PUREHONEY 129

7/1

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Cowboy Bebop

Live Tribute

PROPAGANDA: Jacuzzi Boys, Octo Gato, The Chans

RESPECTABLE STREET: Warped Tour RSC

ARTS GARAGE: Siempre Flamenco

GRAMPS: Lemon City Trio, Electric Kif, Anemoia

BAR NANCY: Mainstreet

7/2

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Gran Fiest de San Juan de Venezuela

GUANABANAS: Brett Staska

GRAMPS: Palomino Blond, Smelte, Novely

7/3

REVOLUTION LIVE: The Struts, Mac Saturn

HARD ROCK LIVE: Peter Frampton

7/4

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Beach Skate Roller Disco

7/5

RESPECTABLE STREET: Up the Drunx

– ITB Night – Punk & Ska DJ’s

GUANABANAS: Orbit Divider

BAR NANCY: Strange Bass

7/6

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Duda Beat

RESPECTABLE STREET: Karaoke on the Patio

HARD ROCK LIVE: LL Cool J

PROPAGANDA: House Party w DJ Matt Kelly

BAR NANCY: Hardcore For Punx

7/7

PROPAGANDA: Adam Arritola’s Untame Impala ft Fresh Esh, Waxworms, Floridians, Flower Child Slumber Party

>>> READ MORE IN PH

RESPECTABLE STREET: Sugar Nu Metal Party

HANI HONEY CO.: “Ways of Seeing”

Visual art show w Anna Gorostiaga, JR Ringdahl, Dan Gorostiaga

>>> READ MORE IN PH

NORTON MUSEUM: Art After Dark

feat Otto Santana

REVOLUTION LIVE: Hella Mega Tour 23 ft

American Idiots Boy Fell Out, Deserted Will

ITHINK AMP: Matchbox Twenty

ARTS GARAGE: Art of Laughter w Shaun Jones

HARD ROCK LIVE: Riley Green

GUANABANAS: Firewater Tent Revival

BAR NANCY: Disco AF

7/8

ITHINK AMP: Loverboy, Foreigner

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MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Los Amigos Invisibles

RESPECTABLE STREET: intimate music collective

REVOLUTION LIVE: Lovesong Cure Tribute, First Wave

ARTS GARAGE: Chris O’Leary Band

STEAMHORSE BREWERY: Brett Staska

GUANABANAS: Electric Kif

CULTURE ROOM: Crown the Empire, Varials

BAR NANCY: The Kitchen Club

7/9

HARD ROCK LIVE: Illenium

PROPAGANDA: Orthodox, Chamber, 156/ Silence

7/11

FLA LIVE ARENA: Blink 182

7/12

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Meridian Brothers >>> READ MORE IN PH

RESPECTABLE STREET: Up the Drunx

– ITB Night – Punk & Ska DJ’s

BAR NANCY: Veta Ceti

7/13

ITHINK AMP: Boy George and Culture Club, Berlin, Howard Jones

RESPECTABLE STREET: Karaoke on the Patio

HARD ROCK LIVE: Louis Tomlinson

BAR NANCY: Stereo Joule

7/14

RESPECTABLE STREET: Eden In The Dark – DJ

Strawberry REVOLUTIONRoninLIVE: Duane Betts, Palmetto Hotel

RESOURCE DEPOT: Up-Cycle Bike Art Show

NORTON MUSEUM: Art After Dark, Be You Disco

PROPAGANDA: Weird at First

ARTS GARAGE: A Night of FUNdraising Magic

TWISTED TRUNK BREWERY: Brett Staska

BAR NANCY: Donzii

7/15

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Julian Marley & the Uprising

