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The Best Concerts in Jacksonville | June 26-July 2

The Smile, Peter Frampton, Rain Dogs Celebrates 10 years, Heat Fest and more

Our weekly Go concert recommendations are updated every Monday morning and are always available on jaxmusic.org. For the comprehensive list of this week’s concerts, go to our live music calendar page. Jazz Blue Jay Jazz Jam – Tuesday, June 27 Blue Jay Listening Room | Jacksonville Beach Every Tuesday, fun-sized Jax Beach venue Blue Jay Listening Room hosts a rotating cast of standout players …

In this article: Blue Jay Listening Room, calendar, concerts, jacksonville, Live music, St. Augustine Amphitheatre and The Smile

New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 23

The rapper and singer Coi Leray drops her sophomore full-length COI this week, a genre-hopping, sample-heavy adrenaline rush packed with hooks and swagger. We hear from a number of cuts from the record to open this week’s show, from the bluesy riff rock of “Black Rose” to sweet R&B, ’80s-flavored synth pop, Afro-fusion and more. The album leads us to …

MUNA | Tiny Desk Concert

“It’s very cool to see that everyone who works for NPR is gay,” MUNA singer-guitarist Katie Gavin deadpanned by way of introduction at the band’s Tiny Desk concert. For a band whose latest album is currently soundtracking its second straight Pride Month, MUNA has found a deep kinship with queer audiences — a fact Gavin noted during the lead-in to …

In this article: MUNA, New music, NPR, Silk Chiffon and Tiny Desk Concert

The Rebuilt Heart of Jason Isbell

Luck favors the prepared, as they say, and young Jason Isbell was ready. He had honed his skills as a songwriter and guitar player since he started playing the mandolin back when his hands were too small to wrap around a guitar neck. He would sit alone in his bedroom for days on end, isolated and insulated from his parents’ …

In this article: Alt-country, country, Jason Isbell, New music, NPR Music and Weathervanes

Best Live Music in Jax | Jun. 19-25

Tedeschi Trucks Band, Jagged Edge, Mold!, Little Alley Shows and more.

Our weekly Go concert recommendations are updated every Monday morning and are always available on jaxmusic.org. For the comprehensive list of this week’s concerts, go to our live music calendar page. Metal Weeping – Tuesday, June 19 Rain Dogs | Five Points New Jersey death-metal group Weeping visits Jacksonville, playing Rain Dogs on Tuesday. More Neo-Soul/R&B SouLo Lyon – Thursday, June 21 Little Alley …

In this article: concert calendar, concert picks, Jack Rabbits, jacksonville, Little Alley Shows, Live music and Tedeschi Trucks

American-Roots Maestro Dom Flemons Follows the Roots of the Blues Through Northeast Florida

By Shelton Hull

The rising tide of Black representation in (Mainstream) American roots music has resulted, to no inconsiderable extent, from the efforts of Dominique “Dom” Flemons and his colleagues in the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an exceptional band founded in Durham, North Carolina back in 2005. Flemons’ departure from the group in 2013 initiated what appears to have been the group’s final dissolution …

In this article: Americana, banjo, carolina chocolate drops, Dom Flemons, folk, Guitar, jacksonville, roots, st. augustine and the Waterworks

New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 16

We’ve got two big releases this week from artists who’ve returned after long breaks from their own work: Killer Mike has his first new solo album in more than a decade and Iceland’s Sigur Rós is back with the band’s first new studio album since 2013. Killer Mike’s Michael is steeped in gospel and deeply personal stories that reflect on …

In this article: All Songs Considered, Best new releases, June 16, Killer Mike, New Music Friday, NPR Music and Sigur Rós

Rachel Angel, Daddy, Folk Is People to Headline this Year’s Queer Country Disco in Jacksonville

Queer Country Disco — the annual event celebrating the music of queer Americana and country artists — is back for another rodeo. Featuring performances by Asheville-by-way-of-Miami alt-country star Rachel Angel, Duval electro-pop artist Daddy and Jax Americana band Folk is People (with more acts to be announced soon), QCD 2023 will be held Saturday, August 12 at WJCT Studios. Founded …

