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Connan Mockasin Will Find You We are, without question, in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance. While the term ‘psychedelic’ remains a bit of a vague umbrella and qualifier easily applied to anything with a bit of swirl and/or a dash of reverb, artists that would once be considered fringe artists -- relegated to the record collections of only the absolute deepest diggers -- have found unprecedented Connan Mockasin | Credit: Jen Carey popularity in the past 10 years. New Zealand’s Connan Mockasin is one of the brightest lights of the new psych movement, and is a genuinely singular voice in a sea of ‘60s garage worship and banal synth bashers.

Mockasin’s music is an exploration of approachable, lush textures that have been warped and adjusted in ways that become a sonic funhouse mirror. The musician appears the image of a Norwegian tennis pro from the ‘70s and his music follows suit. Most of the sounds Mockasin plays with are finished with the sheen and gloss of late ‘70s AM radio, slipped a tab of acid, and fed back through things like sped-up tape delays and chorus pedals.

Mockasin’s last outing -- 2013’s Caramel -- saw the self-contained singer/ songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer write and record the entire album from the confines of a hotel room somewhere in Tokyo, and the result is a sexy (if claustrophobic) slice of weirdness that sees the singer’s affected falsetto peak in through clouds of wispy guitars like bars of sunlight jutting through venetian blinds on a hazy Sunday morning. The lyrical content is always a bit vague, and often more than a bit creepy (“I’m the Man That Will Find You” for example), but truth be told, Mockasin’s music could be described to the uninitiated as a less suburban version of what Mac DeMarco does that manages to go the full trip and get weird enough to leave the flower crown and neon shirt sect seeking the more comfortable terra firma of their Tame Impala and Arcade Fire records.

While we wait anxiously await a follow up to Caramel, Mockasin has decided to hit the road stateside this winter and will bring his outlandish sounds to Miami’s Bardot December 3 at 10pm. ~ Von Bader

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Hosker’s Blast From The Past Even as the people who knew musician Dan Hosker best mourned his death in August 2012, they were moving quickly to secure his legacy.

The inaugural concert to fund a project called the Dan Hosker Music Continuum was held that December, around the birthdate of this prolific punk and indie guitar player. Every year since, the fund has awarded $500 to a student at Hosker’s hometown high school, Bishop Fenwick, in Danvers, Mass., for furthering the recipient’s music education. Proceeds from the fourth annual concert, taking place on December 11 at Jump Dan Hosker the Shark in Fort Lauderdale, will also buy musical instruments for girls attending Miami Girls Rock Camp whose families could not otherwise afford them.

The lineup for this year’s event also demonstrates how much Hosker, one of the scene’s most engaged and energetic participants, has meant to people whose lives he touched. Rob Elba, an organizer of the concert who played alongside Hosker in the Holy Terrors, in South Florida’s peak early-’90s punk scene, marvels at the unanimous response he received for this year’s concept: a “Blast from the Past” reunion of bands from that time and place.

“No one said no,” said Elba. And a number of musicians who no longer call South Florida home are coming in to perform. The lineup will resonate with anyone who tracked favorite bands along a club circuit from Churchill’s in Miami to Ray’s Downtown in West Palm Beach: Black Janet, Los Diablos, Tongues of the Heartworm, Basketcase, Dore Soul/C60s, Quit, DT Martyrs, One Eyed Kings, Boxcar Timmy and Scraping Teeth.

While Elba has a punker’s innate wariness of nostalgia, he views this year’s festival as a righteous celebration — of its namesake, of the scene Hosker anchored, and of the joy these musicians found in playing together. And with enough funding already in place to disburse scholarships for a decade or more, the project is “becoming exactly what we all hoped it would be,” said Elba.

Doors open at 7pm for this evening of bands, art and raffles. Admission is a minimum $10 donation. DJ Skidmark spins. Jump the Shark is at 810 NE 4th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Call 954-667-4126 ~ Sean Piccoli

Miami Girls Rock Camp

“ My plate is so full right now with all the things that I love,” says an enthusiastic Steph Taylor. “I feel really fortunate to have music in my life 100% of the time and to do the variety of things that I do.

It keeps me on my toes.”

Taylor, the piano/synths and vocals half of local indie/ dark pop duo the State Of, might have a lot of things going on, but when they are going as well as they seem to be, one can’t help but feel happy for her and to wish her continued success. the State Of | Photo: WasabiFashionKult.com It has been a while since her and drummer/vocalist Nabedi Osorio have been at it on the local stage but their talent and versatility betray any time that may have passed.

