Local Music Spotlight: One Eleven Heavy’s “Everything’s Better” Crosses the Great Divide
Fifty years ago, five musicians who would later adopt the plainspoken moniker, The Band, emerged from a salmon-colored house in upstate New York with w…
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Local Music Spotlight: Solafide! drops video for “Take me Back”
Are MGMT considered “classic rock” yet? In this age of sneeze-and-you’ll-miss-it ephemeral flavor, those L.A. electro-soul knuckleheads are essentially…
Interview: Duct Tape Festival Brings Musician and Pro Surfer, Lee-Ann Curren to Town
Since its inception a decade ago, Joel Tudor’s traveling longboard road show, the Van’s Duct Tape Invitational, has been about a lot more than logging …
LPT Goes Into the Void
When Riverside's mighty Afro-Cuban Salsa band, LPT, stopped by the Void office on what was an otherwise fairly run-of-the-mill Friday afternoon, our st…
Watch: Garage Trio The Mother Gooses Answer the Tough Questions
The best garage rock has enough greasy swagger to step out of the garage. How punk are The Mother Gooses? They don’t even have a damn garage but they s…
Local Music Spotlight: 9E to Kick Out the Jams with MC5, Releases Music Video
For a band that’s been together for less than a year, Northeast Florida rock n’ roll quartet 9E has already made a substantial bit of noise, bringing i…
Local Music Spotlight: Rhythm of Fear’s “Maze of Confusion”
For some, metal is a secret, “guilty pleasure.” Pleasure is pleasure. The term “guilty pleasure” is a wound inflicted by shame-slathered religiosity th…
Music Profile: Lauren Fincham taps into intuition when crafting her singular songs
Sometimes the muse is working in our sleep. For singer-songwriter Lauren Fincham, the depths of the subconscious can be a well from which to draw inspi…
Local Music Spotlight: Bobby Kid’s Full-Length Debut, “Peach”
Call it a case of “Sweet Twee.” Released in May, Bobby Kid’s full-length debut, Peach, is a seven-song collection that converts the proverbial “all the…
WATCH: Folk is People’s Stacey Bennett Performs “Ghost Birdie”
In 2016, local indie-folk phenom Folk is People released the estimable full-length, The Devil Always Comes. Make no mistake–Folk is People is singer-so…
Rat Town’s Danny Knierieman and The School of Hardcore Knocks
Even though he’s been around the punk rock block and back, Danny Knieriemen seems more interested in current nihilism than coy nostalgia. Since the…
Jazz guitarist Taylor Roberts keeps time with the shifting scenes of popular music
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 …
Brooklyn’s Las Rosas Flout Garage Rock Superficiality
If you were to create one of those silly data-collection schemes masquerading as a Facebook survey titled, “Are you a contemporary Garage Band?” New Yo…
Singer-Songwriter Corey Kilgannon Elbows up to the Bar, Finds Inspiration
“Going to the Casa Maria, sipping peach margaritas, passing the time.” Certainly this is an experience plenty of Jax Beach residents can relate to. …
Listen: Local garage rockers Mercy Mercy unearth enjoyably primitive sound
As youth culture began to reverberate across the world in the early to mid-1960s, rock n’ roll infiltrated the suburbs and tens of thousands of youngst…
Video Premiere: Local rock trio KSICK get heavy, contemplative on “Hem of the Garment”
It’s an old and demonstrable adage that the best art comes from suffering. And though riff-heavy local rock trio KSICK frontman Lane Pittman’s positivi…
Announcement: Jax’s Yuno to drop Sub Pop debut, play homecoming show
When we last talked to synth-y, self-sufficient indie artist Yuno, he’d just inked a deal with unimpeachably cool Seattle label Sub Pop. The reclusive …
Album Spotlight: La Luz moves out of the garage on “Floating Features”
Let’s not defile our nappies–or even soil ourselves: La Luz is cooler than your band. Formed in 2012 in Seattle, La Luz almost immediately attracted th…
Arts Profile: Improv Jazz Musician Jamison Williams
There’s much lip service in current popular culture regarding “staying in the moment” and mindfulness. For musician Jamison Williams, the idea of “now”…
Go: Alt-Folk Duo Flagship Romance says goodbye to Jax for now
On Saturday, the Jacksonville-spawned alternative folk duo, Flagship Romance, will perform at Jax Beach’s Blue Jay Listening Room. It’ll be the popular…
Gallery: For those who went to Rockville (we salute you)
The more than 90,000 people who flooded into Metropolitan Park last weekend for the eighth annual Monster Energy Welcome to Rockville were well-receive…
Go: Generations of local Punkers and HC-Bands Shred for Mitch Gerganous Benefit
If you’ve had an ear to the ground, so to speak, or perked toward Northeast Florida’s punk and hardcore scene at all over the last three decades, you'v…
Local Music Spotlight: LPT gets down in Gainesville; Boytoy releases “Night Leaf” and heads to Europe
BOYTOY Night Leaf Papercup Music When Boytoy released their 2014 debut EP featuring the single, “Blazed,” they penned a strong contender for the 4…
Interview: La Luz’s Lena Simon on music, a Grammy nomination, and relocating to Jacksonville
Twenty eight year old musician Lena Simon has had a busy 2018, thus far. Buoyed by the success of 2015’s Weirdo Shrine, Simon’s band, the surfy, irrepr…
Interview: Synthy Jax musician Yuno just inked a deal with Sub Pop
Since the late-80s, the unimpeachably cool Seattle-based record label Sub Pop has kept its proverbial finger on the pulse of independent music. After s…