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Celebrating 47 years, THIRD WORLD is one of the longest-lived Reggae bands of all time, and one of Jamaica’s most consistently popular crossover acts among international audiences. Mixing in elements of R&B, funk, pop, and rock and, later on, dancehall and rap, Third World’s style has been described as “reggae-fusion.”
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KAIROS CREATURE CLUB by Olivia Feldman
Band? Business? Cult? Kairos Creature Club hint they could be any number of things. Their Instagram says “multilevel interrogative self-help program.” Their Twitter warns, “WE HAVE OPINIONS,” although it feels a little underutilized so they might have reconsidered becoming a one-liner op-ed farm (Kudos, however, for trolling Jimmy Buffett and Sublime in a single tweet.) Comedy show? Their Tik Tok very effectively sends up “Point Break,” the surf-crime Keanu-Swayze hunkfest and Gen-X touchstone, with band members cast in key roles. For now we’ll go with “supergroup.” Kairos, a.k.a. Lena Simon of chill surf rock trio La Luz, tops the masthead. Her Club colleagues are Billy Creature (Glenn Van Dyke of skate-surf band Boytoy), Daddy Braid (Matt Shaw of garage revival group The Mother Gooses) and Lee Savage (James Scott Rubia of synthwave band Animal Clinic). Simon, Van Dyke and Shaw have all converged on Jacksonville, Florida, where they run a label and a music festival, both called Winterland, devoted to “sharing cool music,” Shaw says on the label web site. ”I really believe the narrative around arts, music and culture in Florida is changing,” he adds. Kairos Creature Club and La Luz will play Winterland IV in downtown Jacksonville’s Riverfront Plaza in February, with headliners including Reggie Watts and Caroline Rose. With Rubia in the fold they’re a coastal daydream of flowy keyboards, melodic guitar and quirky nostalgia. “Kevlar,” a standout from “Join the Club,” their 2021 Greenway Records debut, steps straight out of the “Secret Agent Man” 1960s and into the Spotify stream, with a bit of cowbell bop pacing Simon’s breezy vibes and Van Dyke’s punky girlishness. The house-party video for “Voodoo Success” opens with credits that look spliced from a shaky old grindhouse feature and then bids you, “Goosebumps”- and “Black Mirror”-style, to choose from alternate storylines before letting the song’s eerie cool finally wash over you. PureHoney presents Kairos Creature Club w/ Ben Katzman’s Degreaser, The Dreambows and Soul Particles at 8pm Saturday, January 29 at Propaganda in Lake Worth, 18+, kairoscreatureclub.com
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MANNEQUIN PUSSY by Abel Folgar It would be nice to think that Philadelphia’s Mannequin Pussy are attacking objectification, that their performative process is further scholarly research into awful ’80s films and Doctor Who serials. But the truth goes beyond dummy references or the potential articulations of life-sized dolls: Mannequin Pussy are punk rock of pedigree; built with savage emotion by musicians who value the experiential power of music.
Formed initially as a two-piece in 2010 by MANNEQUIN PUSSY high school pals Marisa “Missy” Dabice and Athanasios Paul, Mannequin Pussy put in the time and effort, growing into a four-piece outfit and racking up fan adoration and accolades along the way. Until life and the goldarned COVID put the brakes on their crescendoing career. Dabice has long dug deep into a well of personal turmoil for the heartfelt lyrics that drive the tunes. From fighting – and ultimately beating – a rare form of cancer in her youth, toxic relationships and bouts of depression, to becoming a caretaker to her mother after a stroke, Dabice’s career has experienced more stops than starts. Co-founder Paul’s departure on top of the pandemic would’ve killed a lesser band. Dabice’s vocals, guitars and keyboards in the current iteration are anchored by bassist Colins “Bear” Regisford and drummer Kaleen Reading. On tour they have three studio albums to draw from, including “Patience,” named by Pitchfork as one of 2019’s best punk records. Their latest for Epitaph, 2021’s five-song EP “Perfect,” catches the band reassessing itself for the new world. Forcing themselves into the studio brought forth an organic record of lush musical landscapes accentuated by the balls-out fury of hardcore punk. Tracks including “Perfect” and “Pigs Is Pigs” balance out the alt-experimental tonal poem “Darling” and steady rocker “Control.” Back on the road with a packed schedule and unfazed by the theft in October of their van (again) plus a trailer carrying equipment and merch, Mannequin Pussy are ready to rock again. Dabice is ready to get the band back to the top of punk rock’s peak, where it rightfully belongs. Mannequin Pussy play 8pm Saturday, February 19 at Gramps, mannequinpussy.com
