Showing posts with label local music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label local music. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

12 Days of Panic Bomber

I've said a thousand fantastic things about Panic Bomber, and certainly could say a thousand more, but I'll let someone else do the praising and the press for the time being:

Miami, Florida - December 1, 2009 - PANIC BOMBER's Getting on My Mind LP will be released December 15 as part of the 12 Days of Panic Bomber campaign. Getting on My Mind is 8 new songs plus 4 remixes of the title track, including a version by Takeshi Muto, one half of the influential IDM duo Phoenecia. Notable tracks from the album include, Getting on My Mind, Keep Ignoring, A Giant Tortoise and Bang on the Walls. The December 15th release date will be preceded by a marketing campaign titled, "12 Days of Panic Bomber," running from December 4 - 15. The campaign will facilitate fan interaction in the lead up to the physical release. Each day will include the release of a new piece of Panic Bomber media as well as giveaways to fans that join the fan club on panicbomber.com. On the tenth day, Saturday December 12th, the famed White Room in Miami will hold the record’s official release party, promoted by the heavy hitting combination of Overthrow, Embrace, and Sweat Records, the show will feature The Panic Bomber performing live with a full horn section, dancers and other special guests. Tickets for show will be available at wanttickets.com/embrace. Panicbomber.com, Sweat, and Radio Active Records will begin selling physical copies on December 15th, the final day of the "12 Days" campaign.


Robothands.com, a video production company from NYC, is currently filming a video for the dance edit of the single, "Getting on My Mind." Live footage of Panic Bomber, both solo and with a live band, can be found at panicbomber.com/video.

About Panic Bomber



"The music he makes, regardless of the reasoning behind it, is slick and dance-friendly. It works up to a funky electro-house groove that's rough enough around the edges to belie its creator's rock roots." -Miami New Times



"His performances takes the crowd to an all-new high.. the music is extremely well produced and executed on the stage.

-Cool Junkie



"This American based in Miami defeats, with disconcerting ease, an electro-pop and housey cocktail sung with strange ravey twists of direction..deceptively innocent and terribly engaging."

-Trax Magazine



"He manages to mix electro, house, and techno with touches of pop and concocted a great formula. Familiar, but with a touch of new-ness that makes it fresh to the ears.

-Off the Radar



Miami's fastest rising dance floor innovator is taking this volatile electronic scene by storm, and his forthcoming CD is primed to further the frenzy. Panic Bomber is the brainchild of Richard Haig, a Music Engineering Technology graduate from the University of Miami. Panic Bomber's debut EP dropped in 2009. It garnered press affection from heavy hitters like France's Trax Magazine, which included him on their monthly sampler, was licensed by NBC, and it earned him Miami New Times' coveted title, Best New Electronica Artist of 2009. In the wake of this success, Panic Bomber took his combination of live vocals and synths with house, indie, techno, electro, and break to various corners of the globe. His sold out shows in London and Glasgow have extended his reputation across the pond. Here in the States, Panic Bomber's strong association with tastemakers like Sweat Records and groups like Miami's own Awesome New Republic have the electronic scene buzzing.

For more information please visit:
www.panicbomber.com
www.myspace.com/panicbomber

Monday, November 23, 2009

Killer Tunes & a Quaint Locale

Saturday night Panic Bomber & Awesome New Republic played a Warehouse party in North Miami and threw down hard. I sweat so hard I could barely see by the end of the evening which was well worth it


Wasn't sure if I looked like a candy cane or a barber's pole...supposedly I looked like a "hot candy striper"

The peeps from The Poem Depot enlightened us all and wrote a piece inspired by how "I am a poem..."


Panic Bomber blowing people's minds and eardrums...


2/3's of ANR...So I guess they're the Awesome and the New



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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Welcome Back Boys!

On Saturday, November 21, band extraordinaire, Awesome New Republic will be playing an end of tour show in North Miami at Studio 1415. And to top if off Panic Bomber will be performing as well, and after his ridiculously fantastic performance last Saturday, this should be a hoedown.




Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Friday the Fun-teenth!

Yes my title is incredibly cheesy, but I thought some levity was necessary when shouting out the multi-talented and totally ridiculous, Panic Bomber after taking a gander at the flyer for his show this Friday, November 13th at The Vagabond. So hopefully I'll see you freaks and fans there!


Tuesday, August 11, 2009

THE freshest thing to do on Thursday Nights

Finally something fun and fresh to do on Thursdays, that's not on the Beach or in The Grove.
The locale has quite a history, and by that I mean a regular clientele and location that predates Scarface.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Iggy Pop SWEATS it out with ANR


So it turns out that on Saturday, August 22nd Sweat Records will be throwing a little shindig at Awarehouse in Wynwood, to celebrate the release of some rad Iggy Pop shirts, & he'll supposedly be there as the guest of honor. & there'll be performances by Awesome New Republic and The Jacuzzi Boys, DJs galore, live painting by Francesco LoCastro and a bunch of other good stuff. All the details can be found at Sweat's blog.

Guitartown at The Gibson Showroom

So I went to The Gibson Showroom a few months back for work for the unveiling of the Guitartown project. I just realized that the picture I posted did not match the title, oh well, here's what I was able to piece together just in time before you see them around town.












Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Hear ye hear ye!

ANR plays tonight for a good cause, it's a free event but all donations will be going to be art supplies for inner city kids since the budgets were completely slashed. They'll be playing form 8-10 with "The State Of." & then the party continues/charity event officially starts at The Vagabond where Junc Ops will dazzle us with their brilliance, along with the likes of Afrobeta and other great local acts.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Attention People of Earth!


Awesome New Republic's Rational Geographic Volume 2 is now available for download at their site, or you can pick up a physical copy at Miami's only independent record store Sweat Records . I've praised this pair before, but now that legit music mediators are also singing along and singing ANR's praises I can go all out and share, what most of you already know is that I am crazy in love with ANR's music. MJ's voice soothes my soul in a way even I don't understand, but what ultimately ties it together are the incredible & astonishing yet oh so subtle skills of B Rob pm keyboards. The addition of Jorge Rubiera (of the delightful & twangy Down Home Southernaires & THE best drummer in town) fuses the abilities of all these talented gentleman in a glorious and symbiotic fashion. I absolutely love & respect what these guys are able to do musically. While their tunes are sometimes reminiscent of other dance giants (Prince & Hot Chip,) their music is always undeniably original, fun, poignant, profound & most importantly very,very danceable.
There's sooooooooo much more I could add, but I'll save that for when Rational Geographic Volume 3 comes out in October. Til then I'll just keep on telling everyone and anyone I encounter to check them out.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The best damn band in town...

by far is Awesome New Republic, and I'm not the only person who thinks so. I've been utterly in love with their music since the I randomly caught them at The University of Miami's mini music festival Canefest in 2005. They've moved out of town and returned, changed their lineup and & played almost every venue of note in this town, but their sound has remained the same, and undeniable amazing, so check out & enjoy their video for "Digital World."





quite possibly one of the best bands in the country they just don't have

Thursday, May 7, 2009

yo to the yo

Happy Thursday people, and what better way to wind down the week then to share another awesome party opportunity with you fine people. Miami's own Panic Bomber will be playing The Vagabond on Friday, May 15th with the one, the only Van*Gloria. It should be a delightful night of amazing music so check it out if you have the chance.


Tuesday, April 28, 2009

yo to the yo

After touring the East coast for the past couple weeks, Awesome New Republic will be playing at The Vagabond Friday night and you should absolutely check it out.

Friday, April 17, 2009

I'm famous on the festival circuit....

