive cyberpunk video party, a Boseby album release celebration, and live performances

Concert pick: Social Decay showcase ft Boseby, Russelbuck, I’m Like the Blue Rose, Wave Mage, Ohtwo, PapaPornShop, Jaymond Kreek and Black Wick (SAT at Have Knotz Entertainment).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music
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17.09.2025 14:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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R+B chameleon Aloe Blacc plays a three-night stand at Orlando's Judson's Live R+B chameleon Aloe Blacc plays a three-night stand at Orlando's Judson's Live

Concert pick: The velvet hustle of Aloe Blacc in a whirlwind three-night stand (FRI-SUN at Judson's Live).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #rnb #soul #pop #hiphop
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17.09.2025 14:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Orlando post-pop artist Sean Moore releases first new album in 13 years Orlando post-pop artist Sean Moore releases first new album in 13 years

New Orlando music: Sean Moore reemerges with first album in 13 years (Release show FRI at Casselberry Arts Center with Jonas Van den Bossche and Hesitant Waitress).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music
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17.09.2025 14:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Orlando musician Wheeler Newman ends lengthy creative hiatus with 'ShaShe' Wheeler Newman rose in the Orlando music scene of the mid-2010s, first as leader of psych-pop group Cosmic Roots Collective. Just as he began building a solo name, things went quiet.

New Orlando music: Wheeler Newman reemerges after 8 years to reclaim his own spotlight.
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #indie #jazz #rock #pop #soul
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11.09.2025 14:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Seattle MC Grieves performs at Cafe DaVinci and it's a welcome return Seattle MC Grieves performs at Cafe DaVinci in DeLand.

oncert pick: Grieves comes through to bring back that Rhymesayers feeling (THU at Cafe DaVinci).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #deland #hiphop #rap #indie #rhymesayers
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10.09.2025 23:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Get ready for a heady week of even more Will’s Pub 30th anniversary shows The New Eagles celebrate Will's anniversary Really, what more can be said about Will’s Pub on its big 30th anniversary? OK, tons. But everyone’s been

Concert picks: The weeklong celebration for Will's Pub's 30th anniversary closes with a trifecta of distinct lineups that show off the past, present, and future of Orlando music (WED, FRI, SAT).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #willspub #orlando #music
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10.09.2025 13:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Orlando jazz maestro Gerald Law II releases zeitgeisty new album 'Who We Are' We’re living in a cesspool boiling over with rage, animus, anxiety and despair, somewhere between 1984 and Idiocracy. The only measurable happiness around

New Orlando music: Gerald Law II releases socio-personal opus (Release show TUE at Judson's Live).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #jazz #soul #rnb #blackexcellence
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05.09.2025 16:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Orlando folk singer Aoife O’Donovan gets intimate at Judson's Live this week Now that contemporary-folk royalty Aoife O’Donovan is a card-carrying local, these up-close performances are what we’ve been waiting for.  For two

Concert pick: Two intimate engagements with the great, and local (!), Aoife O'Donovan (TONIGHT at Judson's Live).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #americana #folk #indie #roots
www.orlandoweekly.com/music/live-m...

04.09.2025 16:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Raise a glass to Lucero and celebrate the 20th anniversary of 'Nobody's Darlings' at the Social Get those shot glasses lined up

Concert pick: Once upon a time in Orlando... Lucero celebrates 20th anniversary of magnum opus 'Nobody's Darlings' (SAT at The Social).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #altcountry #americana
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03.09.2025 16:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Will’s Pub's 30th anniversary kicks off in style with a weekend of shows featuring the Delusionaires and so many more Two nights of new and familiar faces pay tuneful tribute

Concert pick: This weekend kicks off the weeklong festivities for the 30th anniversary of Will's Pub.
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #history #punk #garage #rock #americana #roots #folk #country
www.orlandoweekly.com/music/wills-...