With Osorio recently returned from LA, Taylor had the right timing to pursue a Girls Rock Camp (GRC) in South Florida. “I have friends who have participated in them and I always had a vision of starting one in Miami. Finally, with the right timing, I reached out to Emile Milgrim of Sweat Records and together, we started the camp.” The State Of’s reunion gig was a performance for the kids at the camp and that has kicked off a resurgence of creativity in the duo; writing, recording and looking to grow the band’s profile in the coming year.

Ever the educator, Taylor who is a music teacher during the day, has translated the enormous sound of the duo into a positive and well-received GRC, “women are underrepresented in all aspects of the music industry and Camp exists to create positive female role models for the next generation,” she explains. “If you look through a bunch of guitar magazines, you will see mostly men on the covers.

Every once in a while you will see a female and more times than not, her image is sexualized. We seek to change that perspective about a girl’s place in the music industry and to empower girls to be who they are and take risks.”

Coming in for the final evening of Sweat Records’ Live at Sweat series of live recordings, the State Of will share the stage with Milgrim’s Quarter Horses on December 19 to close out the inaugural season for the beloved store. Aside from it being an awesome experience for bands and fans alike, Taylor’s always got her girls on her mind, “Nabedi and I were psyched when we got asked to be a part of it. We can invite all of our students and the Miami Girls Rock Campers!” Taylor and the State Of are heading in the right direction and while one never knows what the future brings, it’s great to see these locals doing great and doing great things for the South Florida music scene and its future. ~ Abel Folgar

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28

Montoya w. Afrobeta, Millionyoung

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Jon Greco, Wreath Making Class

RESPECTABLE STREET: Toys for Tots Benefit w. Sweet Bronco, Raggy Monster, Johnny Raincloud

KAPOW! NOODLE BAR & DUBLINER: 5th Annual Movember Mustache Party

RESPECTABLE STREET: Ace’s High Music Fest: Everymen, Spred the Dub, The Darling Sweets, Lavola, Bonnie Riot, Old Habits, Sweet Nothings, Sunnyvale, Right Through DADA: Bashaum Stewart Trio KILL YOUR IDOL: Neopolitan

BAMBOO ROOM: Big Brass Bed, Wonderama

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29

JB’S: The Resolvers BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Sunday Blues, Brie Goldsobel

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30

DADA: Basement Jams Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Glitterbox FUNKY BISCUIT: Biscuit Jam ft. Terry Hanck

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1

DADA: Poetry Slam KILL YOUR IDOL: Glitterbox CHURCHILLS PUB: Anti-Art becomes Art: Ava Mendoza, Andy Ortmann, Kenny Millions, Steve Five & Rat Bastard, Tom Borax, Sharlyn Evertsz, JuJu Pie, Ed Matus, Human Fluid Rot, Jellyfish Brothers, Michael Feathers, Russell Mofsky

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FREEHAND MIAMI: Jacked Fashion Art Camp is a community of visionaries coming together from across the country to showcase their work, collaborate, and explore Miami. Artists will showcase projections, sculptures, films, photography, music, performance and fashion. Interactive arts and crafts will be available to guests as well as live musical performances and DJ’s alongside pop-up’s and installations.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2

RESPECTABLE STREET: Industrial Grade Wednesdays DADA: Baron Sisters CULTURE ROOM: Ghost Town CCE: Opening Reception, Collaborative Fine Art Exhibition THE CITADEL: Superfine! House of Art & Design Showcase, Fair, Concept Store by Diego Montoya w. Baio, Lauv

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5

PROPAGANDA: Metropolis, Drip Effect, Mandy Moon CULTURE ROOM: St. Paul & the Broken Bones CHURCHILLS PUB: Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Ava Mendoza BREWHOUSE GALLERY: String Assassins FUNKY BISCUIT: Pat Travers Band, JP Soars & The Red Hots THE CITADEL: Superfine! House of Art & Design by Diego Montoya w. Jeffrey Paradise (Poolside), Gilligan Moss, Krisp

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6

CULTURE ROOM: Lucero

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: JL Fulks JAZID: Horizen, Perfect Giddimani, Fyakin, Ras Kokay, Lance-O, Kulcha Shok, Exit Sound CHURCHILLS PUB: DARK BASEL: Necro, Madchild, Nobodies, CONGRESS HOTEL. Bimini Sundays. Wolf story, Jeremy Ismael, Tavin & the Nudist

