4/22 AFRO ROOTS @ DORAL YARD: Cortadito, Jude Papaloko, Panfrik, ITAWE, DJ Kumi NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: Catwalk Student Fashion Show at Art After Dark. Exhibited 4/275/13 at Resource Depot REVOLUTION LIVE: Latto, Saucy Santana, Kali, Asianae RESPECTABLE STREET: Love Song (Cure Trib), MASS CENTER FOR SUBTROPICAL AFFAIRS: Ana Paz, Timothy Laroque, April Nicole, Rick Moon, Nick County & the Muchas Cosas Band GRAMPS: Man on Man 4/23 AFRO ROOTS @ NORTH BEACH BANDSHELL: Sinkane, Dayme Arocena, Son Mandinga, DJ Lance-O DOGFISH HEAD MIAMI : RSD, Richie Hell Gumbo Limbo Remixes Vinyl Drop, Sweat?... Stout! Can Release, Live Art: Francisca Oyhanarte GRAMPS: ADULT., Body of Light, Kontravoid, Spike Hellis ARTS WAREHOUSE: Warehouse Market Indoor Pop-Up ft. Makers & Creatives RESPECTABLE STREET: Escape The Fate, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus & Violent New Breed 4/24 AFRO ROOTS @ LONG PINE AMP: Everglades Songbook Suite RESPECTABLE STREET: Xavier Wulf
4/26 REVOLUTION LIVE: JXDN 4/27 REVOLUTION LIVE: Jacob Collier FILLMORE MB: Koffee RESPECTABLE STREET: Battle of the Bands 3 4/28 AFRO ROOTS @ GREEN PARROT: Cortadito, Tomas Diaz HOLLYWOOD ARTSPARK: Bela Fleck, Abigail Washburn GRAMPS: Nothing Nowhere, Poorstacy, Carolesdaughter, Guccihighwaters, Snarls 4/29 FILLMORE MB: Beth Hart RESPECTABLE STREET: Intelligent Hip Hop Patio CISCO POP UP: Brett Staska, Fat Spliffs
5/4 NORTHWOOD ART & MUSIC: Big Wednesday Surf Party FPL SOLAR AMP: Rex Orange County NORTH BEACH BANDSHELL: Mor Ve Otesi RESPECTABLE STREET: MC CHRIS 5/5 REVOLUTION LIVE: All That Remains, Miss May I, Varials, Tallah 5/6-8 NORTH BEACH BANDSHELL: Ground Up Music Festival w Snarky Puppy, Spacejam w Kimbra, Emily King, Moonchild, Cory Henry, Louis Cole, Magda Giannikou 5/6 RESPECTABLE STREET: ho99o9, N8noface THE PEACH: Disturbingly Beautiful exhibition w. Jenna Fournier ARTS GARAGE: Ferocious Love
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5/7 FILLMORE MB: Khruangbin THE PEACH: Nervous Monks, Tales from the Hive RESPECTABLE STREET: Bad Luck, Taking Meds, Dollar Signs REVOLUTION LIVE: Dying Fetus, Chelsea Grin, Bodysnatcher, Frozen Soul, Undeath ARTS GARAGE: Ladies of Simone AUNT JENN’S: Another Wild World ft Tina B.