RESPECTABLE STREET: Disco Never Dies

REVOLUTION LIVE: Gimme Gimme Disco

ARTS GARAGE: JD Danner, Tribute to the

Women Who Rocked the 70s

CULTURE ROOM: Buck Cherry

ITHINK AMP: Dierks Bentley

HARD ROCK LIVE: Staind

BAR NANCY: Burlesque

7/16

HARD ROCK LIVE: Florida by Night

7/19

RESPECTABLE STREET: Up the Drunx – ITB Night – Punk & Ska DJ’s

BAR NANCY: Argota

7/20

REVOLUTION LIVE: Andrew McMahon, In the Wilderness, Flor

PROPAGANDA: Jaguardini, Romani, The Abominable Dr. John

RESPECTABLE STREET: Karaoke on the Patio

ITHINK AMP: Mudvayne

BAR NANCY: Ricky Valido & the Hialeah Hillbillies

7/21

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: America Viva “the Flashmob”

RESPECTABLE STREET: MDRN RUIN: DJ Paul Klov spinning Goth

REVOLUTION LIVE: Fist Pump Fest

NORTON MUSEUM: Art After Dark

feat Pan Paradise Steel Drum

PROPAGANDA: Voodoo Monk

ARTS GARAGE: Ann Hampton Callaway, Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration!

ITHINK AMP: ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd

BAR NANCY: Yacht Rock

7/22

POMPANO BCH AMP: Michael Franti Spearhead, Fortunate Youth

REVOLUTION LIVE: Emo Night Brooklyn

RESPECTABLE STREET: Emo Night

PROPAGANDA: Black Denim Rage

ARTS GARAGE : Ann Hampton Callaway, Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration!

GUANABANAS: Bag of Donuts Fest

Joey Calderaio, Cloud 9 Vibes, Sierra

Lane, Roots Shakedown, Ichroniq, The Sub Herbs, Kylie Cole

CULTURE ROOM: Overkill, Exhorder, Heathen

BAR NANCY: Oski presents Heavy Metal

7/24

ITHINK AMP: Fall Out Boy

7/25

GRAMPS: Man on Man

7/26

RESPECTABLE STREET: Up the Drunx

ITB Night – Punk & Ska DJ’s

BAR NANCY: Pantheon presents Papitowan, Danny Gushers. Mr. Floyd Larry

7/27

RESPECTABLE STREET: Karaoke on the Patio

7/28

RESPECTABLE STREET: Summer of Goth

SUBMISSION

REVOLUTION LIVE: 92Legend, Big Kuza

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Tierra Adentro

NORTON MUSEUM: Art After Dark

feat JM & the Sweets

PROPAGANDA: Slayer Tribute w Ghosts of War, Snake Healer, Leather Whip

ARTS GARAGE: Bill Muter & the Sharp Shooters

ITHINK AMP: Dave Matthews Band

GRAMPS: Gouge Away

BAR NANCY: Freddy Stebbins Comedy

7/29

REVOLUTION LIVE: Against All Authority, Suicide Machines, Jer

POORHOUSE: Radiobaghdad, Shakers, GoatRope >>> READ MORE IN PH

HOLLYWOOD BEACH THEATRE: The Summit, The Boas, Timothy LaRoque, The Def Cats

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Miami Girls Rock Camp

CENTENNIAL PARK: Boynton Beach Night Market

ITHINK AMP: Dave Matthews Band

ARTS GARAGE: Start Me Up! Rolling Stones Trib

PROPAGANDA: BDSM Comedy Show

BAR NANCY: Vice City Vandals, Miss Amerikan Vampyre, Fuakata

7/30

HARD ROCK LIVE: John Fogerty

MIAMI BCH BANDSHELL: Intl Hispanic Ballet

8/3

PROPAGANDA: The Queers, The Jasons, Billy Doom is Dead, Straight Jacket >>> READ MORE IN PH

MERIDIAN BROTHERS

by AMANDA Salsa, hips sway, infinitely

music

Hispanic

is a culture and a philosophy — a principle of artful

The musical and migratory waves that propelled and Havana somehow converged in one became the self-proclaimed salsa capital of salsa seeped into the futurist-electro-rock music based Meridian Brothers, who are back in Miami their second time ever — to play a free show Rhythm Foundation and Tigre Sounds as part

If he had just three words to describe their sound, tells PureHoney they would be, “Parallelism, discography spans eras — past, present and nature, the Meridians have concocted their “music laboratory” often referred to by band salsa, Colombian cumbia, futuristic tropi-pop,

They can knock out politically charged, rhythmically — which nods toward mambo-based boogaloo such as “Metamorfosis,” a sci-fi-inspired vision nothing quite like this refreshingly original band Momney. Though fans of Colombian-bass DJ electro melodies.