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7

DADA: Basement Jams KILL YOUR IDOL: Glitterbox BOSTONS: Horizen, White Abbot & the Crown Council, Lance-O CHURCHILLS PUB: Miami Jazz Jam

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8

DADA: Comedy Open Mic

BAMBOO ROOM: Juke, Janiva Magness BARDOT: Connan Mockasin

HAROLD’S COFFEE: Drum Circle CULTURE ROOM: Machine Head KISMET VINTAGE: Tree Lighting After Party CHURCHILLS PUB: Immortal Technique, Hasan Salaam, El B, Dj Static FUNKY BISCUIT: Big Sam’s Funky Nation THE CITADEL: Superfine! House of Art & Design by Diego Montoya w. Aeroplane

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10

DADA: Army Gideon

PROPAGANDA: LFTD LVLS

RESPECTABLE STREET: Milk Spot, Fat Sun

HAROLD’S COFFEE: Drum Circle FUNKY BISCUIT: Kung Fu, Electric Kif KISMET VINTAGE: Holiday Party, ClosetCaseVintage Pop Up CHURCHILLS PUB: Cell Phone, 305 Fest Pre Party

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4

DADA: The Helmsmen

FILLMORE MIAMI BEACH: Magic Men

BAMBOO ROOM: JL Fulks, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats

PROPAGANDA: 84 Sheepdog, Menudo, Operative Me, That Guy FUNKY BISCUIT: Mike Zito & The Wheel, Danielle Nicole MILAGRO CENTER: See. Feel. Be. Opening Reception BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Paul Rowan CULTURE ROOM: Dance Gavin Dance CHURCHILLS PUB:Silver Apples, Wolf Eyes, Eartheater, Other Body, Treasure Teeth, Snakehole, Rat Bastard, Ava Mendoza THE CITADEL: Superfine! House of Art & Design by Diego

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FILLMORE MIAMI BEACH: Mac Miller

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BAMBOO ROOM: JC Dwyer, The Last Word

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LONGBOARDS/SUBCULTURE/RESPECTABLE STREET: KeepTheBeatAlive Benefit Festival for Corey Jones will be held December 10 at Longboards, Respectable Street and Subculture Coffee WPB. Lineup so far: FuturePrezidents, LFTD LVLS, The Helmsmen, Roots Shakedown, Artikal Sound System, Ethan Parker, DJ Fyah Queen and more!

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BREWHOUSE GALLERY:Whiskey Wasps DNTN MIAMI: Buskerfest Miami Street Performance Fest FUNKY BISCUIT: Dreams Crystal Visions Of Fleetwood Mac

JAZID: Nite of the X with RhythmadiX, MetriX, Chip Fresh, Lance-O, Kulcha Shok CHURCHILLS PUB: Moon River Cabaret

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12

MONDAY, DECEMBER 21

JACQUES DE BEAUFORT GALLERY formerly UNIT 1: Deep Inside the Mancave Art Opening by Jacques de Beaufort. FREE SHOW: PsychoMagic, SnakeHole DADA: Mylo Ranger

BAMBOO ROOM: Gregg Jackson & the Bossa Groove, Big Jam Theory: A Tribute to Dave Matthews Band FUNKY BUDDHA: Funkin’ Grateful HAROLDS COFFEE: Paul Michael Zisholtz & Friends PROPAGANDA: Upper Class Trash 10th anniversary of Favoring Blurred Lines CULTURE ROOM: Bulletproof Stockings CHURCHILLS PUB: 305 FEST DAY 2 – DRI BREWHOUSE GALLERY: 33 Years FUNKY BISCUIT: Carmine & Vinny Appice & All Star Band SWEAT RECORDS: Wastelands, Bleeth

DADA: Basement Jams KILL YOUR IDOL: Glitterbox BOSTONS: Rhythmation, Jah Steve & the Counteract Crew, Lance-O, Kulcha Shok CHURCHILLS PUB: Miami Jazz Jam

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22

DADA: Comedy Open Mic

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Trivia DADA: Katie Hargrove

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24

DADA: Madd Jazz HAROLD’S COFFEE: Drum Circle

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 14

CHURCHILLS PUB: Save the Rock Music Festival FUNKY BISCUIT: Butch Trucks & the Freight Train Band, Berry Oakley Jr., Vaylor Trucks, Bruce Katz, Damon Fowler, Ben Sparaco Band

