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With ‘Journey In Black’ Emerging Jazz Vocalist Christie Dashiell Brings the World to Her Doorstep

By Ulysses Owens Jr.

Journey In Black, the long-awaited sophomore album from jazz vocalist Christie Dashiell features seven original compositions and two arrangements that explore themes of freedom, legacy, grief and joy. Funded in part by Chamber Music America’s Performance Plus Grant, the collection fuses the sounds of improvised music and various styles of Black American Music. Titled Journey in Black, the album boasts …

In this article: Christie Dashiell, jazz and Ulysses Owens Jr.

Jacksonville History Center Aims to Put Local Music Out Front

By Shelton Hull

The Jacksonville History Center will encompass the full scope of local history, not limited just to local music, though that is certainly a big component, and its major selling point up to now. The new museum will be housed inside the old casket factory, built in 1920 at 318 Palmetto Street, right next door to the Main offices of the …

In this article: Jacksonville History Center and Jacksonville Music Museum

Stop Making Swift | Move Over Barbenheimer, the Next Double Feature is ‘Stop Making Sense’ and ‘The Eras Tour’ Documentary

By Hurley Winkler

Taylor Swift sweeps silver screens across America on October 13 with her box-office busting The Eras Tour concert film. The film hits theaters just as A24’s 40th anniversary re-release of what’s often referred to as “the best concert film of all time,” post-punk art-pop outfit Talking Heads’ 1984 flick Stop Making Sense, wraps up its nationwide run. But did David …

In this article: concert film, Eras Tour, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads and Taylor Swift

Villano Antillano | Tiny Desk Concert

This Latinx Heritage Month Tiny Desk is celebrating with an ‘El Tiny’ takeover, featuring a wide array of artists from all corners of Latinidad. Villano Antillano kicked off her Tiny Desk Concert with a Britney Spears-approved message: Dump. Him. “Yo Tengo un Novio,” off the Puerto Rican rapper’s debut LP, La Sustancia X, called out the toxic, controlling expectations of …

In this article: Tiny Desk Concert and Villano Antillano

Latest Single from Kale That Raps Offers a Healthy Dose of Duval Hip-Hop Soul

By Daniel A. Brown

The certain Northeast Florida Renaissance of forward-thinking and progressive hip-hop has produced another impressive artist in the form of Kale That Raps. Taken from his recent Summer Feels Like… EP, the track “A Heartbeat” is an impressive three-minute mix of soul and languid-yet-assured raps from Kale. A dream-like production of otherworldly backing vocals, ethereal to the point of levitation, a …

In this article: duval, Hip Hop, Kale That Raps and Local Spotlight

Best Concerts in Jacksonville | Oct. 9-15

Scott Yoder, Dehd, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Benise and more

Our weekly Go concert recommendations are updated every Monday morning and are always available on jaxmusic.org. For a comprehensive list of this week’s concerts, go to our live music calendar page. Guitar Virtuosity Benise – Tuesday, October 10 WJCT Soundstage | Downtown Jacksonville Guitar phenom and “nouveau flamenco” pioneer Roni Benise – or simply: Benise – returns to Jacksonville, hitting the WJCT Soundstage on …

In this article: concert picks, concerts, jacksonville and Live music

All Songs Considered | The best releases out Oct. 6

Rapper Earl Sweatshirt’s album-length collaboration with producer The Alchemist had been rumored for quite a while. Its first internet release rolled out on a little-known streaming website over the summer. Now, Voir Dire is officially out everywhere — and it’s a remarkable cross-generational collaboration, full of inventive samples and lyrics that can be abstract and dark, but also hopeful. We’ve …

In this article: All Songs Considered, New Music Friday and NPR Music

Chicago Post-Punk Powerhouse Dehd to Play Jacksonville in October

Powerhouse Chicago-based three-piece Dehd announced both a run of late-summer dates (many of which are in support of electronic-folk band Sylvan Esso) and a fall tour of North America, which includes a stop at Jack Rabbits in San Marco on October 13. The post-punk trio’s 2022 full-length album Blue Skies showcases the band’s knack for reverb-drenched garage rock and harmonious …

In this article: Bad Love, Blue Skies, Chicago, concert, Dehd, Fat Possum, Flower of Devotion, Jack Rabbits, jacksonville, Live music and post-punk

‘Fountain,’ Beloved Album By Duval Indie Rockers Common Thread Gets 30th Anniversary Reissue

