Noise Pollution - Featured artists and events

Wheels AboveThey say those who cannot do, teach. In my case, those who cannot do, write. My musical abilities are proficient enough, I suppose, but never quite enough to lead my own band. Sometimes I'll watch a band, and become extremely envious of their abilities. Especially if they are quite a bit younger than I am. There has never been a clearer case of this than with Wheels Above.

 

Open Windows While onstage, Orlando act Open Windows seems to hardly notice the crowd. They are entranced, tuned in to their own groove. As an audience member, you can’t help but be swept away by it as well.

Honest, pure music with no unnecessary frills. Echoes of classic rock elements woven together with ethereal atmospherics create a feel of basement chill out sessions of a past generation, evenings of bean bags, bongs and black lights. And I mean that in the best possible way.

Vegan Butcher

FLASH! FLASH! I’m trying to watch a show here. FLASH! FLASH! No less than four cameras intermittently flashing. FLASH! FLASH! I don’t know how they concentrate. I’m just sitting here, watching a band, trying to consume the evening’s gallon of P.B.R., when all this shutterbuggery breaks my concentration. I’m a t AKA Lounge attempting to soak in southern sludge metal veterans ‘Vegan Butcher’ throw down and all I can focus on is FLASH! FLASH!

 

Yes, I understand that they’re a foursome of quite good looking, photogenic gentlemen, but still.

 

Thank fucking Christ I’m not epileptic.

 

Overflowing from the stage at the Peacock Room, Orlando upstarts ‘The Painted Ladies’ skillfully wove together the seven instruments which comprise the band without disintegrating into an indiscernible wall of sound. A fresh band, composed of veterans of the Orlando music scene, blended rock, blues and Americana into a digestible mix that the crowd ate up.

Teague Stefan

 

The self described Bastard Son Of Orlando Blues, talks with us about his time in the Orlando music scene and his new album Game Of Life.