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4/1

MATHEWS BREWING: 561 Music F estival 2 ft Octogato, Tasty Vibrations, Uproot Hootenanny, Jake Walden, Joey Calderaio, Bryce Allyn, Lybica, Killbillies, The Shake, 1983, Dominic Delaney and the Dead Language, The Bucc Stops Here, Rogue Theory, Spider Cherry, Hadee, Stumble Steady, East- way, Andii Styron, Euphobia, Young Fiction >>> READ IN PUREHONEY

RESPECTABLE STREET: Jealous Lovers

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Nu Deco X Ambassadors

THE PEACH: Art Walk ft. Zoo Peculiar

PROPAGANDA: Swamp Thing Tour : BZeik, Dizasterpiece

BAR NANCY: Juanabe

ARTS GARAGE: Salsabor All Stars Band

4/2

RESPECTABLE STREET: Until I Wake, Dark

Divine, Catch Your Breath & We’re Wolves

REVOLUTION LIVE: Lucki, Eem Triplin

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Ibeyi

THE PEACH: Art Class w. Sara Mcknight

ARTS GARAGE: Tal Cohen Trio

4/5

RESPECTABLE STREET: Seafoam Walls, Lindsey Mills, The Dreambows

PROPAGANDA: Queen and King

4/6

LIBRARY SPEAKEASY: Wax On Wax Off

BAR NANCY: Hardcore For Punx

KRAVIS CENTER: Migguel Anggelo’s LatinXoxo

4/7

RESPECTABLE STREET: Thirst, Ljesus, Further North Further South, Open Nerve

KRAVIS CENTER: Migguel Anggelo’s LatinXoxo

THE PEACH: Gallery Opening Sir Wyndham

REVOLUTION LIVE: Big Bubble Rave

PROPAGANDA: Domenic Delaney and the Dead Language , Billy Doom is Dead, The Shake, Blabacam, Eastway

4/8

RESPECTABLE STREET: Tuff Turf, Violet Silhouette, Solar Reef

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MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Migguel

Anggelo’s LatinXoxo

REVOLUTION LIVE: Cold, Divide the Fall, Awake for Days, Sygnal to Noise

ESPLANADE PARK: Festival of Colors feat. Butter Thieves, DJ SHEWXLF, Rasika dasi

PROPAGANDA: Lavola, Feral Ember, Foxgloves, Hope

BAR NANCY: The Kitchen Club

GRAMPS: Deicide, Caveman Cult, Cornered

ARTS GARAGE: The Jeff Rupert Quartet

4/10

KRAVIS CENTER: Rhythm India: Bollywood & Beyond

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REVOLUTION LIVE: Skinny Puppy, Lead Into Gold >>> READ IN PUREHONEY

4/11

REVOLUTION LIVE: Wage War, Nothing, Nowhere, Spite

KRAVIS CENTER: San Salvador

4/12

REVOLUTION LIVE: Ella Mai

RESPECTABLE STREET: Austin Meade

THE PEACH: Life Drawing Class

4/13

KRAVIS CENTER: Scott Bradlee’s PostModern Jukebox

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: La Dame Blanche, Casalu

BAR NANCY : Stereo Joule

4/14

RESPECTABLE STREET: Gimme Gimme Disco

BAR NANCY: Bleeth

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Spafford

REVOLUTION LIVE: Rockero

ARTS GARAGE: David Lucca Y Los Clasicos

4/14-15

PROPAGANDA & RUDY’S PUB: Postcards from Paradise ft. FRANKIE ROSE (Ex-Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls, Beverly) SCOTT YODER (Ex-Pharmacy) plus Donzii, Haute Ten- sion, Spirit & the Cosmic Heart, Room

Thirteen, Liquid Pennies, Sagittarius

Aquarius, Zippur, The Dreambows, Rude Television, Night Foundation, Nervous Monks, Thorns, Gold Dust Lounge, The Honeycreepers, Spred the Dub, Man Made Weather >>> READ IN PUREHONEY

4/15

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Umphrey’s McGee >>> READ IN PUREHONEY

