Sometimes we want to write about cool shit. Sometimes you want to read about it. This is where you will find all the unique articles and columns by our staff on things like music, art, and culture.
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On Seeing Sleigh Bells and experiencing Liturgy, with a little bit of Diplo on the side
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This Month In Words Vol. 2
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The Cinema of 2011: A reflection of the Best and Worst
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Damn! The Best Videos of the Month
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Starfucker @ Backbooth, Orlando, Fla. 1/19/12
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From Our Ears To Yours
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Akron/Family @ Backbooth, Orlando, FL 1/12/12
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A Homage to Captain Beefheart + Official Release of "Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)"
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The Film Dropp Preview: A guide to movies in 2012
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Best Albums of 2011
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DeLuna Fest Look Back
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Hopscotch Day 3
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The Best Musical Collaborations Ever
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The Strangest (and Possibly Worst) Musical Collaborations Ever
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This Month in Words
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Solo Orlando Black-Metal Project: Gates of Mourning
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Stones Throw Fan Video Contest
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OFWGKTA
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Orlando's Newest Dubstep DJ: Zaylien
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TRA'shion Fashion at ARTpool Gallery
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The Hipster Gene
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A Brief Introduction to Cassette Culture
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On Looking Away
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Consuming Conciously
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Mon Feb 13
On Seeing Sleigh Bells and experiencing Liturgy, with a little bit of Diplo on the side
Tags: Aesthethica, Diplo, Firestone Live, Florida, Liturgy, live show, Orlando, Reign of Terror, Sleigh Bells
A line of people stretched down Orange Avenue, waiting to hear Sleigh Bell’s loud ruckus at Firestone Live last Friday night as rain beat down on them. Doors were supposed to open at 10 p.m., but the venue was so
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Fri Feb 3
This Month In Words Vol. 2
Tags: Bitch, Bromance, Censorship, Grassroots, Hitler, Jay Z, This month in words
I believe there is a huge misconception out there about that ever interesting process: THE BIRTH OF WORDS (or for the dyslexic among you; the worth of birds). Many people get the feeling that words chosen for any of
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Tue Jan 31
The Cinema of 2011: A reflection of the Best and Worst
Tags: Attack The Block, Beginners, Best And Worst 2011, Drive, Film Dropps, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Midnight In Paris, poetry, Rango, The Descendants, The Trip, Young Adult
When Bazin, Godard, Truffaut, Rivette, Rohmer, and their peers decided to do their famed film journal Cahiers du Cinema in the years leading up to the French New Wave, which was then just a twinkle in their eye, I know
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Wed Jan 25
Damn! The Best Videos of the Month
Tags: A Place to Bury Strangers, A$AP Rocky, Active Child, Cloud Nothings, Prometheus, Real Estate, Shut Up and Play the Hits, Sleigh Bells, The Kills, Videos of the month, Youth Lagoon
Today, we visit sites like YouTube and Vimeo everyday without even thinking twice about it. There used to be a time when we had to pay to see movies, go to the theaters to catch a trailer, watch MTV for
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Mon Jan 23
Starfucker @ Backbooth, Orlando, Fla. 1/19/12
Tags: Backbooth, Florida, live show, Orlando, Polyvinyl, Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second, Reptilians, Starfucker, STRFKR
Orlando, Florida’s favorite grunge bar, Backbooth, pulled in a crowd of dancing fools Thursday night, Jan. 19 for the crooning synth-pop trio, Starfucker. Starfucker—or STRFKR for those too ashamed—run in the vein of well-known electronic acts, such as MGMT or
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Wed Jan 18
From Our Ears To Yours
Tags: Benji Mann, Black Girls, British Columbia, Catamaran, From Our Ears To Yours, Indie, Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Lexington Ave, Looking Through, Los Angeles, Mj Mj Records, No Coast, The XX, Vacation DAd, Victoria, Warm Weather
Each week The Dropp gets a plethora of emails from emerging artists looking to get some light shed on their project. Due to the way we have the site setup it is sort of difficult to place a lot of
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Mon Jan 16
Akron/Family @ Backbooth, Orlando, FL 1/12/12
Tags: Akron/Family, Backbooth, Orlando, Parafora Presents, PrayThing
Akron/Family came to Backbooth armed with Bad Weather California and Gainesville, Florida’s Praything. Parts experimental and psychedelic, the show was a full on event that comprised crowd participation, songs about lesbians (the real kind) and Motown grooves. The scene at
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Mon Jan 16
A Homage to Captain Beefheart + Official Release of “Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)”
Tags: bat chain puller, captain beefheart, shiny beast
Any traceable pheromones that one can smell seeping off Captain Beefheart (née Don Van Vliet) explains why his musk seems outlandish, out of step, and an outcry of outrance to moderate circles. Throughout the biography of Captain Beefheart, cerebral
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Thu Jan 5
The Film Dropp Preview: A guide to movies in 2012
Tags: 2012 movie preview, 2012 movie trailers, Film, movies, trailers
It’s difficult to look forward to something you haven’t seen yet. A lot of the fun in cinema these days comes in the anticipation of the release itself. Will it live up to expectations? Will it crash and burn? And
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Mon Jan 2
Best Albums of 2011
Tags: Best albums of 2011, Best indie music of 2011, Indie, Music, The Dropp, Top 25 Albums of 2011
The new year is upon us and there’s much to look forward to. But for now, we’re taking a step back and looking at all of the albums that made this year so memorable for us. Here you will find
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