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Small Press Fair ‘16 Large print publications are struggling in a digital world, but there are stalwart protectors of the art of print like IS Projects and Girls’ Club who collaborated to bring SPF Fort Lauderdale to life. SPF’16 is South Florida’s first contemporary art fair dedicated to printmaking, artist books and zines. In addition to the exhibition sections, the fair will present a program of interactives and live demonstrations of printmaking methods and techniques from leading local printers; and readings from local authors--and a selection of local breweries and food trucks will be on hand.

It’s been two years since cofounders and directors Ingrid Schindall and Sarah Michelle Rupert began talking about creating a print-centric fair specific to Fort Lauderdale.

“There’s really nothing of its kind here, and we want to change that. To build a home and a platform for exchange for Fort Lauderdale and Broward County,” Schindall says.

SPF16

IS Projects recently celebrated its two-year anniversary in FAT Village. Led

by Schindall, the communal printmaking and book arts studio has been a sanctuary for lovers of paper and ink. Schindall has been on the zine-fair circuit for a while and now, just like when she first opened her studio, she wants to create a space to bring people together in the spirit of print.

Rupert, an artist and gallery director of the nonprofit alternative art space Girls’ Club, has watched Art Walk in FAT Village grow to attract thousands. Not only will this fair allow zine-heads to gather in Fort Lauderdale instead of driving hours or more away, the fair aims to introduce an entirely new audience to the thriving craft. Rupert says, “SPF’16 will be a fun, quirky showcase of print culture is South Florida, showing the range and depth of our creative community. We’ll have academic collections of books and zines on display, emerging artists trading zines, a giant steamroller pressing prints - it’s looking to be a steamy, tropical frenzy of print, book and zine exchange.”

SPF’16 takes place at ArtsUp Concepts, 521 NW 1 Avenue in FATVillage, Fort Lauderdale on Saturday, November 12, from Noon-6pm. For more information on the fair or for sponsorship opportunities visit www.spf-ftl.com ~Jessica Chesler

Ghost w. Marissa Nadler

Ghost

Anonymity. Kitsch. A flair for theatricality… On paper, Ghost sounds like a thespian’s dream come true but in the reality of this Swedish sextet’s execution, Ghost has been a transitional band. Not so much for the genre – that being whatever adjective-laden version of metal is the du jour flavor – but rather for aging metal fans. In their eight years as a band, they’ve consistently raised the bar of their own musicality. Proven by the discord amongst fans regarding the ever-present shifting in sound, Ghost is the kind of hard rock act fans aligned outside of the mainstream can grow old with.

Five nameless ghouls representing the four elements of earth, air, fire, water and alchemical ether have managed to remain unknown through a clever (and admitted) rotation and staunch adherence to rules. Shifting focus onto the three incarnations of front man Papa Emeritus more than likely utilizing the same person has helped maintain the illusion without sacrificing the sound. We’ve seen this trick done differently before, at least a version of subterfuge and obfuscation from fellow Swedes The Hives.

Call it a byproduct of Scandinavian socialism, in any case, the band grew under the shadows of Linköping’s dominant architectural feature, the cathedral of the Church of Sweden, and while that doesn’t mean anything, it’s a funny addendum to the religious (or is it anti-religious) overtones of their lyrical work. There is a sense of humor that’s pervasive of the band, be it in Papa’s often surreal approach to answering interview questions or whichever ghoul gets the call from coach to make good with the press.

The self-awareness of their playing dress-up for a living never fully takes away from their professionalism as musicians and the fact that not only do they craft great tunes, they also pick excellent covers to pepper their catalogue with makes them darlings of music lovers. Their take on Roky Erickson’s “If You Have Ghosts” is already a classic. As live performers, their “Rituals” are well-crafted productions with their crowd reminiscent of the folks you’d catch at a better showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Meaning, it’s perfectly okay for older fans to dress up in their satanic best.

This level of musical sophistication and affinity for orchestral grandiosity have brought legions of fans some pretty good “Rituals” with often likeminded opening acts sharing the stage. For the closeout of this tour, Ghost will have the dark, ambient stylings of Marissa Nadler as opener.