HATCH 1211: Opening Reception for The Jewells of LWB. Rosemary Otto, Ray Larsen

RESPECTABLE STREET: Emo Night Brooklyn

REVOLUTION LIVE: Sobredosis de Soda

GUANABANAS: Afro Roots Fest

BAR NANCY: Nil Lara

4/16

HOLLYWOOD ARTSPARK: Protoje, Dubwise >>> READ IN PUREHONEY

CULTURE ROOM: Molchat Doma, Nuovo Testamento >>> READ IN PUREHONEY

RESPECTABLE STREET: The Toasters, Spred the Dub, Fuakata

REVOLUTION LIVE: White Chapel, Archspire, Signs of the Swarm, Entheos

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Miami Music Project

ARTS GARAGE: Dennis Johnson

4/17

KRAVIS CENTER: Live in Central Park

(Revisited): Simon & Garfunkel

4/18

RESPECTABLE STREET: Death Before Dishonor, Day By Day

REVOLUTION LIVE: Young Nudy

PROPAGANDA: Some kind of Nightmare

CULTURE ROOM: Laura Jane Grace, Weakened Friends 4/19

Mac Ayres

RESPECTABLE STREET: Copeland

BAR NANCY: Gatoe

4/20

REVOLUTION LIVE: The Plot in You, Holding Absence, Thornhill, Banks Arcade

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Afrobeta

DORAL YARD: Afro Roots Fest

UNION BEER STORE: Haute Tension, The Floridians, Frogs Show Mercy, Remyz

PROPAGANDA: World Sucks, Aulnes

BAR NANCY: Ricky Valido

4/21

RESPECTABLE STREET: Anvil, Midnight Helion, LiveKill

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Los Autenticos Decadente

NORTON MUSEUM: Art After Dark, Catwalk Student Fashion Show

CULTURE ROOM: Drive by Truckers, Lydia Loveless

REVOLUTION LIVE: Be Our Guest

PROPAGANDA: Young Fiction, The Flirt, Father Figure, Elleinad

4/22

RUST & WAX: Record Store Day, DJ Furious Rod, Breakfast from Zipitios

RESPECTABLE STREET: Drag Show

REVOLUTION LIVE: KirbiiCon ft PInkii, Ghost Data, Cannibal Kids, Raquel Lily

OAK GROVE PARK: Afro Roots Fest

THE PEACH: Feunicades Zine Release

PROPAGANDA: The Big Skandal, 33 Lions, Straight Jacket, Scattered Light

BAR NANCY: Johnny Dread

4/23

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Tarab Duende

KRAVIS CENTER: Mames Babegenush

ARTS GARAGE: The Riverbreaks

4/24

THE PEACH: 100 Black Women Art/Music Show

4/26

LIBRARY SPEAKEASY: Tiny Gear Concert

BAR NANCY: Amateur Burlesque

4/27

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Bacilos

BAR NANCY: Elsten Torres

BROWARD CENTER: Natalie Merchant

4/28

RESPECTABLE STREET: Roxx Revolt, Dirty Rivals, Sarah, Silent Poets

BAR NANCY: Alexa & The Old-Fashioneds

PROPAGANDA: Cameron Airborne

CULTURE ROOM: The Wailers

4/29

RESPECTABLE STREET: Vampire’s Everywhere, Saving Vice, We’re Wolves, Royal Hearts

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Young Musicians Unite

THE PEACH: ‘Wild Death Park’ Horror Film

BAR NANCY : Mad World Orchestra

PROPAGANDA: Open Nerve, Modern Mimes, Silenmara, They Might be Zombies

ARTS GARAGE: Bassel & The Supernaturals

4/30

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Los Van Van

5/3

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Mdou Moctar

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MOLCHAT DOMA

by ABEL FOLGAR

Even a casual survey of Europe’s postSoviet landscape reveals a bleakness of temperament that has stuck around along after perestroika and is described in terms typically used for explaining things like the Chernobyl disaster. Not every former Soviet client state has experienced nuclear catastrophe, of course, but even now many seem to share a grimness of outlook acquired in part through long and unhappy histories in the shadow of Russia.