By Daniel A. Brown

Thirty years ago, the Northeast Florida independent music community was many things and, even devoid of nostalgia from any surviving participants, boasted its own kind of low magick. Like much of America, Jacksonville and the surrounding environs benefited from the 1970s punk rock scene that tore down the walls of popular music. Most crucially, in the 1980s, underground musicians made …

In this article: Common Thread, Einstein A Go-Go, Fort Lowell Records, Fountain and jacksonville

Jacksonville Today Wins National Journalism Award

Media Contact: Neily Braren, Promotion & Marketing Associate 904.318.2633 • nbraren@wjct.org Jacksonville Today Wins National Journalism Award Daily newsletter named LION Publishers’ Product of the Year JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — October 5, 2023 — WJCT Public Media’s Jacksonville Today newsletter has been named the Product of the Year in the 2023 Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers Association’s Local Journalism Awards. …

Jax-Based Country Artist Madison Hughes Picks Up Songwriting Smarts Directly From Nashville Legends

By Hurley Winkler

Welcome to Songwriting School, where we talk to local songwriters about how they wrote one specific song. Madison Hughes has been singing and playing guitar for most of her life, but her star-studded path into songwriting has been anything but ordinary. The Ponte Vedra native competed on NBC’s The Voice last year, which launched her right into a Nashville music …

In this article: Madison Hughes, Songwriting School, The Voice and You or the Whiskey

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Preview Their Umpteenth New Album With “Theia / The Silver Cord / Set”

By Scott Russell

Anyone who tells you they know what’s next for Australian experimental-rock sextet King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is lying, with one exception: The hyper-prolific band is never not announcing a new album. This week, they unveiled The Silver Cord (Oct. 27, KGLW), previewing the synth-driven set with the lead single and video triumvirate of its album openers, “Theia / …

In this article: electronic, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, New music, Set and Thiea

On New Live Release ‘Watch the Sun,’ Pianist and Songwriter PJ Morton Continues to Evolve

By Ulysses Owens Jr.

Evolution is the word I would use to describe PJ Morton’s career. Morton’s latest, Watch the Sun Live: The Mansion Sessions is simply masterful, and Morton expertly finds his rhythm in the live performance (FYI: his live band features Jacksonville native and Douglas Anderson alum TJ Norris on trombone). Morton excels as the remix king of his own music, in …

In this article: PJ Morton and Watch the Sun

Alex Cuba | Tiny Desk Concert

By Felix Contreras

This Latinx Heritage Month Tiny Desk is celebrating with an ‘El Tiny’ takeover, featuring a wide array of artists from all corners of Latinidad. Alex Cuba starts his turn behind the Tiny Desk with the barest of musical essentials: a percussive guitar rhythm, the soft scratch of a güiro and a miniature choir. “Ciudad Hembra (La Habana),” a lament for …

Jax Rockers Coyboi Dance Through a Dream on New Live Single “Violets”

By Scott Russell

Jacksonville indie-pop duo Coyboi deliver hopelessly romantic rock on “Violets,” their new track recorded live at Gainesville’s Heartwood Soundstage earlier this year and released late last week. The project of vocalist Cortnie Frazier and multi-instrumentalist Ihlan Magloire, Coyboi came together in August 2020, a pandemic project that has stood the test of tough times. Though Frazier and Magloire are actively …

In this article: Coyboi, jacksonville, local music and violets

New Max Roach Documentary on PBS Highlights the Music and Life of Pioneering Jazz Drummer

By Daniel A. Brown

When Max Roach died in 2007 at age 83, the iconoclastic musician had truly lived a life that beat to the tune of a different drum. Roach seemed to move upstream, regardless of the tides. He was an early adherent to the DIY indie-ethos. While still in his twenties, in 1952 Roach and Charles Mingus founded Debut Records, after the …

In this article: jazz, Max Roach, PBS documentary, review and the Drum also Waltzes

The Split Over Merch Cuts | Live Nation is Waiving Some of Its Venues’ Takes of Merchandise Sales. Artists and Independent Venues Aren’t Satisfied

By Josué A. Cruz

Is it a case of get your hand outta my pocket or get your pocket off my hand? The jury is still out, or yet properly informed, as the global conglomerate Live Nation launches the On The Road initiative, which allows touring acts to keep 100% of merchandise sales on show nights. The company has controlling interest in 338 venues …

Midwest Princess Chappell Roan is Spreading Queer Joy through Her Dazzling Pop Tour

By Carissa Marques

Pop is glittery, girly and gay again thanks to Missouri-native Chappell Roan. She just released her first full-length album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, on September 22. Some of Roan’s popular tracks include “Pink Pony Club,” and this summer’s cheerleader inspired anthem “HOT TO GO!” The songs are thematic, dramatic and glamorous, with call-and-response hooks, sensational synths …

