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The story of Wu-Tang Clan, Staten Island icons, quote the Hulu bio-series about hip-hop’s greatest album to a crooked “Pharma Bro” for seven hard-knock New York calling themselves All in The founding trio of Robert Diggs (RZA), Gary Bastard, aka ODB) grew their roster and took martial arts movie. They flashed brilliance right Ya Neck” and “Method Man” (the latter featuring album, “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers).” Their a loop into our audio consciousness: that mystical the Charmels’ 1967 song “As Long as I’ve Got Wu-Tang splinter groups, side projects and solo all-MC jam opening their 1997 sophomore unbreakable symbiotic power of these artists ODB’s untimely death in 2004 brought Cappadonna or perhaps an esoteric ten (Wu-heads are still Their new tour mate, Nas, emerged in Brooklyn boroughs in the late ’80s and early ’90s. His 1994 debut album, “Illmatic,” and celebrated its name from “Illmatic’s” second track — like Wu-Tang Clan and Nas perform 8pm Tuesday in West Palm Beach. wutangclan.com
Tuesday Sept. 20 at iTHINK Financial Amphitheater
Poverty, homelessness, corruption, consumerism — almost no conscious topic has escaped their notice in a discography spanning more than 38 years and 22 studio albums. (“Hyena” lands in September.) KMFDM are not above selling stuff, as a spin through their merch-minded Facebook feed shows, but they also use their platform to raise money for causes as varied as LGBTQIA+ rights and retiring medical debt for COVID-19 patients.
There is never a shortage of outrages for KMFDM to process through performance, and doing it so well for long has created a devoted, demanding fan base that will accept nothing less. “There are always high expectations,” Konietzko affirms, “and they will be met, if not exceeded.”
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They’re a one-of-a-kind dark electro musical art project with a goth streak but not goth’s romantic self-absorption. The band’s initials, expanding to “Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid,” translate loosely to “no pity for the masses.” And pitiless they are toward a comfortable global consensus that licenses — often through passivity and silence — violence and oppression against vulnerable people. If you can distill the KMFDM ethos down to a single track, it’s in the lyrics of “More & Faster,” from their 1989 album “UAIOE,”: “All you nations/Come and listen/The Truth is a mess and/The politics are pissin’/We need a revolution to rip the system.”
KMFDM by Amanda E. Moore As flower power waned in the ’70s and hippies traded sit-ins for corner offices, the disillusionment that followed fed a new kind of fury at lingering injustices and establishment neglect. The backlash of the ’80s was still change-oriented, but less naive: It gave us punk and industrial music.
Enter KMFDM, the raging industrial, multinational rock and dance band from Hamburg, Germany, born in 1984 out of frontman Sascha Konietzko’s performance art mission to force humanity to look at itself without illusion. In a chat with PureHoney, Konietzko, aka Käpt’n K, says, “KMFDM is an art form, an aural mirror of societal events, a synthesized awareness, an acid trip unto itself.”
by Abel Folgar “The RZA, the GZA, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Inspectah Deck …” It’s not too farfetched that if you start that chant in public, total strangers will know what you’re up to and add to the list: U-God, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Raekwon, Masta Killa and Cappadonna icons, is very much “an American saga,” to greatest group. Long before they sold a secret figures, they were three cousins in late ’80s, in Together Now — the forerunners of the Wu. Gary Grice (GZA) and Russell Jones (Ol’ Dirty took a group name inspired by a Hong Kong right away with the breakout tracks “Protect featuring name checks), from their 1993 debut Their iconic 1994 single, “C.R.E.A.M.,” burned mystical braid of drum and piano sampled from Got You.” solo careers proliferated. But “Triumph,” the album, “Wu-Tang Forever,” confirmed the artists as a collective through all the detours. Cappadonna officially into a revised fold of nine still Brooklyndebating).fromthesame well of artistry feeding the lyrical dexterity is legend, cemented in his celebrated in an “NY State of Mind” tour that takes like C.R.E.A.M., another of hip-hop’s greatest.
