Watch: Faze Wave’s enjoyably creepy video for “The Game”
With a smattering of singles, an EP, and 2018’s full-length Lethologica, Jax-based wunderkinds Faze Wave–Matthew Flynn, Jacob Nemeth, Hunter Hileman, …
Tag: rock
Muzak Mondays: New tunes from LANNDS, The Young Step; Faze Wave goes into the void.
We know there are naysayers out there. What with their “Remember the good ol’ days of music?”, their “Kids would rather play video games than play mus…
Faze Wave goes Into the Void
There's an obvious, unmistakably youthful energy to local indie rockers Faze Wave. It could be partly due to the band member's cherubic countenances (t…
Muzak Mondays: DeGreaser, LANNDS, DL is OK, Mr. Al Pete
We know there are naysayers out there. What with their “Remember the good ol’ days of music?”, their “Kids would rather play video games than play musi…
Watch: Slide into DeGreaser’s “Carpe D.M.”
In the digital age, how does rock n' roll--an antique, but not yet antiquated genre--hold the attention of a spastic, perpetually distracted populace? …
Muzak Mondays: New Rickolus, 9E, Timothy Eerie, L.O.V.E. Culture
We know there are naysayers out there. What with their “Remember the good ol’ days of music?”, their “Kids would rather play video games than play musi…
Watch: We love Florida psych-rockers Timothy Eerie, and so can you
Though they're now based in Austin, Orlando-bred psych rockers Timothy Eerie are never too cool for their beloved Sunshine State--they've even made Nor…
Winterland Returns with Two Days of Cool Music and DIY Vibes
Florida is a state of perpetual transience, departure, and arrival. While we couldn’t imagine any worse PR—to wit: violence, pill mills, serial killers…
Local Music Spotlight: Prog-Punkers RUFFIANS release “All of Your Lies”
Self-described Jacksonville “prog-punk” rockers RUFFIANS (no flabby lowercase letters here, Nippy!) originally showed up on the Jax music scene some se…
New tunes from Darkhorse Saloon soundtrack Parker Coffin edit
There’s an interesting synergy between surfing and music. If we’re led to believe that one informs the other, we’d surely be confused at the manifestat…
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…
We Made a Record
In March, the team here at Void began inviting local acts into our office to play three song sets of original music. While far from a novel idea (NPR’s…
Local Music Spotlight: Proof that DL is OK in “Good Complications”
There was a time (most of the 1980s) when the melodious, Unicorn-killing synth-chord stabs of the Yamaha DX7 led many a young scamp to stab open their …
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: 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…
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…
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…
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…
Brooklyn’s Las Rosas Flout Garage Rock Superficiality
If you were to create one of those silly data-collection schemes masquerading as a Facebook survey titled, “Are you a contemporary Garage Band?” New Yo…
Video Premiere: Local rock trio KSICK get heavy, contemplative on “Hem of the Garment”
It’s an old and demonstrable adage that the best art comes from suffering. And though riff-heavy local rock trio KSICK frontman Lane Pittman’s positivi…
Gallery: For those who went to Rockville (we salute you)
The more than 90,000 people who flooded into Metropolitan Park last weekend for the eighth annual Monster Energy Welcome to Rockville were well-receive…
Listen: Asheville-based, Jax-rooted rockers Minorcan offer “Cheap Thrills”
Though the raucous, rock n' roll trio Minorcan may currently reside in North Carolina, at least four of the band’s six feet will forever feel comfortab…
The Nude Party is Throwin’ a Blue Party — Cheeky NC Rockers Bring the Party to 5 Points
As the name suggests, Boone, North Carolina-based sextet, The Nude Party, was built for revelry. The group’s members honed in the band’s retro, psyched…