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THE NUDE PARTY AT VOLTAIRE The Nude Party, from Boone, North Carolina, are mountain men. They don’t believe in shirts, or pants, or any clothes, for that matter. What they do believe in is the Velvet Underground, The Rolling Stones and The Kinks, and really, when aiming that high, what else is there? Their 2017 cover of The Kinks’ “Sittin’ On My Sofa,” is a spaced-out garage tune about getting baked and chilling on the chaise, because who says rock ’n’ roll needs to be political or a deep dive? Sometime it’s just the party wherever you find it.

The Nude Party’s bluesy grooves wouldn’t be out of place on a Rhino Records “Nuggets” compilation, but also feel sort of refreshing in their ability to make the mundane sound fun. “Poor Boy Blues,” from the band’s 2016 EP “Hot Tub,” appears to be a defense of underachievement. That’s ironic considering the real cognitive labor that goes into sharp songwriting. Or maybe it’s apt considering the band’s scant discography after five years: “Hot Tub,” a 2014 album, “Forbidden Fruits,” and scattered singles. (A new album is reportedly on the way, but they said that last year. The upshot was a single, “Water on Mars,” that came and went as mysteriously as its subject matter.)

People take rock too seriously, anyways. Like, really? You need a band to come pull you out of your doldrums and save the genre? Maybe your personal validation lies in football or NASCAR. Sometimes making music is about seizing the moment, or not, which is kind of what being young is all about. Remember when you couldn’t buy beer, had nothing to do and no money to do it with, even when there actually was something to do? I know, it’s been a while; reach waaay back to those days of teenage ennui.

Expectations were low, hormones were raging, and all anyone needed to know was where to be and when to be there because the party was always promised.

The Nude Party haven’t forgotten. These guys know that a joyful, soulful racket can get booties shaking and panties dropping. Isn’t that plenty?

Carry on, gentlemen: You’re doing good works.

The Nude Party, Glove and Mo’Booty play March 29 at Voltaire. ~ Tim Moffatt

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MARCH 2018 EVENTS

THUR 3.1 ..........................................................................................................BELLA’S BARTOK & SPECIAL GUEST FRI 3.2 .....................................................................................................................FUNKY BUDDHA COMEDY BASH SAT 3.3 ................................................................................................ABBE DAVIS BAND & THE WILKOF PROJECT THUR 3.8 .........................................................................................................REMERGE & CLOSER TO THE OCEAN FRI 3.9 ....................................................................................GANG OF THIEVES, FOUNT, AND SHORTY THE GIANT SAT 3.10 UPPERCUTTER, FAITH & MAJESTY, BAMBOO KUDZU, LEGACY 52 BARS, TIM RUSMISEL & KYLE KRAKOW THUR 3.15 ....................................................................................................TREVOR LEE, SHARK ANTONY, & NE0N FRI 3.16 .............................................................................MATT CALDERIN TRIO WITH JOHAN DANNO & THE LOVE SAT 3.17 ........................................................................................XOTIC YEYO, THE REMYZ & ABOVE THE SKYLINE THUR 3.22 .........................................................DOUG COUNCELL & DANIEL GOOTNER WITH LOCHNESS MONSTER FRI 3.23 .................................................................................................SPIRAL LIGHT: A GRATEFUL DEAD TRIBUTE SAT 3.24 ......................................................................................................FUNKY BUDDHA SPRING COMEDY SHOW THUR 3.29 ....................................................................................................................THOUGHTS & SLOFUNKPUMP FRI 3.30 ............................................................................................................................................REGGAE NIGHT SAT 3.31 ......................................................................................................................................................THE VON

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What’s up? You like rock ’n’ roll? Are you into garage-punk songs with a self-aware, trashy, southern-rock vibe? Well, you will be! Thelma and the Sleaze are a feisty bunch from Nashville who embody Music City’s proud (overlooked) tradition of overthe-top performance and, beyond that, play by no known previous rules of engagement.

This genre-tampering crew has some Cheap Trick swagger and some girlgroup harmony, and appears to be a by-product of the riot grrrl movement while not actually sounding like Bikini Kill or any of those ’90s feminist punk insurgents. Nah man, fitting into preselected categories isn’t really on the agenda for Thelma and the CRAIG BROWN | THELMA AND THE SLEAZE Sleaze. While, overall, one might pick up on similarities to bands like the Coathangers, BOYTOY or Shannon and the Clams, truth be told, none of those bands sound much like each other, either. The vibe is all Thelma and the Sleaze, and is probably as informed by Nashville’s (deceptively) diverse music scene — of which Country, Inc., is but a part — as it is by whoever sparked each band member’s individual interests.

