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ARTS GARAGE: Art of Laughter w. Doug Smith DOWNTOWN DANCE: AGWA Dance Co. presents “The Art of Expression” 11/4 MIZNER PARK AMP: Sunset Tequila Festival ft Little Stranger, DJ Le Spam, The Resolvers, Spred the Dub REVOLUTION LIVE: Florida Day of the Dead THE PEACH: Dia Day Los Muertos Art Walk BROWARD CENTER: John Hiatt CULTURE ROOM: Armor for Sleep, The Early November, The Spill Canvas PROPAGANDA: No Tomorrow, Newly Opposed, Hazardous, Romaric Rehab AMERICAN ICON BREWERY: Punk Rock Flea Market: Sewerside Bombers, Billy Doom Is Dead, Bargain Bin Heroes, A Decade At Sea, Sad Bod, Wonder Club BAR NANCY: Nil Lara SANDBOX: Stereo Joule, Perro Negro, Feral Ember, Atomic Pleasures ARTS GARAGE: Klezmer Jazz Orchestra DOWNTOWN DANCE: AGWA Dance Co. presents “The Art of Expression” 11/5 HAMMERSTEIN HOUSE:
11/7 REVOLUTION LIVE: The Interrupters, The Slackers, Big D & the Kids Table, Radkey 11/8 GUANABANAS: Brett Staska Record Release SAVOR CINEMA: “Immediate Family” Music Doc BAR NANCY: Ryan Bauta 11/9 RESPECTABLE STREET: White Light / White Heat w/ Dust Supply BROWARD CENTER: Tinsley Ellis, Marcia Ball PROPAGANDA: The Guild, Low RPM, Omnisium, Amenorrhea CULTURE ROOM: Fortunate Youth, Reis Bros. BAR NANCY: Stereo Joule 11/10 RESPECTABLE STREET: Dark Entries REVOLUTION LIVE: Sexyy Red THE GROUND: The Ocean Blue, Jaialai CULTURE ROOM: The Fixx PROPAGANDA: Tiger Sunset, Perro Negro, Livid, Mount Sinai NORTON MUSEUM: Art After Dark – French Horn Collective BAR NANCY: Mainstreet SANDBOX: Freaky Friday ARTS GARAGE: Tito Puente Jr. 11/11 MAD ARTS: SPF ’23 Day 1 REVOLUTION LIVE: Jessie Murph, Henry Versus RESPECTABLE STREET: Manic Frequency THE PEACH: Art for Smiles CULTURE ROOM: Tab Benoit PROPAGANDA: Crimson Shadow, Snake Healer, Amenorrhea, Worldeater GINGERS BAR: Death By Holiday, Lucidity, Queefs, Bird Law, High Dose, Los Malditos Punks BAR NANCY: The Kitchen Club ARTS GARAGE: The Ladies of Simone HOPPORTUNITIES: Victoria Leigh 11/12 MAD ARTS: SPF ’23 Day 2 REVOLUTION LIVE: Iration, Artikal Sound System, Cydeways THE PARKER: Bruce Hornsby CULTURE ROOM: Plini, Strawberry Girls, Standards SANDBOX: Mold! ARTS GARAGE: Coyote Wild HAMMERSTEIN HOUSE: RE:CONSTRUCTION 11/13 REVOLUTION LIVE: Citizen, Narrow Head, Modern Color SANDBOX: Leon Rosen 11/14 REVOLUTION LIVE: Phoenix PROPAGANDA: Solemn Shapes, Ships in the Night, Buck Rooter 11/15 REVOLUTION LIVE: Fit for an Autopsy, Exodus, Darkest Hour, Undeath BAR NANCY: Soiree Miami 11/16 KRAVIS CENTER: David Brighton’s Space Oddity – The Quintessential David Bowie
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PHOENIX by TIM MOFFATT
If all you know about the indie-pop gents of Phoenix are the late-aughts singles “1901” and “Lisztomania,” you may be pleasantly surprised to find out that they’d been around for more than a decade prior. You would have found them in 1998 playing behind a remix of “Kelly Watch The Stars,” by the French duo Air, or in 2001 on the soundtrack for HBO’s “Six Feet Under.”
