We Picked up a Drifter: That time Rob Machado stopped by Void HQ
For surfers of different generations, San Diego’s Rob Machado brings to mind different visions. Surfers of Gen X likely remember Machado as a standout …
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Rad Pad: Itinerant artist Ty Williams’ Lincolnville abode
Nestled into a sleeping bag atop a chaise lounge chair, Ty Williams closed his eyes and fell asleep for the first time in his new house. “It was basica…
Photographer Leighton Hoey documents the loud legacy of Jax’s underground music scene
If you wind up captured in a Leighton Hoey print, the chances are you’ll never even know it. In recent years, the photographer has been honing her skil…
Trimcraft Jax: Mike Whisnant & Derek Jackson to bring Lovelace designs to Florida
We're not alone in our admiration for heralded Northeast Florida surfboard shaper Mike Whisnant's craftmanship. A shaper with nearly a half-century of …
Author Tim Gilmore explores Jax’s historic and most surreal homes
I believe in ghosts, just not the supernatural kind. I feel “ghost” as history, psychology, patterns of life and behavior in place across time. So when…
A Neat Surfboard: Mini Pig Fastback Pintail by COS
Clean Ocean Surfboards patriarch Tony Iannorone’s shapes are revered on the East Coast. His longboards, especially, have found an audience among the tr…
Lineup Announcement: Winterland III is going to be FIRE!
Northeast Florida's coolest and ever-growing DIY music fest is returning to Historic 5 Points for three days of cool sounds and distinctive programming…
Mustache Ride: Gardner Minshew embarks on long, strange offseason trip
Though Jags fans may have just endured the most disappointing season in franchise history ever to follow a most disappointing season in franchise histo…
Rad Pads: Tony Prat’s Warehouse Wonderland
Longtime beaches resident Tony Prat is a renaissance man, of sorts. As a visual artist, videographer, DJ, musician, furniture maker, surfer, etcetera, …
Local Music Calendar: Dig these January shows!
From beloved Anastasia Island haunt Sarbez! turning six years young to one of our fave local garage bands, Mercy Mercy, supporting Black Lips at Jackra…
Local Music Spotlight: T.W.A.N.’s “Unrighteous” deals in harsh reality
In recent years, Duval hip-hop artist T.W.A.N. has wasted no time in sending out volleys of beats and rhymes. His latest release is a good example of t…
Rad Pads: Will Watson and his family travel the country in a livable, skate-able Air Force bus
Will Watson is a skater from Jacksonville Beach. In July of 2017, he and his wife Kristin had the idea to convert a bus into a permanent living space. …
Liner Notes: What makes a Northeast Florida Rad Pad?
What makes a Northeast Florida home? Is it the coquina-facade exterior? The concrete-block foundation of a home routinely located near, or even on, wat…
Local Music Spotlight: Guitarist Taylor Roberts’ shows off his jazz and pop bonafides on “A Day in the Life”
The second release from guitarist Taylor Roberts finds the local jazz heavyweight digging deep into covers and originals. Over the course of 15 tracks,…
Editor’s Note: Void’s New Year’s resolutions
We made 12 issues of Void Magazine in 2019, a year in which we told many stories, profiled dozens of Northeast Floridians, published hundreds of neat p…
Into the Void: Modern Violence is your new “Good Friend”
With its debut single "Welcome Home" (Dec. 2018) and a five-song EP Fast Friends (early 2019) Jacksonville indie-emo quintet Modern Violence came out s…
An Allman Brothers Tour of Jacksonville
Why does Jacksonville continue to keep one of our greatest musical exports off the map? Until there’s a large bronze statue of Duane Allman standing sm…
Who Da Groms: Meet these Eastern Surfing Association standouts
The 2019 ESA season is in the books. Here are a few grommets to keep your eyes on next go 'round! Solon McLaughlin Age: 15 Sponsors: Sunrise…
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…
Best of ’19: These stories filled the Void in 2019
Print's not dead. And if our humble publication is to be taken as an example, print's kinda like the J-Lo of the media landscape--as youthful and glowi…
Local Music Spotlight: LPT’s “Llegamos” is a relentless groove-force to be reckoned with
Since their inception in 2015, LPT have wasted no time in establishing their presence as a relentless rhythmic-groove force to be reckoned with. Th…
Portfolio: Ana Kamiar
If she is a naturalist, then it’s the embracing of an otherworldly environment. Working with photography or collage, Ana Kamiar creates images born fro…
Best of ’19: These were the best Northeast Florida songs of the year
2019 gave us much in the way of music to celebrate in Northeast Florida; a glorious and eclectic mix of output, to be sure. Here are the tunes we reall…
Is this the most Northeast Florida surf photo ever captured?
Northeast Florida lensperson Adam King’s surf photos are nothing if not attention grabbing. Unlike many surf-shooters of the household name variety (yo…
Local Music Spotlight: Sailor Goon’s surreal “Milk & Bones”
Thanks to the unrelenting stream of non-stop information in the 21st century, it’s easy to categorize, dissect—even drown out—an artist due to their si…