TOASTERS by Tim Moffatt
The Toasters are a band out of time. The group have been playing their brand of soul, pop and r&b-tinged ska since being founded in 1981 by Robert “Bucket” Hingley after seeing the Beat at New York’s old Roseland Ballroom. The Toasters have become a hometown institution with affiliated outfits including The New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble, THE TOASTERS Klingons and Pilfers and the legendary Moon Ska Records. The output of this outfit and their affiliated acts spans the entirety of ska, rocksteady and roots music, with far reaching tentacles across the globe. Basically, the Toasters have touched everyone somewhere, somehow. The band have been consistently playing, touring and existing with a revolving door of musicians lending their talents and bringing fresh ideas to Hingley’s vision. Whereas the ’80s was a decade of upswing for ska bands and the origin of the third wave, the ’90s saw an absolute explosion of ska that infiltrated almost every aspect of pop culture. Ska in the ’90s was flirting with all kinds of new sounds and blending of previously unthinkable genres. You want a ska-metal band? Here’s the Rudiments. Ska-pop? No Doubt! Silly bubble gum pop-punk ska? Reel Big Fish. Bands like the Slackers, Hepcat and the Toasters favored a more foundational sound, heavy on rhythms and groove. The Toasters notched a minor hit with ”2 Tone Army,” which wound up as the theme song song for the Nickelodeon show “KaBlam!” Sadly, the Moon Ska label folded in 2004 after ska’s saturated third wave crested and ebbed. But where the bubble gum and clown car music purveyors that defined the neon checkerboard aesthetic of the ’90s had to close up shop, bands with a traditional perspective can still have a career, tour and record. The Toasters in 2022 are are marking 40-plus years at the forefront of a scene where feet tapping and asses wagging is expected; don’t disappoint them. The Toasters with Spred the Dub and No Name Ska Band play for 18 and over 8pm Friday, March 4 at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. thetoasters.band
JOHN LEACH
AGENT ORANGE
by Tim Moffatt
New York birthed gritty punk bands that might be doing nefarious things in alleyways under sputtering street lamps. While that era and those groups were vital and diverse in sound, they were most definitely a product of the Big Apple. How would that concept fly on a West Coast AGENT ORANGE bathed in sunlight, around precincts within spitting distance of the American dream factories of Hollywood? It wouldn’t, and from the sparks of that realization a whole new scene was founded. California punk has always been a stylish bunch, and the amalgamation of genres that sprang from the underbelly of that cinematically propagated dream — you know, like when the dream dies. As such, bands including X, Black Flag, FEAR and Agent Orange illustrate the artistic act of defiance that is living in the ashes of a once vibrant future. One of the first surf punk bands, Agent Orange broke through as a trio in the opening frame of the ‘80s with tracks like “Bloodstains,” “Too Young to Die,” and “A Cry for Help in a World Gone Mad” that packed plaintiveness and fury into two-minute (or less) sonic missiles. Co-founder Mike Palm has seen a lot of colleagues come and go. Agent Orange alumni seeded or joined legendary bands including The Adolescents, Social Distortion, D.I., the Plugz, Dick Dale, the Ghastly Ones, the Seeds and the Sonics. The group have had some hard years, too, losing bassists Steve Soto, James Levesque and Brent Liles and drummer Charlie Quintana. Palm is the only original member extant, carrying on with a charging surf punk sound that became such a resonant and specific thing it bred a spat with fellow Orange County products Offspring regarding riff pilferage. That’s the curse of defining a genre; everyone is pinching from the first band to do it. But 43 years along Agent Orange are still out there defending their legacy and keeping the sound of dreams dissolving alive. Agent Orange with Killed by Florida, 1983 and Hunting With Dick Cheney play 8pm Saturday, February 19 at Propaganda in Lake Worth. facebook.com/agentorange.net
MARCUS KING BAND
by David Rolland If you were going to study whether nature or nurture makes a musician, Southern rocker Marcus King might be the specimen to dissect. The 25-yearold singer, guitarist and songwriter is a fourth generation musician. His greatgrandfather and grandfather played fiddle. His father toured nationally beginning in the 1970’s leading the Marvin King and The Blues Revival Band. But Marcus, with and without his Marcus King Band might have already outdone them all in terms of popularity.
