PUREHONEY 132

10/1

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Zun Zun

Children’s Festival: 123 Andres

THE GROUND: Lydia Lunch, Retrovirus, Donzii

10/3

REVOLUTION LIVE: Teddy Swims

THE PARKER: Toad the Wet Sprocket

10/4

REVOLUTION LIVE: Band of Horses, Bella White

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: La Escala Sonora

GRAMPS: Jake Miller

10/5

THE PARKER: Hot Tuna

BAR NANCY: Hardcore 4 PUNX

10/6-22 LW PLAYHOUSE: RENT

10/6

REVOLUTION LIVE: Ashnikko

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Kany Garcia

THE PARKER: Switchfoot

ITHINK AMP: Outlaw Music Fest ft Willie

Nelson, Avett Brothers, Gov’t Mule

BAR NANCY: Disco Af

GRAMPS: Avey Tare

ARTS GARAGE: Art of Laughter ft Mia Jackson

PROPAGANDA: The Kitchen Club

VIRGINIA KEY: Tipsy Music Fest

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: The Flyers

10/7

SAVOR CINEMA: Citrus Circuit Film Festival

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Mala

Rodriquez, Sara Socas

GRANDVIEW PUBLIC MARKET: Surf Swap

Festival & Flea ft Brett Staska, Matt Walden, Barefoot Mailmen, Mild Wild

REVOLUTION LIVE: Be Our Guest

THE PARKER: Blue October

GRAMPS: Folktale San Pedro

PROPAGANDA: Jamina, Falseta, Luxrem

BAR NANCY: Nirvana Tribute

ARTS GARAGE: The French Horn Collective

10/8

RESPECTABLE STREET: Unearth, Revocation

ARTS GARAGE: Moonlight Thief

10/10

GRAMPS: Dehd

REVOLUTION LIVE: The Devil Wears Prada, Fit for a King, Counterparts, Landmvrks

10/11

BAR NANCY: Scott Yoder,

Haute Tension, Mold!

10/12

KASEYA CENTER: Depeche Mode

KILL YOUR IDOL: Depeche Mode After Party w. Scott Yoder, Violet Silhouette

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Kevin Kaarl

BAR NANCY: Stereo Joule

GRAMPS: AJJ

10/13

RESPECTABLE STREET: Beast In Black, Dance with the Dead

REVOLUTION LIVE: Sedated, Time Bombed

PROPAGANDA: Sleeping In, Burning Glass, Funeral Homes, Bonus

GRAMPS: Pansy Prep, Really Fast Horses, Opposition Dolls, Wojtek

BAR NANCY: Burlesque

ARTS GARAGE: Oscar Penas Quartet

10/14

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Coma Cose, Gio Evans

REVOLUTION LIVE: Cafe Tacvaba

RESPECTABLE STREET: Gimme Gimme Disco

CULTURE ROOM: Cradle of Filth, Devildriver, Ill Nino, Black Satellite, Savage Existence

HOLLYWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY:

RE:CONSTRUCTION Works by Richard Vergez

BAR NANCY: The Kitchen Club

GRAMPS: Mason Pace, Don’t Panic!, J.L.G

ARTS GARAGE: Joe Cotton Band

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: 56 Ace Band

10/15

REVOLUTION LIVE: The Midnight, Flamingosis

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Scary Pockets

10/17

RESPECTABLE STREET: The Goddamn Gallows, IV and the Strange Band

PROPAGANDA: Gods Eye & Friends

GRAMPS: The Red Pears

10/18

BAR NANCY: Miss. Michigan

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Chris O’Leary

10/19

REVOLUTION LIVE: Vacations, Last Dinosaurs

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Cuco in Concert

CULTURE ROOM: The Cat Empire, High Fade

GRAMPS: Bob Log III

PROPAGANDA: Davie Band & Friends

10/20-22 SUBCULTURE FILM FEST at The Norton Museum, G-Star Studios & The Peach

10/20

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: The Head and the Heart, Amanda Shires