Licensing Phoenix for TV soundtracks — “The O.C.,” “Gossip Girl,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Veronica Mars” — became a sly way to code for millennial hipness. And then Phoenix’s smash 2009 album, “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix,” won a Grammy and endeared these lads from Versailles to just about everybody outside the land of Marie Antoinette. Another decade-plus hence, Phoenix are still popping. Their seventh studio album, “Alpha Zulu,” has won them renewed praise for their spry tunes and stylish grooves, and landed them on a summer U.S. jaunt with the mighty Beck, their collaborator on a shiny new retro-electro romp called “Odyssey.” Singing in English — because as frontman Thomas Mars once observed, that’s the language of pop “and it doesn’t work to replace things, you know” — Phoenix embody a spirit of willingness to work hard and make consistently great music while audiences catch up. By the time they played Coachella in 2013, their cool-band bona fides were set and Phoenix could do as they pleased. Placing a song (“1901”) on the sports video-game soundtrack for “NBA 2K13” (not to mention “NHL 2K10”) is a sure-fire way to measure success in America. Recording your latest album at nights inside the Louvre — Phoenix did this during Covid lockdown — is a sure-fire way to measure success everywhere else. Being in a working band is hard. It’s a full-time job that often pays nothing and doesn’t always turn out the way it’s supposed to. But there’s nothing like having no choice. In the case of Phoenix, the path was set before them and luckily for us they’ve followed it all the way up. Phoenix play 7pm Tuesday, November 14 at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale. wearephoenix.com
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SUNSET FESTIVAL by OLIVIA FELDMAN
This year’s Sunset Tequila + Mezcal Festival could quite literally be the definition of “eat, drink and be merry.” Try to do all three in proportion: Little stranger More than 30 tequila brands will be on offer at Boca Raton’s Mizner Park Amphitheater on the first Saturday in November as South Florida welcomes in the cooler months. Festival co-founder Joe Durkin, a distiller today who started in liquor distribution, teamed up with Subculture Group restaurateur Vaughan Dugan and Rocco’s Tacos beverage director David Ortiz to create not just a trade show, but an interactive tequila festival with live music and food. He didn’t want brand booths to only be offering shots to customers. “I’m all about the experience, and that’s what I relayed to these brands,” Durkin tells PureHoney. “It’s beneficial for them to create that experience so you remember them.” Along with spirits aplenty, there are live sets by South Carolina indie hip-hop duo Little Stranger and a trio of hometown favorites: reggae bands The Resolvers and Spred the Dub, and Miami’s DJ Le Spam. For tequila-friendly noshes, Boca Raton pizza joint How Ya Dough’n will be slinging Mexican-style pizzas and Miami pop-up The Wolf of Tacos will feature an expanded menu. To be legally called “tequila,” the spirit must be produced in the Jalisco state of Mexico. Whereas the smokier mezcal can be made from any agave plant, true tequila can only be made from blue agave. Tres Aromas, a small-batch tequila, will be making its second Sunset appearance this year. Owner Robert Martinez, a California native and first-generation Mexican American, finds more meaning in tequila than just a good drink. “As I grew up and I got to visit Mexico, I started appreciating how it was made,” he tells PureHoney. “The relationships that we’ve built just go hand in hand with how we grew up with tequila in our homes.” Whether you go in for $200 bottles of Don Julio 1942 or like your margarita with the house tequila, Durkin says this gathering is for all lovers of good spirts.Funds raised help support Kula Cares, a locally based NFP that provides essential items for schools and community programs to empower under-resourced students and teachers. The Sunset Tequila + Mezcal Festival runs 4pm-10pm Saturday, November 4 at Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton. sunsettequilafest.com
WHIMSY & WONDER by ABEL FOLGAR