In this article: Americana, country, Daddy, event, Folk is People, jacksonville, JME, Queer Country Disco, Rachel Angel and Stacey Bennett

Retro L.A. Rockers Allah-Las Return with Vintage Glam-Rock Bop, “The Stuff”

By Matthew Shaw

Notable Crate-diggers, Los Angeles retro-rockers Allah-Las are back with “The Stuff,” an enjoyably simple mid-tempo taste of Zuma 85 (out October 13 via Calico Discos / Innovative Leisure), the group’s first full-length album since 2019’s LAHS. A sarcastic – although by-and-large unoffending – lamentation of the state of modern music in the form of a glam rock bop, sonically “The …

In this article: Allah-Las, glam, Indie, Innovative Leisure, Lou Reed, New music, review, rock, surf and The Stuff

Australian Singer-Songwriter Angie MacMahon’s “Saturn Returning” is a Savvy Revival of Symphonic Rock for Global Romantics

By Daniel A. Brown

The latest from Australian singer-songwriter Angie McMahon is a plaintive ballad that isn’t afraid to dip into the majestic. “Saturn Returning” slowly paces itself with a simple plucked motif that is gradually overtaken by a borderline-bombastic symphonic wall of sound, as McMahon’s voice mirrors itself into a monolithic, over-dubbed chorale. McMahon’s undeniable and versatile skills as a vocalist help elevate …

In this article: Angie McMahon, Australia, Fresh Squeeze, New music, playlist, Saturn Returning and singer-songwriter

Sound & Vision | Visual Artist Edison William Leads Us from the Unreal to the Real and Back Again

By Daniel A. Brown

Sound & Vision is a semi-regular feature that examines how music influences Northeast Florida artists. Accompanying playlists for each Sound & Vision feature can be found on JME’s spotify channel. The future is ultimately resolute, carved into an unknowable stone. Regardless of our actions, desires, fears, or even the advent of providence and fate, if we are lucky to see it the …

In this article: Art, Edison William, jacksonville, photography, Sound & Vision and visual art

Paul McCartney’s Photos of Early Beatlemania are in a Book and on Display in London

Updated June 13, 2023 at 10:38 AM ET This famous moment in music history is now visible from a different angle. Any capsule history of rock music, or pop music, or the 1960’s will include the Beatles’ arrival in the United States in early 1964. The images are all familiar — young men with bowl haircuts (that they’d later grow …

In this article: archive, Beatlemania, Beatles, exhibit, NPR, Paul McCartney, photo book and photos

Jacksonville Hip-Hop Artist Aalana Stands Tall on New Track, “Beretta”

By Mr. Al Pete

Duval emcee Aalana is back with a new single, “Beretta,” the uber-talented young rapper’s first release since 2022’s “Okay Cool.” There’s little debate as to whether Aalana possesses star power. And on “Beretta,” she flosses her position with hitting phrases, touching on the importance of friendship and connection, wavering on whether either has inherent value in navigating life’s highs – …

In this article: aalana, Beretta, duval, emcee, hip-hop, jacksonville, New music and rap

Aja Monet’s Debut Album Fuses Art and Advocacy, Poet and Performer

In Black American folklore, music and poetry share the same soul. The poets of the Black Arts movement, particularly Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde and Amiri Baraka, were in touch with jazz as if it were of the same coterie, and they opened the door for the more music-driven spoken-word artists of the 1970s — Gil Scott-Heron, The Last …

In this article: Aja Monet, blues, hip-hop, performer, poet, poetry, smoke signals collective and Why My Love

Jax Indie-Band Teal Peel Packs an Ocean’s Worth of Character Into New Song “Sandy”

By Hurley Winkler

Can’t stand the sight of seagulls They freak you out and they’re kinda annoying as hell So says Jax musician Taylor Paul Neal on the latest Teal Peel single, “Sandy.” Fans of Pavement and Mercury Rev are bound to appreciate the cheeky lyricism of the local indie rock outfit’s new songs. I mean, who among us here in Northeast Florida …

