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10/25

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Hippo Campus, Chai

10/27

REVOLUTION LIVE: Neil Francis MATHEWS BREWING: Jordan Richards

10/28

RESPECTABLE STREET: MEGARAVE: From Beyond The Rave

NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: Art After Dark

REVOLUTION LIVE: Black Market Horror Fest

PROPAGANDA: MRSA, Livekill,World Eater, Snake Healer

GRAMPS: Melt Banana, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat

CULTURE ROOM: Toadies, Reverend Horton Heat, Nashville Pussy

MATHEWS BREWING: The Chili Poppers, Product of Rage, Maximum Friction

BAR NANCY: Astronaut City

10/29

500 BLOCK: MOONFEST BAR CRAWL

RESPECTABLE STREET: Pietasters, Spred the Dub REVOLUTION LIVE: Black Market Horror Fest

DREYFOOS HALL: The Phantom of the Opera Silent Film w Organist Cameron Carpenter MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: RAM Fet Gede RESOURCE DEPOT: Artist Talk

PROPAGANDA: Halloween Extravaganza, Comedy, Tribute Bands, Costume Contest

MATHEWS BREWING: Sound Junkies

CULTURE ROOM: The Wallflowers

THE BRIDGE: Spooky Cafe, Cannibal Kids, Suz, Frogs Show Mercy, Project Rukus, Floridians, Soukpax Burgundee, Dylan Hall, Swimmer, TX2, Ozzy Apollo, Bause Mason, P.M Tiger

10/30

REVOLUTION LIVE: Chapo Trap House

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Rocky Horror Picture Show

MATHEWS BREWING: Jose Almonte

10/31

RESPECTABLE STREET: HALLOWEEN PARTY

11/2

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Los Esperitus

11/3-30

PALM BEACH DESIGN SHOWROOMS: Continuum PB Art Fair 9

11/4

RESPECTABLE STREET: EXTC ft XTC’s Terry Chambers

NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: Art After Dark

THE PEACH: Gallery Opening – ‘When

There’s A Trouble Around’ Photographs by Matthew Chasney

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: The Wrecks, Arlie GUANABANAS: The Captain Midnight Band

BAR NANCY: Breaking Sound Music Showcase

11/5

MIZNER PARK THEATRE: Sunset Tequila & Mezcal Fest w/ Artikal Sound System, The Resolvers, Spred the Dub, Xperimento

RESPECTABLE STREET: Napalm Death, Bruje ria, Frozen Death

HATCH 1121 LWB: Dia De Los Muertos

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: 8 Bit Big Band

THE PEACH: November Art Walk

REVOLUTION LIVE: Day of the Dead

GUANABANAS: Rick Haze and Gary Dread

PLAZA AT RIVERWALK: Van, Surf & Skate Expo ft Axcents, Kulcha Shok, Drifting Roots BAR NANCY: Humbert

11/6

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Dance Now!

11/9

RESPECTABLE STREET: The DangerousSummer, Like Pacific

11/10

RESPECTABLE STREET: I AM, Bodybox, Rhythm of Fear MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Erasmo Carlos LE ROUGE: Raw: Renaissance

11/11

RESPECTABLE STREET: The Legendary ShackShakers

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: The Lucy Project

NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: Art After Dark GUANABANAS: East Harbor

CULTURE ROOM: Gayle, Poutyface BAR NANCY: Alexa Lash & The Old Fashioneds

11/12-13

MAD ARTS SPACE DANIA: SMALL PRESS FAIR 2022

YESTERYEAR VILLAGE: Steampunk Adventurers Weekend

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Miami Short Film Fest

RESPECTABLE STREET: Emo Night Brooklyn

REVOLUTION LIVE: The Taylor Party

GUANABANAS: Ethan Tucker and Thrive BOYNTON AMP: Fortunate Youth, Original Wailers, Keznamdi, The Resolvers BAR NANCY: The Kitchen Club

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Daybreaker CULTURE ROOM: Kabaka Pyramid

REVOLUTION LIVE: Max, Sara Kays

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Munir Hossn

RESPECTABLE STREET: Aesthetic Perfection, Josie Pace, genCAB, Aktas LunaNORTON MUSEUM OF ART: Art After Dark GUANABANAS: Tony and the Kings CULTURE ROOM: Spafford, Electric Kif

BCH BANDSHELL: ReShape Festival ft.