5/3 NORTH BEACH BANDSHELL: Altin Gun FILLMORE MB: Primus, Battles REVOLUTION LIVE: Role Model
5/8 FILLMORE MB: Khruangbin GRAMPS: Torche ARTS GARAGE: The Denise King Quintet
4/30 RESPECTABLE STREET: intimet indie house dance CISCO POP UP: Low Ground, RasPunk
5/9 FPL SOLAR AMP: Haim, Faye Webster 5/10 REVOLUTION LIVE: Dean Lewis 5/11 CULTURE ROOM: The Afghan Whigs 5/12 RESPECTABLE STREET: Hocico, Absinthe of Faith & Missfit Toys 5/13 REVOLUTION LIVE: Earth to Mars (Bruno Mars Trib) RESPECTABLE STREET: SuperGold ARTS GARAGE: Indigenous
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/20 ESOURCE DEPOT: It’s So Nice to See You Artist eception for Caitlin Frown MTN SPACE GALLERY: Lucid Dreams by Gustavo viedo thru June 26 LLMORE MB: Lil Tecca ESPECTABLE STREET: Dan Lee Hip Hop ULTURE ROOM: Candlebox, Hold on Hollywood RTS GARAGE: Warren Wolf Group HINK AMP: The Lumineers
/21 OLLYWOOD ARTSPARK: Afro Roots Fest w Jesus Hidalgo, Gilmar Gomes, Philip Montalban, The Resolvers, Miamibloco, J Le Spam NTN HOLLYWOOD: Hollywood ArtWalk LLMORE MB: Rels B ULTURE ROOM: Candlebox, Hold on Hollywood RAMPS: Mystery Skulls, Su Lee
/22 ESPECTABLE STREET: Front Line Assembly & Rein RTS GARAGE: Alex Cuba OMPANO BCH AMP: Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo
/24 LLMORE MB: Wallows
/25 ESPECTABLE STREET: Hypocrisy, Carach Anren, The Agonist & Hideous Divinity B DRMAWORKS: The Belle of Amherst
/26 EVOLUTION LIVE: Dadju ULTURE ROOM: Stryper
/27 LLMORE MB: Bright Eyes ESPECTABLE STREET: MASS
/28 FRO ROOTS @ FL KEYS BREWING CO.: ohnny Dread, Bad Apples Brass Band ESPECTABLE STREET: Emo Night Brooklyn RAMPS: Plack Blague, SYZYGYX RTS GARAGE: The Matt Schofield Band
/29 FRO ROOTS @ FL KEYS BREWING CO.: uenalo, Javier Garcia EVOLUTION LIVE: Moonshine Bandits ESPECTABLE STREET: 2nd Best 80’s Prom Ever RTS GARAGE: Chris Santiago CHET
/31 EVOLUTION LIVE: Chvrches LLMORE MB: Brit Floyd
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While Dylan had the war in Vietnam to age during this country’s tragic misadven beautiful “Land Locked Blues,” where in b with Emmylou Harris, reciting poignant lyri with-your-lover, with the simple refrain of “
The rage was more frontal in the depressing God,” regarding former President George decisions in consultation with the Almight they drink beer and go play golf,” Oberst q to invade/Which Muslim souls still can be s
Bright Eyes’ first batch of songs in nearly Where the World Once Was,” are laced standalone single, “Miracle of Life,” conta singer Phoebe Bridgers and bassist Flea, O living in an era of back-alley abortions. “Th he said at the time. And while we don’ earnings from “Masters of War,” all procee Planned Parenthood. Bright Eyes perform 8pm Friday May 27 Gleason Theater. thisisbrighteyes.com
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KHRUANGBIN by Olivia Feldman
Texas trio Khruangbin have been festival darlings since their 2015 debut album, “The Universe Smiles Upon You.” But their fans are clearly excited to see them on their own: The mainly-instrumental band’s headlining Miami Beach show in May quickly sold out, leading to a second date with the same result.
Their popularity may not just be due to their sound, which isn’t always easy to define — are they funk? Psychedelic rock? Were they a session band in a previous life? The beautiful thing about Khruangbin isn’t just their smooth funkiness or their effortless blend of psych, soul and dub. It’s that they seem to be able to please multiple audiences while producing a singular, authentic sound. You won’t find many bands who have worked with or opened for Bonobo, Leon Bridges, Massive Attack and Father John Misty — distinct artists with distinct sounds. Yet Khurangbin goes over with fans of all four. KHRUANGBIN
Bassist Laura Lee and guitarist Mark Speer don long black wigs, looking like an eerie yet cool twin brother and sister, while drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson offsets with a shaved head and beard. The result is a group representative of America’s complicated diversity, full of different races and backgrounds, not unlike their music. While “The Universe” gave off clear Thai funk sounds from the get-go, their follow-up, “Con Todo El Mundo,” brought in more Latin rhythms, all while still keeping that psychedelic flow. Though both of these releases were critically admired, music publications were less fond of their third full-length, 2020’s “Mordechai,” which introduced more wispy vocals from Lee. But true fans remain thrilled, and the band is staying on an experimental streak that started with “Mordechai” and a 2020 EP featuring singer Bridges, “Texas Sun,” and continues with this year’s “Texas Moon.” The latter beautifully frames Bridges’ velvety neo-soul vocals with wavy guitar riffs and groovy bass lines. So feel free to tune out the critics and just chill to some Khruangbin in the golden hour. Khruangbin and Toro y Moi perform 8pm Saturday May 7 and Sunday May 8 at the Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater. khruangbin.com
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by David Rolland
n the last decades of the 20th Century was a rite of passage for every folkh singer-songwriter with a modicum of success to be dubbed the next Bob Dylan. At the turn of the century, possibly he last person to be tagged with that weighty handle was Conor Oberst, the ontman and mastermind of Bright Eyes. Nobody’s ever lived up to the expectations 1960s America had, but Oberst and Bright n Dylanesque career repertory: mastering
o sneer at, Bright Eyes came of musical nture in Iraq. Out of that came Oberst’s between the blare of a horn he duetted ics that could be anti-war or anti-fighting“If we walk away, they’ll walk away.”