Offering a glimpse of the set list, Álvarez says Atómica,“ “Puya Del Empresario” and “Los Golpeadores repertoire, together with some old songs,” he says.

Meridian Brothers perform 8 pm Wednesday, with opener DJ Krishna Villar. meridianbrothers.com

MARIANA REYES

MERIDIAN BROTHERS

AMANDA E. MOORE

Salsa, the word, slips off the tongue as effortlessly as sway, and beneath its silky surface is something infinitely rich and complex: uptempo Latin fusion music and dance styles bearing far-flung AfroHispanic influences. More than a genre, salsa today artful mingling across space and time.

propelled salsa from clubs in San Juan, New York place in the 1960s: Cali, Colombia, which of the world. So it’s no coincidence that Cali music of another Colombian band, the BogotaMiami for the first time in a decade — and only show at Miami Beach Bandshell presented by of the Tigre Global Sounds Series

sound, Meridian Brothers founder Eblis Álvarez Multidimensional, The Past.” Yet the band’s imagined future. Embodying salsa’s eclectic their own sonic identity — in a quasi-mythical members — from an amalgamation of roots tropi-pop, psychedelia and Afropop.

rhythmically swinging songs such as “La Policía” boogaloo music — and psychedelic space rockers vision quest. In an era of booming remixes, there’s band whose followers include Altin Gun and Ritt KillaBeatMaker may also enjoy the Brothers’

says it will inlcude “Guaracha UFO,” “Bomba Golpeadores de la cumbia.” “We’ll play our latest says. “It’s a pretty solid show, very groovy.”

Wednesday, July 12th at Miami Beach Bandshell meridianbrothers.com

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july 3 THE STRUTS WITH MAC SATURN

july 7

HELLA MEGA TOUR 23 AMERICAN IDIOTS – GREEN DAY TRIBUTE, BOY FELL OUT – FALLOUT BOY TRIBUTE & DESERTED WILL – WEEZER TRIBUTE

july 8 LOVESONG THE CURE TRIBUTE WITH FIRST WAVE

JULY 14

DUANE BETTS & PALMETTO MOTEL

july 15

GIMME GIMME DISCO 21+

july 20

ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS WITH FLOR

july 21 FIST PUMP

july 22 EMO NIGHT BROOKLYN 21+

july 28 92LEGEND WITH BIG KUZA

july 29

AGAINST ALL AUTHORITY WITH THE SUICIDE MACHINES & JER

AUGUST 4 STILL ALIVE PEARL JAM TRIBUTE IN A NUTSHELL A TRIBUTE TO ALICE IN CHAINS

august 12

JESSE & JOY

august 17 BAYLEN LEVINE

aUGUST 19

JPEGMAFIA & DANNY BROWN AT THE BACKYARD WITH KENNY MASON

august 20 JVKE AT THE BACKYARD

august 23 CLUTCH WITH GIOVANNIE & THE HIRED GUNS & MIKE DILLON

SEPTEMBER 12

DANCE GAVIN DANCE AT THE BACKYARD WITH SIM, RAIN CITY DRIVE & WITHIN DESTRUCTION

september 23

BOYS LIKE GIRLS WITH STATE CHAMPS FOUR YEARS STRONG AND LOLO

October 10 THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA & FIT FOR A KING WITH COUNTERPARTS AND LANDMVRKS

october 15 THE MIDNIGHT

october 26

CHAPPELL ROAN

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LOVERBOY & FOREIGNER

by OLIVIA FELDMAN / SEAN PICCOLI

Maybe no band was more definitionally ’80s than Calgary, Canada’s Loverboy. With primped hair, pleather pants and a spangly rock sound, these vaguely heart-throbby, regular-guy rockers from the Great White North were turned loose by a record deal upon an entire continent of teens — the same cohort that would, within a year of the band’s U.S. arrival, become the first MTV viewers.