Crystalmess, Simocell, Anna Schimkat, Molto, Charlie C of Soulclap, Richie Hell

WAREHOUSE: Fall Warehouse Market:

Makers, Creatives & More

RESPECTABLE STREET: Gimme Gimme Disco

LIVE: Bikini Bottom Rave GUANABANAS: The Killbillies

NANCY: Ordinary Boys

RESPECTABLE STREET: HR of Bad Brains

BCH BANDSHELL: Rising Appalachia

RESPECTABLE STREET: Night

Party

PEACH: DJ Chief – B Boy exhibition GUANABANAS: Fusik

RESPECTABLE STREET: Throwback Jamz 00’s

RUST & WAX: Record Store Day Black Friday, 8am-7pm *DJ’s and vendors in the courtyard!

RESPECTABLE STREET: Black Friday Parade

NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: Art After Dark REVOLUTION LIVE: Andy C GUANABANAS: Joey Calderaio

RUST & WAX: Small Business Saturday, 11am6pm *DJ’s and vendors in the courtyard!

REVOLUTION LIVE: I Prevail, Fit for a King MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: JoJo Myer’s NerveGUANABANAS: Funkin’ Grateful BAR NANCY: Nil Lara

BCH BANDSHELL: Jody McDonald’s Thanksgiving Tea Dance

REVOLUTION LIVE: Dayglow, Ritt Momney

CULTURE ROOM: Rome & Duddy

REVOLUTION LIVE: Completely Unchained –Van Halen Trib, Jaded – Aerosmith Trib

NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: Art After Dark GUANABANAS: Innavision

RESPECTABLE STREET: Slothrust

REVOLUTION LIVE: Shrek Rave GUANABANAS: Harper

GRAMPS: Drab Majesty, Donzii REVOLUTION LIVE: Moonchild

REVOLUTION LIVE: Bobby Shmurda, Rowdy Rebel, GS9 Gino aka Fat Tony

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: North Beach Music Festival ft FRIDAY: Moe., Brandon “Taz” Niederauer, Lemon City Trio SATURDAY: Lotus, Dopapod, Trouble No More, Doom Flamingo, Keller Williams, Melt, Shira Elias SUNDAY: Lettuce, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Antibalas, Neighbor, Cool Cool Cool,Guavatron, Afrobeta

consider the 500 block downtown’s beating

“That’s just unbelievable, really, the story about one thing led to another. I’m sort of a bit stuck Terry Chambers tells PureHoney in a phone Chambers, whose playing powered that original the selfsame club on Nov. 4, wielding an XTC British charm. (Retired XTC co-founders Andy blessed Chambers’ project.) And “Respectable Chambers.

“It’s going to be a humbling experience in light confident the band we are bringing there to

Joining Chambers is singer Steve Tilling (from guitarist Steve Hampton (Joe Jackson, The Hitchcock, Rick Wakeman).

A pair of EXTC shows in March of 2020 in Swinton that XTC’s music was performed live with England got underway — and then the pandemic 17 months later, in August 2021. They are making A new U.S. tour for EXTC kicked off in October Gainesville.

Chambers was home in England talking to fall dates when he spotted Respectable Street, this right?’” he recalls, “I couldn’t believe it.

Calling the club “Respectable Street” was a even if others close to him didn’t like the name “My mother said, ‘It’s going to fail because Respectable Street,’” says Mayo. “That’s when said it was a terrible name. ‘Perfect: We’re

“People were worried that I was making fun respectable,” says Mayo. “But those lyrics were The name outlasted some of the house traditions. Street’ as a closing song,’’ says Mayo, who now coffee shops from Miami Beach to Palm Beach it got really old.”

The club became a stop for bands on the Damned) and a home for indie, punk, alternative consider it their base and refer to it simply as

XTC’s touring arc, ending years before the They played L.A.’s legendary Whisky A Go Go — the latter as an opener for the likes of The

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by Joe Capozzi

The influential English post-punk band XTC scored modest hits including “Dear God,” “Mayor of Simpleton,” “The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead” and “Senses Working Overtime” before disbanding in 2006. But one XTC song in particular has resonated in downtown West Palm Beach for 35 years, even if it never came close to topping the charts.