In this article: Chappell Roan, florida and Interview

Cuban Percussion Icon Pedrito Martinez Lands at The Ritz Theatre on October 6

By Josué A. Cruz

The paragon that is Pedrito Martinez has a rather mellow fall 2023 touring schedule, atypical for the normally busy Cuban percussionist. But he has been sure to include a stop in Jacksonville Last here in 2014 for the Jacksonville Jazz Festival and a subsequent pandemic-disrupted show in 2020 that never was, the Havana-born-and-bred talent will be at The Ritz Theatre …

In this article: concert, jacksonville, Pedrito Martinez and ritz theatre and museum

Kelly Green, Jazz Pianist with Jacksonville Roots, Drops Third Single of the Season, “That Sunday, That Summer”

By Shelton Hull

“That Sunday, That Summer,” the newest single by Florida’s own Kelly Green, is actually the third that she’s released since July. Written by Joe Sherman and George Weiss, it was originally recorded for Capitol Records by Nat King Cole in 1963, with his lush, lustrous vocals backed by a string orchestra and vocal chorus, a format that was extremely popular …

In this article: jacksonville, jazz, Kelly Green and piano

5 Songs to Blast on Mean Girls Day

By Hurley Winkler

“On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was.” The “he” in this equation is, of course, Aaron Samuels, heartthrob of the 2004 hit flick Mean Girls. And the “me” is Cady Heron, played by none other than the great Lindsay Lohan, whose crush on Aaron kept her from math class brilliance. On this day in Mean Girls history, …

In this article: Mean Girls, Mean Girls day and October 3

Locals Chalk Tiger Serve Up Fierce Growling Rock That Breaks Out of the Punk-Rock Cage

By Daniel A. Brown

Taken from their just-released full-length High Charity, the tune “Dange Close” from Chalk Tiger claws at all of the elements that arguably make punk rock a make-or-break affair. Thankfully, the volition of this Northeast Florida trio has more melodic quirks than rote ’77-style punk while also boasting a surfeit of grit that keeps them from succumbing to coy indie-twee that …

In this article: Chalk Tiger, Dange Close, High Charity and local music

On “Boseman,” Duval Emcee Rab G Shakes the Tables

By Mr. Al Pete

Many people claim that hip hop is a sport. And while contention and conflict, feuds and battles, are part of it, hip hop is an all-encompassing lifestyle where art meets life through pain and pleasure, struggle and triumph, and, yes, competition and boasting gestures that have the ability to shake the tables. Local emcee Rab G brings some heavy king …

In this article: Boseman, duval and Rab G

Concert Picks | Best Live Music in Jacksonville, Oct. 2-8

Pedrito Martinez, Alice Cooper, Skynyrd and more

Our weekly Go concert recommendations are updated every Monday morning and are always available on jaxmusic.org. For a comprehensive list of this week’s concerts, go to our live music calendar page. Rock Alice Cooper – Wednesday, October 4 The Amp | St. Augustine The formerly shocking antics of classic-rock vet Alice Cooper may now seem quite quaint. But five decades into his career, at …

In this article: calendar, concert picks and jacksonville

All Songs Considered | The best releases out Sept. 29

By Robin Hilton

It’s been five years since singer Jorja Smith released her beloved and acclaimed debut album, Lost & Found. She returns this week with a long-awaited followup, Falling or Flying, a wide-reaching album of solitude and quiet confidence, as Smith explores new rhythms in both her music and life. We open this week’s show with a listen and talk about the …

Jax Songwriter Adam Cotton Goes Heavy on the Gentleness with Latest EP

By Daniel A. Brown

Locals with a hankering for singer-songwriter action in the style of Dave Matthews, Keller Williams, late-era James Taylor, most assuredly the late Jimmy Buffet, will likely enjoy the latest from Northeast Florida musician Adam Cotton. Released in March the three-song EP All These Horizons is Cotton’s latest. The title track offers a canon-like motif, as Cotton’s finger-picked guitar and earnestness …

In this article: Adam Cotton, All These Horizons and jacksonville

Five Crucial Salsa Albums from the Genre’s Golden Age

By Josué A. Cruz

This Latinx Heritage Month, NPR Music member stations are celebrating the music of a wide array of artists from all corners of Latinidad. Salsa was not originally a genre, per se. Instead, it was a word used to describe when things got hot and saucy during a performance. The music is a collection of various Afro-Cuban and Caribbean rhythms, and …

