Music: Wine & Trucks Lineup is Ridiculous!
This Saturday our partners at Edible Northeast Florida and Bold Brands are throwing a #pinkiesdown kinda wine party at the Seawalk Pavilion. With dozen…
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Do Good Spotlight: The Performers Academy
Ebony Payne-English, managing director of The Performers Academy describes the organization's headquarters as “the labyrinth.” As she leads me on a tou…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Melissa Ross: Vinyl Rules, Void Mag “Has Really Taken Off”
If you didn't know, WJCT host Melissa Ross is a gosh-darn, North Florida treasure. After more than a decade in existence, her morning drive-time progra…
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 …
The Turntables Wobble, but Don’t Fall Down: Mr. Al Pete Spins on Contemporary DJ Culture
The technicalities and the skills of a disc jockey, also known as a DJ, have undergone dramatic changes in the half-decade since the birth of Hip Hop. …
Liner Notes: Cranking up North Florida’s Arts & Music Scene
In April, in the midst of her historic headlining performance at Coachella—a production The New York Times called “A gobsmacking marvel of choreography…
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 …
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…
#1 in the 9-0-Future: A New Frontier in Retail, Fashion, and Fun
Historically speaking, Jacksonville hasn’t exactly been known for being hip, trendy, or cutting-edge. Despite rebranding efforts over the decades from …
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…
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…
Revelrous Local Rap Duo Drops Tracks Just in Time for Hurricane Season
The double-brained-child of RickoLus and Bleubird, Hurricane Party is a pop/rap (prap?) mashup project. On the sports-air-horn-and-rambling-rich episod…
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. …
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…