RESPECTABLE STREET: Living Dead Girl

REVOLUTION LIVE: Party 101 w DJ Matt Bennett

CULTURE ROOM: The Church

PROPAGANDA: Mount Sinai, Blood Orchid, JLC, Roxy Revolt and the Velvets

ARTS GARAGE: Nicole Henry

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Brandon Taz Niederauer ft Brad Miller & Thomas Pridgen

10/21

BRYANT PARK: Bark Back Benefit ft Brett Staska & The Souvenirs, Billy Doom Is Dead, Fuakata!, Uproot Hootenanny, The Petty Hearts, Nirvanna, Mariachi, Octo

Gato, The Supervillains, Spred The Dub

KRAVIS CENTER: Joanne Shaw Taylor

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

RESPECTABLE

Emo Night Brooklyn

CULTURE ROOM: The Church

GARDEN

Dr. Mellow

BAR NANCY: Backroom Sessions

ARTS GARAGE: Nicole Henry

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Havoc 305

10/22

REVOLUTION LIVE: Sturniolo Triplets

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Pedro Capo

POMPANO AMP: Buddy Guy, Los Lobos

CULTURE ROOM: Animals as Leaders, Johnathan Scales Fourchestra

ARTS GARAGE: Chicago Transit Canada

10/23 GRAMPS: Speedy Ortiz

10/26-31THE PEACH: Peaches & Scream New Halloween Experience!

10/26-11/5 LW PLAYHOUSE: NO EXIT

10/26

REVOLUTION LIVE: Chappell Roan

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: The Dip

PROPAGANDA: Electro Party

BAR NANCY: Capsule, Shitstorm, Bleeth, Devalued

10/27

RESPECTABLE STREET: Sisters of Mercy Tribute

REVOLUTION LIVE: Black Market Horror Fest

CULTURE ROOM: The Expendables, Bumpin

Uglies, Claire Wright

ITHINK AMP: Jason Aldean

BAR NANCY: Otto Von Schirach

ARTS GARAGE: Kat Riggins & Her Blues Revival

PROPAGANDA: Black Lodge Party

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: STP To The Core, Nothing Shocking

10/28

RESPECTABLE STREET: The Ordinary Boys, New Dawn Fades: Tribute to Smiths, Morrissey, New Order & Joy Division

REVOLUTION LIVE: Black Market Horror Fest

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Slick Rick

PROPAGANDA: Chaos in the Veil, Violet Silhouette, Dorothy Does, DJ Jason

HATCH 1121: Dia De Los Muertos ft Gipsy Nation by Gyorgy Lakatos, “Viva La Vida” Ofrenda Exhibition, Day of the Dead Procession

DNTN BOYNTON BEACH: Pirate Fest ft Live

Entertainment & Music, Stunt Shows & Cannons

CULTURE ROOM: Dragonforce, Amaranthe, Nanowar of Steel, Edge of Paradise

GRAMPS: Messa + Maggot Heart

BAR NANCY: Mad World Orchestra

ARTS GARAGE: The Motowners

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Rubixx Band

10/29

DNTN BOYNTON BEACH: Pirate Fest Day 2

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Rocky Horror

ARTS GARAGE: The Motowners

10/30

RESPECTABLE STREET: Hatebreed, God Forbid

CULTURE ROOM: Shadows Fall

10/31

REVOLUTION LIVE: We Came as Romans, Emmure, Bodysnatcher, Archetypes Collide

RESPECTABLE STREET: 80’s Halloween Party

11/1

REVOLUTION LIVE: Amyl & the Sniffers, Die Spitz

RESPECTABLE STREET: Twin Tribes, Bootblacks, Blood Orchid

11/4

MIZNER PARK AMP: Sunset Tequila Fest ft Little Stranger, The Resolvers, Spred the Dub, DJ Le Spam

11/11-12

MAD ARTS SPACE: SPF ‘23

WEDNESDAY

GODZILLA ON TRICYCLE

SUBCULTURE FILM FEST

by TIM MOFFATT

Sometimes, art is a fight. Culture is a reason to work hard, but for many, commerce is why they get out of bed. Commerce explains gentrification (ahem, Churchill’s) and the state doing away with tax breaks for filmmaking (no real explanation). But artists survive and, in some cases, thrive when leaning on community. If there’s no one else, there is still us.