The prolific singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based out of Boston brings a mature and deep sound to the stage with an enviably long catalog amassed over the last 17 years.

Pegged into the dream pop world, Nadler’s soft yet reassuring voice can artfully waver across genres with the same pomp and fervor regardless of it being a solo effort or Marissa Nadler a collaboration. Think somewhere in the middle of Björk and Kaki King with an eclectic record collection guiding the musical education. If Ghost goes for the music to make the impression and for the experience to create a bond with their crowd, Nadler will be the more personal and intimate part of the night. She is heartfelt and emotional, that she manages to retain an unsettling dark streak running underneath it all, is a testament to her skill set and why she might never become a mainstream darling. It doesn’t seem to matter, she’s been doing fairly well for herself and this tour will grab her some news fans for sure.

In essence, the performances on this tour have been more ritualistic than those in the past for a number of reasons. The band has a more varied arsenal of tunes to build from, the addition of Nadler opening will set a subconscious tonality that will create a proper rhythmic trance, and finally, the combination of the two will make for the proper atmosphere in which concert-goers can revel in a la Rocky Horror.

This might be dark music with elements of metal, but the band has never shied from fun and humor. Hell, in that vein why don’t we just go ahead and propose that maybe it isn’t Tobias Forge behind Papa’s makeup but rather, Hives front man Pelle Almqvist.

Since the days of ABBA, the Swedes have been a hard bunch to pigeon-hole and/ or figure out. Anything’s possible but for this night, everything will be alright. Ghost with Marissa Nadler at 7pm on Thursday, November 3 at the Fillmore Miami Beach.

Tickets $27.50 - $275.00. ghost-official.com. ~ Abel Folgar

Fall of Olympus MIKIMORO

The Odyssey is an epic poem about Greek hero Odysseus’s 10 year journey home from the 10 year waged Trojan War. It’s chock full of sex, violence and heavily metaled men getting into adventures with mythical beasts. It’s perfect fodder for brutally dark anthems and no doubt has been mind for years, for just that.

Fall of Olympus

Fall of Olympus is a thrash/death metal band from West Palm Beach who is celebrating their decade long, debauched, tenure in the South Florida music scene. As cross overs go, Fall of Olympus is more metal and heavy than hardcore or punk, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t get down with those genres too. In fact, upon listening to them riff and pound with voice shredding vocals, one might be understood for likening their sound in part to bands like Earth Crisis, Candiria, Mushuggah or any number of bands that burned a path through the underground in the late 90’s, early aughts.

Politics aside, most of those bands had fans that tip toed between both genres of music: metal and punk.

In the Greek story, Hephaestus was thrown from Olympus for various reasons, which are mostly disputed based on which text it comes from. However, the basic consensus is that Zeus and Hera thought Hephaestus to be lame.

(Seriously, that’s what it says in the text.) Only to be royally outsmarted by the Olympian who refused to come home and right the carnage he wrought on the Gods. So, you know basically a total badass who was taking shit from no one.

So, it seems only appropriate that Fall of Olympus would take their name from such a story. They’re a bunch of bad ass metal dudes who have survived the first half of their story, only to move on to the next chapter; whatever that may be. A decade is a long time for any band of the extreme ilk to stay together; either they have the will of a champion or they refuse to quit. Whatever the case Respectables is going to have the honor of watching these minotaurs thrash and destroy whatever crosses their path, like they have for the first 10 years of their existence. Let’s get pissed and rule the pit!

