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The actual recording process for Public Sound’s debut album took months, but for the West Palm Beach-based brass band, creating an LP from scratch was almost six years in the making. Their efforts will show at the group’s upcoming release party for “Irregular Prime.”

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Listening to “Funky See Funky Do,” the first single, it is evident that each band member is classically trained. It took cofounder Markis Hernandez years to find musicians with the discipline to perfect their playing and align their vision with his.

Hernandez, a flute and sax man and Port St. Lucie native, bounced around Broward and Palm Beach counties before studying music during a stint at Florida Atlantic University. After mostly playing covers with Chris Patsis on electric bass and Kevin Cripanuk on trombone and percussion, they decided it was time to start playing music they really loved. Other musicians from the region’s abundant talent pool have helped Hernandez find the right combination to create something special: They include Elijah Gee on keyboards and vocoder, Christian Davis on drums, and Trey Dark and Harley Galeano on drums.

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The process in which the group was able to record its first LP is a testament to South Florida’s collaborative and supportive musical community: A mutual friend got the band into City of Progress, the Miami recording studio of Andrew Yeomanson, better known as DJ Le Spam; and Lorenzo Lindo of JM and the Sweets jumped in to mix the album after Hernandez reached out. Although rehearsals took quite a bit of time and perfection, Hernandez found each step of recording to be relatively smooth.

The album title comes from the complex time signatures used in many of the group’s songs, and these certainly make for catchy arrangements. Mixing brass band music with smooth jazz and funky keyboard riffs reminiscent of Chicago in the early 1970s, Public Sounds have managed to unite jam band fans and jazz audiophiles. Count on the group will bring funk and flair to its hometown record release party to celebrate a worthy accomplishment.

Public Sounds perform 8pm Friday October 18 at Voltaire in West Palm Beach with special guests The Mona Lisa Tribe. publicsoundscollective .com ~ Olivia Feldman

ADAM ANT PLAYS FILLMORE MB Heartbreaker. Hussar. Pirate. War-painted dandy of imagined frontiers. Mental health advocate. In five decades of making music while looking like an asylumescapee Napoleon impersonator, Adam Ant has managed an enviable career that eluded many of his peers from the eras of first wave British punk, New Wave/ New Romantics and post-punk.

The dreamy heartthrob, born Stuart Goddard, owes a lot of this longevity to the merit of his musical capabilities and keen sense of theatrics. With a luddite’s zeal, Ant’s lifelong appreciation of history has informed his work, elevating it from seemingly cartoonish punk origins to bona fide pop glory. He’s endured without becoming a relic or a pastiche of his past while earning his cultural impact with hard work.

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Though it might not seem that he’s been particularly “hard at work” musically, Ant’s now 40-odd year struggle with bipolar disorder being much to blame for periods of inactivity, he has however taken up the mantle of advocacy and turned sporadically to work in theatrical and small screen productions. In 2010, Ant experienced a resurgence in his musical work, brought on by Michael Jackson’s passing, and has maintained a steady touring schedule since while releasing 2013’s “Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter” and announced another, “Bravest of the Brave,” slated for a 2020 release.

2017’s tour focused on a live rendition of 1980’s “Kings of the Wild Frontier” and this year, he’ll be finalizing his tour of 1982’s “Friend or Foe,” his first break into the American charts, at the iconic Fillmore Miami Beach. Antmaniacs can expect somewhat faithful renditions of “Goody Two Shoes,” “Desperate but Not Serious,” and the title track as early tour reviews indicate the absence of a brass section but the inclusion of multiple percussionists.

Does it matter though? Ant’s stage presence is the real show and his concerts tend to go on the long side well beyond “Friend or Foe”; he’ll be rocking hits and rarities from his large catalogue. Your challenge will be to stay still or even worse: Decide between one long white line across the nose or multicolor swaths on just one cheek.

Adam Ant performs 8pm Tuesday October 1 at the Fillmore Miami Beach. adam-ant.com ~ Abel Folgar

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NERVOUS MONKS EP RELEASE Music exists so overwhelmingly now in the borderless vacuum of the Web, it is bracing to have a reminder of geography — of place — as emphatic as the one that Pompano Beach’s Nervous Monks provide on their Facebook page, under the heading of “Influences.”

