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Bargain Bin Heroes Drops New EP

Bargain Bin Heroes

The Southwest Florida band Bargain Bin Heroes recently dropped their second EP titled, “Droppin’ the Deuce.”  The group has been bringing their high-energy performances to Southwest Florida audiences since 2014 with a unique mix of ska, reggae and punk genres.  Ahead of an EP release concert and event April 7 at Rack'em Spirits & Times in Cape Coral, we’ll sit down with Bargain Bin Heroes frontman, vocalist and bass player Eric Demayo and hear recorded selections from their new EP.

Rachel Iacovone is a reporter and associate producer of Gulf Coast Live for WGCU News. Rachel came to WGCU as an intern in 2016, during the presidential race. She went on to cover Florida Gulf Coast University students at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Capitol Hill and Southwest Floridians in attendance at the following day's Women's March on Washington.Rachel was first contacted by WGCU when she was managing editor of FGCU's student-run media group, Eagle News. She helped take Eagle News from a weekly newspaper to a daily online publication with TV and radio branches within two years, winning the 2016 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for Best Use of Multimedia in a cross-platform series she led for National Coming Out Day. She also won the Mark of Excellence Award for Feature Writing for her five-month coverage of an FGCU student's transition from male to female.As a WGCU reporter, she produced the first radio story in WGCU's Curious Gulf Coast project, which answered the question: Does SWFL Have More Cases of Pediatric Cancer?Rachel graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.