“

Respectable Street,” recorded in 1980, provided the inspiration and the name of the nightclub that an emerging promoter, Rodney Mayo, opened in a vacated Salvation Army building on Clematis Street in 1987, when “respectable” wasn’t anybody’s word for that neglected patch of downtown.

Scene-starved hipsters unfazed by the surroundings showed up, and new bars and restaurants followed. The city climbed aboard, pouring millions into a pair of streetscapes. Brightline built its train station a block away. Today, many locals beating heart. All because of a club and a song.

about the beginnings of this club and how stuck for words, really,’’ original XTC drummer interview from his Swindon, England, home.

original track, brings his new band, EXTC, to XTC songbook full of apt hooks and biting Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding have “Respectable Street,” the song, is on the set list, says

light of the history of the place,” he says. “I’m to Florida will deliver the goods.’’

(from a Chambers-Moulding XTC spinoff TC&I), The Vapors) and bassist Matt Hughes (Robyn

Swinton marked a heady first time in 38 years an original member. A tour beginning in pandemic hit. EXTC finally made it to the States making up for lost time measured in decades. October and includes Tampa, Fort Myers and

his agent in New York and looking over the Street, West Palm Beach, Florida. “I thought, ‘Is It’s just too ironic, really.’

a no-brainer, founder Mayo tells PureHoney, name and didn’t know the song or the band. because that’s the most ridiculous name ever — when I knew it was good, when everybody calling it Respectable Street.’ ’’

fun of the street because it was anything but were spot on. It just fit.”

traditions. “For a while, we played ‘Respectable now owns 17 restaurants and clubs and five Beach Gardens. “After like the first two years,

the rise (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Misfits, The alternative and electronic music. Many regulars as “Respectables.”

the club opened, was short but noteworthy. Go and New York’s Madison Square Garden

The Police, Talking Heads and The Cars.

With Chambers on drums, XTC made five albums, including the influential and critically acclaimed “Drums and Wires,” “Black Sea” and “English Settlement.” A sonic feature was the gated-reverb, big-drum sound pioneered by engineer Hugh Padgham (who co-produced the Phil Collins hit “In the Air Tonight”) and producer Steve Lillywhite. (U2, Peter Gabriel, Morrissey).

“Fortunately for me, Steve Lillywhite and Hugh Padgham just felt the songs we were doing at that point in time were pretty heavy in the drum sense,’’ says Chambers. “These guys had a vision: ‘Let’s drive this along.’ They just sort of bring this to the fore, this quite powerful sound. Fortunately for us, we were in a studio that was a stone room and it really gave the drums life.’’

“Respectable Street” opens “Black Sea” and rides on Chambers’ drumming. “It’s quite a strong, powerful song,’’ he says. “Arguably ‘Black Sea’ is my favorite album. It had a powerful sound about it. I think the band was at its peak at that point.’’

After “English Settlement,” Partridge suffered bouts of stage fright that grounded the band as a live attraction. XTC’s last show ever was at a theater outside Baltimore, Md., in May 1982. Chambers quit and moved to Australia, where he lived for the next three decades before returning to England. XTC transitioned into a studio-based project with Partridge and Moulding that made several successful albums, and then signed off.

Does Chambers have any regrets about leaving? “It’s difficult,’’ he says “Obviously Andy was in his situation and I wasn’t aware at that particular point in time that this was an illness rather than being a decision he decided to make. On reflection, the whole situation could have been dealt with a little bit better had we had better management and had sort of said, ‘Let’s take a backward step here and assess the situation before anybody makes any drastic decision.’ The situation without a doubt could have been dealt with differently, for sure.’’

Playing a song from XTC’s heyday at a venue with the same name will be “quite an emotional experience, thinking how all of this has taken place,” he says.

EXTC perform Friday, Nov. 4 at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. extc.co.uk

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SLOTHRUST

by Amanda E. Moore

In September, South Floridians got an altered dose of ecosexual, existential-crisis rockers Slothrust at PureHoney’s annual Bumblefest in downtown West Palm Beach. Lead guitarist and vocalist Leah Wellbaum turned the volume way up for an earthshaking solo voice-and-guitar set with garage-band vibes, conjuring a wave of personal sound and leaving a canorous trail of harmonics. Fresh off a European tour with her Boston-based band, Wellbaum spoke with us about Slothrust’s formation and evolution, her other creative outlets and a wish-list of places to someday play.