The list that follows is not the typical namechecking of famous bands that signify impeccable taste because, as frontman Brady Newbill tells PureHoney in an interview, “Anybody can go back and say they were influenced by New Order.”

Nervous Monks — Newbill, Vitek Benton (guitar), Adam Camarena (drums) and Timothy Hicks (bass) — instead credit the people in their backyard: friends, bandmates, collaborators, and hometown acts that BRADY NEWBILL provided inspiration and refuge. The list ranges OF NERVOUS MONKS from singer-songwriter-bandleaders including John Ralston, Lindsey Mills and Mr. Entertainment to the regional punk summit of Shark Valley Sisters and locally legendary sonic crushers Postface.

“We all know kind of each other from that world,” Newbill says. Indie mainstays Sweet Bronco, which Newbill played in, also appear on the list, and the connection is doubly meaningful because that band’s founder and frontman, Chris Horgan, recorded the Monks’ new six-track EP, “View From a Softer High.”

Newbill (who hosts PureHoney’s “Honey Talks” music podcast) produced the band’s four-song debut 2018 on his own. He let Horgan run the board this time out because, he said, “Most of what I know about producing an album and arranging songs, I picked up from playing in Chris’s band.”

The result is a bigger, more atmospheric record — wistful and reflective in places, as when Newbill sings, “We were both dreamers” on “Shadowflame.” But on balance it feels more immediate and uncontained, full of auditory layers and stereophonic twists and turns like the strange, sound-warping coda to the first single, “Ride The Sky.” One could believably assign Nervous Monks non-local, “name” influences such as My Bloody Valentine and Echo & the Bunnymen. As Newbill sings on “Post Monk,” “Anything is music here that’s golden and divine.”

But the beauty of “Softer High” also lies in hearing it as the product of its place.

Nervous Monks play a release party for “View From a Softer High” 9pm Saturday October 12 at Laser Wolf in Fort Lauderdale with special guests Haute Tension. nervousmonks.bandcamp.com ~ Sean Piccoli

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LOLA TRIED (AUSTIN, TX) From the gender-identity woes discussed by the Kinks, stage personas of Irish courtesans, romantic triangles in the hottest spot north of Havana and the excesses of want as performed on Broadway — one thing is for sure: Lola Tried.

The Austin, Texas power pop quartet formed in the summer of 2015 have become one of the hottest bands in a highly competitive music town.

Fronted by the charismatic singerLOLA TRIED songwriter Lauren Burton, backed by guitarist and keyboardist Ray Garza, and the rhythm section of Ray Flint and Greg Spencer, drums and bass respectively; Lola Tried bring more than effort to the stage.

Influenced by acts like New Yorkers Lemuria, Philly’s Swearin’ and Austin’s own punkers A Giant Dog — a band that a teen-aged Burton snuck in to 21-and-over shows to see — Lola Tried marry the best of indie rock with pop punk. They create a sound that is both danceable and hard enough to mean business. Burton is a confident yet enigmatic ringleader, and much of the band’s success can be attributed to her energy.

In charting their own DIY course, Lola Tried have also shaken off rock’s habitual gender stereotyping. The result on record is two empowered-sounding works: an acclaimed five song EP, 2017’s “Popsicle Queen,” and 2018’s self-titled full-length.

Burton’s diaristic approach to songwriting took lead in the EP, a project she began before joining with Garza, Flint and Spencer, setting a base for the album’s more collaborative effort. Musically, there might be a bit more of gloss and sheen to the ten tracks therein, but the garage roughness lies beneath. Their great cover of “Seriously” provides a change of pace and is a nice nod to fellow Austinites Polly Mackey & the Pleasure Principle.

Lola Tried also bring it live, taking energetic leaps from their recorded canon to create the kinds of memorable musical experiences that captivated Burton during her teen years. Touring with bands including Speedy Ortiz and Rozwell Kid has taken them out of the tightly knit Austin scene and across America. This is a band paying forward the power of music.