Many musicians stand too heavily on the shoulders of giants in order to find their sound. Being truly carefree, hearing the muse when it calls and creating something new, is much harder to do, and to quantify. It would be easy enough to say that Thelma and the Sleaze are a rock ’n’ roll band, but they encapsulate much more than that one-note attempt at classification allows.

They’re a hot stew of ideas with a whole rack of spices thrown in, but the base is pure rock ’n’ roll.

Sure, the sounds they make wouldn’t be out of place in a biker bar filled with broken bottles and smoke, but imbue their music with a feminist, queer sensibility, so it’s a little more complicated than three riffs and four-on-thefloor beats. This is what makes the band interesting: They are an island unto themselves even as they share community with some of the best up-andcoming groups around. Wear your party pants and dancing shoes because, baby, it’s on!

Thelma and the Sleaze perform with Craig Brown Band and Fat Sun at Voltaire on March 30. sub-culture.org ~ Tim Moffatt

DEAD MEADOW DO GRAMPS Jessica Senteno

Dead Meadow was formed from the ashes of assorted D.C. bands. Their roots are intertwined with personnel from Dischord Records and its flagship band, Fugazi, as well as from Matador Records, which is pretty much all the street cred one needs to be taken seriously in indie circles. But Dead Meadow doesn’t make music typically geared towards the Matador or Dischord crowds.

These fellas are more interested in laying Lovecraftian themes and Tolkienesque tales over DEAD MEADOW blues riffage rife with weed smoke. It’s more akin to Black Sabbath than Black Flag, a melding of ’70s heavy metal and ’60s psych rock into something best represented by Frank Frazetta art airbrushed on the side of a van.

The band has found itself touring in some varied and esteemed company, including road dates with The Make-Up, Brian Jonestown Massacre and Guided by Voices. Dead Meadow also has the distinction of being the only band to land a coveted BBC Peel Sessions gig without actually recording it in the United Kingdom. Instead, the group cut their six Peel tracks in Virginia, on a console that once upon a time recorded Fugazi songs, which is cool.

Unlike many doom- and stoner-rock bands currently making the scene, Dead Meadow seems to understand that tone and riffs make the package complete. All of this psych-rock-stoner-metal jamming came from blues, anyway, so drone can only take a band so far before it misses the point.

There’s a marriage of blues and rock that must be adhered to that makes the whole cacophony make sense. Without that through line, the music becomes less dynamic and gimmicky.

Jason Simon (guitar, vocals) and Steve Kille (bass), working with a handful of drummers since the band’s founding in 1998, understand. But even after 20 years together — a milestone they’re marking with a new Dead Meadow album, “The Nothing They Need” — they remain shrewd. An ability to change the landscape of the music from song to song keeps listeners paying attention. Also, it doesn’t hurt, if you want to tour with some fun and sundry bands, to be accessible even if you’re drenched in feedback and fuzz.

Dead Meadow play March 16 with Heavy Drag and Dracula at Gramps in Miami. ~ Tim Moffatt

THURSDAY, MARCH 1

VOLTAIRE: Church of DUB DADA: The Holidazed

FILLMORE MIAMI:

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KILL YOUR IDOL: Shelley Novak Awards

DADA: AfterMidNite HULLABALOO: Mo’Booty KILL YOUR IDOL: Bermuda Beach

RESPECTABLE STREET: Spring Fling: 90’s Dance BREWHOUSE GALLERY: The Holidazed

RESPECTABLE STREET: Crazy Town, Davey Suicide, Muggles

FRIDAY, MARCH 2

VOLTAIRE: Deckhouse: VAL VERRA, Michael Mayo, Marco Paez, Nicolas B2B Faraz M. CWS: Rockin Jake STACHE: Tasty Vibrations DADA: Jonathan Auerbach Trio

RESPECTABLE STREET: Period Bomb, The Grumps, Whatever Anyways HULLABALOO: The Zoo Peculiar KILL YOUR IDOL: Bassline Miami SUBCULTURE DELRAY: Ne0n BREWHOUSE GALLERY: West King String Band

SATURDAY, MARCH 3

FILLMORE MIAMI: Al Pacino

REVOLUTION LIVE: Phillip Phillips CWS: Uproot Hootenanny

KELSEY THEATER: Super Happy Fun Time

SATURDAY, MARCH 10

INK & PISTONS / SLUSHBOX GALLERY:

COLORLESS… a group art show

VOLTAIRE: Cabaret Voltaire House Party, Deb Silver Jazz CWS: Brendan O’Hara DADA: Red Light Motel KILL YOUR IDOL: Immersed Music

STACHE: Havana Nights w/ Murph Y Su Conjunto

PROPAGANDA: Riff Raff BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Marcus SoFlo

KILL YOUR IDOL: Keep It Deep

RESPECTABLE STREET: Everymen, Bella’s Bartok, Death Lottery

SUNDAY, MARCH 4

FILLMORE MIAMI: Fleet Foxes

REVOLUTION LIVE: Flogging Molly

VOLTAIRE: Ray’s Downtown: JP Soars & the Red Hots KILL YOUR IDOL: Game Show Sundays

MONDAY, MARCH 5

DADA: Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Drag Mondays

TUESDAY, MARCH 6

DADA: Poetry Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Open Mic

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7

DADA: Rewind Wednesdays KILL YOUR IDOL: The Brand

RESPECTABLE STREET: Gutter Demons, Armageddon Man, Church Girls

THURSDAY, MARCH 8

VOLTAIRE: Displace, Bear Witness

HOUNDSTOOTH COTTAGE: InHisHead, Lindsey Mills & the Lazy Lovers, Pocket of Lollipops, Dead and Loving It, Seafoam Walls VOLTAIRE: Cabaret Voltaire House Party, Deb Silver Jazz BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Barks, Brews, and Bands

RESPECTABLE STREET: Emo Night Brooklyn KELSEY THEATER: Barks, Brews, and Bands

SUNDAY, MARCH 11

VOLTAIRE: Ray’s Downtown: Hurricane Hawk & the Invaders REVOLUTION LIVE: Spoon KILL YOUR IDOL: Game Show Sundays BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Jordan Laurenti

MONDAY, MARCH 12

FLOYD MIAMI: Bradley Zero DADA: Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Drag Mondays

TUESDAY, MARCH 13

DADA: Comedy Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Open Mic BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Photography Critique & Geek KELSEY THEATER: Mike Love

THE ANDERSON: Millionyoung, Ex Isles CWS: Soundproof DADA: Markis Hernandez Trio KILL YOUR IDOL: Karaoke with Shelley Novak

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14

KELSEY THEATER: Create Day

FRIDAY, MARCH 9

VOLTAIRE: Barks, Babes and Bros, Public Sounds presents Funktion

VOLTAIRE: Album Release w. Like Diamonds, Dreamend, Kid

REVOLUTION LIVE:

RESPECTABLE STREET: Grey & Orange

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STACHE: Unlimited Devotion BROWARD CENTER: Andy McKee CWS: Marcus Amaya Band

DADA: Rewind Wednesdays KILL YOUR IDOL: DJ Culture Prophet

RESPECTABLE STREET: DJ Battle Round 1

THURSDAY, MARCH 15 CWS: 432 Duo DADA: Tchaa

Little Dragon

KILL YOUR IDOL: Karaoke with Shelley Novak

RESPECTABLE STREET: Meta4Machine O’MALLEY’S: Fame on Fire, Happy Hour

FRIDAY, MARCH 16

CWS: The Holidazed STACHE: Brendan O’Hara DADA: Citizen Badger GRAMPS:

Dead Meadow

Dracula, Heavy Drag HULLABALOO: Electric Red KILL YOUR IDOL: Tremends

RESPECTABLE STREET: Cupcake Burlesque BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Adam Jason Duo

SATURDAY, MARCH 17

BROWARD CENTER: Emerson Hart DADA: Pocket Of Lollipops

VOLTAIRE: The Von

CWS: Guavatron STACHE: Holidazed DADA: Johan Danno HULLABALOO: Fat Sun KILL YOUR IDOL: Spiderpussy Showcase

RESPECTABLE STREET: King Complex, Yardij SUBCULTURE DELRAY: Matchstick Johnny KELSEY THEATER: The Contortionist, Silent Planet BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Neverglades

VOLTAIRE: COCODRILLS, Cabaret Voltaire House Party, Deb Silver Jazz

SATURDAY, MARCH 24

RESPECTABLE STREET: St Patricks Day Party

VOLTAIRE: Cabaret Voltaire House Party

CWS: Victoria Cardona STACHE: Retro Wave Saturdays with Lindersmash DADA: HVY CRM