In this article: Indie, jacksonville, new song, Sandy, Taylor Paul Neal and Teal Peel

On the Easy-Going ‘Joy’all,’ Jenny Lewis Defiantly Preaches the Pursuit of Happiness

“I once knew someone who said that he didn’t believe in the pursuit of happiness,” Jenny Lewis recently said in an interview about Joy’all, her new solo album. “And I thought, wow, how unfortunate.” The comment sums up a kind of wry wisdom that seems to characterize Lewis’ music: the belief that happiness isn’t a given but must be pursued …

In this article: Jenny Lewis, Joy'all, new album, New music, NPR Music, Puppy and a Truck, review and Rilo Kiley

EASYin2D and Mecca thA Marvelous, Two Laidback Duval Emcees, Collab on the Ultra-Chill “Peaches”

By Mr. Al Pete

Two ascendant Jacksonville-based hip-hop artists known individually for their chill deliveries, Mecca thA Marvelous and L.O.V.E. Culture’s EASYin2D, keep their Duval manners in order while speaking about their dealings with a “Georgia peach” on a new track. From a new, two-song collaborative release called JITS, the song “Peaches” is a mid-tempo head nod, likely to find acknowledgement from anyone who has …

In this article: easyin2d, hip-hop, JITS, LOVE Culture, Mecca thA Marvelous, Peaches and rap

Best Concerts this Week in Jacksonville | June 12-18

My Morning Jacket, flipturn, Dom Flemons, L.O.V.E. Fest, Jazz Discovery Series, Jared Mattson and more

Our weekly Go concert recommendations are updated every Monday morning and are always available on jaxmusic.org. For the comprehensive list of this week’s concerts, go to our live music calendar page. Jazz Taylor Roberts – Monday, June 12 Blue Jay Listening Room | Jacksonville Beach Jacksonville jazz guitarist Taylor Roberts begins his monthly residency at Blue Jay Listening Room in Jax Beach on Monday, playing …

In this article: concerts, Dom Flemons, Flipturn, jacksonville, Live music, My Morning Jacket and Taylor Roberts

Journeyman Jacksonville Jazz Guitarist Taylor Roberts Brings It On Home With Latest Release

By Daniel A. Brown

How does one honor any creative tradition without losing one’s identity and wind up stifled in the conventions and style of that very same heritage? Jazz is simultaneously based on an expectation from the audience that one knows the tune and an expectation from the players assembled on the bandstand that one knows how to forget the tune altogether, let …

In this article: album release, Blue Jay Listening Room, Guitar, Homecoming, jacksonville, jazz, New music and Taylor Roberts

New Music Friday | The best releases out on June 9

When Amaarae began work on her latest project, Fountain Baby, she knew she wanted it to defy labels. On one hand, it’s defiantly pop, but it’s persistently kaleidoscopic, built on a consistently surprising world of sound that draws from alternative Afrobeats to punk rock, R&B, bubblegum pop and more. As NPR Music editor Sheldon Pearce says on this week’s show, …

In this article: All Songs Considered, Amaarae, Janelle Monáe, Jenny Lewis, June 9, Keaton Henson, King Krule, New Music Friday, NPR Music and playlist

Slow, Steady and Loud Wins the Race: Appalachian Death Trap Capture Prog-Metal Heroics with Latest Single

By Daniel A. Brown

If there is a volatile lottery of success, providence, fortune, etc. in contemporary music, metal is the surely the remotest ball rolling in the hopper. The term “metal” has remained malleable for decades, and the polarities of the genre are so extreme that they easily—if not invitingly—encompass everything from the early-‘80s UK denim-and-leather of Saxon to the current gore-bath of …

In this article: Appalachian Death Trap, Between the Stars, jacksonville, local music, Metal, New music and prog

On ‘Brand New Life,’ Jazz Harpist Brandee Younger Traces the Dorothy Ashby’s Influence and Charts Her Own Path

By Ulysses Owens Jr.