Fall of Olympus plays Respectable Street in West Palm Beach with Whisky Walls and Armageddon Man on November 18. Doors are at 9pm, 18+ admission is $5. ~ Tim Moffatt

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1

DADA: Spoken Word Open Mic KYI: Open Mic CHURCHILLS PUB: Arms Dealer, Carlos Torres, Devthmvtch, Ghost Flower, Kaotic Steel, Sweetwater Gangster

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 FILLMORE MB: Puscifer DADA: Aaron Austin KYI: Cloud Solo

RESPECTABLE STREET: Mac Sabbath, Kocosante, The Muggles GUANABANAS: Ketchy Shuby KREEPY TIKI: Tiki Jazz Night

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3

FILLMORE MB: Ghost, Marissa Nadler

RESPECTABLE STREET: North Street, Falseta, The Drip Effect, YourDesign MIZNER PARK AMP: Gavin DeGraw, Andy Grammer KREEPY TIKI: NOLA Jazz w/ Bad Apples Brass Band

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10

FILLMORE MB: Animal Collective

DADA: Craft Bazaar & The Holidazed

RESPECTABLE STREET: Octo Gato

PROPAGANDA: Reggae, Lftd Lvls, Space Coast Ghosts KYI: Animal Collective After Party

KISMET VINTAGE: Whiskey Wasps – Album Listening Party KELSEY THEATER: Voice & Swallow Fundraiser: “Paris on Park” BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Open Mic Night CHURCHILLS PUB: Road to Zen Awakening KREEPY TIKI: Botanica 3: Hip Hop vs Ska-Reggae

DADA: Flower City Conspiracy

RESPECTABLE STREET: Great Aunts

PROPAGANDA: Lftd Lvls, Space Coast Ghosts

KELSEY THEATER: DJ Abilities, Blueprint, Shakespeare, E – Turn, 6 Cardinal, DJ Atom Spacific

C.W.S.: Future Prezidents CULTURE ROOM: Oh Wonder, Elliot Moss CHURCHILLS PUB: Lone Wolf KREEPY TIKI: Broward Noise Ordnance- Rat Bastard, Ed Matus, Human Fluid Rot, Squid Squad & more!

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4

GRAMPS: Other Body (EP Release), Snakehole, Ian Iachimoe, In Oculus

DADA: Migrate PROPAGANDA: Burlesque Show, Tom Waits Tribute Band

KELSEY THEATER: Forlorn Strangers, Gravel Kings, Treeswifts

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Mainstreet Dreamers FUNKY BUDDHA: Solemark, Row Joma C.W.S.: Bobby Lee Rodgers Trio CHURCHILLS PUB: Darci, Honey Gum, HoNGs, Neopolitan, Grey 8s, Cloud Solo KREEPY TIKI: Social X! DJ Lady Anime, DJ Heathen & Taxi

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11

FILLMORE MB: Zemfira Little Man Tour RESPECTABLE STREET: The Interrupters, Bad Cop Bad Cop KELSEY THEATER: Dreams: The Definitive Fleetwood Mac Tribute, The Cravens

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Zack Jones PROPAGANDA: Genitorturers, Bullet to Blade DADA: Big Chief SUBCULTURE DELRAY: Josh Hollins & Vanessa Gallardo CULTURE ROOM: Toots & the Maytals DADA: Gold Dust Lounge FUNKY BUDDHA: Electric Kif, Heather Gillis PROPAGANDA: Micah Scott, Lonewolf, Will Brock C.W.S.: Holey Miss Moley CHURCHILLS PUB: Unlimited Devotion & Guavatron KELSEY THEATER: Bark Back Benefit: Spred the Dub, The KREEPY TIKI: Doomstress, Bleeth, Seven Serpents, Coppertones, Mykal Morrison, Guavatron, The Helmsmen, Killmama, Public Sounds Collective, Charley Lawson, Victoria Amplifier Orgy, Yamaraja

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Leigh, The Fabulous Fleetwoods

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12

HAROLDS: Georgio The Dove Valentino

DADA: Int’l Language SUBCULTURE DELRAY: Sophie Pomeranz

FUNKY BISCUIT: Tommy Castro & The Painkillers FUNKY BUDDHA: Girl Jerry CHURCHILLS PUB: Plastic Pinks, Sandratz, The Woolly Bushmen, Buffy, The Goddamn’ Hustle, Viceroi, Killmama, Johnny Mile and the Kilometers, Similar Prisoners, Milk Spot, FAT SUN, Peyote Coyote, FTMF, The Bearings, Honey Gum KREEPY TIKI: Putrid Pile, Swampgas, Murder Suicide, Mordeum, Loz Reyez Bong Death

