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…
Music
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…
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…