MARCUS KING BAND King grew up playing guitar in South Carolina. He obsessively studied old-timers such as BB King, the Allman Brothers Band and Merle Haggard. He was enough of a guitar prodigy that at the age of eight his father was already bringing him up on stage to jam with him, and had him strum the guitar on one of dad’s records at the age of eleven. He went on to study jazz theory and jazz performance. In 2013, at the ripe age of 17, he started the Marcus King Band — an amazingly soulful union of rock, roots, r&b and blues from one so young.
One of his musical heroes, Allmans regular and Gov’t Mule frontman Warren Haynes, quickly signed King to his label, Evil Teen, where all three Marcus King Band albums hit the top ten on the blues charts. Other prominent elders were also impressed. Chris Stapleton name-checked him as a great young guitarist. Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys produced his solo debut, “El Dorado.” King told NPR in 2020 that music has played a pivotal role in his life: “When my father would be at work, I was just at my grandparents’ house, and I’d just be in a room for hours playing guitar. And later it would become my therapist, and it still is. It’s just the only thing that truly listens without ever saying a negative word back.” King also said he wants his music, on record or live, to offer “a sense of hope” and “a sense of relief.” The Marcus King Band plays for all ages 7pm Sunday, February 20 at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale. marcuskingband.com
WINTERLAND IV POONEH GHANA
by Freddie Zandt
“We want to empower our music community and build this into something that gives a platform for North Florida’s musical identity,” Van Dyke told PureHoney in an interview. We have so many talented bands but no industry. It’s our mission to bring some of the industry in, and also build up our own. “We want to give the power of music as a commodity to the artists that are making it,” she continued. “We are run by artists and everything we make goes back into the music community. There’s no reason Jacksonville can’t be as booming as other major cities. We have so much to offer here but musicians face an uphill battle with limited resources and little opportunity for networking.” Just like she did, Van Dyke hopes that people take chances in life and leave their home towns to grow and network, with the goal of bringing what they’ve learned back to the places that raised them.
LA LUZ
After a pandemic hiatus, northern Florida’s Winterland IV music festival is back and, in the founders’ words, “living on the edge of natural and digital decay.” This free-admission two-day event at Jacksonville’s Riverfront Plaza in late February promises visual and interactive installations as well as vendors, food trucks and best of all a stellar set of performers. Among the 30 national and regional acts announced as of press time: medium-bending music man Reggie Watts; dream pop weavers La Luz; genre-jumping singer-songwriter Caroline Rose; confessional pop architect Slothrust; Miami’s formidable indie-punk power trio Las Nubes; and the rising Jacksonville hip-hop band L.O.V.E. Culture. More are in the wings at a festival that promotes a spirit of inclusion and belonging animated by a powerful sense of place.
CARA ROBBINS
Winterland creators Glenn Michael Van Dyke, Lena Simon and Matthew Shaw set out to create a space and a platform for North Florida talent to flourish. Like festivals before them, Winterland took on a life of its own after its launch. Thanks to some good friends already supporting the local art scene, the first edition in CAROLINE ROSE 2017 happened in an abandoned building that was being repurposed as an art gallery at the time. This year Winterland will take over a waterfront park in the heart of downtown Jacksonville. The Census Bureau identifies Jacksonville as the largest city in land area in the contiguous United States. It’s a place whose boundless potential is being tapped into by locals including the team behind Winterland. Though cocreator Van Dyke has traveled extensively, and lived in New York City for a decade, something powerful called her back to her roots. Through her travels as a musician and audio engineer, she had concluded that vision and willpower matter more than geographic location when it comes to creating culture and building a scene.
To create both an auditory and visual experience, Winterland has again partnered with Tachyons+, a multidimensional video installation house with a beating analog heart. A Tachyons+ REGGIE WATTS representative tells PureHoney that festival goers can expect “melting VHS tapes pulsating to the music, dreamed out dimensional glitch, errors and distortions, [and] blissed out television telepathy.” The visuals serve as real-time compliment to the live performers — almost another instrument or even band member. Admission to both days is free, BUT attendees should show Winterland some love and support ahead of time: Organizers are offering a $65 merch bundle of festival art and apparel plus a reusable carry cup that buys drink discounts on the festival grounds. All proceeds that don’t go directly back into the arts community will be donated to local non-profit North Florida Board Riders, which offers surf camps and gear to at-risk kids. It’s an enterprise that challenges the old saw that you can’t go home again. If there’s one pithy way to sum up the festival and the community work it’s doing, we leave it to the wise and ethereal Winterland headliner Watts: “You’re part of the world/even when you try to run away.”