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6

DADA: Whiskey Wasps CHURCHILLS PUB: Jared Burak, Erratix, 90’s Teen, vbit32, Human Fluid Rot, Male Model, Beta/sp, Rat Bastard KREEPY TIKI: Food Not Bombs- Unity Rise, Melodie Hawkes Band

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8

FILLMORE MB: Party Next Door, Jeremih

CHURCHILLS PUB: Trash Talk, Antwon, Black Noise, Bleubird

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 DADA: Amanda Krigbaum

ARTSUP CONCEPTS: Small Press Fair ‘16 GRAMPS: Mitski, Fear of Man, Weaves

KYI: Keep it Deep BREWHOUSE GALLERY: The Luis Faour Tour

KELSEY THEATER: Hands Like Houses, Our Last Night

BLACK SHEEP HOUSE: Eric Anthony & Codein Kobe & Amado Rojo, Apollo Genesis, Wizedome, Ghost Buddha, Roiju, Audrey Horney, Two Coin, Pesh Kab, Ian Iachimoe, Pocket of Lollipops CULTURE ROOM: Collie Buddz C.W.S.: Victoria Cardona CHURCHILLS PUB: Deafheaven, Inter Arma, Other Body KREEPY TIKI: Black Mass, Thrash or Die, Riot Agents, Speculum, Trespassss

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13

FILLMORE MB: Evanescence

DADA: Brunch with Whiskey Wasps

KREEPY TIKI: No Traffik, Hyde, Johnathen Gonzales, Yardij, Drip Effect

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

CULTURE ROOM: Drive by Truckers, Kyle Craft

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16

FILLMORE MB: Pet Shop Boys DADA: Sweet Bronco, Chris Horgan

GRAMPS: King Khan & the BBQ Show C.W.S.: Crazy Fingers KREEPY TIKI: Tiki Jazz Night

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 DADA: Future Prezidents

RESPECTABLE STREET: Puddle Jumper

PROPAGANDA: Ladies Night, Lftd Lvls CULTURE ROOM: Badfish – A Tribute to Sublime KREEPY TIKI: Shark Valley Sisters, Milkspot, Screaming Daggers, DJ Skidmark

NOVEMBER 18 & 19

BANDSHELL PARK: House of Creatives Music Festival w.

Flaming Lips, Crystal Castles, Breakbot, The Drums, Empress Of, SHIGETO, Beacon, Shallou, Jean Tonique, Kevin Garrett, Small Black, Buscabulla, POMPEYA, XAXO, Millionyoung, Hunters Of The Alps, Los Wálters

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18

DADA: Jonathan Auerbach Trio

CULTURE ROOM: Steel Pulse POORHOUSE: Axe and the Oak, Gold Dust Lounge, Sandratz C.W.S.: Solemark CHURCHILLS PUB: Jacuzzi Boys, The GAZMS, FTMF KREEPY TIKI: Dirty Bourbon River Show, The Coppertones

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20

DADA: Brunch with Whiskey Wasps BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Nip & Tuck CULTURE ROOM: Steven Wilson, John Wesley ACCOMPLICE CIDERWORKS: Monthly Art & Artisans Showcase CHURCHILLS PUB: Makoto Kawabata & Tatsuya Nakatani, Beatriz Monteavaro, Emile Blair Milgrim, Audrey Horny, Ed Matus, Dim Past, Rat – Human Fluid Rot – Nil Lara – Xela Zaid KREEPY TIKI: Hobbs Angel of Death

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21 DADA: Open Mic

JOLT RADIO: A New Way To Live Forever

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22

DADA: Comedy Open Mic KYI: Open Mic

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23

DADA: Nyne to Five C.W.S.: Chloe Dolandis Duo CHURCHILLS PUB: Gag, Lower Species KREEPY TIKI: NOLA Jazz Night w/ Bad Apples Brass Band