KMFDM perform 7pm Tuesday, Sept. 27 at Revolution Live in FTL. kmfdm.bandcamp.com
Seafoam Walls play 7pm Sunday, Aug. 28 at Gramps in Miami. ssseafoamwalls.bandcamp.com
You can decide for yourself whether Seafoam Walls are Florida enough when they play a FREE SHOW on August 28 at Gramps in Miami sponsored by Sunnyside Dispensary, Jitney Books and PureHoney. The band is promising to play previously unreleased songs that are, for them, heavier and faster than usual. “We’ve also been working on some cool transitions,” says Bertrand. “We’ve got some new intermissions we can play between songs. We’ve been looking for variations of what we’ve been giving.”
They’ll also play tunes from their 2021 album “XVI,” which as a music critic for Miami New Times I nominated as the best local album of the past year. “Those were songs written in my early twenties,” says Bertrand, who’s nearing 30. He named the album in tribute to his late father — like him, born on the 16th day of the month. “I felt it honored him in displaying the music he passed down to me,” he says.
“A lot of people think we’re from somewhere else,” says a mystified-sounding Dion Kerr, Seafoam Walls guitarist, adding, “I think we’re the most Florida sounding of bands. We have all this reverb and effects that make us sound like the ocean.”
When Wet Leg performed the track as a five-piece thousands of concertgoers joined in, playfully droll “Excuse me,” in a scaled-up round of call
WALLSSEAFOAM by David Rolland, The Jitney “It’s hard for even us to describe our sound,” says Seafoam Walls guitarist and singer Jayan Bertrand. But this Miami fourpiece does its best on a Bandcamp page that cites jazz, shoegaze, indie rock, and hip-hop in an amalgam dubbed “South Florida Caribbean Jazzgaze.”
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Sex is also, not shockingly, a preoccupation Teasdale contemplates how to receive a brazen stop there, though: There’s disillusion (“Too Late back on TikTok, Teasdale’s cry-faced retort to Cry harder. Wet Leg open for Florence + The Machine 8pm wetlegband.com
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The album and the band found an ardent supporter in Thurston Moore. The former Sonic Youth frontman released the record on his Daydream Library Series label and is bringing a solo Bertrand on his European tour as an opener. Bertrand in turn hopes to bring his bandmates to a couple of European gigs. “All the doors Thurston has opened for us based on the announcement alone has been huge,” he says. “The publications we got reviewed by we couldn’t have imagined that happening. We got a booking agent out of it and we’re looking for a manager.”
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by Tim Moffatt It’s hard — nay, impossible — to say who the best Smith is. The surname derived more than a millennium ago from the term for metalworkers is the most common in the English-speaking world; hence the futility of picking a standout. The best one of the Smiths, though? Consider Johnny Marr. In just five years (1982-1987), Marr forged a sonic vocabulary and attitude for alternative music in the ’80s and beyond as the Smiths’ co-founder, guitarist and co-writer. His inventive playing — the pesky jangle of “This Charming Man,” the tremolo throb of “How Soon Is Now” — is post-punk defined. But he didn’t stop at the breakup of his beloved British steel-town band. Collaborators since then include Modest Mouse, Herbie Hancock, Talking Heads, Pet Shop Boys, Bryan Ferry and Pharrell. His screen credits alongside composer Hans Zimmer include “No Time to Die,” actor Daniel Craig’s swan song as 007, and Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending thriller, “Inception.” Marr helped to devise a melancholy tonal theme for the latter’s lead character, Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio). For the Bond movie, he worked on the score and the Oscar-winning title track by sibling duo Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell Marr’s new solo album is “Fever Dreams Pts 1-4,” which he’s taking on the road as the opener on the Killers’ world tour. Laurels trail him everywhere: “godlike genius” (NME); “arguably Britain’s last great guitar stylist” (Mojo); an honorary degree from a public university in his hometown of Manchester “for changing the face of British guitar music.”
