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Music
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…
Avant Brings its Curious Music (and Visuals) to MOSH
Over the course of seven shows in less than three years, local impresario Keith Marks’s Avant Music Series has brought in a distinctively eclectic mix …
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…
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…
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…