Here is where we start, with the second annual Subculture Film Fest set to take place Oct. 20-22 in and around West Palm Beach. The festival will screen independent films from South Florida and parts beyond, and host industry panels, filmmaker conversations and technical workshops over three days of diverse voices in cinema. PureHoney spoke with co-founder and co-director José Jesús Zaragoza’s about filmmaking in Florida and Subculture as “a filmmaker’s festival.”

TM: This is year two. Tell me a bit about how it started.

Subculture Film Fest developed as an idea between myself and Rodney Mayo after many conversations about independent filmmaking in South Florida. We are both huge fans of documentary filmmaking, and an initial idea to have a smaller, more intimate film club turned into an all-out film fest concept. Our first event, in March of 2022, demonstrated how much the West Palm Beach community was hungry for a cultural event centered around cinema.

I think the real work, however, has taken place within the past year, with the involvement of Noelia Solange, Subculture Film Fest co-director, who spent many years helping to organize the Miami Film Festival. Noelia has been an invaluable addition and has helped elevate our marketing, partnerships, and the execution of this year’s film fest.

TM: Was there any specific prompt to focus on South Florida filmmakers?

We think so, but that has quickly expanded to include the best of independent cinema. … One of the initial drivers of our film fest was the incredible body of work that seems to be coming out of our region, in particular from directors who have focused their lenses on the more remote areas of our county, such as the Glades area, through documentaries that capture quotidian life as most people in Palm Beach County have never seen.

These films have gone on to win big at major film fests, and we thought our residents deserved to see them, too. Two films that made an impact last year, “The Rabbit Hunt” by Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas, and “Hierophany” by Kevin Contento, are followed up this year with new films from each of those directors that will be screened at our festival, “The Passing” and “From Fish to Moon.”

TM: Does South Florida being a transient place help or hurt filmmaking?

The fact that our state is in constant flux leads to complex issues, colorful characters, stories, ideas, you name it. We think that leads to more substantive films and a richer well, so to speak, from which to draw.

TM: Tell us about some of the features this year.

Typically, in a film festival setting, film blocks (a sequence of films within a single programming time) are arranged according to genre. We’ve kind of turned that on its head and programmed our films according to a theme and the way the collection of films inspires a feeling. … This made programming a bit more of a challenge, but it was well worth it in the end. We’re excited to see how the audience responds to this less traditional format.

TM: South Florida is not always the most supportive place for art. Would you say community (over, say, the industry in California) drives the local filmmaking economy? Is it essentially a labor of love here?

“Moonlight” proved that Florida filmmaking is more than just a labor of love. But, in general, we don’t disagree with you. We think that certainly a lot of filmmakers are doggedly pursuing their craft, and we’re seeing the most beautiful point within that, the beginning. So much struggle goes into that, but also discovery and the realization of each person’s voice, and voices, within that journey.

Subculture Film Fest opens at the Norton Museum on Oct. 20, followed by festival days at G-Star Studios on Saturday, Oct. 21, and at The Peach on Oct. 22. @subculturefilmfest

DEPECHE MODE

by DAVID ROLLAND

Maybe your first encounter with Depeche Mode was on ’80s radio playing “Just Can’t Get Enough” or maybe it was Johnny Cash’s haunting cover of “Personal Jesus” in the 2000s. For me, it was more roundabout: The Dead Milkmen, punk hecklers, singing, “You’ll dance to anything by Depeche Commode.” That 1987 ditty, “Instant Club Hit,” also mocks The Smiths and Public Image Limited, but putting a toilet in another band’s name made the reference tough to forget for preteen me.

When I finally saw a Depeche Mode credit flash on MTV I was totally psyched — it’s the band The Dead Milkmen were making fun of! The video was “Enjoy the Silence” and I was completely unprepared: It was as far from the punk comedy of the Milkmen as I could imagine. Even as a little kid, I knew from the opening drums and the precise string and synth riffs that this was going to be epic. Watching singer Dave Gahan wander beautiful landscapes in a crown and robes, I could intuit that “Enjoy the Silence” was a song with depth before I was entirely sure what exactly depth was.

