Bao Le-Huu
Freelance Writer and Columnist at Freelance
Music Columnist at Orlando Weekly
Music columnist for @OrlandoWeekly // Freelance culture writer applying serious opinion to unserious matters
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1 week ago |
orlandoweekly.com | Bao Le-Huu
As much as I’ve personally tried to remedy this over the years through my own coverage, Central Florida’s 1990s dance music scene remains one of the most overlooked stories in modern American music history. But an upcoming homegrown book could help the cause. Releasing May 30,TRiP Magazeen: The Complete Collection is a 350-page book that unearths and compiles some essential frontline coverage of the ’90s Central Florida rave boom.
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1 week ago |
orlandoweekly.com | Bao Le-Huu
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orlandoweekly.com | Bao Le-Huu
Even for a group that’s spent 60 years doing political and narcocorrido songs that’ve led to bans and censorship in their native Mexico, legendary norteño family band Los Tigres del Norte are living especially dangerously by coming to Orlando right now.
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2 weeks ago |
orlandoweekly.com | Bao Le-Huu
Because tributes typically honor the departed, they’re usually lost on the one who matters most to the occasion. They’re a day late and a holler short. That’s why I’ve long been a big proponent of living tributes, a point driven painfully home by the fresh loss of Orlando culture mover Dave Plotkin (RIP, dear Dave). Well, there will be one such event this weekend for one of the most important extant figures in Orlando music history.
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3 weeks ago |
orlandoweekly.com | Bao Le-Huu
Slowly, stealthily and despite little tangible presence, enigmatic mega-power trio Bunaand have crept up from the underground to become darlings of the area’s heavy-music cognoscenti. Since their 2022 stage debut until now, the band of Sam Segrest (rhythm guitar, vocals), Jordan Douglas (drums) and James Covington (lead guitar) hadn’t released any music and performances have been scant.
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Concert pick (and a highway tip): Punk-blues saviors Left Lane Cruiser bring the nasty to Orlando with The Pentagram String Band and Little Foot (WED, Mar. 5, Will's Pub). #thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #blues #punk #rock https://t.co/VqwJUtu8hY
Concert pick: True-school rockabilly roundup with Deke Dickerson, Shaun Young, Willie Barry, Skinny McGee and the Handshakes (SUN at Lil Indie's). #thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #rockabilly #roots #americana #trad https://t.co/tqeR9BsaYU
New Orlando music: Your portal back to the '80s intersection of R&B and new wave now awaits with debut LP by Chris LeBrane's Campaign. #thislittleunderground #orlandoweekly #orlando #music #rnb #newwave #funk #soul #synth #80s https://t.co/tqx6VYqvYb