RESPECTABLE STREET: Fall of Olympus, Armageddon Man, Whiskey Walls

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24

CULTURE ROOM: Peter Hook & the Light performs Substance THE BOX GALLERY: Aesthetics and Surrealism: Jacques de Beaufort: 10 Year Retrospective KELSEY THEATER: Kelsey Kollective

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25

PROPAGANDA: Dead Prez, DJ Needlez

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Fort Defiance

GRAMPS: Too Much Love Mag Release w. Vowws, Astari Nite, Virgo

FUNKY BISCUIT: Leon Russell C.W.S.: Spred the Dub TEQUESTA BREWING CO: Brett Staska CHURCHILLS PUB: Incantation, Rhythm of Fear, Koroidia, Reapermanser, Gnosi KREEPY TIKI: Shorty The Giant, The Water Colors, Novel, Jaialai

DADA: Rio Peterson Band CHURCHILLS PUB: 10th annual Punksgiving Fest DADA: Steve Pomeranz Band KYI: Shameless Burlesque BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Ella Herrera & Brett Staska CULTURE ROOM: Russ CHURCHILLS PUB: Askultura KREEPY TIKI: MASS

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26

DADA: Octo Gato SUBCULTURE DELRAY: Brie Goldsobel & Jesse Lopez KYI: The Wire PROPAGANDA: Peyote Coyote

RESPECTABLE STREET: Everymen, Que Lastima, Spred the Dub, Lavola, Salute, Old Habits, Out of Sorts, Murder Suicide, Hillside Spirit Revival

FUNKY BUDDHA: Snacks C.W.S.: Raggy Monster, The Whiskey Wasps CHURCHILLS PUB: Skold, Cyanide Regime, Pandora Black, 16Bit KREEPY TIKI: Armageddon Man, Vargrant Stomp, The Shakers, The Antidon’ts, Johnny SxFk

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29

DADA: Comedy Open Mic CHURCHILLS PUB: Anti Art becomes Art with Rat Bastard

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30

DADA: Karina Skye CULTURE ROOM: Queensryche, Armored Saint, Midnight Eternal KREEPY TIKI: Swing Dance, Toaster Curtis All-Star Big Band

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19

FILLMORE MB: Diego Verdaguer & Amanda Miguel

DADA: The State Of SUBCULTURE DELRAY: Mia Rahm & Jessica Morales KYI: Breaks Yo! PROPAGANDA: The Muggles, Zoo Peculiar, Mykal Morrison BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Acoustic Soul FUNKY BISCUIT: Leon Russell

FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH: Riptide Music Festival ft.

Silversun Pickups, AWOLNATION, SAINT MOTEL, Pepper, Glass Animals, Robert DeLong, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, The Struts, Good Charlotte, Miike Snow, Dirty Heads

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4

FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH: Riptide Music Festival ft. The B-52’s, Howard Jones, Earth, Wind & Fire, Debbie Deb, The Fixx, Lime, A Flock of Seagulls, EXPOSÉ

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House of Creatives Fest An ad hoc army is one created for a unique purpose. It’s usually, more likely than not, a disparate grouping of individuals who make up a greater collective entity. In many ways, HOC Fest is like that— aside from sharing the “hoc”— this year’s event takes from the past and has been assembled into a unique package that will bring South Florida the very best in local art, food, and music with an incredibly generous helping of international entertainment talent.

Crystal Castles “The House of Creatives (HOC) was established as a Mishu brand in 2011—as the content producing arm of the company focusing on recorded content and the production of live music events. Last November, HOC Fest was headlined by Brazilian Girls with support from Miami’s own Millionyoung, the Grey 8’s, and Bluejay,” says Carlos Aybar. “We were so pleased with HOC Miami 2015 that we decided to grow the event into a multiple day international music festival.”

Aybar has reason to be excited, not only does his company get to establish what could very well become a marquee musical festival in South Florida but one that could seamlessly incorporate the very best of local music with high profile international acts. Many have tried that before and failed by subconsciously creating a dual-citizenry of acts but HOC Fest has the right attitude of respect towards local talent so as to promote evenly. That’s huge.