Lola Tried perform 8pm Wednesday October 30 at Voltaire in West Palm Beach with Electric Supply Co., Heller Floor, Bitter Blue Jays and Coral Canyons. lolatried.com ~ Abel Folgar

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1

FILLMORE MIAMI BEACH: Adam Ant

REVOLUTION LIVE: Bad Suns with Liily & Ultra Q ARTS GARAGE: Comedy Night CHURCHILLS PUB: Teen Divorce, Las Nubes, Sans Pices, Handsome Thing KILL YOUR IDOL: Open Jam

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2

VOLTAIRE: Nu Vibez: DJ Vanderpol, Beezy, Tay Drummond, Juice Stacks, Ronson, Bonjour Benny, Lurlz DADA: The Wild Hunt / Smoke & Mirrors KILL YOUR IDOL: Sofilla CHURCHILLS PUB: Drop out of life, Handelsman, Fang Daddy, Calnepuelco, Dividends, Bitterlake, Sumo, Duex Pooch

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3

VOLTAIRE: Calentura: DJ Gabo & Nico, Latin Dance Fusion MATHEWS BREWING CO.: Girlfriend Material Duo C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Sierra Lane KILL YOUR IDOL: Colossal Karaoke RESPECTABLE STREET: Ladies Night ARTS GARAGE: Poetry Open Mic Night KELSEY THEATER: It Takes a Village Tour : a Night of Hip-Hop

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4

VOLTAIRE: Seafoam Walls, Soul Particles

RESPECTABLE STREET: Kelen Heller, Helivs, Lochness Monster CHURCHILL’S PUB: Jacuzzi Boys, Weak Signal, Caveman Cult DADA: The State Of REVOLUTION LIVE: Sabaton with Hammerfall C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Joey Calderaio MATHEWS BREWING CO.: Spider Cherry GREEN BAR & KITCHEN: Misty Grotto BREWHOUSE GALLERY: The Cravens KELSEY THEATER: Master Hypnotist Gary Conrad ARTS GARAGE: Milieu Art Exhibit Opening, Selwyn Birchwood

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5

HULLABALOO: Boston Marriage REVOLUTION LIVE: Nirvanna – A Tribute to Nirvana C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Marcus Amaya MATHEWS BREWING CO.: Spred the Dub HOWLIN OWL: The Cravens VOLTAIRE: Jetsetter Nights: Bex, Kasha, H-Bomb DADA: No Name Ska Band KILL YOUR IDOL: Bermuda Beach ROBOT BREWING CO: Sonic Sounds Saturday KELSEY THEATER: Completely Unchained Van Halen & Kiss Alive CHURCHILLS PUB: Phlebotomy with Laboratory, Lexis Wycked, Dj Rippin Kittin, Dj Wulfgar, Dj Rat 7am BREWHOUSE GALLERY: The Shareholders ARTS GARAGE: Roman Street

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6

C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Nyne2Five (A.M.) / Funk Brunch (P.M.) DADA: Karaoke KILL YOUR IDOL: Gameshow Sundays ROBOT BREWING CO: Poetry Open Mic Rob Brantley vs mrRey vs Phil Stein ARTS GARAGE: The Wolfepak Band BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Blues Jam

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7

DADA: Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Drag Mondays CHURCHILLS PUB: Miami Jazz Jam

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8

REVOLUTION LIVE: Black Label Society, Black Dahlia Murder, Alien Weaponry DADA: Comedy Open Mic

VOLTAIRE: LIVE REVOLUTION LIVE: Nahko and Medicine for the People, Nattali Rize DADA: Boris Simeonov KILL YOUR IDOL: Jeremy & The Clones

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10

RESPECTABLE STREET: AL1CE, Obsidian, The Covenne

MATHEWS BREWING CO.:Latin Night – Tairon Aguilera C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN:Bobby Lee Rodgers VOLTAIRE: Calentura: DJ Arce, Latin Dance Fusion ARTS GARAGE: Hip Hop Revolution: Back to Basics KELSEY THEATER: Jokes on You Comedy Tour CHURCHILLS PUB: Tuff Tuff, Donzii, Akin Mannequinn, DJ Rippin Kittin

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11

VOLTAIRE: FALL BEAT BASH ft Radical Phoenixx, Gareth Johnson, Elements the Brand, Matt Brown, Monty, King Kaleeb, Mike SB, Dramanitra, DJ BuddaflyWolf, Zeo Zeo, Bryce Sunee