The Palm Beaches are gearing up for a robust season of arts, culture and community programming, courtesy of FUNKY FLAMINGOS BY CAROL MOON FRAZIER the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County. First up is Whimsy & Wonder, an exhibition elevating the offbeat to highlight beauty. “We are delighted to welcome everyone in the community to the Cultural Council to experience our upcoming exhibitions,” Cultural Council president and CEO Dave Lawrence says in an official announcement. “Our new season kicks off this fall with an enchanting exhibition celebrating quirky and magnificent visual creations.” Thematically linked by the iconic American flamingo, Whimsy & Wonder is an evolving curation that will change shape through its two-month run at the Cultural Council’s main exhibition hall in Lake Worth, begging return trips from patrons. A major highlight is Dave Blair’s kinetic sculpture performances. Blair is a lauded multidisciplinary local known for complex audio/visual contraptions cobbled up from different types of wood, metals, glass and assorted digital machinery. Spellbinding Blair works such as God Machine II and Light Herder could be dream-stage variations on the weird, impossible imagery of British filmmaker and animator Terry Gilliam. Blair will perform on select Saturdays during the show’s run. In its goal to engage with and grow the arts in greater Palm Beach, the Cultural Council wants to represent the full range of regional talent. Two exhibitions at the Cultural Council’s other Lake Worth spaces are instructive. The Solo Gallery is hosting Lauren Bertelson: Like Mother, Like Daughter through December 2. The collection of Bertelson’s photography contextualzes self-portraiture and domestic craft in a feminist challenge to the self-erasure and societal dismissal of “women’s work.” The Donald M. Ephraim Family Gallery hosts Veterans of Palm Beach County, featuring seven artists who happen to be military veterans or have family who served. Running through Decmeber 9, Veterans offers a range of media and styles including printmaking and ceramics, and explores a variety of topics while celebrating the men and women of the armed forces. Whimsy & Wonder is on view November 17, 2023, through Jan. 13, 2024, at the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County’s main gallery in Lake Worth. palmbeachculture.com
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NORTH BEACH MUSIC FESTIVAL by DAVID ROLLAND
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For its third year running, the North Beach Music Festival continues to fill that sweet spot for South Florida fans of jam bands, funk and improvisational music. The 2023 edition will be held at the Miami Beach Bandshell on the first weekend in December, during that awkward pause between Thanksgiving and Art Basel where it often feels like there’s nothing to do in Miami. It was a different time when founder Gideon Plotnicki first imagined the event. “I moved to Miami in 2019,” Plotnicki tells PureHoney. “Then the pandemic happened. That was when I dreamed up this fest during that time when we were unable to attend concerts.” The first edition in 2021 featured headliners such as Pigeons Playing Ping Pong and Spafford, and required guests to have proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test. People could congregate with fewer restrictions for the 2022 festival, which Plotnicki remembers fondly. “There were so many great moments,” he says. “It was very special to have Lettuce close things out, and then to see Lotus playing in the park with all the lasers shooting through the palm trees was great.” The 2023 lineup features Friday and Saturday night headliner the Disco Biscuits and Sunday headliner Cory Wong, supported by more than a dozen other acts. “We take a variety of factors into consideration when deciding who plays,” Plotnicki says. “We try to pick bands that haven’t been able to make it Miami, bands that were due to come. Once we find the headliner we can find a lineup to surround it.” Plotnicki describes the Disco Biscuits as the inventors of “jamtronica,” a wonderfully SAY SHE SHE descriptive name for their blend of jam-band freeform and electronic music. The Philadelphia four-piece have been around for nearly 30 years, plying a sound that is also variously described as livetronica, trance fusion and psytrance. While the Biscuits are frequent visitors here, having played everywhere from the old Langerado music festival to Revolution Live to the Miami massive Ultra, fellow North Beach headliner Wong is making his South Florida debut. The funk and jazz guitarist produces a poppy, upbeat sound and feel as he noodles his way across the fretboard. He’s also a prolific recorder: In a little over a decade Wong has cranked out a dozen albums. He’ll have a wealth of material to draw from when entertaining South Floridians for the first time. There are a bunch of newer, emerging bands that Plotnicki is excited not just to book but to see play. They include Eggy, a traditional jam quartet from Connecticut, and Sunsquabi, Coloradans who, not unlike the Disco Biscuits, put a more electronic, dance-y spin on their music. He also mentioned Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country, a Nashvillebased guitarist who, on his website, promises “three chords