You can guess what happened next. With the emergent radio-video colossus in their corner (Loverboy had previously been turned down by seemingly every record label in the Western world), there was no stopping the Loverboy advance, at least not until ’80s kids aged out of their band crushes and a decade of make-out rock gave way to grunge.

Until that reckoning, though, Loverboy’s hooky pop-rock heatseekers — sung with sheer belief by a kerchief-wearing tenor frontman, Mike Reno — spread like Canadian wildfire. With so much glammy excitement emptying bins and filling seats, America soon responded in kind, producing New Jersey’s own Bon Jovi.

“Working for the Weekend” and “Turn Me Loose” were the party yin and break-up yang of the Loverboy songbook. And there was more going on in those two tracks than you might have expected, coming from people who would sign off on “Get Lucky” and “Keep It Up” as album titles. “Turn Me Loose,” their very first single, was a minor-key burst of rockoperatic melodrama, with Reno topping out thrillingly on his promise to “fly.” For all its populist party energy, “Working for the Weekend” also contained a bit of empathetic musing about people’s need to be wanted: “Everyone’s trying to get it right.”

“The Kid Is Hot Tonite,” their second single, signaled that Loverboy pretty well knew what they were in for: “We heard he opened up a brand new door/Well you know that’s what I’m lookin’ for/We’ll have to wait and see if it makes you scream for more.” They weren’t so cursed with self-awareness, however, that they didn’t sieze their moment. Alongside the platinum records they landed a hit single, “Heaven in Your Eyes,” on the original “Top Gun” soundtrack. Reno and Ann Wilson sang “Almost Paradise,” the power ballad heart of the “Footloose” soundtrack. Two more thoroughly ’80s movie-music touchstones would be tough to choose.

In a scene from Richard Linklater’s 2016 film “Everybody Wants Some!!” a group of college baseball teammates are getting ready for a night on the town: It is 1980 and we see these coiffed studs slapping on cologne and combing their mustaches to the slick opening guitar chords of “Urgent” by Foreigner

Kudos to the filmmakers for picking the right band to represent dudes stepping through the doorway of ’80s America. A multi-platinum rock act that basically owned FM radio for parts of two decades, Foreigner are on a farewell tour with their old stadium mates Loverboy and with only one original member, British guitarist Mick Jones, still available for callbacks to the rock era.

Jones’ key partner was Lou Gramm, a versatile American singer who could purr, plead or belt out rock phrases with conviction. As collaborators they stormed the charts and the airwaves with a self-titled 1977 debut and went on a seven-year, five-album roll. Foreigner racked up hits and reigned supreme no matter what was happening in punk, disco, new wave, rap and metal. They rocked hard enough to pack stadiums yet also wrote full-hearted confessionals. Lines from their immortal ballad “I Want to Know What Love Is” — “I’ve got nowhere left to hide / Looks like love has finally found me” — wouldn’t be out of place in a Supremes or Four Tops song.

At their best, Jones and Gramm (later replaced on vocals by Kelly Hansen) turned great pop tropes into contemporary rock. And with catchy tunes for every phase of romantic life — “Feels Like The First Time,” “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” “Hot Blooded,” “Cold As Ice” — making love songs cool for people raised on Van Halen was a feat they soundly achieved. Between Foreigner and Loverboy you will surely be ushered back into the era that awaited Linklater’s eager lads.

Loverboy and Foreigner perform at 7pm Saturday, July 8 at iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach. loverboyband.com, foreigneronline.com

AGAINST ALL AUTHORITY

by TIM MOFFATT

South Florida, it’s a heck of a place. There’s beautiful weather and raging inequality; amazing diversity and some militant immigrants trying to shut the way behind them; a beach aesthetic that prizes looks and fitness, and a party scene that will sabotage all that body sculpting with booze and drugs; a culture that brims with hospitality and puts on incredible events, but crowds out local artistic (and musical) growth.