C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Spider Cherry DADA: Moon Kaboom KILL YOUR IDOL: Subterranean Sounds RESPECTABLE STREET: GenX – Underground Rave Retrospective MATHEWS BREWING CO.: Stall 4 REVOLUTION LIVE: Taking Back Sunday with Red City Radio GREEN BAR & KITCHEN: Mac Coe ROBOT BREWING CO: Not Spices, Army Gideon ARTS GARAGE: Carli Munoz Trio TIM FINNEGANS IRISH PUB: The Black Donnellys KELSEY THEATER: The Vagina Monologues CHURCHILLS PUB: Rick Fantasies & DJ Woozels

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12

LASER WOLF: Nervous Monks (EP Release), Haute Tension

RESPECTABLE STREET: Girls Only, Jenna’s Side Salad, Royal Hearts DADA: Of One Mind VOLTAIRE: Yum Yum DJs HULLABALOO: Holy Dances KILL YOUR IDOL: Breaks Yo! C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Homegrown Sinners REVOLUTION LIVE: Taking Back Sunday with Red City Radio ARTS GARAGE: Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials MATHEWS BREWING CO.: Crazy Fingers HOWLIN OWL: Mary Washington Band KELSEY THEATER: Rocky Horror Picture Show

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13

DADA: Karaoke RESPECTABLE STREET: Wolves Pigs & Sheep AWA NA LOUNGE: Peter Pepper, Seizure Machine, John Wheeler, Iko Iko ROBOT BREWING CO: Storytelling Slam C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Funk Brunch (P.M.) ARTS GARAGE: JD Danner O’MALLEY’S: Warbinger & Enforcer CHURCHILLS PUB: Miami Girls Rock Camp Showcase

MONDAY, OCTOBER 14

DADA: Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Drag Mondays BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Chris O’Leary Band & The Brew Hoppers

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15

RESPECTABLE STREET: Twin Temple, Amigo The Devil, King Dude DADA: Comedy Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Open Jam

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16

REVOLUTION LIVE: Oliver Tree with Tommy Cash & Nvdes VOLTAIRE: Dirty Laundry Comedy

DADA: Nick Garnett KILL YOUR IDOL: Holy Dances CHURCHILLS PUB: Transcendental Blues Night BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Brew Hoppers Band

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17

LAS ROSAS: Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Timothy Eerie, Donzii, Electric Supply Company

C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Mac Coe VOLTAIRE: Calentura: I95 Band, DJ Gabo & Nico, Latin Dance Fusion REVOLUTION LIVE: Coheed and Cambria, Astronoid, Contortionist KILL YOUR IDOL: Colossal Karaoke ARTS GARAGE: 3rd Thursday: Art Meets Music MATHEWS BREWING CO.: Adonis of Guavatron Solo KELSEY THEATER: Ghost Hunt

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18

VOLTAIRE: Public Sounds Collective Release w Mona Lisa Tribe

C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Nyne2Five FILLMORE MIAMI BEACH: Rainbow Randy REVOLUTION LIVE: Bea Miller with Kah-lo MATHEWS BREWING CO.: Beautiful Disaster DADA: RAGA KILL YOUR IDOL: AmericanGrime O’MALLEY’S: Slaughter To Prevail, Bodysnatcher, Orthodox, Prison GREEN BAR & KITCHEN: Marcus Amaya LAS ROSAS: Juan Waters KELSEY THEATER: The Gross Media Freakshow ROBOT BREWING CO: Between Bluffs ARTS GARAGE: Centennial Celebration for Jose Fajardo: ft the Jose Fajardo Jr. Orchestra CHURCHILLS PUB: Captured By Robots BREWHOUSE GALLERY: The Wavelengths

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19

FILLMORE MIAMI BEACH: Banks RESPECTABLE STREET: Emo Night Brooklyn VOLTAIRE: Dunright presents Roo, Lukaas, Sips, The Message DADA: Red Light Motel HULLABALOO: The Ricca Project KILL YOUR IDOL: Keep It Deep MATHEWS BREWING CO.: Guavatron C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Spred the Dub HOWLIN OWL: Aldo Merchant O’MALLEY’S: Mystery Skulls, Phangs BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Sons of a Tradesmen, Rust Market