WET LEG Sean Piccoli better than Harry Styles’ cover of “Wet Dream” in was the response from the song’s co-writer and vocalist: Rhian Teasdale of Wet Leg posted a of pop star Styles playing “Wet Dream” on a broadcast — and of herself executing a glassydead-away faint, face-forward into the frame. whimsical TikTok, also kind of a thank-you from emerging talent to an established one, rang more than 1.2 million hits and was for many their introduction to Wet Leg. The core duo Teasdale and Hester Chambers hail from the Isle Wight, a place of some renown to rock history and students of ’60s counterculture, and there trace of hippie free-spiritedness in their dress outward vibe. But Wet Leg, formed in 2019, replaying the peace-and-love pieties of old Woodstock tributaries. They’re a post-post-punk combines the erotic bump of Peaches, a Gang of Guy” pop flair. resonated with fans of their first hit, “Chaise it’s a bopping account of what happens at mother worried?” Teasdale deadpans over to assign someone to worry your mother?” five-piece live band at Glastonbury in June, playfully shouting “What?!” on cue at Teasdale’s call and response. preoccupation of “Wet Dream,” which lopes along as brazen proposition. Wet Leg’s repertoire doesn’t Late Now”) mood swings (“Being in Love”) and, to a Wet Leg disparager, the gist of which is: 8pm Saturday, Sept. 24 at FTX Arena in Miami.
He lives by a “strength through health” credo that he picked up from Naughty by Nature and applied to quitting tobacco and alcohol and going vegan. One might ask why he’d consent to open for a younger act, but Johnny Marr doesn’t need to explain anything to anyone. Especially of late, he’s the busiest of the Smiths, and in the pantheon of Smithdom he’s better than Morrissey. There, I said it: Johnny Marr is the best Smith.
The Killers and Johnny Marr play 7:30pm Tuesday, Sept. 13 at FTX Arena in Miami. johnnymarr.com
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Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Desert Daze was initially conceived by concert promoter & musician Phil Pirrone (of stoner / psych-rock band JJUUJJUU) as a reaction to the increasingly safe and oversaturated mainstream festival circuit—a more intimate, adventurous alternative to behemoths like Coachella and Bonnaroo.
Hurtling through prisms of colored light in the desert dark, I feel the white sand under my bare feet as the crescent moon shines down, illuminating the rippling alien landscape on the far shores of Lake Perris. I’m in the thick of another Desert Daze, lost in a mind-bending sea of art installations, untethered from time, the sounds of reunited African Zamrock band W.I.T.C.H. flooding from the speakers, all twisting lysergic fuzz guitars, choogling bass and undulating swirls of Farfisa organ. A late’60s Fillmore-style pool of colored oils—courtesy of the Mad Alchemy Liquid Light Show—dances on the projector screen above the band onstage, amoebas born spontaneously from the primordial ooze.
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The inaugural Desert Daze was an 11-day event held in Desert Hot Springs, Calif., in 2012, at the exact same time as Coachella, a mere 30 minutes away. It was an ambitious affair, featuring 120 bands, including headliners Dengue Fever, Akron/ Family & Dead Meadow In 2013, Pirrone upped the ante, shifting the festival to the picturesque Sunset Ranch Oasis in Mecca, Calif., where it would remain through 2015. This early era saw a diverse set of headliners including Tinariwen, Warpaint, The Raveonettes, Liars, Dan Deacon and RJD2 Apropos of its heady psych-rock offerings (always an essential part of the Desert Daze experience), in 2016 the festival relocated to the Institute of Mentalphysics in the high desert of Joshua Tree. For two years, Desert Daze found synergy on the grounds of this monastic getaway, hosting some of its most iconic artists yet—Iggy Pop, John Cale, Television, Saul Williams & Spiritualized—alongside of-the-moment artists like Ty Segall, Courtney Barnett, Deafheaven, The Black Angels & Panda Bear
Desert Daze has since found a permanent home alongside Lake Perris, a deepblue reservoir in a mystical mountain valley 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles. At the festival, in addition to the music, you’ll find all the weird art, vintage threads and international food trucks you could desire, not to mention a memorable camping experience, complete with late-night band performances, DJ sets and plenty of moonlit wandering between rollicking RV & tent parties, picking up fellow travelers—and hopefully a few new friends—along the way.