It’s lovely here but rent is more than a mortgage, and buying property in the southern tip of the sunshine state requires crypto bro wealth. The locals may quip to tourists, “I live where you vacation.” But the air of superiority comes with the challenges of sweltering heat, a rat race to make ends meet, traffic that would put Mad Max: Fury Road to shame and the increasing intensity of hurricanes and floods.

So, when people wonder aloud how Florida, the land of Disney and sunshine, could have decent punk bands, we have a list of grievances to back up the rancor. One of our own that made good was a little band from Miami known as Against All Authority. They started out in the early ‘90s as a as a punk band, added some ska elements and helped to ground the burgeoning ska-punk scene in the tenets of punk and hardcore bands that came before them. Frankly, many ska-punk bands were heavy on the clown music of third wave ska and light in the hardcore punk department. Whereas these sneering Miami kids had more attitude and spunk than half the bands of Mohican-d fashionistas making their way through the scene.

An AAA show in the mid-90’s could be a gauntlet of aggression shedding, ruffians “dancing” it out in the pit and then, bloody and bruised, grabbing a slice together across the street from Cheers, chowing down under the Metrorail. Always an outlet, never a gang, always a party, never a fight, the band took their bad attitude good time music on the road and somehow gave Miami a local band we could believe in, because they were against it all, just like us!

Unfortunately, like all good things, Danny Lore, Joe Koontz, Chris “Spikey” Goldbach, Fin Leavell and Marshall Wildey eventually had to take a break from the road and the band. They went off, having made new lives for themselves. Some stayed in music: Fin is a composer, amongst many other things; Koontz has continued to make music and crafts guitars from scratch, Spikey has played in several bands since AAA disbanded, and Lore is a seasoned bladesmith.

However, the trail they blazed from Cutler Bay never stopped resonating with disaffected or disenfranchised youths, young and old, and while they seemingly moved on, the rest of us did not. Thankfully, the punk rock gods have heard our prayers and found a way to reunite our heroes. For one night? For a new record and tour? Who knows? Good things should always be enjoyed in the moment!

RADIOBAGHDAD

While AAA was making a stink down in the 305, up in the 954, Fort Lauderdale had an adjacent group of reprobates making music and choosing havoc and hangovers over a good night’s sleep and early morning gym sessions. To celebrate AAA’s homecoming show at Revolution Live! in Fort Lauderdale, Radiobaghdad, a mainstay band of the Fort Lauderdale scene have decided to reunite and play the AAA after-party show at Fort Lauderdale’s last bastion of original music, the Poorhouse. A venue that is conveniently located right next door to Revolution Live!

Radiobaghdad have made appearances with various past members, but to gather with old friends and party in two places on the same night should really put the exclamation point on things. It’s a good occasion to resurface old memories of the St. Ides-drenched 1990’s and be grateful there weren’t camera phones in the halcyon days of Radiobaghdad and AAA, because there would probably have been a lot more arrests.

Against All Authority play “All Fall Down” in its entirety, 7pm Saturday July 29 at Revolution Live! in Fort Lauderdale,

at the Poorhouse starts around 11pm with Radiobaghdad, Shakers and

facebook.com/againstallauthorityofficial

joined by special guests Suicide Machines and JER. Music

Goat Rope.

WAYS OF SEEING

by TIM MOFFATT

Once upon a time, there was a band called CAVITY who were from Miami and were very “doom” before that word became a label for almost anything heavy in music. CAVITY seemed to be a part of every interesting thing happening musically in Miami in 19922003. They drew national attention to the local scene, and alumni such as Steve Brooks, Juan Montoya, Beatriz Monteavaro and Jason Landrian went on to noteworthy projects such as Torche, Floor, Holly Hunt and Black Cobra

Bassist Daniel Gorostiaga, for his part, got on a visual arts path that started with flyers and ‘zines, progressed to an MFA in fine arts and — alongside the occasional CAVITY reunion — led to work in art with an emphasis on relief prints such as linocuts, or block prints, made by cutting grooves into stamp-like blocks that are then inked and pressed into paper.

