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Published on August 20th, 2015

THE GROWLERS The Growlers make music that mirrors some aspects of life in South Florida brilliantly well. Sure, the band lives and bleeds California-cool, but »

Published on August 20th, 2015

BRONCHO Broncho’s frontman, Ryan Lindsey, is humbled by comparisons to Joy Division, OMD and Roxy Music. You get a sense he’s genuinely excited about hearing »

Published on August 19th, 2015

It’s frustrating as a creative individual to wonder about where compulsive artists like Thee Oh Sees’ figurehead and contemporary psych-rock icon, John Dwyer, get the seemingly »

Published on August 18th, 2015

The Jesus and Mary Chain When The Jesus and Mary Chain came on the scene in 1983, they could hardly play their instruments and relied »

Published on August 17th, 2015

GANG OF FOUR Three years after Jimmy Buffett released his 1978 single “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” Gang of Four unveiled its own “Cheeseburger,” a song that »

Published on August 15th, 2015

MOONFEST 2015 Billed as the biggest Halloween party in the country during which 30,000 “souls collide,” Palm Beach’s Moonfest has evolved into a proper October »

Published on August 15th, 2015

HOPEFEST More than just a full day of music, Hopefest is the life-changing venture of a Jupiter couple, Matt and Melissa Hudson, launched in memory »

Published on August 14th, 2015

GO!ZILLA Now entering its 5th iteration, ARToberFest — put on by Lake Worth’s Propaganda — has grown into a major event curated with arts and »

Published on August 14th, 2015

Chaucer The artistic petri dish that is South Florida — far removed from the pretentiousness that’s bred in a scene by any sort of sustained »

Published on August 13th, 2015

Stitch Rock 9 The indie-handmade craft movement hasn’t always had a home in South Florida like in places such as Austin and Portland, Oregon. But »

Published on August 13th, 2015

FRIGHT NIGHTS “I started in ‘02 as a scare actor and set painter. As years passed, positions were opening up and in ‘05 I was »

Published on August 13th, 2015

John Ralston GOLDEN GREATS Time was, John Ralston had a big cork board for his songwriting. He would fill it with index cards on which »