As PureHoney gears up for Desert Daze’s 10th anniversary, here’s our short list of mustsee sets from the festival’s 2022 lineup. View more picks at PureHoneyMagazine.com
FRIDAY, SEPT. 30 Chicano Batman - A hypnotic, deeply satisfying psychedelic soul revue, laying down Mariana Trench-deep grooves underneath some righteously shimmering Hammond B3 Perfume Genius - Imaginative, reflective and deeply moving electropop with a tendency to experiment and explore the dark corners—of both sound and the human psyche—on the deep cuts Mild High Club - Sparkling modern psych pop, heavy on the synths, with vocals wrapped in plenty of gauzy, comforting flange
But even as the festival began to grow larger in scope, Pirrone held true to Desert Daze’s original ideals, keeping the experience intimate and unique while delivering some of the most inventive and musically challenging lineups of the modern era— bills that balanced legends with cult figures cajoled out of retirement, and modern festival powerhouses with rising artists in need of a break, always showcasing plenty of local Southern California talent along the way.
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L’éclair - These trance-inducing Swedes trade in dark instrumental confections, carefully shrink-wrapped and vacuum-sealed to survive the interstellar journey they’re sure to take you on.
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Tame Impala - Desert Daze isn’t the only one celebrating a 10-year anniversary at the festival this year. Kevin Parker & Co. will be performing their classic 2012 album, Lonerism, in its entirety. Prepare to be wrapped in cascading blankets of ambient psychedelia
The Paranoyds - Lifelong friends making glossy, effervescent lipstick garage punk that hits like a punch to the gut
Viagra Boys - Gutbucket trash rock of the highest order. The lost junkie poet children of Nick Cave, Morphine & Pulp Nation of Language - ’80s New Wave-influenced synthpop from NYC—driving, pulsing and anthemic enough to make your hair stand on end. Their latest single is a super rad cover of Replacements ballad “Androgynous.”
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L.A. Witch - Purveyors of dark, moody, fuzz-drenched desert psych. Be sure to stake out a good spot down front for their set; when L.A. Witch plays, candy-coated pentagrams shoot from the speakers Snapped Ankles - Unrelenting, unapologetically dissonant, white-noise shrouded British post punk with acerbic, smart-assed wit in spades Acid Dad - Reverb-drenched, road-tested Brooklyn garage rockers who—fun fact—met in 2014 at a South Williamsburg drag show called Bath Salts
Surfbort - Everyone’s favorite gutter garage-punk weirdos. That said, the band’s recent album Keep on Truckin’ shows surprising depth in its raw, honest and undeniably catchy songs. Don’t worry though—singer Dani Miller’s still gonna steal your heart dancing a goofy ass jig on stage
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SUNDAY, OCT. 2 Iggy Pop - The man, the myth, the Stooge. At 75, Iggy still transforms into a feral rock & roll animal the minute he hits the stage. They don’t call him the godfather of punk fer nuthin Aldous Harding - The New Zealand indie-folk artist will be performing in support of her gorgeous sigh of a new record, Warm Chris, out now on 4AD Automatic - These sirens of L.A. post punk hang 10 on a lusciously bleak and fuzzedout synth wave
Grave Flowers Bongo Band - The latest in a long, inspired and cosmically downhome lineage of California-country artists, GFBB traces its genealogy from Workingman’s Dead & Sweetheart of the Rodeo to Beachwood Sparks
Wet Satin - Hypnotic, dusky—and at times deliciously loungy—instrumentals. Like Nick Cave & Esquivel teaming up to soundtrack a candlelit cocktail party in a subterranean cave where there will almost certainly be an unsolved murder.