Gorostiaga will be exhibiting some of his output at a show called Ways of Seeing hosted by the Hani Honey Company shop and restaurant in Stuart. There will art by Daniel Gorostiaga, his daughter Anna Gorostiaga, and Boston-based painter JR Ringdahl. For opening night on Friday, July 7 there will also be food, drinks, and music by Daniel and an undisclosed (for now) collaborator to follow.

The exhibition gets its name from a book and BBC series by an English art critic named John Berger. “I thought it was a good title to represent the different ways in which the three of us see the world and how we represent it in our works,” Daniel Gorostiaga tells PureHoney.

Anna Gorostiaga’s art is comprised of drawings, paintings, linocut prints and silkscreening on paper and fabric. Her subject matter is generally representations of animals and imaginary characters in a tattoo flash style.

Ringdahl’s online biography describes “multi-layered oil paint and clear, epoxy resin paintings” that are “color intensive and manipulate depth perception.”He also makes “fruit sculptures” using clear, epoxy resin to preserve fruit at various stages of decay — which sounds doom-y in a way that CAVITY fans should appreciate.

Ways of Seeing opens 7pm Friday, July 7 at Hani Honey in Stuart.

Keep in mind that the 1980s punk scene in identity and fragmentation into dozens of acts made the most waves in the moment, traditional bands — with a Ramones ethos — laid the foundation for the eventual pop-punk stable of artists in the early ’90s.

Formed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1982 are one of the better bands (if not the best) At times a trio, sometimes a quartet, King’s hosted dozens of rhythm sections over a very full-length efforts counting studio, live and singles and EPs.

Their two most recent LPs, 2020’s Save the marquee standards: The former a slab of snot “Let the Rain Wash Away My Tears”; the latter another This one features versions of hits by The Troggs

It hasn’t all been saccharine pop bliss for the interrupted the their momentum and perhaps In today’s more polarized discourse, King’s comments have produced blowback. But a while living a life in punk rock has obviously himself and his brand intact.

The Queers with The Jasons, Billy Doom is Thursday, August 3 at Propaganda in Lake Worth.

THE QUEERS

by ABEL FOLGAR

The Queers have been around since forever it seems and in their 41st year this beloved, irreverent crew continues forging along in a vein of never-taken-so-serious punk rock filtered through ‘60s bubblegum pop.

America was marked by heavy regionalist subgenres. While the college radio-leaning moment, what can now be considered the more of hypered-up, stripped-down rock ’n’ roll pop-punk explosion out of the Lookout! Records

1982 by Joseph “Joe Queer” King, the Queers best) to carry that Ramones influence forward. been the only constant in an outfit that has very productive run — more than two dozen compilation recordings, as well as over 20

World and 2021’s Reverberation are Queers snot with tracks like “Shirley Needs a Dildo” and another entry in their ample covers catalogue. Troggs, The Who and … you get the picture.

the Queers. Alcoholism and drug abuse have perhaps kept the band from a higher profile. King’s sometimes against-the-grain views and a hetero guy leading a band called Queers obviously developed a thick-enough skin to keep

is Dead and Straight Jacket perform 7pm Worth. facebook.com/thequeers

UNTAME IMPALA

by DAVID ROLLAND

You all know Tame Impala, the Australian psych rock juggernaut big enough to have headlined Coachella. But what is Adam Arritola’s Untame Impala, which will be playing at Propaganda in Lake Worth on July 7? “Adam Arritola’s Untame Impala is actually the name of the act I’ll be playing as that night,” Arritola tells PureHoney “I’d like to keep the details of that only available for those who are adventurous to come witness it in all of its glory for one night only.”

What we do know of Arritola is that he started the Miami Psych Fest, which ran for a few years before going into what he describes as “hibernation” as he moved to New York state. As 2023 began, Arritola had an urge to “travel and play freely improvised music with as many people as possible.” A nasty car accident at the start of that tour put a kibosh on things. He’s making up for lost time this summer and promising “unique performances every single night of the tour.”

Each gig will be “completely reflective of the current time and environment in each space,” Arritola says. “Some being solo, some being in collaborations with some incredible musicians.”