Throw “an array of art installations, gourmet food selections, local artisan vendors, and live art, creating a fully immersive cultural experience” and you’ll see why the House of Creatives will continue expanding in years to come. Scoring a pair of instantly recognizable and eternally cool bands to co-headline the festival is another score for the promoters.

The Flaming Lips are a household name.

The long-running experimental psychedelic rockers out of Oklahoma have been The Flaming Lips wowing audiences for decades with their elaborate and surreal stage performances and for a streak of selfdeprecating humor like they exhibited in last season’s opening episode “Pickathon” in which founder and front man Wayne Coyne had it out with long-time drummer Steven Drozd’s secondary version of the band trying to perform at the same festival.

Playing on the “inner-band struggle” woes that have plagued many, the Lips turned in a humorous and satisfying performance for the über cool program.

Crystal Castles might not be as long-lived as the Lips, but this Canadian electronic band has been plugging their amalgam of electropunk, synthpop, and witch house with aplomb and gusto garnering a large legion of fans and accolades—making for a sound that transcends the club speakers and works extremely well on stage.

Other musical highlights include the experimental electronic pop of Puerto Rico’s via Brooklyn Buscabulla. Their mission statement might gravitate towards finding the noise but the noise they actually do bring on is a tempered mix of tropicalia and aural dreamscapes that are as danceable as they are relaxing.

Indie rock/dream pop sensations The Drums are the young and growing effort by childhood friends Jacob Graham and Jonathan Pierce; three albums strong and shutting down detractors with their genuine pop sensibilities that evoke the early days of Redd Kross and the attitudes of mid 60’s region rock. Joined in the fest’s lineup by neighbors Small Black who’ll bring their ethereal chillwave sounds to coast the soothing roll of nearby crashing waves will make it a mini-showcase of the very best music being created in Brooklyn today.

And about those waves… with recent events wreaking havoc on our coast and beaches, organizers for the HOC Fest will be under the microscope for how they deal with the event and the day after. “Safety, cleanliness, and protection of our waters and community as a whole is a top priority for Mishu,” explains The Drums Aybar. “One of Mishu’s own and Rhythm Foundation board member, Dean Taha, has brought in the Miami Waterkeeper to the event in order to raise awareness to the cause as well as help coordinate the logistics necessary to insure things run smoothly with little to no carbon footprint.

Surfrider will also have a presence at the event. We aim to reflect a conscious community of action and respect.”

“Festival goers can expect a premium curated live music and arts event where the strength rests on the quality of the talent booked,” says an enthused Aybar. “We are honored and electrified to be hosting The Flaming Lips, Crystal Castles, and all the others.” It’s hard to not join in the excitement of this upcoming festival and for its continued success. Music events of this magnitude, when done right and with respect make and strengthen our scene. That’s a victory for all parties involved.

The House of Creatives Music Festival on Friday, Nov 18 and Saturday, Nov 19 at the Miami Beach Bandshell Park ft The Flaming Lips, Crystal Castles, The Drums, Small Black, Buscabulla, Breakbot, Shigeto, XAXO, and many more. Weekend passes cost $99 plus fees. Hocfest.com. ~Abel Folgar

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Peter Hook, Substance Undone by the death of a singular frontman, the English band Joy Division looms larger in absentia than it did during its actual existence. From 1978 to 1980, in the ailing steel town of Manchester, Joy Division and its creative partners made the strange and bracing music that now attracts a dedicated global following. The glowing reputation of this foundational post-punk band is also a product of savvy stewardship.

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Maybe no one argues for Joy Division’s transcendence more effectively than founding bass player Peter Hook, who is on tour with his backing band, The Light, performing the stark songs of Joy Division and its influential electronic successor, New Order.

The bleak but accessible beauty of the songs themselves is the primary draw.