Kikagaku Moyo - Tokyo’s heady psychedelic juggernaut takes a Desert Daze victory lap behind new album Kumoyo Island before going on an indefinite hiatus. Catch ‘em while you can Shannon & the Clams - A beachside sock hop on acid, with lead singer Shannon Shaw belting soulfully over guitarist Cody Blanchard’s echoing R&B licks and “Earth Angel” chord changes
Noura Mint Seymali - From Northwestern Africa’s Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Seymali takes ancient Moorish sounds boldly into the modern era, filtering them through R&B, hip-hop and visionary, trance-inducing psychedelia
Nilüfer Yanya - Unafraid to slip carefully placed spoonfuls of dissonance into her auditory candy, this London singer-songwriter’s cranks out undeniably alluring, wonderfully askew indie pop.
Sloppy Jane - Haley Dahl and her roving band of avant-rock maniacs are here to scare you weak-ass normies into having fun. Don’t fight it. Theirs is a cult worth joining JJUUJUU - Shoegazey, atmospheric buildups, and inspired guitar riffing from Desert Daze founder Phil Pirrone’s stoner / psych rock project
Frankie & the Witch Fingers - This L.A. via Bloomington, Ind., garage-psych outfit never fails to deliver a rollicking, hi-octane live set
Billy Corgans and David Lee Roths who maybe at all, or ran back to their old band, or found Butdisappeared.add Jack White to the short list of musicians a resounding first success. After 14 years in the duo from Detroit that won him fame and acclaim, sports stadiums everywhere, White moved on The Raconteurs and supergroup the Dead Weather Ten years after the release of his debut solo head of swept-back, teal blue hair and his Supply Miami. The tour name nods to the well-documented era consumer demand. White himself spent a music to focus on building cool furniture. But he If his previous albums or his divorce party with “Fear of the Dawn” cements White as one of breakup track, “Taking Me Back”; flourishes of spookily in the background; and a cameo from Tribe Called Quest. “Entering Heaven Alive,” released in July, avoids earnest side of White with songs like “Love is ambitions that can undo a relationship or, for Jack White performs with Cat Power 8pm Tuesday, in Miami. jackwhiteiii.com
The festivities start with a Friday evening Cocktails & Crafts preview where guests mingle with makers and upcyclers, watch some of them work, and sample cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. The main event is a Saturday expo with a group of makers leading upcycling demonstrations and workshops encompassing food and drink, home decor, crafts, jewelry and clothing.
“As a grant-funded nonprofit we are always working to raise funds to continue to support what we do, so this event will serve as a fundraiser for us,” said Odum. “It’s also a great way to reach new people and have them join us in our goal to reduce waste, share what we don’t need, change daily habits and be creative.”
“We believe everyone is creative and that everything can have value and we should do our best to give new purpose to stuff,” Chelsea Odum, Director of Education & Artist Relations at Resource Depot, tells PureHoney. “Upcycle Day is all about fun and is geared towards adults that like making things.” Odum says the gathering will also help to expand the range and variety of upcyclables by connecting makers with other creators — artists and businesses — of unique products.
The nonprofit organization Resource Depot has devoted 20 years in West Palm Beach to curbing local waste by rescuing discarded materials and accepting donated goods from businesses and individuals. In turn, these are redistributed to teachers, artists and other nonprofits. Resource Depot’s inaugural Upcycle Day — actually two days of events and fundraising at their facility on Florida Avenue — is a celebration of the organization’s reuse-or-remake ethos, and an invitation to the community to learn upcycling hands-on.
UPCYCLE DAY by Abel UpcyclingFolgar , or creative reusing, has become a more prominent form of making thanks to growing dissatisfaction with the planned obsolescence of most purchased goods. Just like the old days, if something breaks then makers will fix it. And if we can’t, we’ll turn it into something new.