While the showman in him promotes a bit of mystery and curiosity around Untame Impala, Arritola does reveal details about the Propaganda Summer Psych Fest lineup.

“The Floridians is a Miami supergroup made up of former members of Slow Coast, Soft Cricket, Palomino Blond, Games We Play, and Polar Boys,” he says. “Flower Child Slumber Party is the dreamy psychedelic brainchild of Moongazer’s Philip Bourgi.

“Fresh Esh has been flying just low enough under everyone in South FL’s radar to remain one of the best kept secrets down there,” Arritola says, “and The Wax Worms bring their own brand of ultimate chill to the table for all to eat up. It’s going to be a very spectacular night that any live music fan in South Florida should be ecstatic about.”

Adam Arritola’s Untame Impala, The Floridians, Flower Child Slumber Party, Fresh Esh and The Wax Worm perform 9pm Friday July 7 at Propaganda in Lake Worth.

SANDER PATELSKI

by KELLI BODLE

Dutch artist Sander Patelski says his goal is to make viewers see 20th Century architecture “with new eyes.” So he illuminates an earlier era’s built forms and facades by presenting them as elevations — architectural-style renderings, but using mixed-media techniques that make “the compositional beauty” of the underlying structures “more apparent,” says the PureHoney artist of the month.

Through his retro palette of warm yet muted colors, paired with the simple lines prized by the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements, viewers can enjoy iconic architecture made on a small-enough scale that the average minimalist can afford it.

Born in a small Dutch mining town, Heerlen, Patelski moved to progressively bigger cities in the Netherlands — Maastricht and then Amsterdam, where he now resides — in pursuit of art as a livelihood. He started out working at a publishing house and later opened his own graphic design business focusing on book covers.

“My practice as a cover designer is completely separate from my ‘free works’ related to architecture and geometry,” Patelski says. “In principle, I take on every assignment, whether it is a mass-market novel, popular non-fiction, or niche poetry. The challenge lies in appropriating the visual language specific to a particular genre and, if possible, giving it a twist.”

Since the pandemic, he has expanded his small-scale, short-run series of works on paper to include architectural prints, abstract compositions, fictional facades, and original interior arrangements.

Patelski focuses on recognizable buildings created in the style of Constructivism, Suprematism, Bauhaus and De Stijl. “The compositions of modernist facades appeal to me because of their combination of minimalism and elegance,” he says, “as well as the experimental use of materials.” Modern architecture fans will easily recognize titles like “Philip Johnson, Glass House (1949),” “Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water (Kaufmann Residence) 1934-37,” and “Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Dessau (1925-1926).”

When preparing to recreate an architectural drawing, Patelski spends copious amounts of time collecting visual materials to get the best possible understanding of the building. Because this type of artwork relies on the intersection of geometric swaths of color paired with flattened lines, much of the depth and form of the buildings is communicated through Patelski’s expert use of shadow and perspective. His process for mid-century works draws from the original architects’ own layer-bylayer drafting techniques, updated with 21st Century technologies. Pressure of pencil, thick or thinness of line, and application of watercolor all make their appearance in digital form.

Similar to how Modernists rejected the Beaux Arts ideals of balance and hierarchy, Patelski also is not married to rigid drawing practices. “I first draw the pencil lines and leave them as they are,” he says, “even if they no longer align perfectly.” Intersecting planes — a hallmark of Modernism — appear often in Patelski’s work, stone and glass panes magically converging mid-air in a celebration of formal beauty and a nod to the mastery of man over materials.

There may be no better crash course in the work of the Modernist architecture greats than a visit to Patelski’s online gallery. Alongside Johnson, Wright and Gropius are Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and more. Beyond the architectural drawings, Patelski also creates geometric compositions on paper that give off M.C. Escher endless tessellation vibes and a muted neon noir.

The artist is currently preparing for his first solo exhibition, “Icons of Modernism,” at Amsterdam Artspace Contemporary Gallery. He is also assembling print series that group his newer and earlier pieces into special edition collections. And he still designs book covers.