As I’ve learned more about depth, for better or worse, I’ve dug in and out of the Depeche Mode catalog. From the noir blues rock of “I Feel You” to the poetic prettiness of “Precious,” they always struck me as a thinking person’s club band, scaled up to arenas. Hearing them, you’ll want to glide-step across a lighted floor or make sweaty love after a long day of reading existentialist treatises.

Their newest studio album,“Memento Mori,” is their 15th overall and first since founding member Andy Fletcher passed away. Now a duo with Gahan and principal songwriter Martin Gore, Depeche Mode still dwell in profundity. The dozen songs on “Mori” that they’re currently touring behind are characteristically dark and atmospheric, with moody lyrics and driving beats that, four decades into Depeche Mode’s career, prove they can be deeply serious and their fans will still dance to anything.

Depeche Mode play 7:30pm Thursday, October 12 at the Kaseya Center (formerly FTX Arena) in Miami. depechemode.com

ANTON CORBIJN

BARK BACK 8

by LIZ TRACY

When Mick Swigert of the South Florida reggae act Spred the Dub lost two of his beloved dogs back to back, he decided to turn his grief into something positive: He founded Bark Back, an annual fundraiser to support the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches.

The organization finds homes for pets in need and offers lower-cost veterinary services. “Peggy Adams has an amazing facility and staff. And the amount of good work they do, we wanted to support them anyway we could,” says Swigert tells PureHoney.

Now in its eighth year, Bark Back 8 promises to be a party, packed with bands and fun for the whole family. After last year’s move to the larger Bryant Park, the festival has been able to expand its offerings with a classic car and motorcycle show, food trucks and more vendors.

“One of the highlights of the day is the first responders dog walk. We have local firefighters from station 91 here on Lake Worth, as well as deputies from Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, walking adoptable dogs up and down our runway, showing off the goods,” he says. If you want to adopt, there will be plenty of furry mammals in attendance who need good homes.

The musical line up includes Brett Staska and the Souvenirs, Billy Doom is Dead, ¡Fuákata!, Uproot Hootenanny, The Petty Hearts, Nirvanna (tribute band), Mariachi, Octo Gato, The Supervillains and Swigert’s band. “The energy will be nonstop from the gates opening ‘til we close up shop,” he promises.

Swigert emphasizes that the benefit is a group effort. “This festival would not happen if it weren’t for the support of the music community,” he says, noting that many of the bands donate their fee to the cause and then volunteer at the event. “It’s times like this that you realize what a great music scene we have here in Palm Beach County,” he says, “and how close knit we all are with each other.”

Bark Back 8 runs noon-10pm Saturday, October 21 at Bryant Park Amphitheater in Lake Worth. barkbackbenefit.com

TWIN TRIBES

by OLIVIA FELDMAN

It’s been an age since goth music emerged, yet the genre and the culture in all their artful postpunk gloom still resonate. “Goth nights” are everywhere, bands like The Cure still matter, and goth style dare we say remains cool. How did this happen?

“A lot of people identify themselves with a lot of these lyrics,” musician Joel Niño of the darkwave duo Twin Tribes tells PureHoney. “These bands really capture this feeling … [and] whenever you listen to the song, it reminds you of a point in your life where you were at that time. And it really touches you. These songs have already left a huge footprint, and they continue to do that.”

Niño (on bass, keys and backing vocals) and fellow south Texan Luis Navarro (lead vocals and guitar) were both fans of sad-boy ’80s synth-rock auteurs such as Depeche Mode and previously had been bandmates. Combining a shared love of goth with an appreciation for newer darkwave, they began writing what would become their debut 2018 album, “Shadows.”

They used social media to contact like-minded promoters and musicians in other U.S. cities, and over time found welcome in a tight-knit darkwave scene that hasn’t had many artists of Hispanic descent. Performing at this year’s Cruel World Fest alongside post-punk greats Echo & The Bunnymen and Iggy Pop further boosted their profile.

Their latest LP, 2021’s “Altars,” was a collective pandemic-time response to, among other things, the cessation of touring: Remixes from their first two albums, with fellow spirits such as Cult of Alia and Spain’s Luz Futuro adding their own haunting touches.