Consider Molchat Doma, a trio from Minsk, Belarus, with a name that translates to “Houses Are Silent,” and a gloomy aesthetic comprised of haunting vocals and deep, brooding bass lines — like echoes of some imagined constructivist future that never came to pass. Formed in 2017 by Egor Shkutko (vocals), Roman Komogortsev (guitar, synths), and Pavel Kozlov (bass), Molchat Doma have managed to capture the essence of Eastern European melancholy and nostalgia in three well-received records. Their latest, “Monument,” was released by indie darlings Sacred Bones Records in 2020.

They are heavily influenced by post-punk bands of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s such as Joy Division and Depeche Mode, but with a regional twist of alienation, despair and austerity. Their unsettling hit “Sudno” — which translates to both “Vessel” and “Bedpan” — was inspired by the work of a contemporary Russian poet, Boris Ryzhy, who wrote unsparingly about life in the ruins of the old Soviet empire before his death in 2001. The song has almost 200 million streams on Spotify.

In a relatively short career, Molchat Doma have gained a significant following both at home and abroad, touring extensively throughout Europe and North America, earning praise for their energetic and captivating live performances. Their music has been featured in numerous films, television shows and video games, and they have been invited to perform at prestigious festivals such as SXSW and Primavera Sound

Opening are Nuovo Testamento, an Italo-American post-punk trio — featuring exmembers of Terremoto and Horror Vacui — whose coldwave bass and minimalist synth under otherworldly vocals are a perfect dark companion to Molchat Doma.

Molchat Doma with Nuovo Testamento perform 8 pm Sunday, April 16 at the Culture Room in Ft. Lauderdale. molchatdoma.com

to pervert and distort the pop culture embraced Wax Trax! and every piercing, screeching, Ministry could fashion into brutal electric-electronic Canada, Vancouver birthed a dance floor scourge Supposedly conceived as a side hustle, Skinny minded souls for four decades, pushing boundaries shows for generations of self-styled reprobates. cEvin Key (Kevin Ogilvie and Kevin Crompton Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson, proving that masses you’re often moving the needle on their songs were used at Guantanamo Bay to government a bill.)

Every good story ends, however, and 40 years that this tour could be Skinny Puppy’s last. “It’s and there is no better way to end our run as 40th anniversary,” the band said in a statement

Still, if it’s going well, they might conceivably harder than they realize now for a collective and artistic commune of craziness. The lifestyle to happen for a rock band. For Skinny Puppy music and that’s a Molotov cocktail of a party.

Skinny Puppy with Lead Into Gold play 7pm Lauderdale. skinnypuppy.com

SKINNY PUPPY

by TIM MOFFATT

The ’70s begat disco and by the end of the disco decade the pendulum swung back towards rock ’n’ roll, hence punk. The ’80s then birthed new wave, a mixture of dance and punk palatable to all parties.

But there is always a faction that wants embraced by the masses. From Chicago came pulverizing sound that Al Jourgenson and electric-electronic music. Farther away, in nice-people scourge known as Skinny Puppy

Skinny Puppy have instead kept a grip on likeboundaries with industrial beats and profane live reprobates. Led since day one by Nivek Ogre and Crompton, respectively), they’re progenitors to Nine even when you’re deliberately repelling the what listeners will like. (Upon learning that to torture inmates, Skinny Puppy sent the U.S.

years is a nice round number, so it makes sense “It’s been eight long years since we’ve toured as a group than with a tour celebrating our statement accompanying the tour announcement.

add dates and extend the tour. It might be like Skinny Puppy to give up being a raucous lifestyle of intentional insanity is what is supposed Puppy it did. Adding in the spiciness of industrial party.

7pm Monday, April 10 at Revolution in Fort

POSTCARDS FROM PARADISE

by JOE CAPOZZI

South J Street in downtown Lake Worth Beach is well known by locals as a go-to spot for great music of diverse genres, but it might be one of the most underrated and underappreciated music scenes in South Florida. That perception is changing, thanks to a new music festival that will showcase some of the best new indie music at two venues that are teaming up for the first time.