Wellbaum, drummer Will Gorin and new bassist Brooks Allison are the latest iteration of a heavy, grungy prog-rock idea that originated not long after Wellbaum and Gorin met in college in New York. Experimenting first with other bands, they gravitated back to one another through a shared love of jazz and blues — but heavier. “We became the best of friends and decided to start a band,” Wellbaum says. “I am grateful that our souls found each other in this lifetime because it has been glorious so far.”

Spanning five albums, two EPs, solo projects and possibly an upcoming six album, Slothrust’s fluid, visionary ingenuity, deep lyricism and heart-thumping sonic power seem boundless. As full-blast as the solo Bumblefest set was, Wellbaum promises the full band set “will be much louder.”

In a few words, what is Slothrust? Slothrust loves music, art, peace, and freaky beautiful times. We hope to serve exactly what you didn’t know you needed.

What was it like touring in the U.K. this summer? We love playing for our fans overseas. It is not a simple time to tour internationally but it means a lot to us to perform in as many places as we can. For that reason we decided to headline as many cities in America as we could manage this fall. Greetings from Indianapolis!

How did you feel playing solo at Bumblefest in September? Playing BumbleFest was a delight! That was my first time performing in West Palm Beach and also one of my first solo festival sets. I love playing outside to a crowd of passionate and open-minded people. I am psyched to bring the full band to West Palm Beach.

What artists did you listen to growing up? What/who inspired the sound of Slothrust?

Growing up I listened to a lot of musical theater and also hip-hop and r&b. My favorite radio station was Boston’s own JAM’N 94.5, and my favorite musicals were “Annie,” “Oliver” and “Les Miserables.” I love so many artists. To name a few who influenced my guitar playing, John Fahey, Elizabeth Cotten, Kaki King, Les Paul

What does your creative process entail? How do you constantly produce new music?

I try my best to keep the channel open and am diligent about writing down and recording whatever ideas show up. I have always been like this and kept a ton of notebooks growing up. Now that technology is where it is, I have thousands of voice memos and phone notes. No idea is too small. Writing things down invites more ideas to show up.

What’s on the horizon for Slothrust? What are you most excited about? Slothrust is wrapping up 2022 with a lot of headline tour dates. We are also doing support for the Front Bottoms and playing Dusk Festival in Tucson, and Champagne Jam in Philly. It’s been a busier season than we anticipated but we are grateful to be on the road and will continue to show up for the journey.”

What places or venues are on your bucket

We would love to play Red Rocks. Any opportunity to play in large, intentional, outdoor spaces

You share quite a bit on Talkhouse — what expect to read in future articles?

I really enjoyed doing my year-long astrology, fruit, and spirituality. I learned a the stars, myself, and fruit. For me, fruit is higher source of consciousness and astrology gorgeous tool for self-examination. All religions based on astrology. I am still conceptualizing my next series should be and I am not going it.”

What is the status of your side project ANMLPLNET?

“My collaborator in ANMLPLNET is my drummer genius friend Mickey Vershbow. She is currently in Portland, OR. I find her to be such an person to play with and when we are creativity flows effortlessly. We live really far it will have to take an intentional plan to get album together. I know we’d love to do it

You also teach creativity classes. What are I like to teach all things music and creativity about why things work the way they do. vibration. I like teaching people who are music with an open mind and heart. I myself am grateful that I am passionate about teaching. where they are at and tap into what will help self, whatever that might mean.

Anything you’d like to be certain that your Visual art has become a major part of my grateful to all of the people who have supported expand that. I love our fans so much and and made me feel inspired. I am even starting

Slothrust perform 8pm Saturday, Dec. 3 at Palm Beach. slothrust.com

JUSTIN LABADIE

bucket list? opportunity spaces rules.

what can fans series on a lot about proof of a astrology is a religions are conceptualizing what going to rush

ANMLPLNET?

drummer / currently living an inspiring are together far away so get another when the moment is right.

are those like for people who sign up? creativity to those who are extremely curious Like all things in the universe, music is a are excited to explore that and approach myself am always searching and learning. I teaching. As a teacher I like to meet people help evolve them into their highest creative

your longtime and newer fans know about? my career, especially off the road. I am so supported that part of my life. I hope I can doing commissions for them has lit me up starting to work on an oracle deck.

at Respectable Street in downtown West

LINDSEY BYRNES

Thankfully, the North Beach Music Festival (NBMF) year to re-stir the jam and usher in a new era

“Miami has a long history with hippies and the Plotnicki tells PureHoney, citing regular visits Dead and the Allman Brothers Band back in are major proponents of live music and improvisation, a decade for an event like this to return.”

