Critical Acclaim: Jax’s LPT nominated for two Independent Music Awards
Jacksonville-based 10-piece LPT's debut full-length Sin Parar was released to great fanfare in February. While it received its share of critical praise…
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The Feel Good Issue: Read our digital mag and get all the feels
With our beloved print under a shelter-at-home order, we've filled April's issue with feel good content, and dropped it digitally. We're fairly certain…
Interview: Joel Tudor, Florida Man
This morning, as Joel Tudor, Justin Quintal and I sat floating and attempting to psychically actualize one ridable set wave from the gutless northeast …
Listen: rickoLus’s new tune proves no one can touch his prolificness
In music, the new-normal is means the following: no live shows, no touring, and band practice is heavily discouraged, lest you and your mates violate s…
Watch: Original Hamilton Cast Performs for Jacksonville Girl
Good news may be hard to track down these days, but when it does you count your blessings. When the key players from a once-in-a-century cultural pheno…
New Normal: MOCA Jax launches Virtual Museum Platform
As a culture and lifestyle publication, we thrive on the community we cover--the live music shows, the art exhibitions, the new restaurant openings; yo…
Listen: 5 New Jax Music Releases to Stream Right Now
Though tours are on hold and venues sitting idle and empty, reports of music's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Locally, Jacksonville artists have…
And Now… A gallery of neat surfboards
With all of the Northeast Florida beaches closed and unridden waves crashing on nearly every coastline around the world, there's not much to do but sta…
Listen: Modern Violence’s “St. Gregory” is contemporary and tender
What to make of all of this? Stay-at-home orders. Face masks. A dangerous virus, the spread of which seems indiscriminate and, perhaps, open-ended. …
Stay Inside (the Lines) with These Illustrations by Local Artists
With kids out of school, many parents have had to manage the role of co-teacher while also fulfilling the role of their actual full-time job remotely. …
Void on Radio: Duval Artist Relief Fund & How to Compete with John Legend
Oh, the new normal. It seems the coronavirus pandemic has turned us all into binge-watching, toilet-paper hoarding, frozen dinner scarfing shut-ins. To…
Listen: Tenny Rudolph wins our Slashy Award
Clearly dating myself here, but every time I encounter a multi-hyphenate (and there seem to be quite a few here in Jax), I'm reminded of the satirical …
A Roundup of Jacksonville Musicians Livestream Concerts
Tours have ceased. Venues are postponing shows. In the face of growing concern of Coronavirus, it can feel like music itself has been cancelled. And…
How to Support Local Businesses during these strange times
Hey, we make a print magazine here! A free one, it should be noted. And it’s free because of all the businesses, small and large–but mostly small–that …
Listen: Stay in, but “Get Out” with Hensley
It's interesting how what's happening in our lives--or in the world, broadly--can change the way we hear songs. The difference between encountering a s…
State of The Void: We Miss You!
Dear Void Readers: Well, nothing like hysteric toilet paper hoarding and indefinite isolation in the midst of an open-ended global pandemic to make …
Stay Home, But Head to Gainzville with this Thompson Performance Workout
While the world's greatest surfer has only yet offered to help us through these tough times by serenading us with an original "song," local surf star t…
Local Music Spotlight: Folk is People’s new EP is the celebration we need right now!
Folk is People continues to balance the emotional with the celebratory with their latest five-song collection, reinforcing singer-songwriter Stacey Ben…
Jax Photographers, Help us FEEL GOOD Again!
Each year, Void's Photo Annual seems to top our readers' lists of favorite issues. No surprise, really; considering all the talented lens-people snappi…
Go to these local artists BandCamp pages and buy their music
On Friday, the popular music sharing platform, BandCamp, will waive its revenue fees, allowing every cent from purchases of artist's music to go direct…
And Now… A Neat Surfboard: Fishbird Surfboards Ditch Pickle
Oh how we love our backyard shapers. With their grit, ingenuity--their unadulterated joy for the craft--this DIY bunch is the lifeblood of any surf com…
Weather Together: Here’s how to help local businesses while social distancing
"Strange days, indeed," the late John Lennon once opined. Most of the world can likely concur, as the fallout from the novel Coronavirus threatens to r…
How to Make a Cool Zine
With some pens, paper, scissors and a little imagination, two good friends seek to change the world—and have some fun along the way—one zine at a time.…
Local Music Spotlight: TANSIT’s studio debut is decidedly Florida Metal
On their debut release, doom-sludge-core trio TANSIT display their former skills at “singing loudest at the choir” by forging a tasty five-song platter…
Local Music Spotlight: We’re digging Jesabel’s debut “Forgiveness”
“I’m a liar and a cheat," intones Jacksonville-based songstress Jesabel in the opening verse of her debut single, "Forgiveness," before wryly offering,…