At Postcards from Paradise, she said, she expects to play songs from across her musical catalog — including at least one of The Cure songs she recorded for her 2021 full-album cover of their 1980 album, “Seventeen Seconds.”

Yoder (ex-Pharmacy ) is no stranger to South Florida, but Postcards will mark his first visit to Propaganda, where, unlike his previous in 2019, he will not be accompanied

“I feel like playing alone is relatively PureHoney. “When I first got a guitar, it. I started figuring it out with someone. of music to always play with someone interesting challenge to kind of divert comfortable.’’

FRANKIE ROSE

Postcards from Paradise, a bride to West Palm Beach’s popular Bumblefest (both presented by PureHoney), will feature 18 bands at Propaganda and Rudy’s Pub April 14-15, two South J Street live-music clubs with traditionally different clientele but complimentary vibes and a short walk apart.

Brooklyn-based synth pop musician

Frankie Rose and glam rocker Scott Yoder of Seattle are the headliners at Propaganda on a diverse bill that includes Donzii, Haute Tension, Spirit & the Cosmic Heart, Room Thirteen, Liquid Pennies, Sagittarius Aquarius, Zippur, The Dreambows, Rude Television, Night Foundation, Nervous Monks, Thorns, Gold Dust Lounge, The Honeycreepers, Spred the Dub, Man Made Weather.

“I’m so excited I got asked to play the festival,’’ Rose, who last visited South Florida some 15+ years ago with the indie garage band Vivian Girls, told PureHoney. “We teamed up with a great post-punk band named Donzii from Miami. They’re making really interesting music.’’

Rose, formerly with Crystal Stilts and Dum Dum Girls, will be promoting her latest album, “Love As Projection,” released March 10. The songs were written three years ago but the album was delayed because of plant pressing logjam brought on by the pandemic.

SCOTT YODER

“It’s definitely a synth pop record for sure. It’s got more synths, less guitars,’’ she said. “It’s a direction I’ve been wanting to go in more and more.’’

The include album, & Cruisin grunge-pop “interrogates ‘fool’ of “I something and changing and shifting. Something guitar to more intimate songs to Yoder, known as a charming glitter-folk and bell-bottoms.

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“I’m trying to cover as much range only going to be me on stage. I and cover as many things as I can. tracks but it’ll basically be me else will be a machine or ghost.’’

At Rudy’s, the headliners will be Gold Dust Lounge on Friday the 14th and Man Made Weather on Saturday the 15th, part of a lineup more conducive to the mellow vibe of a bar whose motto is “No Grouchy People Allowed.’’

“My crowd skews a little older at this point. Everybody has had families and or is having families and so it’ll be a good fit for us,’’ Russell raised leader of the instrumental PureHoney.

“The music I play is sort of like Fiction soundtrack or a David Lynch “I grew up with punk rock and got

no but to previous West Palm Beach show accompanied by other musicians.

relatively new to me,’’ Yoder told guitar, I didn’t know how to play someone. It’s kind of in my concept someone else. So, it’s more of an divert that and go against what’s

The Propaganda show won’t include just songs from his latest album, “ Wither on Hollywood & Vine,” described by his label, Cruisin Records, as a “glittery, grunge-pop project” that “interrogates the origins of his ‘fool’ persona through the lens of Old Hollywood.’’

“I think you can expect something that will be dynamic Something that’ll go from electric to more theatrical songs,’’ said glitter-folk balladeer with mascara

range as I can with this tour. It’s want to make it more of a show can. There will be some backing physically on stage. Everything ghost.’’

be the Weather a the whose People older had families

Russell Mofsky, the Miami Beachinstrumental band Gold Dust Lounge, told

is neither one of those but influenced by both. It might be influenced as much by old Godzilla and western films as much as anything else.’’

Friday will also feature the HoneyCreepers and Nervous Monks. Saturday will feature the reggae band Spred the Dub outside on the rear patio (but a separate $5 ticket is required for that show).