In this article: Best Albums and Salsa

On “Eggman,” West Coast Psych-Rock Gadfly Ty Segall Takes a Crack at More Bad Trips

By Daniel A. Brown

Ty Segall continues to morph and mop up the competition of current psych-rock-what-have-you. “Eggman” arrives on the heels of his recent doom-dirge single, “Void.” Over a rumbling bed of drums, octaved-electric guitar and strumming acoustic, Segall serves up cryptic lyrics (“Hey / do you hear what I say? / Would you look at your face? Your mouth’s / agape and …

In this article: Eggman, New music and Ty Segall

Public Radio’s Favorite New Musicians Of 2023

By NPR Music Member Stations

With autumn upon us, we decided it was time to poll NPR Music’s Member station partners to find out the new musicians who caught their hosts’ ears this year. We had one question: Identify your favorite artist who entered 2023 without a full-length album. We received 13 answers, and the results spanned rock, Americana, soul, jazz and electronic music. Enjoy …

In this article: best of 2023, New music and NPR Music

Live Sessions | Susto Performs “Good Right Now” and “The Get Down” at Intuition Ale Works

Led by singer-songwriter Justin Osborne, the Charleston-bred indie-Americana band Susto visited Jacksonville in early 2023, performing at the Bier Hall inside Intuition Ale Works. The band broke out with the 2021’s Time in the Sun, which combined Osborne’s introspective songwriting with an energetic live-band feel. And with 2023’s My Entire Life — another suite of songs grounded in American roots, …

In this article: Intuition, jacksonville, live and Susto

DJ Shadow Mines ‘80s R&B for Cinematic Synth-Funk on “You Played Me”

By Scott Russell

In the opening minutes of DJ Shadow’s 1996 debut album Endtroducing…, he samples the words of jazz drummer George Marsh: “I’m a student of the drums. And I’m also a teacher of the drums, too.” The veteran beatmaker’s next lesson is on its way, in the form of his new album Action Adventure (Oct. 27, Mass Appeal/Liquid Amber), but Friday’s …

Best Concerts in Jacksonville | Sept. 25-Oct. 1

Beethoven, Rein Sanction, Timothy Eerie, Circle Jerks

Our weekly Go concert recommendations are updated every Monday morning and are always available on jaxmusic.org. For a comprehensive list of this week’s concerts, go to our live music calendar page. Jazz Blue Jay Jazz Jam – Tuesday, September 26 Blue Jay Listening Room | Jacksonville Beach Every Tuesday, fun-size Jax Beach venue Blue Jay Listening Room hosts one of the city’s premier jazz …

In this article: concert picks, jacksonville, October, Rein Sanction and September

Hip-Hop Legends Little Brother Share Two New Songs, “Wish Me Well and “Glory Glory”

By Mr. Al Pete

Little Brother, the beloved North Carolina hip-hop duo, have released “Wish Me Well” and “Glory Glory,” their first new music in four years. Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh remain the poster boys of grown-man rap. Seasoned, independent, well-respected; their rhymes serve as references for artists looking to follow suit. “Wish Me Well” finds Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh taking turns …

In this article: Glory Glory, Little Brother, New music and Wish Me Well

WJCT Public Media Announces Third Season of “What’s Health Got to Do With It?”

Media Contact: Neily Braren, Promotion & Marketing Associate 904.318.2633 • nbraren@wjct.org WJCT Public Media Announces Third Season of “What’s Health Got to Do With It?”Popular health program, hosted by Dr. Joe Sirven, returns September 23 Jacksonville, Fla. — Sept. 22, 2023 — WJCT Public Media today announced the third season of “What’s Health Got To Do With It?” will begin …

All Songs Considered | The best releases out Sept. 22

The music of Singaporean artist and producer yeule often sounds like it was made from turn-of-the-century home electronics — dial up modems, simple keypad tones or a broken VCR. But, in deceptively disarming moments, it’s also warm and beautifully organic, just before erupting in thunderous sheets of guitar noise and primal screaming. As we discuss on this week’s show, their …

In this article: All Songs Considered, best new music, New Music Friday and NPR

Cue Up These 5 Breeders’ Songs in Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Band’s Breakthrough Album, ‘Last Splash’

By Daniel A. Brown

When it comes to the confused emotions of ‘90s underground rock as it rose (or was pulled) up into the mainstream, never mind Nirvana: it was arguably The Breeders that truly expressed the confusion, joy, snark, resignation and expectations of a pre-internet Generation X. Thirty years have passed since The Breeders’ breakthrough release, Last Splash, and the album’s sound and …

In this article: 30th Anniversary, Last Splash and The Breeders

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