Surf Forecast: Arctic blast (and waves) on the horizon!
The Arctic Blast is coming! Winter Storm Harper is going to wreak havoc on the Midwest and parts of the Northeast over the course of the weekend. It'll…
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Watch: Saxon Wilson gets Steezy at the Bu
It’s a battle to drop in solo on a First Point peeler at the fabled Malibu racetrack during a decent south swell. But it’s a war to keep the hordes off…
Local Music Spotlight: Prog-Punkers RUFFIANS release “All of Your Lies”
Self-described Jacksonville “prog-punk” rockers RUFFIANS (no flabby lowercase letters here, Nippy!) originally showed up on the Jax music scene some se…
Rad Pad Icon: William Morgan (1930-2016)
If you’ve lived in Jacksonville long enough, you’ve likely enjoyed (or at least humored) a sunny day cruise, dawdling along the oceanfront thoroughfare…
Why Don’t we get Drunk? Margaritaville is coming to Jax Beach
It's currently a field of dreams for a bunch of sons and daughters of sailors waiting for the soon to be erected Margaritaville--Jacksonville Beach edi…
Khan’s Newest Big Money Venture: Wrasslin’
The history of professional wrestling in Northeast Florida goes back to at least 1883, but the most important day in that history was probably January …
Lineup Announcement: Winterland II to bring underground garage, psych, blues, and hip-hop heavies
After a wildly successful inaugural festival in 2018, the garage-rock-leaning Winterland is back for more; this year with a more eclectic, but equally …
Rad Pad: Local Legend’s North Shore Surf Shack
Hanging from the foliage like ornaments on Christmas tree, a dozen or so small, multi-colored sculptures depicting a miniature wave rider stalling thro…
Local Music Spotlight: Sea Cycles new single “Quota”
For a lot of listeners, it’s a reflex to make sense of music by putting new sounds into familiar boxes. It’s easy to draw connections between existing …
#71in19: Let’s Get Boselli in the Hall of Fame
Of the 15 modern era finalists for the 2019 Hall of Fame, several names certainly jump off the list. Champ Bailey, the Denver Broncos and Washington Re…
Go: Springfield Biz’s Throw Down on Main St.
We're buying the Springfield hype. Drinking the Kool-Aid, if you will. From the gorgeous and historic architecture throughout the neighborhood to the n…
Swell Forecast: A little bump on the horizon
Happy New Year 904! After our last bit of swell to ring in 2019 we've had a early summer-like shift, and a flat spell has settled in. We'd had a good r…
New tunes from Darkhorse Saloon soundtrack Parker Coffin edit
There’s an interesting synergy between surfing and music. If we’re led to believe that one informs the other, we’d surely be confused at the manifestat…
Rad Pad: A St. Augustine Tiny Home
From the moment we’re born we’re given a unique and important skill—the ability to look at just about any box-shaped edifice and think, this could be t…
Local Music Spotlight: Artist/Professor Mark Creegan’s “Comb Rainbow”
Savvier locals know Mark Creegan as one of the area's most vital visual artists, as well as a respected educator and gallery curator of equal renown. I…
Portfolio: Toni Smailagic Captures Culture Both Born and Reborn
“Whether it’s the mood, or the diversity of an event, I want other people to see themselves reflected at those events, and see that there is joy in the…
Liner Notes: You May Find Yourself in a Beautiful House
For this month’s issue we spent some time shooting the late fall breeze with Dickie Rosborough on a paradisiacal spit of land on Jacksonville’s North S…
Turn it Up: Our Fave Local Releases of 2018
2018 was a banner year for music in the 904. From Downtown to the Beaches to St. Augustine, in traditional and non-traditional venues, from bedrooms an…
Surf Forecast: New Year, New Swell
What a year of surf 2018 has been. We kicked off the year with some great winter swells, and into spring with an early start to what was a better than …
If This is Goodbye: The Best of Blake Bortles
Last Sunday's loss to the Texans capped a 6-10 season for the Jaguars--a campaign that ranks as the team’s most disappointing. It’s part of the modern …
NYE: MOCA’s annual soirrée is the p-ART-y to attend
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville is gearing up for their annual MOCA NYE pARTy, a much-awaited soiree that the museum site touts as “an event fo…
Watch: Brooklyn’s Champagne Superchillin goes Into the Void
When Brooklyn-based Champagne Superchillin dropped by the office before their North Florida gig, having listened to the Brooklyn-based group's muzak, w…
Watch: Justin Quintal in “All Day, All Night, All Right (Coast)”
North Florida surfer Justin Quintal suffers from a rare and incurable condition. Unlike more common, more treatable abnormalities, such as F.O.M.O., Qu…
Surf Forecast: One-Day Swell Event
After a great run of Fall/Winter surf, it appears we may soon endure a Tis' the Season flat spell. But not without one last gas before Christmas! We ha…
Go: Swimm, The Young Step play Real Rad Holiday Party
Local promotional operation Jax is Rad has been all over the place this year. Aside from those "Jax is Rad" stickers becoming ubiquitous 'round town--t…