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ROAD TRIP WITH US to Winterland IV ft. La Luz, Caroline Rose, Reggie Watts, Slothrust, L.O.V.E. Culture, LPT, Glove, Tama Gucci, La Nubes, Donzii, Kairos Creature Club, DL is OK, Nasyae, The Gloomies, Ebony Payne English, Blunt Bangs, DigDog, Madre Vaca, Animal Clinic, Fok is People, Teal Peel, Dean Winter and the Heat, Bobby Kid, Patsy’s Daydream, Soul Particles, Pool Boi, Reels, Sailor Goon, Cory Driscoll, Jackie Stranger, Cult of Ugliness. Visuals by Tachyons+ is Saturday and Sunday, February 26 and 27, at Riverfront Plaza in Jacksonville. winterlandiv.com
MR . BABIES
by Amanda Moore
MR. BABIES
At the height of the digital era, social media drive art and culture. Creators rise to stardom virally, amassing followers at synaptic speed. An artist or performer capturing a moment or a mood can trigger a meme, a trend or a whole new genre across platforms. Sometimes it’s intentional (hello, Twitch), other times pure accident (Nathan Apodaca skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac), but it’s always at the intersection of prompt action and divine timing. Collage artist Mr. Babies knows a version of this phenomenon. He joined Instagram early on, found an audience and became an avatar of psychedelia, cutting and pasting his subconscious into otherworldly finished pieces. Before stringent algorithms ruled the creator space, a free flowing artscape flourished online where Mr. Babies gained a foothold and his analog creations multiplied through likes and shares. Vice took notice with a feature story in 2016. At the time he had about 60,000 followers on Insta. Still, the part-time artist, born Nick Baccari, kept his day job at a bank and divided his time even as his creative profile grew. Then the pandemic hit. “It has completely flipped my world upside
down in the best possible way,” Mr. Babies told PureHoney in an email interview. With the bank shuttered, Mr. Babies dove all the way into his art. “For two years since, I have been selling prints and posters of my work full time,” he said. Today he has almost 400,000 Instagram followers, and a web site to retail his work. It was a confirmation of aspirations that the younger Baccari — who grew up in small-town west Texas and moved to tiny Sedona, Arizona — was expressing through whimsical pop art creations long before he turned to collage. “I always knew I wouldn’t fit in working at a typical 9-5 job,” he said. “I never really envisioned a specific path for my creativity, but I knew I had to keep expressing myself and believed in my artistic vision even when others doubted me.” His art as Mr. Babies has origins in a trip to a recycling center, where a discarded stack of National Geographic mags caught his eye. From this raw material new visions arose and migrated to Instagram: frogs with bodies assembled from human eyeballs; a forest of mushrooms spilling out of sensual, pursed lips; faces with slugs, snails, and snakes pouring from the orifices. He posted using a cellphone and an electronic tablet, the mind’s-eye aesthetic springing from visual detritus and pure imagination. In 2015, he tried acid for the first time to influence his hallucinogenic renderings. That turning point is the focus of a new venture for him in the sphere of nonfungible token (NFT) art — where an image is reproducible but its cryptographic blockchain signature is not, and prices (often in blockchain currencies) are set accordingly. Mr. Babies is preparing an NFT collection, through a blockchaincentered app called Foundation, of ten works he created during his initial experimentations with LSD. “Since this is a new frontier for me, I really wanted to take a look back and highlight the work that shaped my early career,” he said. “These are my favorite pieces from 2015 and also tell a story of who I am as a person and artist.” At 39 he plans to keep making art and exploring digital technology as an outlet. He remains committed to his method and his low-tech tools: tiny scissors, X-Acto blades, glue sticks, tape. As he told the arts journal Toombes in 2021, “I have never created a digital piece in my life. I don’t think that I could actually. I like the randomness of opening a book and finding images to slice out.” He told PureHoney that he wants to keep learning, train other artists in his techniques and help build community-focused projects. There can be loneliness and dislocation alongside the whimsy and cosmic awe in Mr. Babies’ art. But through his fusion of analog and digital, he has also created a community bonded by wonder and love of his work.
Follow Mr. Babies @mr.babies and @mrbabies2 on Instagram, @mrbabiesart on Twitter, and at www.mrbabies2.bigcartel.com
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