Iconic Joy Division tracks including Control and Love Will Tear Us Apart still hum Peter Hook with internal tension: They are stark and ethereal, and perfectly inhabited by a singer, Ian Curtis, who embodied the band’s duality, channeling waves of emotion through a clipped, almost robotic baritone. For some, the music also has a tragic allure because Curtis committed suicide on the eve of Joy Division’s first U.S. tour. But with band catalogues so easily accessed online, it’s likely that many newcomers to Joy Division register the songs first and the backstory later.

Hook is a prolific chronicler of those experiences and of the scene that arose against long odds from his city’s industrial economic distress. “We were just dead working-class and had no pretensions,” he wrote in Unknown Pleasures, his acclaimed 2013 memoir of Joy Division.

Known for his guitar-like approach to playing bass, Hook has previously taken the Joy Division albums Closer and Unknown Pleasures on the road. In concert, he handles Curtis’s vocal lines handily. This fall, Hook and The Light are performing tracks from a pair of Joy Division and New Order compilation albums, both called Substance. That’s also the title of Hook’s latest memoir — a reminder that the extension of great band legacies tends to be more organized than their birth.

Peter Hook & The Light perform on Friday, Nov. 18, at the Culture Room, 3045 N. Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale, cultureroom.net. Doors 8pm $25 at Ticketmaster. ~ Sean Piccoli

The First Thursday Each Month

9:00pm – 12:00am

Tickets: OldSchoolSquare.org 51 N Swinton Ave | Delray Beach, FL | 561 243 7922 | OldSchoolSquare.org

Aesthetics & Surrealism It was only when Jacques de Beaufort slowed down his career in 2013 that uncommon creativity took shape inside his Lake Worth gallery. The painter spent that year uniting Palm Beach’s rowdy art and music tribes under his UNIT1 gallery, a friends-only, self-described “man-cave” that catered to group exhibits and music by local bands he admired. Buddies trickled in and out at will: members of Raggy Monster, Spred the Dub, singer Mykel Morrison, sculptor Woody Othello.

For one exhibit, “Art By Musicians,” Kimmy Drake of Beach Day, Ates Isildak of the Band in Heaven and 15 others took turns rocking the easel. And when he ended his Unit1 experiment in 2015, he created “Deep Inside the Man-Cave,” a series of yearbook-style drawings of the quirky and musical dudes in his life.

It is de Beaufort’s stint as a ringmaster of Palm Beach’s circus of cool that partly inspires his first solo exhibition, “Aesthetics and Surrealism,” a 10-year retrospective Jacques De Beaufort opening Nov. 18 at the Box Gallery in West Palm Beach. The roundup of 50-odd works spans the close-knit scenesters of “Deep Inside the Man-Cave” to topless, surrealistic portraits of women to Dali-esque landscapes, populated by floating eyeballs, knotted trees and monolithic face statues. He will also debut a new performance-art piece titled “Macroaggression,” featuring 20 nude men and women covered in red and blue body paint that will stroll the gallery holding machetes and pitchforks.

There will, of course, be live music. Fort Lauderdale retro fuzz-rock quartet Fat Sun and West Palm Beach psych garage-rockers Peyote Coyote, both friends of de Beaufort’s, will perform. “It’s a small world down here,” says de Beaufort, also a filmmaker and visual-arts professor at Palm Beach State College. “I like the whole psych-rock genre and feel like it’s the best fit for the surrealist-fantasy element in my work. I know members of both bands from working on videos or featuring them in UNIT1 shows. I did the album cover for Fat Suns’ new record.

And Ryan Huseman, the lead singer in Peyote Coyote, was a student of mine a few years ago.”

