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Leilani – Creative Loafing Birthday Bash Playlist
With some help from a few CL staffers, I curated a playlist for the Creative Loafing Festival, a celebration of CL's 25th anniversary with a range of cool events celebrating the paper, our area, and of course, CL-approved live music spread out over three days and multiple venues. The 23 songs in my playlist are all by acts playing the WAD Trolley Tour & Block Party (the music portion hosted by myself and Mark Etherington of RedFeather, who also performs) on Friday, the Saturday night 25th Birthday Bash blowout at The Ritz Ybor, and Sunday afternoon's Alchemy Fest. I've been jamming the playlist all morning, marveling at the sheer diversity of our local music scene and the range of high quality acts that have all signed on to perform — Early Forms, the reverb and melody-mixing, Weezer/grunge appealing angular alt pop-rock project of Vinnie Cosentino, Alastair St. Hill and a few others; Cats in the Basement, a Sarasota act that serves bright, upbeat Afro pop; another Sarasota outfit, The Send Offs, their own sound a dynamic driving brand of psych-blues; a few unique-voiced songstresses, Jun Bustamante and Geri X, the former more jazz-folk experimental, the latter doing bruised alt roots; the Femcee herself, hip hop rhyme-ruling Dynasty with production sidekick, DJ Blenda; Luxury Mane, led by Billy Summer and offering up dreamy sighing surf rock; and the noise-washed garage-surf wanderings of Jensen Serf Co. "Memory" by the latter below; click here to check out the playlist in its entirety…
This article appears in Mar 28 – Apr 3, 2013.