and the truth, and then on the other side it’s exploration and bravery.” It’s always dicey to ask a concert organizer which up-and-coming act is a must-see; they’ll usually respond that it’s like asking a mother which is their favorite child. But Plotnicki doesn’t hesitate: “Say CORY WONG She She. I’m really excited about them. No one knows them now, but by this time next year everyone will know who they are.” A quick listen to this all-female, Brooklyn- and London-based trio reveals a timeless, laidback kind of groove that would play comfortably in the hippest of lounges. But you also wouldn’t be surprised if you learned they were a lost disco act from the ‘70’s. Also on tap are Erica Falls & Vintage Soul, from New Orleans, who are as the band name describes — purveyors of a classic sound strongly influenced by their very musical hometown. That’s Falls singing with Aaron Neville and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band on “Stompin’ Ground,” which won a Grammy in February for Best American Roots Performance. The Big Easy thread continues with George Porter Jr., bassist for the mighty Meters, leading his other band, Runnin’ Pardners. On the homegrown front, The Heavy Pets, from Fort Lauderdale, harken back to the formative jamming and mellow rock of the Grateful Dead. Miami’s Electric Kif stir funk, rock, soul and jazz into a heady, energetic brew. The North Beach Music Festival runs 4pm Friday through 10pm Sunday, December 1-3 at the Miami Beach Bandshell. northbeachmusicfestival.com
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STEAMPUNK ADVENTURERS WEEKEND by ABEL FOLGAR
Through a sepia lens imagine a world powered by the endlessly available promise of heat: A thriving vascular system of scalding energy bringing to life impossibly ornate machinations across the skies, through the ashes of time, and SIR NAVE deviously futuristic in the rust of a 1964 CDC 6600 mainframe somehow available in the Victorian era. Now sub the actual steam engines for the sweltering South Florida heat and you have the Steampunk Adventurers Weekend – now in its second year – proving that the Sunshine State will forever be home to the weird, the edgy, the fringe, and in this case, selfprofessed time travelers hungry for adventure. The steampunk genre is a romantic marriage of science and industry dreamt of by literary mainstays like Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Mary Shelley, and fully executed by slightly more contemporary authors and artists like K.W. Jeter, Michael Moorcock and François Schuiten, to name a few. While the genre doesn’t immediately scream – or rather, hiss – South Florida, a dedicated crew of old timey adventurers have labored to create a weekend of wonder in West Palm Beach once a year. “We are very excited about the way the brand has grown over the past year,” musician and steampunk festival impresario Sir Nave tells PureHoney. “We have seen our logos on shirts at many cosplay events throughout the state. We have vendors who are excited to join us this year but were disappointed in not participating last year. This is giving us great expectations for the second annual Steampunk Adventurers Weekend.”
FRENCHY & THE PUNK Sir Nave, as founder and director, has plenty of reason to be happy in his double-breasted overcoat and multiple-time-piece bandolier, as he’s turned a weekend of curiosity into a community of like-minded spirits. And because of that, he and his team have adjusted gauges accordingly, flahrgunnstowed their motions, and added more metal alloy cogs and widgets to make this year’s festival flow smoother than Capt. Oswald Bastable’s airship. “Last year was our first time diving into a themed festival,” Sir Nave says. “We feel we really listened to the feedback of the attendees who joined us last year. We have lowered our ticket prices and created more hands-on and interactive activities. Giving people the opportunity to step back in time and become part of the story. We have added more entertainment during the day and have created a party to last all day in the center in the village.” MASTERWING CREATIVE
In addition to the games, rides, lectures, fashion shows, and family-friendly activities including face painting and crafts for kids that festival goers can enjoy, this year’s festival includes more ways to engage. This year’s expanded offerings will feature meet-n-greets with steampunk authors, unique vendors, different food vendors, and a special visit from Santa on Sunday. Retro rides like the Hurlinator (eat beforehand at your own risk) and the chance to experience glory in tea, cane, and parasol dueling events – the true test of steampunk finesse according to Sir Nave – promise a great weekend that will leave the steam-powered masses yearning for more.
