Maps & Atlases at Sonny's Porch
Sonny's Porch
February 21, 2019

Maps & Atlases

Chicago-based Maps and Atlases and all of their goodness dropped by on a Sunday to blow our minds with their unique style and insane virtuosic musical ability. Big thanks to Dave, Shiraz, Chris and Erin for hangin’ out with us. You guys are all time.

 

Keep Hanging Out With Us

Sonny’s Porch has always been about community, ever since our first band squeezed onto the tiny stage at our Cocoa Beach home/office back in 2015. Since then, it’s been our way of welcoming friends, family, and under-the-radar musicians into our world. This time, it was Being Dead’s turn.

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From the local honky-tonk circuit to the mechanical-bull-like wedges in the pool, we couldn’t have asked for a more fitting zone to welcome Rattlesnake Milk at our pop-up Sonny’s Porch event on opening day of the 2025 Waco Surf Water Park summer season.

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What do you get when you combine 1970s Zambian rock legends, freakishly talented younger musicians from Europe, USA and Zambia and an old beach shack porch? You get a night to remember. 
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Earlier this month, we packed up our cowboy boots and a ten-gallon hat (OK, so we borrowed them from a friend), and headed out to Austin, TX for its annual SXSW festival.
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The Mattson 2 is a mixture of sonic ingredients including (but not limited to) traditional jazz, surf, psychedelic, and indie. And over the years, their songs have effortlessly made their way onto our mix tapes, transitioned to burned CD’s we made for our friends, and now take their rightful place onto pretty much every “good vibes” playlist we have saved on Spotify. We’re unabashedly ride or die fans.
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We honestly didn’t know too much about these guys when we first heard they were comin’ into town. When they showed up to our Cocoa Beach office, they just seemed like three humble dudes from Hawaii who smiled a lot and were apparently really talented musicians.
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