gly humorous “When the President Talks to e W. Bush’s claim that he made executive ty. “When the President talks to God/Do queried. “While they pick which countries saved?”
a decade, 2020’s “Down in the Weeds, d with further social commentary. But a ains his sharpest barbs. With help from coOberst imagines a poor pregnant woman his song should not exist in 2020 America,” ’t know for sure what Dylan did with his eds from “Miracle of Life” were directed to at the Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie
AFGHAN WHIGS
by Abel Folgar
The toxic relationship at the heart of 1993’s “Gentlemen” cemented the Afghan Whigs as a force majeure of American rock ’n’ roll, and singer-guitarist-songwriter Greg Dulli — author of that harrowing song cycle — as a troubadour of his age. Granted, anyone already paying attention knew this since the Whigs’ 1988 debut, “Big Top Halloween,” and AFGHAN WHIGS had marked them through 1990’s “Up In It” and 1992’s “Congregation” as a true original among flannelled clones. It’s easy to forget that these veteran rockers of Porkopolis — Cincinnati, Ohio’s nickname as a past capital of industrial meat production — were also at the Big Bang of grunge as it murdered the ’80s and ushered in a movement of Pacific Northwestiness and prophetic despair. Unlike many of their peers, however, the Whigs weren’t geography- or genre-bound. Dulli’s lyrics — informed by substance abuse and sexuality but filtered through selfawareness and a sense of humor — elevated the songs. Musically, no band at the time took grunge’s punk and metal influences and injected them with the blues and soul like the Afghan Whigs did. An object of intense, devoted admiration by fans, Dulli left partisans wondering what might have been had he not stepped off in 2001 to pursue a solo decade, and had a 2006 band reunion stuck. But since getting back in earnest, they’ve dropped two thoroughly enjoyable albums, 2014’s “Do to the Beast” and 2017’s “In Spades.” A new single, “I’ll Make You See God,” is an incensed, garage-rock banger that tees up their U.S. tour kick-off in Ft. Lauderdale. (The Whigs have rarely played South Florida.) Featuring new recruit Christopher Thorn, formerly of Blind Melon, on guitar, the standalone track is by Dulli’s own reckoning one of the hardest Whigs tunes ever. It’s also featured on the new PlayStation game Gran Turismo 7. With founding bassist John Curley, drummer Patrick Keeler and multi-instrumentalist Rick Nelson, Afghan Whigs have outlived grunge and blazed on with a consistency and relevancy that does them proud. Afghan Whigs perform 7pm Wednesday May 11 at Culture Room in Ft. Lauderdale. theafghanwhigs.com
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BIKINI KILL by Tim Moffatt
Twenty-five years ago, Bikini Kill called it a day. In many ways their tenure as THE Riot Grrrl pioneers helped to achieve several of their goals. But remedying one problem sometimes means two more spring up in its place; basically, the work is never done. Since their self-imposed sabbatical, the legend of Bikini Kill has only grown, their BIKINI KILL legacy alighting on anyone in need of their version of LGBTQ-friendly, feminist punk rock. Band members carried on either with music or social initiatives, and over time as the world grew around them Bikini Kill became shorthand for Riot Grrrls and feminist ideals in rock and roll. Essentially, they became America’s answer to the Clash — ideological, fierce, focused. The embodiment of punk as a way to color outside the box to make the world a better place. That’s a heavy load to bear for anyone; no wonder they took a break. The America of Reagan-Bush gave way to the Clinton era and ever since the country has ping-ponged between conservative and liberal stewardship, but both with politics arranged to service the needs of corporate campaign donors first. Bands like Bikini Kill teach us that we don’t have to listen to the talking heads (small “t,” small “h,” meaning pundits and no disrespect to the awesome capital “T,” capital “H” band). We own our destinies. We can take our futures into our own hands, and live out radical dissent in ways no influencer or public relations consultant can manufacture. Giving people a cause to rally to happens organically. Inspiring others to join comes from commitment: leading by example and taking the hits that come from planting your feet and saying, “No, you move.” The reunited Bikini Kill continue the tradition of standing for something through their work, on this tour by supporting Interfaith Works Nightly Shelter, a homeless services program in the Pacific Northwest aiding women and LGBT single adults. Bikini Kill play the Ground in Miami, 7pm Friday May 27 with Glass Body, and 11pm Saturday May 28 with Las Nubes. bikinikill.com
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One path back to the kind of local life that bec the pandemic is through the arts. Enter, organiza Beach County and one of its newer regional initia Culture, a.k.a. MOSAIC.