Music will again be provided by DJ Vlad between steampunk bands including For Love or Money, alternative post-punk cabaret duo Frenchy and the Punk, Guitarmy of One and Bard & Minstrels.
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For those leaning on the “colder environs” look of this genre and are worried about the less-than-ideal South Florida climate of early December, Sir Nave finds an appropriate and surprisingly nowhere near a Rube Goldberg like workaround. “Steampunk may seem like a northern genre in terms of clothing and some aesthetics,” he says. “However, imagination can come alive in any climate. The Nautilus [from Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”], for example, traveled the seas and came upon many lands and places of varying climates. Or as Carolina Cardona, a.k.a ‘The Tropical Eccentric,’ one of our authors and presenters will tell you, her Victorian story takes place in San Juan. The genre, even in these sultry conditions, we are finding renewed growth and interest in steampunk.” Steampunk Adventurers Weekend runs Saturday-Sunday, December 2-3 at Yesteryear Village in West Palm Beach. sawflorida.com
SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE
by AMANDA E MOORE
In a “South Park” episode from 2013, “Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers,” one of the show’s unruly tots is sent off to a camp for troubled kids and returns as an “emo” kid with black nails and dyed roots, moping in her bedroom to a song called “Seven.” “I’m not emo, okay?” she protests to a friend. “Then why are you listening to Sunny Day Real Estate?” he replies. While Nirvana and fellow Pacific Northwesterners catalyzed a band wave and an entire subculture, not everything arising from that angst-fueled inflection point was grunge — and certainly not goth except maybe in general dourness and black t-shirts. It just happened that the regional record label, Sub Pop, that signed Nirvana later signed Seattle’s Sunny Day Real Estate as another strain of post-punk music — emo, short for emotional hardcore — was taking shape elsewhere. The label somehow found the band. Sunny Day Real Estate have wrestled with their godfathers-of-emo designation, but as singer-guitarist Jeremy Enigk told the A.V. Club in 2016, “The jury — they voted, man. And we can’t get away from it.” From grungy origins — screams, distortion, melancholy — Sunny Day Real Estate would evolve into (or be adopted as) one of emo’s flagship bands. Their plaintive thrashing, more rooted in ’80s hardcore than ’70s sludge, opened a pathway to the more accessible, radio-friendly emo keening of Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and The Ataris. Sunny Day Real Estate’s four albums are bristling with shrieks of nonconformity, distant longing, lost love, moral quandaries and subversive societal commentary. Whatever you call the music, it bears hallmarks of its rainy hometown’s pioneering scene. Being emo, Sunny Day Real Estate struggled through fractures and breakups. Founding bassist Nate Mendel left after the first two albums to join Foo Fighters. Original members Enigk, Dan Hoerner and William Goldsmith play alongside newer recruits on a reunion tour that wraps up here in the true home of sunny day real estate, all lower case. Sunny Day Real Estate perform 7:30pm Wednesday, November 1 at Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale. sunnyday.realestate
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SLACKERS by TIM MOFFATT
It could have just been the time and the place. It could have been all that fluoride in the water. But the ’90s was a magical decade (at first) for ska, and the era of New York City-based Moon Ska records (19832000) was its apex. And while the Moon Ska roster is impressive by any standard, one band has always stood out: The Slackers. The Slackers were — are — the epitome of what third-wave ska should be: jazz, soul, reggae, dub, and a little garage rock thrown in the mix to even out the levels. This isn’t punk music, but it’s music appreciated by punks, notably because of its ties to ska’s second wave in the form of The Specials, English Beat and Madness, to name a few. It takes an extreme amount of talent to have it both ways — to be direct enough to catch the ears of the ruffians in the pit and soothe the souls of those in the market for a martini, dancing and a good time. The Slackers — formed in New York and signed to the East Village-based label founded by Robert Hingley of The Toasters — excel at both and have straddled this line for 30 years.
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Their collective musical output extends well beyond the band itself, owing to numerous side gigs. (Hello, Reggae Workers of the World, David Hillyard & The Rocksteady Seven and Stubborn All-Stars, to name just a few.) Singer and keyboardist Vic Ruggiero performs solo at times and has guested on several records for the Operation Ivy offshoot better known as the Clash-channeling, mohawk-sporting California punkers Rancid.
