Acid surf, spy-fi soundtracks that taste like a shot of Pulp Fiction chased by pint of Blue Velvet.
Gold Dust Lounge’s musical style weaves together eclectic influences from gritty surf punk echoed by the jazz of Ellington, Monk, and Mingus to classic TV theme songs and midcentury exotica. The band is a fixture in the Miami scene with regular performances and residencies at venues including The Standard, The Royal Palm, The Betsy, The Broken Shaker, Bardot, and throughout the burgeoning Wynwood and downtown scenes. They play clubs up and down the South Florida coast, as well as tour outside of the state. In 2013, the band opened locally for surf legend Dick Dale, and played their third year at the Hukilau Tiki & Exotica Festival. They returned to New York for the second year in a row where they teamed up with noted jazz drummer, Allison Miller, for a tour including Corning, NYs 2300 Degrees Festival. Gold Dust Lounges music is also featured in the documentary Plastic Paradise: A Swingin Trip Through Americas Polynesian Obsession which premiered nationally on PBS in the fall of 2013.
“The inside of Mofsky’s head is like a tour of your cool neighbors garage, the one with the recording studio in it”, says the Sun Sentinels Ben Crandell. “There are guitars and amps, old skateboards and surfboards, Miles Davis albums next to those of Debussy and Sonic Youth, a console TV set once home to Gilligan’s Island, Bonanza, Hogan’s Heroes and Lawrence Welk, some Bettie Page pictures, fliers from an assortment of Brooklyn and Wynwood bars, a poster for A Fistful of Dollars and a roll-up movie screen that might have flickered with 16mm scenes from Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women.” Gold Dust Lounges new album, Lost Sunset, is due out in May 2014.
Mofsky is also working on original music for a forthcoming documentary on noted pin-up photographer, Bunny Yeager.