Well at least I think so in my mind. While I'm currently in California, next weekend April 25, 2009 there will be a great local music festival at Viriginia Key Fishing Village (more commonly known as Jimbos,) called Swamp Stomp. There's going to be plenty of great local acts, like Juke, Tavern, Rachel Goodrich & Cleveland Jones, so I encourage you to check it out. Each year the event gets better and everyone always has a fantastic time. This year I was deemed head of the 'Hipsters' and will in charge of a Tug of War contest against "the hippies." Clearly the gentlemen who nominated me have NOT SEEN the Hipster Olympicsm which you can view below. I've got to thank Olivia for bringing this to my attention before Ultra because it was incredibly coincidental.


I'm not saying I'm gonna forfeit, but as hipsters say "Silver is the new gold...& empanadas are the new cupcakes."

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Another killer local event...

For those of you in the 305 looking for something to do next Thursday, swing by the opening of SHOPBAR. Yes it's a bar you can shop in, that offers up vintage, designer, and all around cool duds. There's going to be a fashion show, cool people, a killer DJ and should be a pretty dope deal, so please come check it out if you can!


Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Panic Bomber "Live" Video

If you haven't checked out Panic Bomber yet, make sure to get on it, he's dope! Off the Radar has a short writeup on the video, but here's a clip of "Smooth Sailor."

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

If you haven't checked out Panic Bomber...

you should come see him perform tomorrow night at The News Lounge, because it's something brilliant to behold!


Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Panic Bomber's blitzkrieg at The Vagabond

I have proclaimed my adoration for the madness that is Panic Bomber before, but I now have pics and the experience of a super sick live set at The Vagabond to back me up. Everyone who was there had a fantastic time and Richard put on a bangin set, he should be incredibly proud of. If you're in Miami, you can check him out again on the 21st at the Nightdrive Party, otherwise I'll try and post the video of his set as soon as it's available.

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

I'm in love with Panic Bomber


Panic Bomber is the new solo project from local Miami musician Richard Haig and it's fucking awesome! I went to the Sweat Records Stocking Stuffer party and ran into Pat Walsh (check out his weekly party NightDrive by the by,) who asked me if I'd heard Richard's album yet, which I had not. Coincidentally I had run into Rich during Art Basel at the ANR, The Jean Marie and Rachel Goodrich show, and he told me he was working on something new and going by the name of "Panic Bomber," which immediately intrigued me, since Richard is a rather intriguing person, & what better to get the people riled up than the mention of something terrorism related.
So when Pat played the "Calling in Threats Demo" for me, I was shocked, entertained and instantly obsessed. As Panic Bomber Richard's found a way to combine a myriad of electronic formats together to create, fun, dark and mildly hilarious yet incredibly good dance music. Off the Radar Music posted a little feature about him, which is rad because he deserves as many shout outs as possible. You can download the whole album "Calling In Threats" for free on his website or listen to 3 of the tracks on myspace, which happens to include the song I simply can't get enough of "Until Our Legs Break," (while "Smooth Sailor" is really growing on me as well.)
You can see Richard as Panic Bomber in seizure inducing action live at The Vagabond (30 NE 14th Street) Friday, January 9th,2009 at 11 pm (& hopefully he'll play Nightdrive on the 1/21/09 too.) So check him out he's going to blow up, figuratively and maybe just literally.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Honor Roll Music Opening Party

so here are a bunch of pics from the Honor Roll Music Studio Opening last weekend.

Nick Kruge graces us with his presence for the Grand Opening

Matt's all up in arm.

I'm glad Jipsy didn't know I was taking a picture of her.

why hello Nick. (i love that Paddy's eyes are closed)

The Down Home Southernaires

Rocking out to a new Van* Gloria track

Even Barack was there!

Flash [flash]...lights [lights]

ANR sets up.

Scapa was in the middle of a beautiful and rousing speech about how Read built "this place on his own..."

and then the power went out!

MJ being MJ

by this time i was drunk and people kept moving...

so the pictures were a little fuzzy...

Scapa and Ethan Schwartz

Nick Scapa & Wes "i secretly love neon" Samuel

and then Antonio showed up when the party was just about over...he missed a good one.

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