Kicking off Rudy’s half of the festival on Friday will be Thorns, featuring one of the sons of the late musician Chris Wood, who passed away last year after a battle with cancer. Some proceeds from Postcards will go toward pressing four Wood songs to vinyl.

While the festival’s overall vibe might at first glance seem more suited to a roomy rock club like Propaganda, Rudy’s was only too happy to offer its intimate inside stage, which over the years has hosted an eclectic range of musicians from blues guitarist JP Soars and Allman Brothers tribute group Marshall Brothers Band to blues rock trio Shaw Davis & The Black Ties and The People Upstairs.

“I think it’s going to be a blast,’’ Rudy’s owner MaryBeth Sisoian told PureHoney. “The most attractive thing to me is I’ve always wanted to work with Propaganda. I love bringing South J Street together in any way possible.’’

Mofsky agreed, saying he’s excited to be part of something that will help two popular South J Street venues —and their respective regulars — get to know each other a little better.

“Community is lacking in our current day and age,’’ he said. “I think anything that can bring people together, especially through music, which is something that has the potential to be a great uniter, is wonderful. Without a community, none of us have any place to play.”

what you might hear in a Pulp Lynch film,” Mofsky said, adding, got into jazz and now my music

Postcards from Paradise, presented by PureHoney, features Frankie Rose, Scott Yoder, Haute Tension, Donzii, Room Thirteen, Liquid Pennies and many more, April 14 and 15 at Propaganda and Rudy’s Pub on South J Street in Lake Worth. Very Limited Capacity! Purchase tickets at Eventbrite via purehoneymagazine.com

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UPMPHREY’S MCGEE

by AMANDA E. MOORE

“Break out the booty wax/It’s Saturday night!” the crowd chanted as Umphrey’s McGee performed “Hangover” at an outdoor show in Indiana a while back. Wait… what? Are or are these not actual UM lyrics? Well, they sort of were if you were there, if that makes any sense. A continuously evolving organism, Umphrey’s operate from the standard baseline of recorded singles and albums, but ultimately create a new concert experience every night. Each performance is filled with in-jokes, in-the-moment improvisations, offbeat covers and bonding moments for the crowd. It’s a rolling exchange between band and fans with a friendly FOMO vibe prevailing and various “What was that from?” discussion threads cropping up online after live shows. It’s one reason that UM have amassed a loyal, mobile following that travels to multiple shows a year.

They might conjure the image of some barefoot Scottish flautist, but Umphrey’s McGee are not what their name sounds like. These protean prog-funk rockers and more from the Midwest don’t fit squarely into any one category beyond ur-jam band or musicians’ musicians. Their 30-album discography spanning 25 years is so sprawling, stylistically, it can be daunting for curious newcomers to know where to begin.

PureHoney recommends a playlist reflecting the band’s prodigous range. Start with “No Diablo,” a retro-metal rocker from the harder corner of the catalogue, and then a couple of standouts from “Zonkey,” a 2016 mash-up album named after a hybrid animal. Pairings include “Strangeletage” (Ted Nugent, Beastie Boys) and Spotify favorite “Can’t Rock My Dream Face” (Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac, The Weeknd) — the latter perfect for people dragged to an Umphrey’s show on the promise they’d hear something to dance to.

Floydians, Deadheads, and fans of El Ten Eleven and Papadosio will find their niche in intentionally crafted acoustic tracks like “Glory.” And to grok present-day Umph, newbies should sample “Hiccup” and the just-released 2023 single “Staircase.” As novel as the view through a kaleidoscope, Umphrey’s shows are set-list anarchy from one night to the next, but consistent in delivering bliss.