Gideon and brother Noah Plotnicki (with an Foundation) have assembled a three-day celebration, Florida. One impetus for the event? The relocation the Langerado music festival.

Langerado took place annually in Broward in 2008 at the Seminole Big Cypress Indian the millenium with 80,000 revelers). A four-day lineup topped by R.E.M. and the Beastie Boys Another planned move for 2009, to Bicentennial cancellation instead. Organizers cited poor ticket failed. The jam band scene in South Florida wasn’t

It appears to be be coming back, though, appetite for immersive, in-person live music. made the inaugural 2021 NBMF a huge success night shows for the New Orleans Jazz Heritage Comes Alive festival served them well. And their creativity is evident in the lineup populating the

FRIDAY Miami’s own by teen guitar who has performed Zappa and Long-running performing

1989, moe. are and another regulars thanks jam cruises

SATURDAY

Powerhouse vocalist Shira Elias kicks off day expands to two stages. Keller Williams, oft-described as a one-man-jam-band, brings his raucous of alternative rock, bluegrass, folk and everything between. NYC’s Melt follows with their existential built on a love for psychedelia and soul. Also the day: Boston’s Dopapod, known for heavy and prog influences; Charleston’s six-headed beast known as Doom Flamingo, Memphis’ More, and electro-instrumental crew Lotus

SUNDAY Local darlings followed by Cool Cool, improvisation of Antibalas Tiny Universe Lettuce, whose 2019 Grammy

“We are torchbearers says Gideon. this music is.” lifelong fans, “At last year’s festival,” he says, “we had a number away by the inclusion of indie and digital acts bringing artists down here, especially new up-and-coming

The North Beach Festival runs Friday-Sunday, northbeachmusicfestival.com

PAUL CITONE

JUAN VERGARA

Lettuce

Afrobeta

moe.

NORTH BEACH FESTIVAL

by Abel Folgar

Where have all the jam bands and improvisational musicians been hiding in South Florida? A few factors might explain it: a rise in popularity for newer genres; the pandemic; and — more on this one in a bit — a major relocation. (NBMF) in Miami Beach is back for a second era for fans with a modern yet mindful lineup.

the counterculture,” NBMF co-founder Gideon visits from scene stalwarts such as the Grateful the day. “In an increasingly digital world, we improvisation, and fans have been waiting over

assist from Miami Beach’s invaluable Rhythm celebration, Dec. 9-11, of all things jam in South relocation — and eventual disappearance — of

Broward County before upsizing to the Everglades Reservation (where jam lords Phish rang in four-day camper’s paradise with a free-ranging Boys, the ’08 edition was also Langerado’s peak. Bicentennial Park in downtown Miami, became a ticket sales, and an attempted restart in 2011 wasn’t the same anymore.

though, possibly assisted by a pent-up pandemic Locals and a sizable out-of-town contingent success — the brothers’ experience booking lateHeritage Festival and running their own Brooklyn their love for jam bands and the genre’s limitless the Miami Beach Bandshell and environs.

own Lemon City Trio kick off the festival, followed guitar wunderkind Brandon “Taz” Niederauer, performed with Gregg Allman, Slash, Dweezil musical impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber Long-running jammers moe. will headline Friday, two sets. Buffalo, N.Y. college friends since are festival circuit anchors with ten studio LPs another ten live albums to their credit, and Florida thanks in part to stopover gigs around weeklong to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.

two, which oft-described raucous fusion everything in existential pop Also rocking heavy touring six-headed synthwave

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darlings Afrobeta set down the tropical vibes, West Palm’s Guavatron, the Elias-fronted Cool improvisation masters Neighbor, the all-out jam and the sax-powered fusion of Karl Denson’s Universe. Closing out the weekend will be Boston’s whose journey from ‘90s college club gigs to a Grammy nomination is as funky as their sound.

torchbearers for this scene and community,” Gideon. “Our goal is to show people how awesome is.” They also want to turn casual listeners into fans, and expand the idea of what jam can be. number of folks get their preconceptions blown acts in the lineup. And we want to continue up-and-coming acts.”