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20

C.W.S. BAR: Marcus Amaya (A.M.) / Funk Brunch (P.M.) LAS ROSAS: Making Movies DADA: Karaoke O’MALLEY’S: Capstan, Rarity, Never Kept ROBOT BREWING CO: Sick Puppies Improv Comedy ARTS GARAGE: Joyann Parker BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Blues Jam

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21

CHURCHILLS PUB: Miami Jazz Jam DADA: Open Mic

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22

REVOLUTION LIVE: X Ambassadors with Bear Hands & LPX CHURCHILLS PUB: Mchale Narrowhead, Spirit & the Cosmic Heart, Ta Bien DADA: Comedy Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Open Jam

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23

VOLTAIRE: RAW: a night of Sushi, Soul & Sexy KELSEY THEATER: Knocked Loose, Stick To Your Guns, Rotting Out CHURCHILLS PUB: Dark No Wave DADA: Sierra Lane KILL YOUR IDOL: Nicholle Chirino

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24

FILLMORE MIAMI BEACH: Rap Caviar MATHEWS BREWING CO.: Justin Jeffrey’s Solo CRAZY UNCLE MIKES: JP Soars KELSEY THEATER: Hocus Pocus KILL YOUR IDOL: Colossal Karaoke CHURCHILLS PUB: All Folk’d Up Bob Dylan

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

VOLTAIRE: Coming Home Drunk, A Night of Local Legends w Sons of a Tradesman, Heller Floor, Spred the Dub, Bitter Blue Jays, The GutterTones MATHEWS BREWING CO.: The Flyers C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Exigent DADA: Big Chief REVOLUTION LIVE: Sabrina Claudio with Gallant ARTS GARAGE:Paul Marinaro CHURCHILLS PUB: Mold, A Fucking Bug, Pavlovs Bell, Las Nubes, Womanhose BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Rio Peterson & Josh Rene KELSEY THEATER: Hocus Pocus

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26

DNTN WPB: MOONFEST VOLTAIRE: MOONFEST MASS

MATHEWS BREWING CO.: Girlfriend Material C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Spider Cherry DADA: Nistar HULLABALOO: Markis Hernandez Trio KILL YOUR IDOL: The Wire REVOLUTION LIVE: Yung Gravy with SavageRealm & TIIIIIIIIIIP HOWLIN OWL: North Band ROBOT BREWING CO: Comedy Show ARTS GARAGE: Moonlight Thief Returns CHURCHILLS PUB: The Mentors BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Abby Owens & Andi Styron KELSEY THEATER: Psychic Medium Jeffrey Wands, 90’s Tributes Gunz N’Rosez & STILL ALIVE Pearl Jam

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27

MATHEWS BREWING CO.: Almonte Solo C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Mike Garulli (A.M.) / Funk Brunch (P.M.) DADA: Karaoke KILL YOUR IDOL: Gameshow Sundays ARTS GARAGE: Artur Menezes

MONDAY, OCTOBER 28

REVOLUTION LIVE: Clairo with Hello Yello & Beabadoobee CHURCHILLS PUB: Miami Jazz Jam DADA: Open Mic

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29

FILLMORE MIAMI BEACH: Bring Me the Horizon ARTS GARAGE: Jam Session DADA: Comedy Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Open Jam

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30

VOLTAIRE: Lola Tried, Electric Supply Co, Heller Floor, Bitter Blue Jays, Coral Canyons DADA: Glenn & Eden KILL YOUR IDOL: The Cattlefish Fritter, Grinder 6 RESPECTABLE STREET: The Basement Presents

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31

MATHEWS BREWING CO.: B-side Band DADA: The Haunt KILL YOUR IDOL: Colossal Karaoke RESPECTABLE STREET: Halloween Party VOLTAIRE: Young Bobby, ArielBlak, Songs from Space, Latin Dance CRAZY UNCLE MIKES: Tand ROBOT BREWING CO: Brolife Halloween Bash CHURCHILLS PUB: Rat Bastards Halloween Classic

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1

VOLTAIRE: Transkam (Japan), Grima, Violet C.W.S. BAR + KITCHEN: Mitch Herrick VOLTAIRE: Calentura: DJ Gabo & Nico, DJ BeatKnox, Latin Dance Fusion Silhouette, Soul Particles

AL1CE PLAYS RESPECTABLE STREET Some people dream of being creators and others find a way to make outlets for their creations.