GMP Live presents Umphrey’s McGee 7:30pm Sat., April 15 at Miami Beach Bandshell.

by AMANDA

Two-time of a decade-long music’s be an innovator, helped Protoje

It’s tough emblematic Protoje’s his mother, (born Oje musical

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After Marley’s reggae

reggae’s successors, influenced by club beats music: increasingly about sex, money, rivalries

But in 2011, writer and reggae expert Dutty Bookman sweeping Jamaica. And at its helm was into a new sound rooted in consciousness album, 2015’s “Ancient Future,” brought international with cameos by fellow Jamaicans such as Chronixx “significantly changed the way modern Jamaican album that will become “synonymous” with

At age 41, he said he feels “grateful” for all he’s investor in Jamaican music and culture. He has live music festival, “Lost in Time,” in Jamaica. people around it,” and said he’s working on continues to build a revived reggae ecosystem disclose any surprise guests for the ArtsPark show will be a whole vibe.”

Rhythm Foundation presents Protoje, Dubwise Experience at 7pm Sunday, April 16 at ArtsPark with RSVP. protoje.com

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Two-time Grammy nominee Protoje is at the forefront decade-long reggae revival happening in the birthplace of Jamaica, and he knows it. “To innovator, to be seen as someone who has others, carries the deepest value to me,” told PureHoney in an interview.

tough to find one contemporary artist more emblematic of Jamaican music, past and present: Protoje’s father, Mike Ollivierre, is a calypso singer; mother, Lorna Bennett, is a reggae singer. Protoje Oje Ken Ollivierre) carries their actual and musical genes, plus the influence of everyone from Hibbert to Bob Marley to Shabba Ranks.

Marley’s death, ragga and dancehall kept reggae alive but on a different wavelength. Classic beats and hip hop, were like a lot of popular rivalries and personal advancement.

Bookman chronicled a new “Reggae Revival” Protoje, fusing popular Jamaican genres and powered by dancehall beats. His third international attention to the reggae revival, Chronixx and Jesse Royal. It’s an album that Jamaican music sounds,” Protoje said, and the him.

he’s been able to do as an artist, mentor and has his own label, In.Digg.Nation, and a new Jamaica. He spoke of gratitude “for my life and the on a “real, original hardcore roots” album. He ecosystem in Jamaica and beyond. He wouldn’t show but promised, “Royalty in South Florida

Dubwise as part two of the Hollywood Artspark ArtsPark at Young Circle in Hollywood. Tickets free

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hard goodness sprawls while tours, underlying starting

Ben Childs and Hector Diaz of the Killbillies West Palm Beach, were so psyched by what with a pandemic still making band life complicated “We were really excited about the local music a lot of talent here, so what could we do by email. The first answer was: Start a podcast. podcast guests.

Two years, one fest, assorted sponsors and Music Festival TWO! will take over Matthews days, April 1-2, with 20 of your neighbors’ best food trucks outside. Surf punks Octo Gato top Vibrations, the Killbillies themselves (with third amazing homegrown array of rock, folk and “This year we will also have the 561 Music I will be doing quick little interview sessions episode that will be following the festival as celebrating that milestone at the festival.”

Octo Gato’s Mike Locke described headlining kind of unexpected homecoming. “We were presumed dead for over four years!” he told a lot of catching up to do … ”

561 Music Fest: April 1-2 at Matthews Brewing

RHYTHM

by ABEL

If there’s envy it’s dance song a tanpura glued explodes various

Now, imagine all that just a few feet away Beyond, a journey of dance and celebration Joya Kazi, a World Choreography Awards nominee on the scene at age 16 as an actor and dancer, has earned numerous recognitions, including Asians” and a prominent spot on the Los Angeles others.

Her dance company, Joya Kazi Unlimited, features who bring an awe-inducing versatility informed styles such as Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Bollywood contemporary dance styles. Kazi formed the expanded out to Los Angeles in 2012.

Fans of Mindy Kaling’s “Never Have I Ever” on and incredible 30 seconds of choreography Ganesh Puja, the Hindu elephant god and remover who spent well over a month developing the well as the authentic Indian formalwear that and cholis – clothing better suited for dancing.

Because of this almost obsessive desire to put Kazi’s work is respectful of its culture and origins, to attract new fans. So as Bollywood & Beyond temples, echoing the lovelorn laments of lovers the fine details of the ghungroo dancing bells Rhythm India: Bollywood & Beyond, 7:30pm Monday, Palm Beach. kravis.org

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South Florida musicians hear all the time how hard it is to sustain a local scene, and thank goodness most refuse to listen. In a region that sprawls both culturally and geographically, while sitting too far south for some national tours, people aren’t waiting around for underlying conditions to change: They’re starting bands and making fans near and far.