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Joel DaSilva JAZID: Army Gideon, Lance-O, Kulcha Shok, Mixmaster J, PeppaBox, Galaxy, Mr Brown, New Sheriff CHURCHILLS PUB: Critical Records Showcase BOSTONS: The Resolvers, Lance-O, Kulcha Shok DADA: Basement Jams KILL YOUR IDOL: Glitterbox CHURCHILLS PUB: Miami Jazz Jam

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15

DADA: Comedy Open Mic BROWARD CENTER: Whitehorse

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16

DADA: Ella Herrera CULTURE ROOM: High On Fire

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17

BAMBOO ROOM: Rob Arenth, J Street Revival

PROPAGANDA: LFTD LVLS HAROLD’S COFFEE: Drum Circle DADA: Chucka Riddim BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Artist Spotlight CHURCHILLS PUB: We are the People, Sunghosts, Dark Rift, Rockadictos, Blik, Dyslexic Postcards & more.

BAMBOO ROOM: Marijah & The Reggae AllStars, Fireside Prophets, Spred the Dub

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Roanoke & Ryan Huseman JAZID: InnaSense, Haze St Dub ft Cisco and Anbesa, Lance-O, Kulcha Shok, Babyon Fall JB’S: The Resolvers CHURCHILLS PUB: Bill Orcutt & Guests

MONDAY, DECEMBER 28

DADA: Basement Jams Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Glitterbox BOSTONS: InnaSense, Future Prez, Lance-O, Kulcha Shok CHURCHILLS PUB: Miami Jazz Jam

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29

DADA: Comedy Open Mic CHURCHILLS PUB: A Folk’d Up Evening: Radiohead Tribute

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30

DADA: Whiskey Wasps BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Trivia PROPAGANDA: DJ Needlez Presents: Roc The Mic

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Zack Jones DADA: Mandy Moon REVOLUTION LIVE: Pink Talking Fish GRAMP’S: Ketchy Shuby HAROLD’S COFFEE: Lyrical Ink Open Mic FUNKY BISCUIT: Edwin McCain, The Nouveaux Honkies CHURCHILLS PUB: Cavity, Sloth, Xela Zaid, Other Body, Trench

FUNKY BISCUIT: NYE Celebration ft. Albert Castiglia & John Ginty

BAMBOO ROOM: The Whiskey Wasps, Teri Catlin Band, Rogue Theory, Chemradery, The Kinected, Yardij

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19

RESPECTABLE STREET: Sith-Mas: Star Wars Christmas DADA: Jangle Leg

BAMBOO ROOM: 747, Dawn Patrol

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Jason Soffer

SWEAT RECORDS: The State Of, Quarter Horses

PROPAGANDA: Xmas w. Muggles, Helmsmen, Here To Nowhere KISMET VINTAGE: “Brunch” Vintage and Free Mimosas CULTURE ROOM: Leon Russell BOHEMÏA AG: A Very Guerrilla Christmas CHURCHILLS PUB: F, Pre-Tenses, Flees, Shark Valley Sisters, FWA, The Gazms and DJ Skidmark

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: SS Francis

SUBCULTURE GROUP: RING IN THE NEW YEAR at one of your favorite spots. Honey, Camelot, Respectable Street, Subculture Coffee, Hullabaloo, Longboards, Lost Weekends, Howleys, Dada, Tryst, Dubliner, Kapow!, Kill Your Idol. Make plans TODAY! www.Sub-Culture.org BAMBOO ROOM: JP Soars & the Red Hots, The People Upstairs CHURCHILLS PUB: NYE Bash!

PROPAGANDA: NYE 2015

SATURDAY, JANUARY 9

ST LUCIE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS: Bryan Jackson Music Festival feat. Abby Owens, Always Wanted War, Beggars, Break The Hero, Catalogues, Church & State, Church Girls, Commonplace, Deal James, Down Coyote, Flint Blade, Flying Sharks, Gallimimus, Gargantua Tarantula, Ghost Cat, Gravel Kings, Hidden Tree Houses, In Motion, Killmama, Lavola, Mindscar, Minus Turmoil, OSF, Pathos, Pathos, Pub Reckers, Ryan & Friends, Sky Coffins, Spicoli, Sweet Bronco, The Humdingers, The Inverted, The Prescription, The Sweet Escape, The Whiskey Wasps, Wake Up plus Neon Paint Party Tour

Bryan Jackson Music Fest The Treasure Coast music scene suffered a tragic blow on Oct. 30, and unfortunately, South Florida had something to do with it. The emocore group Ghost Cat was traveling north from a show in Lake Worth when a motorist driving the wrong way in 95 plowed head-on into the band’s SUV. Two of the band members survived serious injuries, and bassist Bryan Jackson was ejected from the backseat and killed on impact.