The opener, a Skeleton Hands remix of “The River,” evokes Bauhaus in its morose lyrics — “Throw the sage in the fire/Blindfolded to desire/Your secret’s safe without the lies,” Navarro sings — with a twist of melancholy dream pop a la Cocteau Twins

“It was amazing to hear the final thing, just to listen to everything after it’s all done,” Navarro tells PureHoney. “They’re all friends of yours, and they’re all very talented musicians. Twin Tribes, Bootblacks and Blood Orchid perform 7pm Wednesday, November 1 at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. twin-tribes.com

DEHD

by AMANDA MOORE

Dehd are and aren’t what you’d expect: The indie band’s music is teeming with endless love, life and friendship, in absolute contradiction of their finite and morbid name. But once you know the origin story, the duality clicks — friends making music together, daydreaming of crushes and brighter days. And, of course, falling in love in a mortal world. Products of Chicago’s DIY music scene, friends Emily Kempf, Jason Balla and Eric McGrady met at a house party and soon after formed a band “just to hang out and make music,” frontwoman Kempf tells PureHoney. What began as a lark has evolved into a showcase of intuitively organic raw energy and creativity, built out and refined over four albums and one full-length remix (of 2021’s “Flower of Devotion”), an EP (2017’s “Fire of Love”) and two standalone singles (“Dying For” and “Letter”).

Kempf calls Dehd’s sound “warm-crush-friendship indie rock.” Their strain of pop bliss plays like a soundtrack to a modern coming-of-age film — think Devendra Banhart’s “Lover” in “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist.” Kempf’s power as a vocalist to radiate light and love feels like a childhood friendship.

As friends do, she lets us in on a little secret: “You can expect a hot album to drop next year, probably.” But before Dehd conclude touring their post-pandemic 2022 album, “Blue Skies,” they’re excited to play their first-ever Florida show and they hope you are too. “Don’t sleep,” Kempf says, “because we probably won’t be back for a while.”

Dehd spent much of 2023 touring North America, playing large at Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, and sharing dates with kindred acts including Sylvan Esso and Ulna.

As to what to expect — if Cupid were a band, it would be Dehd. Fans online have confessed to falling in love with someone at a concert or while listening to “Blue Skies.” Kempf signs off with one last invitation: “Bring your best friend, bring your crush. If you bring your crush, we will give you a shoutout.”

Dehd perform 8pm Tuesday, October 10 at Gramps in Miami. www.dehd.horse

ATIBA JEFFERSON

SMALL PRESS FAIR ‘23

by AMANDA E. MOORE

“As the digital age thoroughly permeates modern life — communication, entertainment, and culture — perhaps to the point of over-saturation, traditional printed matter has been pushed to the periphery,” SPF co-founder Ingrid Schindall tells PureHoney. “In the outer fringes, it’s there where SPF brings light to the tenacious efforts of artists, designers, writers, and creatives who are keeping the craft alive.”

Born when gallerist Sarah Michelle Rupert of Girls’ Club approached fine art printmaker and book artist Schindall of IS Projects and Nocturnal Press about a collaboration, the first SPF was a one-day gathering in 2016 at FATVillage in Fort Lauderdale. The eighth edition will feature more than 60 exhibitors — Schindall confirmed another one midinterview — and doesn’t stop at masterpieces on paper: Ceramics, temporary tattoos, buttons and shirts abound.

There are food trucks and beer tastings alongside the workshops, lectures and hands-on maker stations where attendees can create letterpress, screen printing and mini-posters. There is the ever-popular Steamroller Station making prints with a paving construction vehicle. And there’s an afterparty.

“SPF South Florida is unique in its drive to bring together prints, books, zines, and their makers in one space to foster community building, friendships, collaboration, and new interests for folks who thought they were coming here for one type of thing but then found lots of exhibitors showcasing something totally different and new,” Schindall says. Below are just a few.

— Joseph Velasquez is a Florida Atlantic University printmaking professor and frequent SPF exhibitor with a visual style marked by social commentary and provocative symbols. An important figure in South Florida arts, he names influences including Chicano writers and activists such as Oscar Zeta Acosta, Dolores Huerta and Rudolfo Anaya.