, an offbeat bluegrass and Celtic trio from what was happening around them — even complicated — they wanted to let others know. music scene in general and thought there was to help showcase it,” Diaz told PureHoney podcast. The second was: Launch a festival with

and almost 100 podcast episodes along, 561 Matthews Brewing Company in Lake Worth for two best musical acts, plus tap beers inside and top the bill, joined by dubby jam band Tasty third bandmate James Galiano) and and an and more.

Music Living Room, Diaz said, “where Ben and sessions with the artists to use on the podcast as it will be our 100th episode and we will be

headlining 561 Music Fest almost epically, as a were shipwrecked on Octo Gato island and told PureHoney by email, adding, “[We have Brewing Co in Lake Worth. 561musicfestival.com

RHYTHM INDIA

ABEL FOLGAR

there’s one thing Bollywood does that is the of entertainment divisions across the globe, dance numbers. Say what you will about and dance sequences in film: The second tanpura gets plucked, you know all eyes are glued to the screen as choreographed chaos explodes in a flurry of colors and the glimmer of various jangling metal adornments.

on stage. That’s Rhythm India: Bollywood & celebration created by director and choreographer nominee Telly Awards winner. After bursting dancer, Mumbai-born, California-raised Kazi including a spot on DissDash’s list of “Coolest South Angeles County Artesia Library mural, among features highly trained dancers and performers informed by an extensive variety of Indian dance Bollywood and Bhangra, as well as fusion and the company in the Bay Area in 2004 and

on Netflix will remember the groundbreaking choreography that helped illustrate a celebration of remover of obstacles. This was thanks to Kazi, movements and mudras (hand gestures), as went beyond the sari and featured lehengas dancing.

put Indian culture into the American spotlight, origins, and modern and accessible enough Beyond treks through royal palaces and sacred lovers across time, pay extra careful attention to bells as you’re whisked into the frenzy.

Monday, April 10 at the Kravis Center in West

AFROROOTS: MDOU

by CARLY

The 25th anniversary Afro Roots Fest is a festival winding its way from Gainesville Miami Beach, and reaching down into May, bands representing several African — from indigenous folkloric to futurist, jazz, unique musical styles and stories.

Mdou Moctar, coming to the Miami presentation with Miami Beach’s Rhythm distinct origin stories to go with their entrancing, Singer-guitarist-frontman Mahamadou raised in desert regions in Niger with deep a Berber ethnic group known for silver historically nomadic lifestyle.

Moctar sings mostly in his native Tuareg of English and French. His songs are about imperialism. From the band’s 2021 album opening track translates to, “If we stay being systemic forms of slavery and exploitation touring artist who resettled in Niger during both a local and global perspective.

Raised in a traditional, religious household Moctar nevertheless fell hard for Tuareg a rudimentary guitar with bike brake success, his music, like most new sounds person-to-person by cell phone, from memory

American listeners caught on thanks compilation, “Music from Saharan Cellphones track “Tahoultine.” The song’s chorus (translated), must accompany it with a good heart,” And the heart-tugging twang of Moctar’s radical.

Afro Roots Fest 2023, March 14-May 21, presents May 3 at Miami Beach Bandshell. miamibeachbandshell.com,

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multi-city, months-long musical heritage Gainesville to Jupiter, through Doral, Miami and Islamorada and Key West. Through late African countries and Afro-Cuban traditions jazz, punk, and pop — are showcasing

Beach Bandshell on May 3 (in a coRhythm Foundation), have one of the more entrancing, band-powered syncopations. Souleymane, aka Mdou Moctar, was deep traditions from the Tuareg people, and glass arts, various dialects, and a

