Listen | With “Dog Days” Seagate proves the (beach) kids are alright
"Dog Days" announces Seagate as an important addition to the New Wave sweeping the city's underground rock scene.
Tag: rock
We Salute | Surfer-shaper-punk-military vet, Sean Piper
It’s a muggy evening in Northeast Florida and local surfer-shaper-musician Sean Piper is toiling away in the Ghetto Surfboards Factory. Piper’s cover…
Listen | Florida guitar hero Ben Katzman charts & shreds the “Path of the Mutagen”
Katzman's new rocker will rattle the DNA of whatever viral particulate might be lingering within decibel range.
Listen: Modern Violence steel themselves with new EP “About Bravery”
Modern Violence's new EP is a raucous, much-needed cathartic release.
Into the Void: Modern Violence is your new “Good Friend”
Indie-emo quintet Modern Violence dropped by our Jax Beach HQ and assualted our ears with its atmospheric, rocky riffage.
Watch: Brooklyn’s Champagne Superchillin go Into the Void
When Brooklyn-based Champagne Superchillin dropped by the office before their North Florida gig, having listened to the Brooklyn-based group's muzak, w…
Watch: Athens band, Deep State, live from Void HQ
In these divisive times, saying you're a fan of the Deep State might earn you some enemies. So it's important to clarify. We here at Void Maga…
Watch: 9E’s black magik math in “4 X 1000 Years”
9E's new video is a a low-lit, riff-heavy, and enjoyable affair.
Listen: Indie-Emo faves Modern Violence “Past Life”
Modern Violence drops a crunchy, melodious, dramatic rocker, "Past Life."
Listen: Faze Wave gets dirty, turns the “Lights Out”
It's been five years since local quartet Faze Wave's debut release OK Alright. Over the course of a handful of singles, EPs, and two full-lengths, the …
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. …
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…
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, …
Winterland headliners APTBS excited by FL’s “good, fun proactive freaks”
What does it mean to be a "New York City-based band" in 2020? As Manhattan has become an egregiously unaffordable, skyscraper-hemmed resort town and Br…
Local Music Calendar: Dig these February shows!
Another month of great music in the 904. The multifarious singer-songwriter rickoLus (pictured above) and big sad rockers Modern Violence kick things o…
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…
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…
19 Songs We Needed in ’19: Faze Wave, Solafide! prove the kids are alright!
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 a couple tunes we …
19 Songs We Needed in ’19: Hurricane Party, Cory Driscoll, The Young Step sweat the weather
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 three tunes we rea…
Local Music Spotlight: Get “Stuck” on SolaFide!’s new single
With their latest tune, “Stuck” the Duval Co. quartet Solafide! maintains their signature moves of crisp-clean guitar sonics, slippery bass, reverb-soa…
Darkhorse Saloon to play Arena League Championship halftime show
What's your all-time favorite halftime show performance? Prince in the rain? 2004's wardrobe malfunction? Please don't make things complicated and say…
Go: Winterland presents 3 cool shows for this hot week
The third iteration of Winterland is still months away, but that won't keep the purveyors of the beloved DIY music festival from making noise around t…
Watch: We interviewed very cool Athens band Deep State
There are a litany of band-interview faux pas; questions to be avoided at all costs because they are boring, possibly offensive, or, again, really bor…
Watch: Ben Katzman makes Kool the Rool for #intothevoid
If--like we do--you've got a (un)healthy social media diet, you likely come across no shortage of aphorisms--short, sometimes pithy observations about…
Into the Void: “Kindness is Hot” according to Miami’s DeGreaser
"Be cool. Be nice. Be chill," shouts DeGreaser frontman, Ben Katzman, before punctuating the mantra with "That's tight!" It's refrains like this one--…