Watch & Listen: The Black Toilet’s “What What” is weirdly rewarding
Jot this down: The equation for this review is Hindu Kush Groove x Kona Skate Park = The Black Toilet. Digging deep into TBT (aka Quanza)’s Soundcloud …
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Listen: Bundle up with Minorcan’s “Sweater Weather”
It's time to update your Holiday playlist. "Baby it's Cold Outside" is overplayed (and hasn't aged well, it seems). Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Comin…
ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to Rockville welcomes Tool, Korn, Incubus, The Prodigy & More
Over the course of eight years, the Jax-based Welcome to Rockville Festival has grown into an internationally acclaimed music experience. In 2018, Rock…
Song Premiere: With “Ghost Town,” The Young Step are ready to breakout
"There's joy in the rain after a month of heat. There's another hurricane though it's not on the beach," croons The Young Step's Ben Whitson (guitar, v…
El Fonquéte: LPT live album release party
Back in the summer of 2016, Jax-based Afro-Cuban Salsa outfit LPT was holding down a residency in the back room of 5 Points's Rain Dogs. The band qui…
Music Profile: Jazz Guitarist Taylor Roberts
Music is a journey with little time for sightseeing. If inspiration is fleeting, then it stands to reason that creativity can’t be too far behind. One …
ON OUR RADAR: Artists to watch
For our 2018 Arts & Music Issue (on newsstands now) we surveyed some of the most influential artists, musicians, and tastemakers in Northeast Flori…
Blowing Up: Void’s Music Series Big in Nashville
If you've been following North Florida's music scene at all in recent years, you've likely come across way cool guitar, camera, and carry-all strap man…
Watch: One Eleven Heavy’s Airy Boogie
For the last two weeks, Void's famed Arts and Music scribe, Dan Brown, has been touring the Northeast and Midwest, adding a thunderous backbone to the …
Local Music Spotlight: Pop$hit Day Day’s “In Due Time”
This seven-song set of tunes from Duval hip hop artist Pop$hit Day Day is chock-a-block full of hazed-out production effects and rubbery beats. If ther…
No Wanee 2019: Popular music fest cancelled
The de facto gem of a jamband gathering that is the Wanee Music Festival will not be throwing down in 2019. Early this week it was announced that the e…
Come INTO THE VOID, won’t you?
We hate to brag; but we will. Beginning in May Void started inviting a slew of killer local and touring artists to perform intimate and one-of-a-kind s…
Local Music Spotlight: WØRSEN’s “Stronghold”
The latest from local grindcore gods WØRSEN does not disappoint. Released in early October, Stronghold features eight tracks of the band’s certain pumm…
Local Music Profile: Mr. Al Pete
Mr. Al Pete is all about community. While he admits that he’s somewhat of a witness and observer in this life, his latest and fifth full-length, Mister…
How to Not Get Ripped Off
There’s a misconception that artists have the luxury of being perpetually inspired free spirits with few concerns other than making great work. However…
LISTEN: We Got Two Turntable Tuesdays and Some Ginger Beer
You may have heard that we made a record. But if for some reason you have not yet purchased, much less listened to our first-of-its-kind local music co…
WHAT TO DO FOR THE FL-GA GAME: STRATA’s Got You Covered
California-born, North Florida-incubated lifestyle brand STRATA has grown into and internationally recognized company, regarded widely for its commitme…
Know Your Rights: Surfer-shaper-punk-military vet, Sean Piper
“Know Your Rights” is a semi-regular column featuring profiles of and conversations with local surfers whose love for the ocean fuels their passion, in…
Meeting of the Maestros: A North Florida music roundtable
For October's Arts & Music Issue, we sat down with local music promoters to talk about the state of Northeast Florida's music scene. What’s …
Go: Once-A-Month PUNK Returns!
If you know anything about punks, you likely wouldn't count on them to commit to anything; well, other than flippancy, rowdiness, and a mean anti-autho…
Touring the Song of the Summer
When we first interviewed Jacksonville musician Yuno, his song “No Going Back,” which had already become ubiquitous on contemporary Indie Spotify playl…
WATCH: Lannds goes Into the Void
Rania Woodard's flavor of pop is sometimes brooding, consistently compelling. The Jax-based artist's stirring vocals add a contemplative element to the…
Local Music Spotlight: Hop on Culture School’s synth-pop time machine
Local synth-poppers Culture School set ye olde Techno TARDIS for the ‘80s on this five-song, short-and-blipping set. The brainchild of Quinn Spencer, C…
Behind the Centerfold Shoot: Void’s 2018 Arts & Music Issue
Rock n' Roll will never die. And judging by this month's behind the centerfold shoot, the genre is alive and well. Model Kortni Webb blurs eras in her …
Local Music Profile: The Noctambulant walk tall through the realm of melodic black metal
Darkness demands disciples. Phillip Newton is an avowed student of what occurs outside the light. As the frontman and guiding force of local band The N…