From improvisations on standard jazz fare to digital and bleeps-and-blips, here’s JME’s live music recommendations for the week of June 7-14.
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Check out these three local-heavy lineups at independent venues
Live music returned to Northeast Florida in earnest in April with Downtown Jax’s outdoor concert series, Jax River Jams. May saw more venues reopening, adding capacity, etc. as music fans responded in kind, heading out and opening up their wallets. June is slated to be the next phase in the region’s return to live music, with smaller, more intimate venues …
JME DJ Sessions | Summer Jams
Three new tunes from Jax-based artists, all perfectly timed to invoke summer.
We often think of summer music as the kind of breezy, carefree pop that emanates from, or at least calls to mind, paradisiacal places. Think your dad’s yacht rock; Jimmy Buffet in Key West, The Eagles and the whole Laurel Canyon scene. Maybe reggae. Or, my favorite summer sound, traditional Hawaiian music. With Northeast Florida averaging something like six months …
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Kickstart your Endless Summer with Jazz Jams, garage rock, and more
The month of April in Jacksonville surely made it feel as though live music had returned. As the Jax River Jams brought local standouts and nostalgia acts together for a weekly series of outdoor shows, the enthusiasm for a communal, music-centered experience was clearly visible. More than a year since the pandemic shuttered music venues and put the brakes on …
Crate Diggin’ | Unsung Summer Albums
Here’s what JME contributors are spinning this summer.
In Northeast Florida, seasonality is loosely defined. There’s no snow (the flurry of ‘89, notwithstanding). But, unlike our tropical neighbors a few ticks south, we don’t quite enjoy an endless summer. There are some positives to this negotiation, of course––we can spend more time outdoors, largely avoiding moon-tans and Seasonal Affective Disorders. For music lovers, the changes in weather, temperature …
JME DJ Sessions | April 2021
Connecting you to the beautiful noise coming out of Northeast Florida.
As home studios and desktop production software––Ableton, Logic, Pro Tools––has proliferated over the last decade or so, music production has mirrored the projections of Moore’s Law; advancing at a record clip. Simply: music creation has never been more accessible. Meanwhile, streaming services like Spotify and platforms like YouTube have given artists a direct line to their audience. No need to …
Local Spotlight | “IHY”
Jacksonville hip-hop standout Blk Jay deliberately leaves the questions unanswered
In new video for “IHY”, hip-hop standout Blk Jay deliberately leaves the questions unanswered.