The taxpayer- and donor-funded Cultural Counc the creation and presentation of art, entertain The Cultural Council has a hand in everything fro nonprofit’s five-year-old MOSAIC campaign feels
MOSAIC is spending May inviting people to get their own backyard. To make these sojourns eve incentives and discounts on everything from art e destinations including the Flagler Museum, Moun Lighthouse & Museum participating.
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Alongside visitor gifts and BOGO or two-for-o passes, there will be special programming an attractions throughout the month. Local hotels a also on board, with breaks during May on roo rates available to both tourists and neighbors need of a staycation.
There’s more at work here than just promoting arts and good vibes. The Cultural Council’s communications manager, Hann Deadman-Arnst, tells PureHoney that MOSAIC is critical today in helping local cultural organizations recoup an estimated $3 million in economic activity lost to the pandemic. The campaign is part of a larger effort to help local cultural tourism thrive. W inflation and rising gas prices cutting into household budgets, Palm Beachers and others might also appreciate the discounts.
The annual event began in 2018 as a way to draw cultural tourists during the summer “shoulder season,” traditionally a slow time of the year with fewer visitors. (MOSAIC is especially promoted in “drive markets” considered reasonably accessible by c including Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville and Atlanta.)
“Now that we are into 2022, we have people excited to get back out there and experience it fully,” Deadman-Arnst says. “The are more exhibition openings and different new seasons from cultural organizations. It’s feeling busier again.” PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS
MOSAIC is in some ways a product of pure brainstorming: Council staff sit down with local b come up with workable, win-win promotions. Deadman-Arnst says the Council is seeing rep and everyone involved understands they’re doing more than just queuing up discounts culture in the destination as a whole,” she says.
This year, MOSAIC is also partnering with Palm Beach County-based illustrator, graphic produce the celebration’s campaign artwork, called “Colors of Home.” Also availab practically vibrates with local iconography, not least the adorable pink flamingo pool float that is doing extra duty as a standalone logo on the MOSAIC homepage. It’s an affectionate rendering of “the many things Palm Beach County has to offer, such as murals, lighthouses and outdoor experiences,” says Deadman-Arnst, who adds, “The campaign artwork is an opportunity to feature a local artist and showcase their work to a larger audience. It’s great for us and great for our local artist community.”
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Among MOSAIC 2022’s cultural offerings: a free gift, such as a 1,000-piece Florida East Coast Railway jigsaw puzzle, from the Flagler Museum with the purchase of one general admission weekday ticket; 15 percent off dolphin tours with the Taras Oceanographic Foundation; $15 off tickets for performances of “The Belle of Amherst at Palm Beach Dramaworks; and a variety of discounted ticket offers for kids and grownups at the Cox Science Center and Aquarium.
Sign up for the MOSAIC email list for a full list of discounted offerings, stay updated with social tags @palmbeachculture, #palmbeachculture and #MOSAICPBC, and then go have a great hometown reunion.