— Kim Heise is a watercolorist specializing in the natural environment in South Florida. Since 2016. Her work lives at the intersection of scientific illustration and fine art, highlighting relationships between species. And you can check out her “Everglades Coloring Book” at SPF.

— The 50/50 Company, is a creative design team with a feline focus, but sprinkled among the cat-centric work, attendees might also find whimsical depictions of gremlins and dogs or a piñata saying, “Why choose violence.”

— Martin Mazorra co-founded Cannonball Press in 1999 with Michael Houston to self-publish their prints and those of emerging artists. Of Brooklyn-based Mazorra, Schindall says, “He’s known for badass, old-school relief prints that can stop a viewer in their tracks with their unique style and affordable prices.”

— O, Miami is a non-profit organization that builds community through poetry. Their bibliography spans poetry chapbooks with hand-screen-printed covers, books featuring multilingual poems, local poets, and internationally recognized poets. Locals may also recognize the name behind the O, Miami Poetry Festival.

— Paul Shortt’s tagline is “Signs, books, videos and social practice with a bit of humor.” The Gainesville-based artist, curator, and educator creates prints and books that encourage fun, thoughtfulness and a desire to change your surroundings for the better. They’re also designed for pages to be ripped out and hung in public or framed.

— Radiator Comics distributes self-published and small-press comics such as “Dirty Diamonds,” an award-winning all-girl comic anthology with a distinctly memoir-ish vibe. Other Radiator standouts include the dark horror-comedy of “The Devil’s Guide to Filmland” by Barrett Stanley, plant-people parallelism in “Cosmic Fern” by Sarah Maloney; and a humorous coming-of-age in “Trash” by Desmond Reed.

— passionkids is an SPF staple and fair favorite. “passionkids bring the rad street art style zines, pins, and patches that lots of visitors expect when entering a zine fair,” Schindall says. “Their unique characters and drawing style definitely stand out.”

— Horticulture For Healing founder Joanna is a horticultural therapy practitioner based in Miami. When reconnecting with nature became a part of Joanna’s recovery from addiction, she founded a nonprofit to share her knowledge for others in recovery through a unique zine, “Plant Care is Self Care.”

— The Wolfsonian-FIU works with Miami-Dade County public high school students on Zines for Progress, an outreach program that tackles real-world issues through zine-making. The student zines cover mental health, gender identity, climate change, Black Lives Matter and more, and are distributed in the community — “a window into what young people find significant today,” says Wolfsonian-FIU’s Luna Goldberg

Small Press Fair runs noon-6pm Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 11 and 12, at MAD Arts in Dania Beach. spf-ftl.com

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AMYL & THE SNIFFERS

by ABEL FOLGAR

Pop ‘em if you got ‘em — though PureHoney magazine prioritizes the safety and well-being of all and encourages a drug-free and responsible environment, it’s hard to not take the bait for an opener like that when Amyl and the Sniffers storm into town on a haze of vasodilating psychoactive alkyl nitrites.

Fronted by the ferocious Amy Taylor, whose electrifying stage presence can turn any venue into a raucous, sweat-soaked battleground, the band is an amalgam of ’70s pub rock overtones, power pop, contemporary rap and hardcore punk. That it is delivered in a deceivingly simple and straightforward punk rock ’n’ roll manner is the secret sauce of their music’s endless enjoyability.

Borne in 2016 out of the informed Aussie punk scene in Melbourne that has given the world the likes of The Birthday Party and the post-punk little band scene, Amyl and the Sniffers were destined for their nomenclature apropos of their maniacal singer. Rounded out by guitarist Declan Martens and the rhythm section of drummer Bryce Wilson and bassist Gus Romer, the band’s sonically evolved leap and bounds in their relatively short history.

Their self-titled LP dropped in 2019 to critical acclaim and solidified them as one of the continent nation’s must-see acts before the Covid-19 pandemic crashed everyone’s party. But like everyone else worth their weight in Victoria Bitter lager, Amy and Co. buckled down for their sophomore effort, 2021’s “Comfort to Me.” At 13 tracks and a little past the 34-minute mark, the album bottles up the energy of their previous work and live performances that is true blue, hard yakka rock and roll of the tight and unforgiving nature.