“He was all-around the most lovable Ghost Cat circa 2013 guy in our music scene,” recalls his friend Zack Jones, who performs with jangly rockers Gravel Kings. “A lot of people are angry, but he was so chill. Every time he was with somebody, he made them feel like they were close.”

Three months after Jackson’s death, Jones hosted a memorial concert, where about 1,000 friends, fans and music lovers turned up to celebrate Jackson’s life. And this past January, Jones launched an official tribute concert, the Bryan Jackson Music Festival, which busted the doors of Fort Pierce’s Bottom’s Up Raw Bar and Grille with some 4,000 attendees. “It was a sea of people for that town,” Jones says. “It was unheard of. It felt like playing Bonnaroo.”

For the second annual fest—titled Bryan Jackson Music Festival, Episode II, in a Star Wars font appropriate for this movie season—Jones is more prepared. It will be hosted January 9 at St. Lucie County Fairgrounds, where 35 bands in genres ranging from punk, hardcore and indie to folk, country and reggae will perform on three stages.

Local audiences who make the hour-long drive from West Palm Beach to Port St. Lucie will be rewarded with a comprehensive survey of the Treasure Coast scene, a robust community despite the fact that the region has roughly one venue for original local bands. Ghost Cat, naturally, will headline, along with The Sweet Escape—aka Bryan Jackson’s first band—and Fort Pierce staples like Break the Hero, The Humdingers, Catalogues, Church Girls and Jones’ own Gravel Kings.

South Florida will be well represented with Wake Up, Sweet Bronco, Lavola, The Whiskey Wasps, Gallimimus and Killmama. Always Wanted War, a hardcore act from Germany that toured with Ghost Cat, will perform as well in an uber-rare Florida appearance.

Tickets cost $10 in advance or at the gate, and the event includes a craft show, art expo, skate ramp, a full liquor and beer bar. and some 15 food trucks, all culminating an EDM paint party. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit bryanjacksonmusicfestival.com. ~ John Thomason

Deep Inside the Man Cave Lake Worth gallerist and artist Jacques de Beaufort pays homage to 42 artist/musician/ creative friends in the portrait series Deep Inside the Man Cave. The series was sparked by the offer of a friend to do a portrait of Beaufort himself. After having spent several years showing the work of others in his former gallery space UNIT1, he felt it was time to start creating again and found inspiration in the creative people with whom he spends much of his time.

The series celebrates the Lake Worth artist community as much as it does the individual subjects Jacques de Beaufort | Credit Don Fils in the portraits. The emerging South Florida art scene can be hard to pinpoint. Miami has an already highly commercialized Wynwood and Art Basel, but it can be difficult to define as a whole exactly what and where the “arts” community is and how much of an influence it has on the culture at large.

This makes the small creative enclaves like the one in Lake Worth all the more important and all the more closely knit. Beaufort points out that the subject of his series will also be its audience. When the show opens mid-December, many of the people in the gallery will be looking at images of themselves and their friends.

Deep Inside the Man Cave is not only a practice in the lost art of the portrait, it is an acknowledgement of male friendship and creative collaboration.

There is a central question and criticism which Beaufort has already encountered of his all male revue: Where are the women? Where are the female artists and creatives who have contributed just as much to the artistic community? It’s an easy question, but it is a fair question.

The portrayal of male subjects is actually a departure for the artist. Looking back on Beaufort’s body of work, the undeniably intriguing and beautiful images are more likely to be female than male. At the same time, those female subjects are often depicted with a distinct sensuality, sexuality, a feminine mystique that reeks of a highly desired yet unattainable otherness.

Beaufort says that he has tended to portray women in a more idealistic way. It’s been more about surface and beauty. With the men, it was never about that. As he worked from photographs of his subjects, he was looking more at their character, their flaws, their idiosyncrasies. He hopes to carry that new perspective over to future portrayals of women.