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GOGOL BORDELLO
by Tim Moffatt
Gogol Bordello are gypsy punks who found one another in a pre-9/11 downtown New York that welcomed itinerants with talent, ideas and remarkable backstories — like that of the band’s co-founder and frontman, GOGOL BORDELLO Eugene Hütz, a Ukrainian refugee from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident who is now confronting another horror in his birthplace. With a shifting lineup, and members hailing from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, singer-guitarist Hütz and a core of long-tenured mates including Russian-born violinist Sergey Ryabtsev have created something that speaks to different people in different ways. Gogol Bordello enjoy cult status as the providers of both incidental music and character inspiration for “Wristcutters: A Love Story,” a surrealist indie comedy from 2006 that starred Tom Waits. Hütz, an actor himself, has even higher-brow pedigree from starring in 2005’s “Everything Is Illuminated,” adapted from an acclaimed novel. Yet Gogol Bordello didn’t turn up their noses when the music supervisors for 2018’s “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation,” came calling. They’re a good-time party band traipsing across the globe, indoctrinating people with their infectious world music meets gypsy punk vibe. And they’ve always had an underdog’s fighting spirit. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the band wrote and released “Teroborona,” which opens as a martial dirge and then turns into a defiant scorcher of a track — sung in Ukrainian — lauding the besieged country’s “teroborona,” its civil defense forces. The lyrical translation includes the lines, “We were slaughtered, starved and beaten/But Ukraine lives on,” and a hearty, “Hey-Hey! Get the Fuck Off!!!” to finish. Meanwhile, Ryabtsev posted a video in Russian appealing to his compatriots to oppose the invasion in all its barbarity. After two years of being cooped up it should be nothing but joy for these nomadic melody makers to return to the road. But the tour coincides with events demanding their attention. The band’s web site now offers reading and outlets for Ukraine aid, and on tour Gogol Bordello are mobilizing audiences to help any way they can. Gogol Bordello play 7pm Monday May 16 at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale. gogolbordello.com
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CHVRCHES by David Rolland
The newest album by the Scottish electro pop trio Chvrches, “Screen Violence” is a bit of a slow burn. It takes a few songs before you fully submerge into its neo-goth soundscape. Right from the top though you can hear ‘80s art pop influences clearly. There are hints of the danceable synth grooves of Depeche Mode and singer Lauren Mayberry occasionally delves into a dreamy Cocteau Twins register.
CHVRCHES By the time you get to the great fifth track, “How Not to Drown,” you figure at first the male guest vocalist is just singing in a voice that pays tribute to The Cure. But as the song continues, you realize holy moly that really is Robert Smith joining in the duet.
Turns out The Cure front man is now almost an honorary member of Chvrches. Beyond the guest vocals on “How Not to Drown” Smith played guitar on their singles “The Mother We Share” and “Clearest Blue.” He has also randomly shown up on stage at a couple of Chvrches gigs to not only sing his part in “How Not to Drown,” but also to lead them in a rendition of The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.” But even if Smith doesn’t make the hop across the pond for their South Florida show, Chvrches are a worthy headliner for a night out. The driving beats in the quartet of albums they’ve put out over the last nine years are great dance floor fuel. Or if you prefer music to hit you more introspectively, Chvrches can also take you on an aural tour through your own headspace with the crisp production by Mayberry and bandmates Iain Cook and Martin Doherty. Though they already sounded fully formed with their 2013 debut, “The Bones of What You Believe,” there has been an interesting evolution throughout the course of their discography. As polished as they always sounded, the newest record features a band confident that listeners will be patient to go along with them on this ride. Chvrches play 7pm Tuesday May 31 at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale. chvrch.es
ALTIN GUN by Amanda E. Moore & Sean Piccoli
A talk with Jasper Verhulst of Altin Gün is like a trip through record-store infinity. The boundless music collection inside Verhulst’s head powers the band’s unexpected sound: a Dutch-made transformation of public-domain Turkish folk music into psych-rock and synth-pop art.
