Yes, I get it, it's Monday and some of you have real jobs to go to tomorrow, but if you can duck in a bit late on a Tuesday morning, may I humbly suggest you see Poliça tonight?

Here's what I wrote in Soundbites this week:

However, I am personally super excited for the opportunity to see Poliça again on Monday, Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. ($15, all ages). The Minneapolis group played Congress in 2012 and blew me away with their double-drummer, bass, synths and singer-through-a-million-waves-of-effects sound. Plus, they played a Keith Sweat cover, which is the key to my heart. They manage to be seductive, weird and paranoid all at the same time and while their records are a great listen, the live show is something else entirely. More info at hotelcongress.com.

As you may have heard, Sean Collins, better known to all of Tucson as DJ Sean T, his '80s Retro-Lution Mondays at Club Congress moniker, passed away yesterday afternoon.

Sean suffered a heart attack in late May of this year and was currently on a what he referred to as a "new ticker list." Sean had mentioned the wait could be as long as two years. Tragically for Tucson, a higher power did not grant him that kind of timetable.

Every week, year after year, Sean selflessly poured his heart out behind the tables to make thousands of friends and complete strangers smile. That's what we should all remember Sean Collins for, and maybe carry a little of that spirit this weekend when we're out and about.

We will post details regarding services when Sean's family has made arrangements. If you have photos or memories of Sean you would like to share, please send them to Jessica Perez at [email protected]

Prom Body recently showed the weird world where the band's from via Vice's Noisey. And yes, eegee's and Sonoran hot dogs star, as well as the boys giving some love to Topaz.

From Noisey:

Prom Body hails from the 520 Funhouse, a castle of cactus on the southern butt of Arizona. Sandwiched between the Mexican border and the republican hellscape that is Phoenix, Tucson has developed it’s own unique way of life. Let us be your attaché to the sun baked freakery that is Tucson culture.

• eegee's, the swap meet, the Sonoran hot dog and more ...

While it hurts my soul a bit to suggest any activity Friday night that isn't the Chromeo show at the Rialto, if 80's-inspired R&B isn't your thing, the inside/outside combo of free shows at Congress is a great option for the music-loving Tucsonan.

Inside the club starting at 9 p.m., you can enjoy a tripleheader of local bands with party-rock act Electric Blankets headlining. Also on the bill, Horse Black and White Lhite.

Outside, there's music starting at 5:30 p.m. with Tom Walbank and Roman Barten-Sherman doing their Friday night residency blues thing. Then a special treat, steel guitar wizard Jon Rauhouse brings his band to the patio starting at 7 p.m. Rauhouse has played with a bunch of alt-country luminaries including Neko Case, the Waco Brothers and, as seen above, the Calexico guys. As good as anyone says this guy is, he's actually a little bit better, so if you enjoy country music at all (or just people who are incredibly talented), you should be there for this free concert.

More info on all this stuff at Hotel Congress' page.

The world of music can be a confusing place and it's hard to even keep up with all the bands that are made up of actual people, now we have Hatsune Miku, who is portrayed by a hologram and is described by her (incredibly confusing) Wikipedia page as "a humanoid persona voiced by a singing synthesizer application developed by Crypton Future Media, headquartered in Sapporo city." Miku, who has, via the computer program that creates her voice, appeared on over 100,000 songs, recently opened for Lady Gaga and has dueted (or something like it) with Pharrell.

All confusion and joking aside, this sort of technology will likely be far more prominent as time goes on (why pay a singer for your EDM track when you can just punch some keys and have Hatsune or one of her digital friends sing for you). In the meantime, here's a Japanese Domino's Pizza ad featuring our delightful imaginary pig-tailed friend and the super awkward head of Domino's:

• JAMES HUDSON

It’s that time of year Tucson, when the weather is about to get perfect and every events planner decides to hold their annual celebrations on the same weekend. This year, that perfect storm of fun hits Downtown Tucson on the 2nd week of October, from Friday the 10th through the Sunday the 12th, making it a great weekend for most of Tucson if you've got the day off, but those who work and live downtown may want to plan ahead before they leave the house.

Here’s a list of all of those major events and their resulting travel restrictions from the City of Tucson Department of Transportation, which wanted to remind you that all "businesses, parking garages and parking lots are open and accessible. There are over 15,000 available parking spaces in the Downtown Tucson.” Broadway Blvd will be blocked, but you can still access downtown from the north on Stone Ave, 22nd St. and Sixth Ave. from the south, and St. Mary’s Road from the west.

Tucson Meet Yourself — Beginning Thursday, October 9, 2013 at 6 p.m. until Sunday, October 12, 2014 at midnight, Church Avenue from Alameda Street to Congress Street will be closed to all vehicular traffic to accommodate exhibits and heavy pedestrian traffic attending the Tucson Meet Yourself event. Tucson Meet Yourself Festival hours are: Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday from 11a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information about Tucson Meet Yourself, please go to www.tucsonmeetyourself.org

Back in 2013, when Eric Swedlund wrote about a Golden Boots show on the Congress patio, he said that Golden Boots "have been a bit of mystery the last couple years, sharing co-frontman Dimitri Manos with the heavy-touring Dr. Dog" and that hasn't seemingly changed recently, although they did play a show at Congress in April and have some new shirts for sale.