AL1CE, from Los Angeles, do both with an entrepreneurial, Burning Man kind of spirit: They’re a mobile encampment of lights, sound and spectacle.

Originally conceived as an additional musical outlet for Gordon Bash, Tash Cox and Scott Landes, — members of the band Mankind is Obsolete — the founding AL1CE trio AL1CE wanted to bring their love for new wave and electronic music to life. A collaboration with Sypher Arts Studios, an artist collective that puts on the massive Labyrinth Masquerade Ball in LA, helped to crystallize their vision.

“This collaboration would set the foundation for AL1CE to become the musical part of an immersive show,” they explain in their bio. Over time the trio added Sasha Travis, Steve Kefalas, Jesse DeSanto and Nathan Trowbridge.

Travis, with a background of filmmaking and theater, became director of a novel project: new music videos to be released every full moon for 14 months. The clips that dropped with every turn of the lunar cycle in a stretch of 2017-2018 were dubbed “Moondrops,” and the songs were then collectively released as “The Thirteenth Hour,” the album the band is currently supporting on tour. The music and videos were in turn the basis for a feature length film of surrealist horror with elements of sci-fi, “The Thirteenth Hour Anthology,” weaving the “Moondrop” videos into a story.

Besides the impressive feats of multi-media creation and nonstop touring, the group serves as cultural envoys in exchange programs sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. This work has taken AL1CE as far afield as Central Asia, Eastern Europe and North Africa.

Back home, they continue their global domination by other means with forays including the Anime Expo in Los Angeles, a regular summer gig of theirs every year since 2015 in front of thousands of rabid, cosplaying, Japan-obsessed fans.

If their hustle and sleepless opportunity-seeking are any guide, AL1CE will be producing their own festivals soon enough, and we’ll all be following them through the looking glass into another world. See them while they’re still visible up close!

AL1CE play 9pm Thursday October 10 w Obsidian, The Covenne, DJ Paul KLoV at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. ilikealice.com ~ Tim Moffatt

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TWIN TEMPLE, king dude, amigo the devil Robert Johnson was so enamored with music he sold his soul to the devil to become the best blues player of all time.

And with his guitar prowess and mournful voice as a basis for rock ’n’ roll, the devil’s influence would only spread …

It’s a story that likely sprang from the need to explain the peculiar effects of music and rhythm, because the stuff that makes people dance, sing and lose their minds must surely be a product of something dark.

So while the devil takes the brunt of criticism for everything bad in the world, there’s a slew of artists who feel he’s not getting his due. These artists also believe — much like the legend of Johnson suggests — that good and evil co-exist, one not more or less than the other.

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the scarlet gospels to all.

But one side is definitely more fun — which leads us to Twin Temple, King Dude and Amigo The Devil, artists on a quest to bring

— Twin Temple, spouses Alexandra and Zachary James, are certified Satanic priests and purveyors of doo-wop music focused on the fallen angel, but it’s more than that: Satanists believe in free will and autonomy; Twin Temple preach feminist ideology, justice and the occult, none of which are mutually exclusive. The L.A. band’s sound is vintage harmonizing suffused with torch and a dash of death rock, all layered with a satanic panache to sweeten the sinfulness.

“We are avid students & practitioners of ceremonial Magick & the Occult, we love classic rock ’n’ roll, theater, visual art, vintage horror …many things inspire us really,” the duo tell PureHoney in a co-signed email. “Many of the magickal traditions we reference have been around for thousands of years, while most of the music we reference is from the 50’s and 60’s. It’s just a summation of everything we’ve always loved, presented in a new way.”