They’ll be joined by Austin’s all-woman quartet, Die Spitz, toting their recent album, “Teeth.” Their racket has been compared to obvs spiritual foremothers L7 and Bikini Kill, but the energy is more Lunachicks and the Red Aunts with a heavy dose of those fuckedup nurses and fellow Texans Stinkerbell. Expect great things.

Amyl and the Sniffers w. Die Spitz 7pm Wednesday, Nov. 1 at Revolution Live in Ft. Lauderdale.

BRIAN REEDY

by KELLI BODLE

The work of this month’s PureHoney featured artist, Brian Reedy, might look familiar and not just because he’s a Miamian. Reedy’s block prints have been licensed for use by Warner Bros., Marvel, DC, Disney and Fortnite, and have even landed on t-shirts at your local Hot Topic.

Reedy starts out with visual art’s oldest reproducible technique: blank paper and an ink-stained, graven block. From there, the hand-printed images scale and migrate digitally to all kinds of media. With the whole history of printmaking bearing down on him, Reedy has carved out his place in the canon — one stretching from ukiyo-e to Banksy — with ingenuity and aplomb.

What sets him apart is subject matter. “I suppose you could classify the common elements in my artwork as being influenced by ‘geek culture,’” Reedy tells PureHoney. “Although I wonder if there is a more contemporary way of describing that, because so many things like comics, anime, and toys have become so mainstream in current society it’s no longer that fringe interest pertaining only to geeks!”

“But my block print technique inherently has references to Medieval European and Japanese artwork,” he adds. “I would be hard-pressed to coin a phrase that would best describe the mix of those visual styles and subject matter!”

Reedy says he found that the inherently pictographic quality of block printing “worked perfectly” for his kind of imagery. To the degree that his pieces have an audience and an outlet through major pop culture entities, he says it’s due to “the uniqueness of the block print look, not necessarily because of my drawing abilities.”

“There is a novelty to the style that is very eye-catching,” Reedy says, “so when you walk into a Hot Topic store, my shirts are noticeable because the technique is so different.”

Reedy likens the block printing method to “making a giant stamp.”

Printmaking once served as a cost-effective way to mass produce imagery on anything that would adhere to paper or cloth — decorative art, book illustrations, wanted posters, t-shirts. Today, thanks to digital graphic design tech, seemingly any surface is fair game.

“The work I do for Hot Topic has not just been for t-shirts: they also reproduce my images for a variety of products like large blankets,” Reedy says. “I’m often pleasantly surprised how well some of my small prints look terrific when reproduced in a large scale.”

Another running theme in Reedy’s work is simply, in his words, “the bizarre.”

“I have had a life-long fascination with the bizarre and unusual,” he says. “I grew up in Alton, Illinois, considered to be one of the most haunted towns in the United States. It was also home of Robert Wadlow, the world’s tallest man, and the legend of the Piasa Bird monster.

“In the state of Florida,” he continues, “my favorite place for inspiration in the odd and unusual is St. Augustine. That town is a real gem and is rich in history and strangeness. The cobblestone streets downtown take you back in time and have a real old-world European feel. And the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum is filled with fun oddities and curiosities.”

Another site of inspirational weirdness for Reedy is the Koreshan Unity Settlement in Estero’s Koreshan State Park. “The Koreshans were a religious community who moved to Florida in 1894 to form a utopian ‘New Jerusalem,’’ Reedy says. “They believed we exist inside a concave hollow Earth — the continents and oceans are on the inside crust of our planet and the sky is in the center.”

Reedy also finds a spark in music — “a vital part of my creative process,” he says.

“I like rock, hip-hop, classical, alternative, electronic, etc. I like everything from anime soundtracks to theatre show tunes,” Reedy says. “I used to have a category of music that I felt embarrassed if a friend were to discover it on my playlist, like Vocaloid music for example. Vocaloid is Japanese pop music made from a series of computer programs, and each program is a fictitious pop idol with a distinctive voice. I used to think of this as a guilty pleasure, but I like it so why should I be ashamed of it?”

Follow Brian Reedy at brianreedy.bigcartel.com and instagram.com/brianreedy

GODZILLA IN WINTER

GRAVEYARD GHOSTS