By Roofless Records

Roofless has been burning some serious fuel as we prepare for Spring/Summer. In addition to producing a slew of events and planning our upcoming catalogue of releases, we’ve been ramping up our fundraising efforts to match our Knight grant – including a Kickstarter campaign, partnerships with New College of Florida and the pursuit of other cultural arts grants.

Luckily, Brandon Miguelez has joined us as a volunteer in-house designer and documentarian. He’s already produced some great work for us.

On April 10, Roofless hosted a bon-voyage tour kick-off show for Scraping Teeth, the band heralded as the “Worst Band in America” by Spin Magazine in 1993. Scraping Teeth managed to both live up to the accolade and be very good at the same time. Started and lead by Miami legend Rat Bastard, the group also consists of a trio visual/sonic artists: Holly Hunt’s Betty Monteavaro, Gavin Perry, Autumn Casey. They unleashed obnoxiously loud and driving free-rock with an elegant improvisational subtlety, and are now on a tour of the East Coast and Midwest with Holly Hunt (Perry and Monteavaro’s atmospheric drone metal band).

This weekend, Roofless and Sweat Records are hosting Nashville-based electronic artist Container, as part of the annual Sweatstock/Record Store Day festival. Coming from a varied background in freeform noise and experimental composition, Container produces techno that breaks new ground with its crudity. Read all about him on electronic music resource Resident Advisor.

Kenneth Keshavan Maslak is an apres-garde jazz musician that cut his teeth as a Motown session player, hung with heavy hitters in NYC’s 1970s free-jazz loft scene, and has produced over 70 releases since 1964. Now performing under the stage-name Kenny Millions, Maslak plays a mix of harsh saxophone and sampled, distorted rap music with a distinctly frenetic style and signature thematics that are jarring, funny, and absurdly vulgar. Our next in a long line of events with him will be at Sweat Records on May 12th.

We’re very proud to announce the 10th installment of Roofless’ preeminent showcase, Cinema Sounds, to be held at Burns Court Cinema (its birthplace) in Sarasota on May 19th. The bands must arrange an original score to a film and perform live in the theater before an audience. The tenth edition will feature an all-star selection of previous performers, including Miami’s Axe and the Oak and Slashpine.