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The Slackers themselves are pure, unadulterated ska in the best way possible, and are in no way responsible for the ska-like clown music that chased their wake without ever having their skill or personality. The Slackers today retain the admiration of generations of punks while they pull in new fans from other corners of the culture.
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The Slackers perform with The Interrupters, Big D and the Kids Table, and Radkey, 8pm Tuesday November 7 at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale. theslackers.com
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PUNK UNDER THE SUN by ABEL FOLGAR
From a land that time forgot, to God’s waiting room, to the Cocaine Cowboys era, to the postMariel immigrant communities that have formed and shaped the tri-county area, South Florida in 2023 is almost impossible to conceive of from the vantage of the run-down Gold Coast of the 1970s Casualties are guaranteed in a turbulent environment. But authors Joey Seeman and Chris Potash are survivors of the region’s scouring tides. Their book, “Punk Under the Sun: ’80s Punk and New Wave in South Florida,” is a record of what they witnessed from the trenches of a wild, creative and unique underground music scene.
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“I have this constant sense of nostalgia for that period of my life,” Seeman tells PureHoney. “I was out four or five nights a week, either seeing shows, playing in a band, or going out to clubs like Fire & Ice, 1235, Club Nu. I’m also somewhat of a pack rat. I saved all my old flyers, press clippings and photos from back then.”
Conceived as a visual archive using those mementos, the book evolved into an oral history told by the folks who are still around. In a moment of serendipity, Seeman was tracking down a Miami News photo of himself exiting the old Cameo Theater in Miami Beach and he reached out to Potash, the author of the accompanying article. The two had never previously met. As Potash tells PureHoney, “That photo was taken by a Miami News photographer for a story on the 50th anniversary of the Cameo, which opened in the late 1930s and was a vaudeville spot and grindhouse theater until promoter Richard Shelter revived it in 1985 as a venue for punk rock and progressive music. TARA POTASH
“I always wondered who the person in the foreground of the photo was—a pale dude in heavy eye makeup, fly-away hair, and cutoff vest,” Seeman says. “Turns out it was Joey Seeman! We connected all these years later, and the collaboration just seemed destined.” Seeman and Potash struck up an easy friendship through musical and cultural overlaps that also animate the book. Its 200+ pages track South Florida punk rock in the ’70s and ’80s as it filtered into other underground spaces and helped to birth a wider regional arts scene that is crowned today by the likes of Art Basel.
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“There was a lot going on in addition to the music, a whole cultural revolution of art and dance and performance,” Potash says. “I would go to art openings almost as often as music shows. A typical night would see one of Davis Murphy’s mechanical sculptures, an engine-powered typewriter, propelling itself, spinning in a circle, before breaking down. Just as cool as a Jean Tinguely event at MOMA in New York, but here on the street in Miami Beach.”
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Seeman credits Potash for weaving the arts into a local music narrative that echoed NYC’s Mudd Club era, wherein Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat mingled with Blondie and Madonna. Music-wise, they’re all here: The Eat, The Drills, Charlie Pickett and the Eggs, D.T. Martyrs, Psycho Daisies, X-Conz, Toyz, The Front, The Spinouts, Screaming Sneakers, The Reactions, The Preachers, Whig Party, The Essentials, Gay Cowboys in Bondage, Crank, and so many more. Their stories take flight through interviews and visual material provided by an ad hoc army of people like Jill Kahn of the Psycho Daisies, Margaret O’Brien, DJ Mont Sherar, Jim Johnson, Kelly Christy of Vesper Sparrow, and Don Schrager, among others, who had the presence of mind to carry their
The book does not romanticize what it relives. “Punk Under the Sun” presents a visceral account of how drugs dampened and, in a way, destroyed much of this scene. “Many other scenes and bands around the country seemed to enjoy massive success despite the abundance of heavy drugs,” Seeman says. “In our case, it was just one more ingredient that compounded our isolated location, indifference of major record labels, and lack of support from national press and radio. Psycho Daisies were one of the most talented, unique, and influential bands, who consistently got national press, but couldn’t get out of their own way.” It’s an observation made poignant by a candid photo of the late Psycho Daisies mastermind, Johnny Salton, with one bleeding, tourniquet-wrapped arm pierced by an extruding hypo. Available from HoZac Books, “Punk Under the Sun” is gorgeous and alive, a thorough resource for understanding an incredible era. Purchase “PUNK UNDER THE SUN” via Hozac Records! hozacrecords.com