But hey, Dimitri's got a new solo project, American Monoxide, which we'll write more about later, I imagine, and there's a new video for the song "Tropical Tripwire," which you can enjoy above. You can hear the debut cassette on Bandcamp now.

Unfortunate news for fans of Mexican rock, but Thursday's Maldita Vecindad at the Rialto has been postponed until December (with a specific date to be announced next week). Hang on to your tickets until more info is available.

Despite DJ Mustard not making it to the show, people seemed to have a good time at the Skrillex concert at AVA last night:

@Skrillex you blew my mother fudginnnnn mind you did Tucson like no ones seen

— julia henning (@Jhenn9) October 8, 2014

But, hey, who wouldn't enjoy a show with that includes a tribute to the Lion King:

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Skrillex does The Lion King!! #greatshow #skrillex #lionking #tucson #avaamphitheater

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Hakuna matata, Tucson.

• Image from the Skrillex Facebook fan page.

Way back in 2002, the Artist Then Known as P. Diddy released the ridiculously titled We Invented the Remix. Even when taking into account the Bad Boy Records mogul’s reputation for unbelievable claims, this one was outrageous and absurd.

Diddy, nor anyone he likely ever met, did not by any stretch of the imagination invent the remix. Skrillex did. Before your head explodes, let’s redefine the word “remix” for contemporary use and how it applies to the post-dubstep EDM DJ: These days, everything is a brand. You are a brand. So for the former Sonny Moore—the once upon a time 15-year old frontman for class-of-2004 screamo band Every Time I Die (whose debut album Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count is the most perfectly titled of its genre)—”remix” is the reinvention of the self, not a record.

When recurring throat problems threatened his future as a singer in 2007, Moore jumped ship from the Warped Tour circuit, reprioritizing his homemade electronic recordings into the main focus of his career and christened himself Skrillex, after a childhood nickname and, tellingly, his social media handle. He’s frequently said in interviews that he discovered electronic music after hearing a member of Korn namecheck Aphex Twin on MTV’s Total Request Live, which says so much more than he could have ever intended: Not only is it a neat summarization of the Skrillex sound, it’s a distillation of the odd and by-chance trajectory that has followed him his entire public life.

Finding his signature sound—which has been proven to be very divisive among audiences—was mostly “trial and error,” he told several publications, including Alternative Press. Taking the basic elements of Britain’s post-grime 2-step style, also known as dubstep—bottomless, reverberating bass frequencies; arrhythmic, skittering drum programs; and, most infamously, the squelching synthesizer noises that many have insultingly compared to a dying goat screaming—Skrillex refigured and expanded these characteristics to super-sized American extremes that made sense as an electronic variation of screamo’s bipolar tendencies.

Skrillex quickly began a meteoric rise in popularity on the live DJ circuit, which led to his first commercial breakthrough, a remix of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” at the height of her short-lived superstardom in 2009. Similarly, the debut 2010 EP “My Name is Skrillex” was rapidly reissued by fellow EDM traveller Deadmau5’s label Mau5trap after Skrillex uploaded it onto MySpace.

By this point, his reputation as the most guilty offender and purveyor of dumb-downed “brostep” beloved by turnt up frat boys and sorority girls was already congealing among electronic music purists, and not unrelated, his in-demand status as a producer, remixer and DJ was ascending at a startlingly rapid pace. 2010 saw the release of the second Skrillex EP, “Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites,” which sold quite respectfully; over the next two years he’d record an even bigger hit EP, “Bangarang,” and collaborate with both Korn and the Doors, which showed how widespread his influence was growing. By 2012, Forbes reported that Skrillex was making 15 million dollars a year, positing this young man, barely old enough to drink legally, in the ranks of the world’s highest paid entertainers. It seemed like everybody had an opinion of Skrillex, and those most willing to speak up were steadfast in their disgust for his music—all before he’d even released a proper debut album.

That would come earlier this year, with the Top Ten full length hit, Recess. While the album was markedly more varied, artfully constructed and nuanced than his previous efforts, it did little to silence his detractors. To Skrillex’s credit, he seems to be taking the criticism in stride, as evidenced by the record’s opening track, “All’s Fair in Love and Brostep,” but the question remains, who exactly is the silent majority who pays Sonny Moore extravagant sums of money to entertain them and—in a particularly transitional state for the music business and fans’ loyalty to artists—why?

Skrillex is scheduled to play AVA with DJ Mustard, Branchez and David Heartbreak Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6 p.m. Tickets are $42 for general admission, $62 for VIP.