Upcycle Day runs 6-8pm Friday, Sept. 16 and 1-5pm Saturday, Sept. 17 at Resource Depot in WPB. Visit resourcedepot.org for ticket packages and information.
by Olivia Feldman Going solo or starting another band after your first one breaks up (or even while they’re still together) is not for the faint of heart. For every Paul McCartney or Dave Grohl that stuck the landing, there are dozens of maybe got hot again for a quick minute, or not found that door closed to them, or just kind of musicians who’ve gone on to big second acts after the White Stripes, the thumping rock revivalist acclaim, and gave “Seven Nation Army” to in 2011. He resurfaced with alt-rock combo Weather and often just as Jack White. solo album, “Blunderbuss,” he returns with a Supply Chain Issues Tour, which is coming to well-documented snarls in meeting rampant, Covida chunk of lockdown on break from making he didn’t put down his guitar for good. Karen Elson didn’t do it, his April 2022 album rock’s weirdos. There is a slick but plaintive prog with synths and White’s voice echoing from an unusually-high-pitched Q-Tip from A avoids the crazy and emphasizes an acoustic, Selfish” describing the kinds of tensions and that matter, a band.
Tuesday, Sept. 20 at the James L. Knight Center
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“The key word is ‘integrity,’” Front 242 keyboardist Patrick Codenys tells PureHoney when asked in an interview about the band’s staying power. “The band has kept its sense of ethics and belief in the music we created with no concession. Also, our audience has been supporting us all those years and the communion we have during concerts is a forever adrenaline.” Codenys feels that Front 242 occupy a special niche within electronic music that has allowed them to stay fresh, adaptive and influential. “We have very little competition with other bands as we propose an immersive type of music and show that is closer to cinema soundtracks than any musical genre,” he says. “Sounds of all types mixed into music, samples, analogue sequences, etcetera, but also keeping an eye on research and sound design, we are far from the Rock/Jazz/Blues/ Hip-Hop/Rap/whatever style and so Front 242 keeps on having an original trademark.”
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss compares antimatter to … Belgians? As in the Western European Flemish people known for waffles, dancing Gilles and moules-frites? The very ones. “I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange,” Krauss writes. “They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.” But if there’s one group of Belgians who are no strangers to Florida, it’s Front 242, who will be here on Sept. 17 to headline the 35th birthday of Respectable Street in downtown West Palm Beach.
The band has also freed itself from the studio process and has taken their experimentation and composition process to their live act. “This is a new way to create for us and it inspires new ideas during the course of action of a concert,” says Codenys, “and we get that audience reaction which matters a lot.”
When asked about Front 242’s Florida connections, if any, Codenys says, “We’ve always had a loyal crowd and great memories here. But for me personally, I met my wife in Orlando, and we’ve been together for the last 25 years.”
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The band had a scare this spring when vocalist Jean-Luc De Meyer underwent major heart surgery. But Codenys reports that De Meyer emerged healthy, and that “Front 242 shows remain strong and physical!” English-language fans of the band will be delighted to know that the incredible, 600-plus page biography, “Front 242 – Catch the Men,” by French writer Eric Duboys, is currently in the translation process.
Formed in Aarschot, Belgium, in 1981, Front 242 have commandeered a whole corner of electronic music — and its slam-dancing offshoot EBM (electronic body music) — through a combination of energetic visuals and aesthetics, and an ever-evolving search for new musical inspiration, beginning with their 1982 debut album, “Geography.” They’re an ideal headliner for a venue like Respectable Street, which has likewise endured by being curious and risk-taking in its presentation of music.
Opened in 1987 by Rodney Mayo, Respectable Street was the first location and concept behind Subculture Group. Inhabiting a Salvation Army building built nearly 100 years ago, the venue has hosted thousands of live acts ranging from the young Red Hot Chili Peppers to cult icons like the Damned and Dick Dale. Mayo, a thorough cognoscenti of various musical undergrounds, has since expanded his reach into the tri-county area with various popular eateries and bars.
Most recently, he’s been a driving force in the food and service industry’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on its Palm Beach County workers. Through it all, Mayo has remained the same band t-shirt and shorts-wearing, down-home kind of guy. Qualities that have transformed Respectable’s from a beloved South Florida institution into one of the most respected (pun intended) live music venues in the country. That Front 242 will headline this party is no Frontcoincidence.242w/Portion Control, REIN and many more play the Respectable Street 35th anniversary Block Party, 7pm Saturday, Sept. 17 in downtown WPB. front242.com, s ub-culture.org