RICHARD VERGEZ by KELLI BODLE
When you hear “distorted space and surreal architecture,” is your first thought of Hollywood, Florida? Maybe it is if you’ve lived in Florida long enough. If you’re not yet sold on Hollywood’s eccentricity, then a visit to Re:Construction, an exhibition of collages by Cuban-American visual and sound artist Richard Vergez, might change your mind. Vergez, the PureHoney artist of the month, was recently given access to the Hollywood Historical Society’s archive of commercial and residential building photographs. These images are the basis for his survey of the city’s rich architectural history, which runs from October 14 to January 2024 at Hammerstein House in Hollywood. Vergez’s signature style is minimalistic, hand-cut collage works exclusively from vintage publications focusing on the 1920s to the 1970s. They are retro-chic, tasteful, and classy but have a solid undercurrent of malaise — debauched beauty, like couples dressed to the nines waltzing on the deck of the Titanic. Vergez revels in his dystopian worlds, but the Hollywood project has generated a different motivation for his Re-Construction series. Vergez and the Hollywood Historical Society hope to open visitors’ eyes to what is gone and what they stand to lose with the city’s gentrification. “The dystopian angle is this idea of wallowing in destruction and accepting the fact that this is the future, this [destruction] is what has happened,” Vergez tells PureHoney. “But then there is the utopian part of me that wants to reconstruct this stuff and make it not dystopian and find positivity, as opposed to just dealing with the rubble and existing there.” Visitors will see landmark buildings including “the original Diplomat Hotel, the Great Southern Hotel, City Hall, and the Bandshell, which, the bench is still there, but it was originally a different design, which is cool,” Vergez says. These won’t be simple architectural collages; he will add a little spice. “I’ve been taking these photos and putting them into grayscale, sending them off to print large-scale, and then taking all those big, different pieces and cutting them up to make new compositions,” Vergez says. “It is all about color and architecture. The idea behind the colors is very primary. My main colors are blue and yellow to symbolize sun and water, and then red, which symbolizes these dead buildings. So, blood.” Vergez’s work is much in demand, with his hand-cut collages regularly printed to accompany articles in publications such as The Guardian and the The New York Times. Burton Snowboards just licensed one of his images for a snowboard this year. But he is enthusiastic about working locally with the Historical Society: ”It’s just a really cool organization because it’s trying to hold on to this little piece of Florida history that we have left here before it all becomes demolished and turns into condos. So, the exhibition is like a nostalgic thing to hang.”
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Vergez is also a noted musician and founder of the Noir Age label. True to his retro sensibility, his label releases music on cassette tape and vinyl. For Re:Construction, his musical inspiration was German experimental music group Einstürzende Neubauten. “They reference architecture. In English, it means ‘collapsing new buildings,’” Vergez says. “They have a compilation that I always return to called ‘Strategies Against Architecture.’ The instrumentation that they use is cement mixers, pieces of metal, and stuff like that. So, I feel like their music is very architectural and lends itself to the architectural dystopia/ utopia. So, they’re collapsing new buildings, building new ones through their music. So, there’s kind of a conceptual ghost there that ties in with this artwork because it’s kind of abstract and it’s kind of collage, and that’s very much the aesthetic of the music.” The Historical Society will hold a closing party for the show either in December or January with a sonic element. “After this whole exhibition is through,” Vergez says, “I’ll be putting something together at the end with the sound component, possibly a visual component. A processdriven kind of thing using materials that I work with to create the art. That’s definitely always on my mind whenever I’m creating visual stuff, just because it goes hand-in-hand for me, the processes are parallel.”
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Re:Construction continues to January 2024 at Hammerstein House in Hollywood. Find Richard Vergez at cargocollective.com/richardvergez