Within the jazz idiom, there are only a few harpists that have caught my attention — two of them are incredible Black women. Alice Coltrane, the wife to the iconic John Coltrane, is probably the instrument’s best known acolyte. Detroit born harpist Dorothy Ashby is the another. Ashby, a playwright and public-school educator, was a pioneering harpist, and wrote many …

In this article: Brand New Life, Brandee Younger, Dorothy Ashby, harp, jazz, review and Ulysses Owens Jr.

Live Release from Brötzmann, Bekkas and Drake Trio Blasts World Music Into Free Jazz Multiverse

By Daniel A. Brown

Taken from the recent Catching Ghosts album, recorded live at the November 2022 Jazzfest Berlin, the trio of German reedman Peter Brötzmann, Moroccan guembri player Majid Bekkas and Chicago-based drummer Hamid Drake tear lesser world music a new one with “Chalaba.” The merger of the Gnawa music that Bekkas brings to the forefront with his vocal and guembri (a type of bass …

In this article: Catching Ghosts, Chalaba, free jazz, Hamid Drake, live, Majid Bekkas, Peter Brötzmann and world music

On New Live Release, Electropop duo Sylvan Esso Expand, and Redefine, the Parameters of ‘No Rules Sandy’

By Hurley Winkler

I relish any opportunity to hear revised in-studio tracks, and I don’t think there’s a better venue for that than Electric Lady’s live in-studio session series. Last month, Durham electropop duo Sylvan Esso released five Live At Electric Lady renditions of tracks from their 2022 record No Rules Sandy (in addition to a cover of Low’s “Will the Night”). The …

In this article: Amelia Meath, electropop, Indie, Live at Electric Lady, New music, No Rules Sandy and Sylvan Esso

Foo Fighters’ ‘But Here We Are’ is heavy, in every sense of the word

Foo Fighters formed in the aftermath of tragedy, as Kurt Cobain‘s 1994 suicide left Dave Grohl reeling and in search of a voice. The band’s self-titled 1995 debut found the drummer and newly minted frontman reinvigorated by grief, while 1997’s The Colour and the Shape doubled as a rousingly hooky therapy session in the aftermath of his divorce. Taken together, …

In this article: 11th album, But Here We Are, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Kurt Cobain, New music, rock and Taylor Hawkins

Mattson 2 Guitarist Jared Mattson Sets out on His Own, Touring his Debut Solo Record with a Stop in Jacksonville

Jared Mattson — guitarist and bassist for the formidable San Diego surf-jazz duo Mattson 2 — has announced his first, solo North American tour, with a stop in Jacksonville. Following the release of his critically adored debut, Peanut (out now on Chaz Bundick, AKA Toro Y Moi‘s Company Records), Mattson is hitting the road. The 20-date Peanut Release Tour will …

In this article: jacksonville, Jared Mattson, just announced, Live music, Mattson 2, Murray Hill, Peanut, solo debut, The Walrus and Toro y moi

Best Live Music in Jacksonville this Week | June 5-11

Logic, Subhumans, Conrad Tao, Rebelution and more

Our weekly Go concert recommendations are updated every Monday morning and are always available on jaxmusic.org. For the comprehensive list of this week’s concerts, go to our live music calendar page. Southern Rock Them Dirty Roses – Tuesday, June 6 Jack Rabbits | San Marco Alabama-bred Southern-rock torchbearers Them Dirty Roses performs at Jack Rabbits with support from Jax’s own keepers of the Southern-rock …

In this article: calendar, concerts, Conrad Tao, Jack Rabbits, jacksonville, Live music, Logic, Rebelution and Subhumans

Indie-Rock Stars Flipturn Return to Jax with Two-Night Stand at Intuition

With the momentum of roughly two years of touring behind them — including a completely-sold-out 19-date run in February — Jax-based indie rock band Flipturn has announced a homecoming show. Two shows, in fact, at the Bier Hall inside Intuition Ale Works in Downtown Jacksonville on June 16 and 17. Mixing mature pop melodies with earnest lyrics and raw energy, …

In this article: Brooklyn Baby, Dualtone, Flipturn, Indie rock, Intuition Ale Works, jacksonville, Sad Disco and Shadowglow