Friday-Sunday, Dec. 9-11 at the Miami Beach Bandshell.

Doom Flamingo

Although Sloan Rutter a fondness

In music

performance art videos are a fit with Struble’s own summer days filled with good friends and tender music in their teens, inspired by the highs and stopped. They’ve both reached young adulthood and multiple albums to their credit that demonstrate experience — navigating high school, feeling estranged,

The union of Dayglow and Ritt Momney will let electro-pop reverie of innocent longing, tempered Dayglow’s Instagram account, calls this live show so long, so to be finally experiencing it with you PureHoney that he “couldn’t be opening for a

The tour’s first dates have prompted a social experience” and “best night of my life” variety also pick up on sonic similarities to the likes of Briston and Declan McKenna. When the tour’s done, into the studio and, farther out, checking off meantime, you’re encouraged to join them here of motion and emotion.

Dayglow and Ritt Momney perform 7pm Monday, dayglowband.com | rittmom.com

STEAMPUNK

ADVENTURERS WEEKEND

by Abel Folgar

Steampunk is a genre of science fiction that has roots in Victorian aesthetics and typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology. Alas, first contact for many consisted of atrocious, heedless Hollywood output (ahem, “Wild Wild West” and “Van Helsing”) but Florida’s dedicated steampunk community is rearing to right those wrongs with the first annual Steampunk Adventurers Weekend!

No shade on the RenFest crowd but there’s something about the Victorian era’s romantic views of science and industry that hits closer to modernity – maybe it’s the tea kettles hissing in the distance. “I was Googling pictures of custom guitars because I thought it might be fun to make a unique signature guitar for myself to play on stage,” one Captain John Sprocket tells PureHoney. “While searching I found a few steampunk guitars and thought they were some of the coolest looking I’d ever seen, and I immediately fell in love with the aesthetic.”

Sprocket (John Mondelli), lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist for The Cog is Dead, cut his teeth in DeLand’s pop punk scene and found more kinship with steampunk and its embedded disposition to varying musical styles. “When I realized we could take on steampunk personas and give the band a fictional backstory, I jumped at the chance to call ourselves time travelers who had been influenced by all the different music we’ve heard throughout our time traveling adventures,” he says.

Like many who will be in attendance, Sprocket enjoys modifying things into steampunk versions of themselves. “There’s a connection to makers and tinkers,” he notes. “Most steampunk musicians are DIY folks who make their own costumes and customize their instruments.” The Cog is Dead, normally a three-piece when scheduling allows, will be a solo show here. The weekend event will be headlined by Seattle’s Abney Park and will feature Tank and Tilly’s Clockwork Cabaret, DJ Vlad and Escape the Clouds. Festival goers can also enjoy games, rides, a scavenger hunt, lectures, fashion shows and familyfriendly activities including face painting and crafts for kids

The first Steampunk Adventurers Weekend runs Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 11-12 at Yesteryear Village in West Palm Beach. sawflorida.com

Breakout paired party and right

ADAM ALONZO

Ritt Momney

JOHN SPROCKET

RITT MOMNEY & DAYGLOW

Amanda E. Moore

Breakout artists Dayglow and Ritt Momney have paired for a neo-nostalgic, coming-of-age dance party as part of Dayglow’s People In Motion Tour, and it’s hard to picture two more ideal tour mates right now than these dreamy indie-pop escapists. Although hailing from different states, Dayglow’s Sloan Struble (Texas) and Ritt Momney’s Jack Rutter (Utah) have similar artistic origin stories and fondness for teen sentimentality.

an interview with PureHoney, Rutter calls his music “lovecore.” His melodies and his ’90s-styling own output: Their songs are mini soundtracks to crushes. Both 23-year-olds began self-producing and lows of adolescence, and they never really adulthood with expansive and refined discographies, demonstrate a deepening exploration of youthful estranged, being struck by romantic lightning.

let audiences slip away into an experimental tempered lust and youthful reminiscence. Struble, on show “something that I’ve been working on for you in the present feels like such a gift.” Rutter tells better group.”

social media outpouring of the “unforgettable from fans and newcomers alike. Listeners might Briston Maroney, MGMT, Two Door Cinema Club done, Rutter says he looks forward to getting back a bucket list item “to play in Europe.” In the here for an evening of blissful surrender to a wave

Monday, Nov. 28 at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale.

