When we last checked in on Abdecaf, the pseudonym of Miami-based producer Steve Vaynshtok, he had just released his Unravel EP, a collection of wee-hours melancholia. Those songs slinked along on spare synths and crawling beats, with an m.o. that was often more about creating a specific ambiance than worrying about the club. In the [...]
Last time we checked in with local greats ANR, it was early September and the group had just released a new mixtape/album hybrid, Pat Riley. After a few months of relative quiet, with that effort, the group ushered in a fairly ambitious project: a free album a month until a new “official” full-length in early [...]
Earlier this week, Spin magazine dubbed Steven A. Clark one of its “Five Best New Artists for October,” which one could consider the Miami-based artist’s first proper national anointing. The soulful singer/producer dropped his first album, Fornication Under the Consent of the King, for free online last month, in a move echoing that of other [...]
To South Floridians, St. Augustine is remote, uncharted turf, a place you might have visited on a family road trip, full of piratey old town streets and surreally, blissfully empty beaches. But that city, the state’s oldest, is rising artist Levek’s chosen home base after a peripatetic young adulthood spent first in Orlando and Gainesville. [...]
Fans and (the seemingly endless) friends of South Florida musical expat (and ex-Torche guitarist) Juan Montoya have been following his progress with MonstrO, an Atlanta-based act that, unsurprising given the personnel, deftly blends heaviness with melody. That group continues to build its following the grassroots way, by relentlessly touring with scene heavyweights like the Sword [...]
It’s been a minute since the last proper release by Awesome New Republic. But when these devoted studio warriors go a little publicly silent, it always means some serious work in the lab. Now, the fruits of the latest batch of intensive sessions hover within sight: A proper new ANR album is due out on [...]
Don’t look to the material released so far by Miami producer AbDeCaf for obvious bass drops, goofy melodies, or even any sounds that are particularly happy. On his debut EP, Unravel, and a scant handful of tracks to date, the 20-year-old artist born Steve Vaynshtok has specialized in a sound that’s unapologetically late-night, but not [...]
Tonight Get Low, the monthly bass party at the Vagabond devoted to all things bass, celebrates its three-year anniversary. In nightlife terms, that’s nearly eons. But since Get Low started as a subsidiary of the Vagabond’s hip-hop-centric Thursday night, Shake, it’s always managed to look forward. When it started, dubstep was still an underground thing [...]
This Saturday marks a rare coup for Florida lovers of heavy music — the annual free Scion Rock Fest returns, and this time it’s in Tampa! Past editions have hit Atlanta, Columbus, Ohio, and Pomona, California. And while the past couple of years have skewed more to the death and thrash side of things, this [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