New Music Friday | The best releases out on June 2

It’s a big release day for veteran artists who’ve been putting out great music for decades, from Bob Dylan and Foo Fighters to Tanya Tucker, Cowboy Junkies and more. We can’t get to all of them on this week’s show, but we do spend some time with What Matters Most, the first new solo album from Ben Folds in 15 …

In this article: All Songs Considered, best releases, Bob Dylan, Bully, June 2, McKinley Dixon, New Music Friday and NPR Music

Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Tiny Desk Concert

Unknown Mortal Orchestra‘s Tiny Desk concert was more of a family affair than lead singer, Ruban Nielson, revealed during his band introductions. His father, jazz musician Chris Nielson, has been on tour with them to support the band’s latest album, V. During the band’s live show back in April at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., he casually drifted on …

In this article: Chris Nielson, From the Sun, Necessary Evil, Ruban Nielson, Thought Ballune, UMO, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and V

John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy’s Fearless Experiment Sets a New Album Ablaze

A little over 60 years ago, the editor-in-chief of DownBeat magazine asked John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy a deceptively simple question: What are you trying to do? He rephrased slightly: What are you doing? The two saxophonists sat for a long 30 seconds before Dolphy broke the silence. “That’s a good question,” he said. The DownBeat editor, Don DeMicheal, printed …

In this article: archives, Downbeat, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, live, new release and Village Gate

Playlist | Best New Music of May

Featuring a few dozen new tunes from local, regional, national and international artists, our Fresh Squeeze playlist includes the best new music emanating from Northeast Florida and beyond. Handpicked by our team of contributors, there are no rules or genre restrictions; just songs we thought were worth a share. Our latest Fresh Squeeze includes the lead single from Ghanaian-Australian artist Genesis …

In this article: Fresh Squeeze, Genesis Owusu, June, Lana Del Ray, New music, Queens of the Stone Age, Saba and Sylvan Esso

Reissue of “My Black Race” Gives New Life, and Power, to UK Reggae Artist Rupie Dan

From the ever-savvy Death Is Not The End label comes this tasty reissue of a 1982 12” single from UK reggae artist Rupie Dan, originally released on his own Flag Records label. “My Black Race” serves up deep tendrils of bass and drums with filigrees of keyboard, melodica and analog synth stabs, as Rupie Dan takes his time in delivering …

In this article: Death Is Not the End, dub, My Black Race, reissue, roots, Rupie Dan, UK and vinyl

Diners Find “The Power” in a New Sound on Lead Single from New Album, ‘Domino’

By Scott Russell

Los Angeles-via-Phoenix singer-songwriter Blue Broderick, who records and performs as Diners, has announced her seventh full-length and shared its first single ahead of a fall U.S. tour that includes multiple Sunshine State shows. Produced by Mo Troper (a guitar-pop wizard in his own right) and due out Aug. 18 on Bar/None Records, the new LP’s first preview arrived Tuesday in …

In this article: Blue Broderick, Diners, Domino, New music, power pop, singer-songwriter and The Power

#NowPlaying | Bill Orcutt, ‘The Anxiety of Symmetry II’

From the Miami noise trio Harry Pussy to solo and quartet music, Bill Orcutt has spent decades fire-bombing conventional acceptance of what we consider to be guitar-based music. But adherents hoping for any of Orcutt’s steel-string immolations might need to swing at a curveball with The Anxiety of Symmetry. The Anxiety of Symmetry by Bill Orcutt Like previous “counting albums,” …

In this article: Bill Orcutt, New music, Now Playing and The Anxiety of Symmetry II

NIKI | Tiny Desk Concert

NPR Music’s Tiny Desk is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. These artists represent just a sliver of the cultural diversity that exists within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. NIKI, a.k.a. Nicole Zefanya, took a circuitous route to the Tiny Desk. Born in Jakarta, she scored a major opportunity by winning a competition at 15 to …

In this article: Backburner, Every Summertime, Indonesian, live performance, New music, NIKI, Taylor Swift and Tiny Desk Concert

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