This Little Underground: new releases + concert picks

LOCAL RELEASES

If you haven’t been following prog rockers Galia Social, then you’ve got some catching up to do. At least to India, where the Orlando band have interestingly caught some fire, enough even to have been featured in Rolling Stone India in 2020.

Galia Social’s debut concept album, Rise, has been out since last year. But the local duo of guitarist-vocalist Christian Logaglio and drummer Colby Peters just released a mega 41-minute video on YouTube that’s basically a professionally shot visual of that record in its continuous entirety, and the video’s every bit as sleek as their sound.

This week, you can also see Galia Social on stage when they play Will’s Pub with Zapachi and Breed (8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, $10). If that’s too short notice, they’ll also be performing next month at the Creative City Project’s Immerse Fest (8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, Church Street Stage).

Some other recent local releases, however, show that fidelity need not be high for the music to click. To wit, the latest album by Delirious Kicks — the bedroom recording project of Orlando’s Eric Paul Bass — revels in its rags. Towards the Glow comprises 10 effervescent nuggets of fuzzed-out indie rock that is proudly lo-fior-die. It’s up on Bandcamp as a generous name-your-price download.

Hesitant Waitress — the new indiepop vehicle of Orlando musician Emma Branch that just debuted this summer — also dropped two daydreaming new singles in short order that prove you don’t need the gloss to shine. “Produce Some Happiness” and “Maybe Not Today” may both be economically produced tracks, but the actual songs are very much there, with all the melody and heart needed to be instant gems already, especially the latter. Both singles are also on Bandcamp as name-your-price downloads.

If you haven’t been following prog rockers Galia Social, you’ve got some catching up to do. The Orlando band have caught enough fire to score a feature in Rolling Stone India

MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK

Yep, we’re all still in this mess, so protect yourself and mask up if go out.

Danny Feedback: There’s nothing normal about anything that Orlando’s Danny Feedback does, and this show’s no exception. Like it did for many artists, the pandemic shutdown handed the iconic freak rocker a big chunk of free time to complete some shit. And so this show is a whopping triple release event. Two of them are back-to-back Danny Feedback albums (The Hardest Working Man in Shoe Business and Carroll’s Open Mike) and the third historical one is Hippy Gone Wrong’s After Hours, the album that Danny completed from the four-track tapes of his HGW bandmate, the dearly departed Bobby Clock. Selections from all three will be on the set list.

Also on the bill are Orlando’s Steve Garron & the Guarantees and Trash Cinema, the latest moniker that the band

BY BAO LE-HUU

GALIA SOCIAL | PHOTO BY BRIAN PETERSEN

formerly known as Yogurt Smoothness are going by (Death Crusher, we hardly knew ya). (9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24, Will’s Pub, $7)

Fond, TTN, The Amphetamines:

With this concert, Orlando promoter the Modern Music Movement officially sets up a live residency at Stardust. This notable local bill features noisy rockers Fond, live industrial band TTN and indierock group the Amphetamines. It’s just the start of this MMM run — look out for the upcoming well-curated parade of Orlando talents like Tinnitus Rex, Daniel Fuzztone, Gamma Waves and Alien Witch to roll through Stardust in coming weeks. (8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, Stardust Video & Coffee, $5)

The Winnie Blues, D. Smith, Jordan

Foley: If you’re as violently allergic to bro-country as I am, then this concert’s for you. It’s a quality cross-section of the Americana underground that pairs a couple of young Nashville-based acts — Australian duo the Winnie Blues and Midwestern crooner D. Smith — with Orlando’s own country-rock force Jordan Foley. All are modern models of twang and elegance. (8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29, Will’s Pub, $5-$7)

JMSN: When this Detroit artist made his Orlando debut in 2015 at Backbooth, he was just a newjack to R&B. But despite his fairly accomplished and thoroughly commercial pop background, he was incredibly convincing as a reformed soul slinger, laying down that cream with some natural instinct. Since then, his groove’s just gotten deeper. (7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29, The Social, $20-$22)

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