03.09.2025 15:56 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Platonic Valentine plays on a bill of adventurous young electronic acts at Will's Pub Alienobserver, Limo Scene, Earth Fault, Crimesididntcommit make for a stacked lineup

Concert pick: Movers of the alternative pop underground converge with Platonic Valentine, Earth Fault, Alienobserver, Crimesididntcommit & Limo Scene (TUE at Will's Pub).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #music #alternative #pop #postpunk #synth #darkwave
www.orlandoweekly.com/music/platon...

29.08.2025 14:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Truckfighters and Restless Spirit explore the International language of heaviness at Conduit Florist and Liquid Pennies hold up the Florida end

Concert preview: Oh. My. God. Endoxa Booking brings heavy rock legends Truckfighters to flatten us, with Restless Spirit, Florist, and Liquid Pennies (FRI at Conduit).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #heavy #rock #stoner #riffs #doom #metal #music
www.orlandoweekly.com/music/truckf...

27.08.2025 20:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tele and the Ghost of Our Lord release dazzling, twangy new album — catch the release show at Will’s Roger Miller, The Buggles, Bowie and Leonard Cohen would approve

New Orlando music: Tele & The Ghost of Our Lord mark fresh phase with revelatory new country album (Release show FRI at Will's Pub w Brett Staska, Billy Ruben & the Mind Readers, and Swamp Blossom.
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #country
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27.08.2025 18:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Best Sendoff: Terri Binion Farewell 2025 When local Americana icon Terri Binion moved away this spring, it left a major hole in the Orlando music landscape. But the farewell event at...

Best sendoff: Terri Binion farewell by Kaleigh Baker

#orlandoweekly #bestoforlando2025

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20.08.2025 15:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Best Orlando Music Scene Class Reunion: Redlight 20th Anniversary Fest 2025 Because craft-beer trailblazer Redlight Redlight was founded by people deeply embedded in the Orlando music scene, they celebrated their 20th anniversary with not simply a...

Best Orlando music scene class reunion: Redlight Redlight 20th anniversary fest

#orlandoweekly #bestoforlando2025

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20.08.2025 14:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Best Living Tribute: Jim Fest 2025 Proof that we're getting wiser as a city: We're appreciating our history before it's, well, history. In the Orlando music scene, there are few documentarians...

Best living tribute: Jim Fest

#orlandoweekly #bestoforlando2025 #jimleatherman

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20.08.2025 14:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Best Star Turn: Isaiah Falls 2025 Young Orlando R&B artist Isaiah Falls is crystallizing into a new pop icon with breathless velocity. His big breakout only happened last year, when 2024's...

Best star turn: Isaiah Falls
#orlandoweekly #bestoforlando2025

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20.08.2025 14:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Best Comeback: Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts 2025 This independent jazz haven went from being squeezed out of its fringey original location in late 2023 to making a grand reopening this summer in...

Best comeback: Blue Bamboo
#orlandoweekly #bestoforlando2025

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20.08.2025 14:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hear what's next in Orlando heaviness when Skeletizer, Hutch, Torchmouth and Blunder Club play Will's Do you enjoy blizzards of Oz?

Concert pick: The next wave of Orlando heavy music with Skeletizer, Hutch, Blunder Club, and Torchmouth (SAT at Will's Pub).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #concert #rock #heavy #metal #stoner #desertrock #punk #riffs
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14.08.2025 13:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Canadian punk legends Dayglo Abortions get radical at Will's Pub this week The Brothels open!

Concert pick: Dayglo Abortions return to rip the pearls off America (THU at Will's Pub).
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #concert #punk #rock #hardcore
www.orlandoweekly.com/music/new-he...

13.08.2025 14:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Orlando classical ensemble Answers emerge from the ‘Basement’ with new music ‘Nothing was planned. Everything was felt.’

New Orlando music: Answers flex their magnitude with a pair of adventurous releases.
#thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #classical #contemporary #improvisation #experimental #avantgarde #chamber
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13.08.2025 14:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0