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DRAB MAJESTY

by Carly

What’s in an alter ego? Consider Deb DeMure Majesty — or peek past that identity to find DeMure’s Andrew Clinco. Together with Mona D (offstage, painted, ghostly DeMure has created in Drab past has of the future, or the present has of the

In an interview with PureHoney, Clinco as DeMure is so integral to their music: “It’s important to to feel like they’re witnessing something special encountered previously in their day. If the music something that makes the audience forget about

This is their first visit to South Florida. When we they volunteer “nonexistent winters.” Clearly about one night on tour, leaving a bar in Leipzig, “We got a taxi back to our hotel and immediately was playing. It was a soothing surprise in contrast Considering we were in Leipzig, Johann Sebastian cabby if he was a fan. And oh boy was he ever.

“At the first mention of Bach, he immediately taking a quick detour. He flips a u-turn and starts … he’s taking us to Thomaskirche, the church church he takes the liberty of driving up on the doors to the massive Bach sculpture.” Adding, are supposed to be.

“The cab driver says, ‘This is where he sleeps.’ man proceeds to walk us around the perimeter and also the Andalusian Arabic origins of the into a 45-minute long music history tour. And LSD for the entirety of this experience.” That’s while still being part of our collective history.

A friend who told me she got tickets to the show the first time she stumbled onto Drab Majesty: Demonstration” album. “I was sitting in a car remember it striking so intensely,” she says. “Feeling but in a way kind of romantically.” The music the sun with your eyes closed feeling. Where green color behind your eyes.

“Unarian Dances,” their first and self-released beautiful contrast of driving beats and wavy vocals projected through the course of their shadowy, a lyrical crosshatch full of questions

“A Dialogue,” the first track on their 2019 “Modern with its own special form. The music encourages Is it a veil between realities, or times, in which as one? Is it the moment in time when we let where we belong? Out of the dealership, onto bright, white void? With our eyes closed so show us what it looks like when dreams become

Drab Majesty, with openers Donzii perform drabmajesty.bandcamp.com

MAJESTY

Cassano

DeMure of the Los Angeles dark dance duo Drab DeMure’s offstage self: musician and performer (offstage, Alex Nicolau), Clinco as the white-wigged, Drab Majesty something out of a dream that the the past. Off-kilter and soothing.

DeMure or vice versa explains why visual style to transport your audience and allow them special and unique compared to what they music requires it, live performance needs to be about your earthly body.”

we asked what the region evokes for them, open to new experiences, they share a story Leipzig, Germany. “It was late,” Clinco recalls. immediately noticed the classical music the driver contrast to the loud bar we had just come from. Sebastian (JS) Bach’s resting place, we asked the ever.

immediately shuts off the time clock and says we’re starts barreling down the street at Mach speed church of Bach’s gravesite. As we approach the the sidewalk and drives us right up to the front Adding, “This is definitely not an area where cars

sleeps.’ We get out and take some photos and the perimeter of the church giving us a lesson on Bach guitar. A 10-minute cab ride has now turned And oh yeah,” they add, “we were tripping on That’s one way to forget about your earthly body

show the moment it was announced describes Majesty: It was “Not Just A Name,” off “The car dealership as a very bored teenager and I “Feeling affirmed by themes of existentialism, music achieves a kind of lying under a blanket in Where everything is reduced to the hot, orange-

self-released album from 2012, set the stage for the wavy synths they create for each release. The their work are like woven light — bright and questions and answers.

Modern Mirror” LP, is like a Shakespeare sonnet, encourages us to wonder what they see in the mirror: which earthly and spirit bodies are seen together let go of the past, in order to move ahead to onto the highway? Out of our bodies, into the our consciousness can open, Drab Majesty become reality.

8pm Sunday, Dec. 4 at Gramps in Miami.