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— King Dude, or Thomas Jefferson Cowgill, is a man in black with a throaty baritone who croons about the profane and the divine. His brand of devotional rock ’n’ roll is reminiscent of tent revivals in the deep south, all stomping, hollering and speaking in tongues. This brand of experimental folk rock has garnered him a following all over the world. He’s recorded with Chelsea Wolfe, Drab Majesty and Julee Cruise and is the prefect accoutrement to KING DUDE each. He describes himself as “a blue-eyed Mephistopheles with an acoustic guitar” who “dresses like Johnny Cash and sings like he cut in line in front of Robert Johnson at the crossroads.”

— Amigo The Devil is a dark bard strumming a banjo with proclamations of love, death and morbid humor. One could make the case that Amigo, born Danny Kiranos, is the reincarnated Pied Piper, singing simple truths and leading folks to their fate. He explains himself in his artist bio this way: “I got tired of seeing people overcomplicate what they feel, or worse, ignore it altogether. Amigo The Devil started as an outlet for brutal honesty that people didn’t feel comfortable discussing. More than create, I listened. At a bar, while eating dinner, at the DMV.” Most people spend their lives trying to toe the line and be who society wants them to be instead of embracing whatever weird amalgamation they actually are.

“We still live in a society that is highly intolerant of anyone who is different,” the Jameses of Twin Temple explain in their email. “We have been lambasted on Alex Jones, attacked by Christian hate organizations and threatened AMIGO THE DEVIL by the alt-right. … I would love to see society move towards one that is inclusive and accepting of people from all backgrounds and identities, rather than ‘Othering’ and describing those who are not like you as ‘different.’ ” The performers on this tour are not appeasers; you’re either on board or you’re in the wrong place. Their kind of thinking seems absent from “proper” society, because the world creates boxes that most people break their backs to fit into, but that’s not conducive to art or a healthy disposition. Leave it to the purveyors of the arcane and morbid to shed light on reality, creativity, love and death. The closer we draw to the crossroads, the harder it is to tell dark from light; perhaps where we are it’s always dusk.

Twin Temple, King Dude and Amigo the Devil perform 8pm October 15 at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. ~ Tim Moffatt

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FRANKIE & THE WITCH FINGERS

FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS

bonds of humdrum existence.

Picturesque lyrics and anxiety fueled vocals strewn bombastically atop tear-your-hair-out, rock ’n’ roll ferocity — this is the unapologetic motif of Frankie and the Witch Fingers. Reminiscent of the Hives, or your very first panic attack, their sound teeters on angst but has a playful mania that could inspire tremors in a slab of granite.

The music blended with their exuberant performance style feels like an apt exploration of the inner child — that spastic, overwhelmed, animalistic spirit vying to break the

Parlayed into outrageously vibrant performance style, Frankie’s entire catalogue is no match for the sedentary, from their 2013 debut album, “Sidewalk” through a clutch of full-lengths, EPs and singles.

Frankie’s latest album, “ZAM,” also lays waste to uniform notions of time.

Their briefest track, “I Am,” is a mere 1:07 seconds, and their longest, “Underneath You,” an ambitious 9:29. Yet inside the mayhem each track is so engagingly intricate and finely executed that you lose yourself in its space. Though every individual song could be a standalone hit, listening to the entire project front to back — like, you know, we all did before Spotify?

— is a mania-fueled esoteric experience.

Other observers have suggested these L.A. saboteurs are even more essential live, and so they’ll be eagerly welcomed to Miami in a show at Las Rosas presented by Dead South, with a trio of made-in-Florida acts opening (all Bumblefest alumni): Timothy Eerie, Orlando-bred sonic adventurers in psych, folk and pop; Donzii, a self-styled “post-punk performance art” troupe of five from Miami by way of New York; and Broward’s Electric Supply Company.

If you’ve yet to hear any of the above, you’re overdue. Each is iconic in their own right, and each brings a uniquely evocative personality to bear — and leaves it all out there for a willing audience. It’s a quadruple-bill that promises to grab you by the wrists and pull you through an auditory house of mirrors and a mind’s-eye-opening interior trip.

Frankie and the Witch Fingers perform 8pm Thursday October 17 at Las Rosas in Miami with Timothy Eerie, Donzii, and Electric Supply Company. frankieandthewitchfingers.bandcamp.com ~ Freddie Zandt