The Grammy-nominated Eurasian sextet — “Gold makeup trek. Dates include a first-ever Florida stop the canny concert promoters at The Rhythm Foun playing their music nonstop in our offices,” says the
Speaking to PureHoney a week before the band in California, Verhulst describes modest but telling collection, but nothing exotic,” he says. “I grew music.” Though his parents weren’t musicians, Verh listening traveled — there was a Top 40 phase — h
Along the way, the young Dutchman found a se singer and guitarist Selda Bağcan. An iconoclastic a defiant, confessional power. She sang as if throu and blown-amp guitars. It was unlike anything Ve Turkish album of all time,” he says.
In Amsterdam in 2016, Verhulst recruited new m developing musical vision and do another thing h their niche playing garage-band versions of traditio questions — love, death, life,” Verhulst says, noting don’t translate well.”
A global fan base nevertheless took root. Acco album “Gece.” Turks themselves hailed these D followed until Covid-19 put off further U.S. inroads
Back home, band members found that physical se instruments and ideas. The result was two albums, in 2021, marking a departure from their trance-y A a new wave atmosphere abound. The music is as with a mesmerizing ’80s bop on songs such as “ Merve Daşdemir
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That expansion might filter into the band’s Florida opening set of — his words — “eclectic global gro of Verhulst’s solitary crating and collating, it’s cle live band. Freed from lockdown, Verhulst says th tour’s vitality: “We are returning to the studio to c albums.”
What he doesn’t foresee changing is his wonderm to me,” he says, “even though I have been playin
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d’s rescheduled Coachella festival debut g origins. “My dad had a really big record w up listening to The Beatles and reggae hulst briefly took up drums at age six. As his he later picked up guitar and finally bass.
elf-titled debut album by ‘70s Turkish folk figure from the near East, Bağcan wielded ugh a spiritualized haze over plucked lutes erhulst had ever heard. “It’s still my favorite
musicians to help execute his self-taught, he couldn’t: sing in Turkish. Altin Gün found onal songs with lyrics posing “philosophical g, “Most of the songs are very poetic, but
olades piled up for their 2019 sophomore Dutch revivalists. North American dates including Coachella.
eparation encouraged tinkering with new , “Yol’’ and “Âlem,” released in that order Anatolian rock. Heavy electro sounds and s immersive — and Turkish — as ever, now “Yüce Dağ Başında,” sung by bandmate r with a playful spark.
l impossible after “Yol” came out. “So o release a charity album and donate protect nature,” Verhulst says. For each urchased, the organization EarthToday sets meter of land as part of the Nature Needs iversity campaign.
of diversity, consider this band’s listening have a soft spot for the sounds of the ’60s, ’ Verhulst says. On tour, “We listen to a lot e van,” he says. Verhulst isn’t entirely joking that his influences stop at 1985. “I am a ector,” he says, “but I don’t collect just I want every record to mean something been listening to ’90s house pop with a the ‘90s to what I collect.”
debut where Verhulst plans to solo-DJ an oovy cosmic synth pop disco.” And for all ear that Altin Gün consider themselves a heir next album will be imprinted with this create live — the opposite of the past two
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ADAM SHEETZ by Amanda E. Moore
Cities across America, for better or worse, have catchphrases. “The City That Never Sleeps.” “Keep Austin Weird.” “What Happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” They have different origins — a writer’s description, a critique of overdevelopment, an ad campaign — and based on the latest county marketing efforts here in the Palm Beaches, it has clearly Been Decided that this region needs a tagline of its own. Whether or not the winning entry — “The Original, The One, The Only” — will resonate past the next marketing cycle is tough to know. But we’ll posit that especially in the county’s urban core, in the city of West Palm Beach, there is a peculiar local energy that exists nowhere else and has to be experienced to be understood. One person contributing to that sense of a small city with a bigger, grittier city’s vibe is Adam Sheetz. If you haven’t yet met the 30-year-old self taught artist, musician and graphic designer, you have probably seen his work. Sheetz’s prints are seemingly everywhere in multiple forms: building renderings, gig posters, album art, wall murals, holiday ornaments. Papering and decorating West Palm since his early 20s, he’s helped to give it a low-key electric grunge aesthetic that’s hard to capture in a slogan.