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There’s a sort of psychomagic at play here. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s psychospiritual theory, psychomagic, claims that psychological realizations can be truly transformative when manifested by concrete poetic acts. In the case of Beaufort and his travels deep inside the man cave, the intentional genderizing of the project forced the artist to contemplate his perspectives of both women and men.

Single sex environments often allow the individual to emerge beyond the cultural expectations for one’s gender. The individuals in the portraits may have all been male, but they were able to rise above the trappings of idealized masculinity and tropes of toxic masculinity, coming to life on the canvas, each with their own unique quirks and weirdness.

This philosophical talk is perhaps too serious for the sense of lighthearted humor and celebration of friendship with which Beaufort approached the series. He’s taken a usually solitary artistic endeavor and made it communal. The opening reception will be full of fun and friends which also includes a DUDEBRO costume contest. The guest who comes dressed as the best dudebro will win a small drawing of him/herself (or a friend).

Later in the evening, Portland psychedelic surfer garage rock band Psychomagic will take the stage. Psychomagic just released “Safe Sex” their first single from their third album, Mentally Ill on Lolipop Records. While Beaufort has spent the last several months investigating his friends’ individuality, Psychomagic will spend late November and December on their crossPsychomagic country Mentally Ill tour dealing with each other’s quirks. Vocalist and guitarist Steven Fusco describes being in a band as like having four girlfriends--the relationship is really intimate and you have to be super aware.

Fusco says that it helps that all the members are friends. While being friends with people in your band isn’t necessary to make good music together, it is necessary for having a band you like to be in. It also doesn’t hurt to actually be having fun when you’re singing lyrics imbued with unexpected humor over deceptively trippy and melodic tunes.

The show thus far has been painted as an exclusively male affair, but that is not entirely so. You’ll have the opportunity to cathartically rage against the patriarchy (or just rage) when Snakehole takes the stage.

Bring all your guy AND gal friends to travel Deep Inside the Man Cave, sponsored

by LULA Lake Worth Arts, on December 12 at the Jacques de Beaufort Studio/ Gallery 1202 Lucerne Ave, Unit 1 in Lake Worth. The opening reception begins at 5pm for viewing. The music portion of the evening, presented by PureHoney will begin at 10pm with Psychomagic and Snakehole. Learn more about all things de Beaufort at JacquesDeBeaufort.com. ~ Jessica Chesler

Jaco, A Heartfelt Tribute The story of the brilliantly inventive bassist Jaco Pastorius, which began and ended in Wilton Manors, Florida, is nothing short of a tragedy.

With Jaco, co-directors Paul Marchand and Stephen Kijak follow the classic formula of a documentary focused on an influential creative person gone too soon.

There are talking heads, from musicians who worked with him, like Joni Mitchell and Herbie Jaco Pastorius Hancock, to admirers like Sting and Flea. There is also a lot of vintage footage, including plenty of home videos and photographs. Mitchell and others talk about the conversational quality of playing with Pastorius, and the camera hardly lingers on faces, intercutting beautiful, aged 8mm color home movies or photos of Pastorius with his families, from childhood to fatherhood. Early in the film, you see vintage footage of late 1950s and early ‘60s South Florida, where Pastorius grew up. Pastorius credits the music scene of the area as a key influence. In a voice over, he says, “I grew up in Florida where there was no real musical prejudice. There was all sorts of music, everything from Cuban music, to symphonic music.”

The film covers his invention of the fretless bass that helped him to create his unique, harmonic sound. On a deeper level, though, there are also many instances in the film that show Pastorius projecting his persona through music. It reveals how cockiness informs creativity and how the “musical conversation” can become mean-spirited and abusive. You cannot sell short the producer credit by Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, who clearly understands the psychology of this tragedy, beyond Jaco’s psychiatric diagnosis, after his band shared some of their psychotherapy sessions in the 2004 documentary, Some Kind of Monster. Jaco takes a similar perspective in dwelling on the musician’s state of mind, except that Jaco’s subject is the tragic, worst case scenario: destitution, homelessness, institutionalization and finally death. And the undercurrent of Pastorius’ decline always looms over the proceedings.

But Jaco never feels like myth-making, just a genuine heartfelt tribute to a damaged but uniquely talented musician.

