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• New Waves: “New Piano” by Sumsun

  Amid a heavy touring schedule, synth soother Judson Rogers — stage name: Sumsun — has released Avey Oliver, a new EP via Halocyan Records. Available now on iTunes and due out on vinyl in February, the five-track release features “New Piano”, a song with the gentle-sun, receding-tide, [...]

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• Beware of Mr. Baker

  Don’t get too close.

  In the beginning of Beware of Mr. Baker, Ginger Baker smacks Jay Bulger in the face with his walking cane, sending blood streaming down the filmmaker’s nose. It’s a fittingly aggressive start to a film that chronicles a life spent hitting things: hitting joints, pummeling his [...]

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• Author Nancy Rommelmann reading at Panther Coffee

  Dark stories over black coffee, anyone?

  In support of Transportation, a collection of short stories released on the first day of 2013, author Nancy Rommelmann is visiting Panther Coffee on Tuesday for a talk, reading, and presumably a cup of coffee. Raised in Brooklyn and based in [...]

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• New Waves: “Swim” by PLAINS

  After a quiet 2012, PLAINS is revving up for a productive new year, promising a stream of single releases leading up to its second full-length album in early summer. In fact, guitarist Jorge Graupera says the LP is “90% completed”. That’s very good news considering PLAINS’ self-titled debut [...]

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• Is football the most important thing in America?

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  The Steubenville rape case shows how far football mania can go. — photo via salon.com

  In an open letter to Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross after the 2011-2012 NFL season, Beached Miami Damn Dolphins columnist Nathaniel Sandler made a bold claim: “Football is the most important thing in [...]

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• New Waves: “Will You Tell Me” by Krisp

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  This new tune by Miami dance-rock quartet Krisp — the second 7″ release by Sweat Records‘ in-house label, Sutro — will make the inside of your cubicle feel like the inside of a stretch limousine cruising along Ocean Drive with the windows down circa 1985. Take a [...]

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• Obama picks Cuban-born, Miami-raised poet for inauguration

  Richard Blanco, a son of Cuban exiles who grew up in Miami, will recite an original poem at Barack Obama’s second presidential inauguration, on January 21, according to the New York Times.

  From the moment Barack Obama burst onto the political scene, the poet Richard Blanco, a son of Cuban [...]

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• Photos: New Coke, Cop City Chill Pillars at Gramps

  On Saturday night, New Coke (featured in the Top 50 South Florida Songs of 2011) and the Cop City Chill Pillars (featured in the Top 50 South Florida Songs of 2012) performed at new Wynwood watering hole Gramps.

  
  All photos by Monica McGivern. To [...]

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