Sheetz, the Subculture Group featured artist for May, started making a mark on his surroundings doing design and decor for a local restaurant group — wall finishes, artwork, table tops, light fixtures, chair fabrics, branding and menu designs. On the side he sang and played guitar in a local rock duo, the GutterTones. After about a decade of commercial art and design, he said, “I had reached a point where I felt I had plateaued as a designer, and knew it was time to take the leap and go out on my own.” He opened a boutique agency, No 9 Creative, in West Palm Beach in the midst of the pandemic. It offers personalized branding, typeface design, illustration, print and packaging, environmental design and digital campaigns. Launched in November of 2020, the firm through its name and stylized numerical logo references elements of Sheetz’s own life and philosophy. As a youthful baseball player he wore the number 9. The circular crown suggests a cycle — the completion of one phase and the beginning of another. The lightning bolt stem declares his design style clean, controlled chaos. A phrase usually attributed to Pablo Picasso goes, “Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.” There is plenty of this earned rule-breaking in Sheetz’s own work. He draws inspiration from experimentalists such as Picasso, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and binds it to the guiding influence of his three favorite designers: Paula Scher, Neville Brody and David Carson. The result, as seen around the corridors and byways of West Palm Beach, is work that captures and defines an attitudinal, creative poise. Being a musician as well as an artist, it makes sense that his repertoire extends to gig posters. He’s illustrated area concert dates by artists including Jack White, Amigo the Devil, Bodysnatcher, Koffin Kats, Madball NYC and Teenage Bottlerocket. Regulars at Respectable Street and at weekly events on Clematis Street are often viewing Sheetz’s work, possibly without even knowing it. He’s left a trail of creative expression down the 500 Block, having designed Respectable’s Camp Trashfire graphics, painted Halloween playmate zombies on the doors of Lost Weekend, and produced the renderings for Lost Weekend’s new neighbor, The Hacienda. While his street art travels, and his design firm thrives, Sheetz is also taking on a more direct role in promoting arts and culture in West Palm Beach. With photographer Bryon Miller, Sheetz is a co-owner of Studio 6 at The Peach, a gallery row occupying a set of converted garage bays in West Palm’s older industrial fringe. Their hangar hosts film screenings, performances, exhibitions and talks by visiting artists (May 6 Jenna Fournier) from across the country, and more. If the region is going to live up to its shiny new catchphrase, or graduate to an even better one, it may be thanks to efforts like these. Follow Adam Sheetz at @adamsheetzart on Instagram, no9creative.com and thepeachwpb.com/artist/studio-number-six/
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HO9909 by Abel Folgar
If one were to peek at the work of lauded music photographer Glen E. Friedman – with zero knowledge of the world beyond the images – it wouldn’t be farfetched to think that punk rock and hip-hop were easy bedfellows. While both tribes charted futures in line with their aesthetically different agendas, they have always shared a volatile, rebellious creative spark.
HO99O9 So when an outfit like Ho99o9 makes it to the decade mark, hip-hoppers and punks alike can rejoice knowing that two kings from Newark, New Jersey heard the call and responded. Pronounced “horror,” in case the flipped 666 threw you off, the duo of Eaddy and theOGM have been rebranding youthful anger and positive release since discovering punk rock in their late teens.
It’s accurate enough to say Ho99o9 blend the DIY ethos and extremism of punk rock with hip-hop’s raw energy and production know-how. But the truth is more about taking it back in time to the early days Friedman catalogued, to the exact moment the tribes diverged, and forging an entwined path to now. Their 2015 debut album, “Dead Bodies in the Lake,” was a concise, under-30-minute missile of pisstivity and laid the groundwork for a richly layered and abrasive follow-up, 2017’s “United States of Horror.” The latter recalls the visceral distrust of MDC, the psychedelics of the Butthole Surfers, the prescience of Dead Prez and Ministry’s anguish. Ho99o9’s latest, “Skin,“ is already revving the rage engines since it dropped in March. Live, Ho99o9 have gone full nontraditional: redefining rules at the Afropunk Festival, popping the Faygo two-liters at the Gathering of the Juggalos, putting the hurt on British Papa Roach fans (who they were touring with). Shit, they’ve even been kicked off the Warped Tour. They are intense in the sweaty way a crowded punk show or a freestyling cypher with street cred on the line should be. They’re the reason you jumped into your first mosh pit or told a cop to fuck off. Ho99o9 perform w/ N8NOFACE 8pm Friday, May 6 at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. ho99o9.com