After its Florida premiere at the 30th Annual Fort Lauderdale Film Festival in November, Jaco was released on home video. ~ Hans Morgenstern | The Independent Ethos (indieethos.com)

Corey Jones: Keep the Beat Alive Corey Jones A Diamond In The Field

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It was October 18th, on a Sunday afternoon when the phone rang. CJ said his brother was shot and killed by police on the way home from our Future Prezidents show in Jupiter, Florida. We didn’t know any details other than Corey was waiting for a tow on the Southbound I-95 PGA offramp in Palm Beach Gardens. It took thirteen hours for Palm Beach Gardens Police to notify the family.

We found out later police had sent text messages to elected officials during this time and the plainclothes officer was without badge, police siren and lights. We felt betrayed as people asked, “Whose side are they on?”

My first time meeting Corey, he came to a Future Prez show in Fort Lauderdale to sit in and see if we might be a good fit for each other. As a reggae influenced original band, finding the right drummer is as much about about ability as it is personality and right from the start we had an understanding. As I helped him unload his drums, he grabbed my guitar and amp. Our dynamic was seamless. We both felt blessed. Soon after I met Corey he introduced me to his bassist friend of 4 years Zack. They were tight and passionate about performing together. My last bassist had just relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee when Corey brought Zack into rehearsal. Simply put, it was a high vibration. As we prepared for another midwest tour and our first album together, I remember the music, rehearsal, and vibes just kept getting better. FP’s last show with Corey was a celebration. Friends came out from Jupiter and from as far away as Columbus, Ohio. It was a warm feeling seeing our people come together, it was all we wanted.

As I stood at Corey’s grave last week, we watched the sun set over the baseball field listening to the silence, followed by the crack of the bat and voices of kids cheering on their teammates. It was a familiar feeling. I stayed until last light, making sure he knew that I was there. I said, “Ok Prez I’ll see you again soon brother. Ya feel me?”

1st Annual #KeepTheBeatAlive Benefit Festival for Corey Jones will be held December 10 at Longboards, Respectable Street and Subculture Coffee WPB. Lineup so far: FuturePrezidents, LFTD LVLS, The Helmsmen, Roots Shakedown, Artikal Sound System, Ethan Parker, DJ Fyah Queen and more! 100% of beverage sales goes to benefit Corey Jones Scholarship Fund. Stay tuned as we #KeepTheBeatAlive4Corey our friend and drummer at www.facebook.com/FuturePrezidents, Instagram & Periscope as FuturePrezidents. ~ Boris Simeonov

Lucero, In Love With A Girl When country and alternative merged like tributaries in the 1990s, the result was both forwardand backwardtraveling. Nostalgia was built in for bands such as Uncle Tupelo, Old 97’s, Neko Case & Her Boyfriends, Whiskeytown, DriveBy Truckers and a quartet from Memphis called Lucero: You couldn’t pledge alliegance to roots music’s rough gothic past, and critique the gaudy present like punk- and indie-rockers do, without sounding a little wistful in your quest for realness.

Lucero Alt-country was a movement, but also a kind of trade and a niche that prized real instruments, untreated voices and poetry about the distance between dreams and limitations. These ragged artisans knew they were never going to lay siege to Top 40 or tour with Kenny Chesney.

But some of the bands are still thriving in the space they carved out. Lucero, formed in 1998, has kept its lineup mainly intact while progressing “from sad bastard country rock to soul and R&B,” to quote guitarist Brian Venable’s online band biography.

On their tenth album, All A Man Should Do, Lucero embrace another hometown icon: the fabled Memphis power pop band Big Star. The album title is a quotation of a line from one of Big Star’s dearest songs, “I’m in Love With a Girl,” which Lucero covers here.

All A Man Should Do spans Lucero’s whole Southern and Tennesseean experience.

Horn lines punctuate the honky-tonk rumble, “Can’t You Hear Them Howl,” while “Went Looking for Warren Zevon’s Los Angeles,” is an outsider’s ballad, with acoustic guitar up front and vocalist Ben Nichols as a chastened narrator: “Going back to Memphis with a picture and a song/So long, so long/ Gonna find a jukebox, everyone can sing along.”

Music’s moment of Peak Americana has arguably receded, if not passed. Uncle Tupelo begat Wilco, which begat the art rock of Jeff Tweedy. Whiskeytown’s Ryan Adams is now covering Taylor Swift. But the founders have created work that will outlive them. Lucero, for their part, are sounding more confident and more in touch than ever with their reason for being.

Lucero performs on December 6 at Culture Room, Showtime is 8pm. Tickets $20. ~ Sean Piccoli