Tuareg language Tamasheq, with touches about love, power and the scars left by album “Afrique Victime,” a line from the silent, it will be the end of us.” The “it” exploitation that Moctar — a veteran during the COVID pandemic — sees from

household that disapproved of electric music, “desert blues” music and made himself cables for strings. Eventually gaining in West Africa at the time, traveled from memory cards and air drops.

to Portland label Sahel Sounds’ 2011 Cellphones,” that featured Mdou Moctar’s (translated), “Beauty is not enough/You is an ever-present theme in their music. Moctar’s guitar playing feels both ancient and presents Mdou Moctar, 7pm Wednesday miamibeachbandshell.com, afrorootsfest.com

TUYO DAVID SCHMITT

by VERONICA INBERG

David Schmitt, known as Tuyo to his online fans, is a selftaught printmaker based in Germany with more than 63,000 followers on Instagram, and an instantly recognizable primitivist style using what his biography calls “organic shapes, archaic symbols and an intuitive approach.”

Schmitt is the featured artist in this month’s PureHoney, and in an interview conducted by email across multiple time zones (he was also visiting Australia), he fielded questions about color versus monochrome, his enigmatic two-tone poster series combining words and pictures, and a body of work guided by a fascination with the similarities in visual language across different cultures and ages.

“I try to approach my work with a childlike curiosity and aesthetic,” Schmitt said, adding, “we have all been there before and hopefully remember what it means to engage with a world full of wonders.”

Born in 1994 in Hamburg, Germany, Schmitt didn’t grow up necessarily thinking he would become an artist. “I only started about four years ago in some sort of epiphany, looking for a different path in life when I felt this huge pull from my creative side,” he said. “I chose to follow that impulse. I never questioned that decision ever since.”

“Tuyo” is also the Spanish word for “yours,” but the choice of a name was, like the artistry, intuitive. “I was looking for a name to use for publishing my work and ‘Tuyo’ just had a nice ring and vibe to it,” he said. “That’s really all there is haha.”

He draws inspiration from self-taught artists such as the freed slave William Traylor (1854-1949) and the contemporary Swedish painter Emma Larsson. Schmitt’s interest in “archaic symbols” is one of the most apparent features of his work: Many of his prints could be compared to cave paintings.

Minus the text and more contemporary context — a coffee percolator, blooming flowers in a vase — his subjects look primitive or prehistoric and simple in design. Proportions are skewed. Schmitt’s work reminds us that nothing is created in a vacuum, away from the people and the society in which it exists. He is building on forms that originated even before the notion of “art” came into existence.

His methods are both analog — handmade linocut prints on archival paper — and digital — poster prints with texture added electronically. He uses one or very few colors. “It is great to try out everything to see what works and what doesn’t; however, there is freedom in restriction, as weird as that might sound,” he said. “Breaking it down to a monochrome choice of color lets me really explore the basics of composition and visual storytelling.

“If it does not work in black and white, it also won’t work in color.”

Although his subjects resist realistic physiology, they are almost all representational enough for a viewer to recognize. Like cave painters who depicted people they lived among, animals their communities hunted or idols they worshipped, Schmitt represents a collective, contemporary “now” of faces, cats, flowers, objects and abstract shapes.

Schmitt also incorporates two components that prehistoric art typically does not, text and visual jokes, to transform our everyday surroundings into an alternate reality populated by pigeons with six toes, flowers with faces, and animals that have no discernible place in the cycle of evolution.

It is difficult — but entertaining — to assess some of his word-andpicture pairings. Statements like “the easy way is easy” and “it makes no sense but it does” become enigmatic when paired, respectively, with flowers and the face of a bear.

“The text in my poster series is inspired by words I pick up through music, poems, books, or movies,” he said. “If I notice something resonates during that day, I will write in my notebook to draw from it later.” “The combinations just happen as they feel right or seem to tell the right story,” he said.

He’s not currently partnered with a gallery—“it’s just me in the studio right now,” he said. But his work has led to collaborations with brands such as Minimum Wines, for bespoke bottle labels. He also makes original, standalone pieces with acrylics and oil pastels that add color and design flourishes yet stay true to style. Find David Schmitt @tuyo.art on Instagram and at tuyoart.com

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