Jacques de Beaufort: Aesthetics and Surrealism” opens 6pm Friday, Nov. 18 at the Box Gallery, 811 Belvedere Road, in West Palm Beach. Free. TheBoxGallery. info, JacquesdeBeaufort.com. ~Philip Valys

Other Body, Total Bust JAIME SALAZAR

Other Body are not like other bands in the scene. Many groups these days take shoe-gaze and noise pop, mix it up with some psychedelia and call it doom (why?). Other Body have more in common with acts like: Young Widows and Metz than My Bloody Valentine. They find the beauty in negative space and meandering noise riffs while punishing skulls with a pounding beat. It’s Noise Rock with a capital R; but, some of those elements that keep the shoe-gaze crowd coming back around for a Other Body variation of their favorite themes are still in there. However, once we start moving into the territory occupied and ruled by bands like: the Jesus Lizard, These Arms are Snakes and Polvo, it’s a different beast entirely.

Formed in early 2015 from the molten remains of Lil Daggers, Teepee and Herzog Rising, the fellas in Other Body have refined their sound to more of a seething, raw nerve. There are unsubstantiated reports of their live shows being blanketed by smoke, covered in sweat and being played at pummeling volumes; they may just be the loudest band in Miami…currently. Other Body have already shared the stage with Miami’s previous contenders for loudest band in Miami: Cavity. But, they’ve also played with Silver Apples, Wolf Eyes, Merchandise, Sloth and Show me the Body; all very different from one another and yet somehow Other Body isn’t out of place at any of those shows. But, this shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar with their past projects; all of which are dark, moody and randomly orbiting the sound that would come with this iteration.

The “Total Bust” e.p. was recorded at Black Bear Studios in Gainesville during an exceptionally rocky time in the member’s lives; that pain is adequately represented on the new material. Other Body will be debuting the “Total Bust” e.p. on November 4 at Gramps before moving on to Churchill’s on November 12 for the Deafheaven show. Sure, they’re playing out around town now, but it won’t be long before they’re headlining everything. Wouldn’t you rather be able to say you saw them back when? After all, the hipster’s will be saying they were totally into Other Body, “Before they dropped the ‘Total Bust’ e.p., you don’t even know, bro!” Folks who can’t wait until November can pre-order the e.p. on the bands bandcamp page. Get Some! www.otherbody.bandcamp.com/ Other Body is playing with Snakehole, Ian Iachimoe and In Oculus at Gramps in Wynwood on November 4. $5 at the door which opens at 9pm. ~ Tim Moffatt

EBRU YILDIZ

Mitski plays Gramps Mitski born in Japan grew up listening to folk and Japanese pop music.

Eventually, she made a move to New York after hopping around to other countries with her family to live. Now at 25 years old and living in Brooklyn, she self identifies as a Japanese/American, but between her nomadic child life she sometimes feels a bit out of place as she sang in her latest album, Puberty 2.

Mitski Released in June 2016 on Dead Oceans, an indie label based in Bloomington, Indiana and Austin, TX, the album explores the tug and pull of happiness and sadness, as a true romantic would. As she expressed in her bio commentary, “Happiness is up, sadness is down, but one’s almost more destructive than the other…When you realize you can’t have one without the other, it’s possible to spend periods of happiness just waiting for that other wave.”

That wave of tension is evident in her flirty rendition “Your Best American Girl,” in which she croons about her longing for a particular all-American Boy. “You’re the one/ You’re all I ever wanted/I think I’ll regret this…”

Yet, as the song unfolds, she begins to confront her identity and how it relates to dating American males. “Your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me…” she sings.

The song opens up gently with soft folk vocals and steadily builds when poppunk guitar rifts are introduced, dramatizing the narrative . The accompanying music video is a real visual treat and underscores her romantic side. In it, a couple is seen smooching and heavily petting throughout the video. Mitski, on the other hand, has a little love affair with her… hand. You see her kissing her palm and licking her fingers, in between the couple’s makeout scenes Puberty 2 follows her 2014 album Bury Me At Makeout Creek. Her latest body of work’s, she revealed in her bio, is a progression from the 2014 work. “It’s similar in sound, but a direct growth from that record. Musically, there are subtle evolutions: electronic drum machines pulse throughout beneath Pixies-ish guitars, while saxophone lights up its opening track.”

Mitski performs w. Fear of Men and Weaves 9:30pm Friday, November 12 at Gramps. Doors open 8pm www.mitski.com ~Andrea Richard