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: SProckets & Spokes Custom Bicycle Show DUBLINER: St. Patricks Day Block Party

SUNDAY, MARCH 18

FILLMORE MIAMI: Bush

REVOLUTION LIVE: Between The Buried & Me, The Dear Hunter CWS: Bryce Allyn Band DADA: Pocket of Lollipops KILL YOUR IDOL: WMC Breaks Yo! O’MALLEY’S: Rings of Saturn, Nekrogoblikon BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Rogue Theory KELSEY THEATER: Swedefest Palm Beach 6 (The Sixiest)

VOLTAIRE: Ray’s Downtown: Down Pat & Bonefish Johnny SUNDAY, MARCH 25 CWS: Brendan O’Hara VOLTAIRE: Ray’s Downtown: JM & the Sweets KILL YOUR IDOL: Game Show Sundays

RESPECTABLE STREET: Fero Lux, Dead Empires BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Nip & Tuck

MONDAY, MARCH 19

DADA: Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Winter Music Conference

TUESDAY, MARCH 20

DADA: Comedy Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: WMC Exit 32 Showcase

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21

BROWARD CENTER: Alice Cooper

CWS: Marcus Amaya KILL YOUR IDOL: WMC Keep It Deep

TUESDAY, MARCH 27

DADA: Comedy Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Open Mic

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28

KILL YOUR IDOL: Miss Michigan

RESPECTABLE STREET: Battle of the Bands Round 2

THURSDAY, MARCH 29 VOLTAIRE:

THE NUDE PARTy

Glove, Mo’Booty

DADA: Jolie / Jay Thomas Band KILL YOUR IDOL: Karaoke with Shelley Novak

RESPECTABLE STREET: Broot McCoy KELSEY THEATER: Tinsley Ellis

FRIDAY, MARCH 30 VOLTAIRE:

THELMA AND THE SLEAZE

Craig Brown Band, Fat Sun

DADA: Static Momentum LAS ROSAS: Smvt, Dénudés, The Wombombs STACHE: JL Fulks

RESPECTABLE STREET: Mass CHURCHILL’S: Dead Boys, Sandratz, Death Lottery, Shark Valley Sisters

PARKER PLAYHOUSE: Cherry Poppin’ Daddies

DADA: Static Momentum HULLABALOO: Markis Hernandez Trio KILL YOUR IDOL: Shameless Burlesque BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Strangled Darlings KELSEY THEATER: Eddie Stephens “Living an Extraordinary Life”

SATURDAY, MARCH 31

THURSDAY, MARCH 22

CWS: Spred the Dub DADA: Steve Pomeranz Band

BROWARD CENTER: Video Games Live REVOLUTION LIVE: Badfish, A Tribute To Sublime CWS: JL Fulks Duo DADA: Aaron Lebos Reality KILL YOUR IDOL: AmericanGrime Showcase

KILL YOUR IDOL: The Wire O’MALLEY’S: Hunny KELSEY THEATER: Udo Dirkshneider BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Jedi Magic Carousel KELSEY THEATER: Dirkschneider

VOLTAIRE: SWEET SWEET songwriter sessions

RESPECTABLE STREET: Tamahoochie

FRIDAY, MARCH 23

FILLMORE MIAMI: Suicide Girls Burlesque Show

VOLTAIRE: Cabaret Voltaire House Party

SUNDAY, APRIL 1

VOLTAIRE: Ray’s Downtown: TCHAA!

LINDSEY MILLS ALBUM RELEASE Liam Milano

Lindsey Mills is a such mainstay of the South Florida scene, one wonders about the abyss that might open up locally if Mills were somewhere else doing what she does. Here, she splits time between a well known band, Surfer Blood; a collaborative performance and media production space, Salt Witch Studio; a curated livemusic series, Salon, at Voltaire in West Palm Beach; and, of late, a solo project with her backing band, the Lazy Lovers.

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With so many plates spinning, one imagines Mills waking up, making coffee and working without interruption late into every evening in order to sustain her creative output. Mills’ latest endeavor is a new album, “Ecotones,“ which she and the Lazy Lovers will be performing on March 9 at Voltaire.

Mills is not interested in replicating her Surfer Blood bona fides under her own name; “Ecotones” is her own voice and sensibility at play. The first track, “What is a weed??,” adopts a bouncy gait while discussing the merits of fences, weeds and daisies in the context of autonomy. “No Mud” (featured on this month’s PureHoney SoundCloud mix) could be the work of an indierock Billie Holiday.

Mills and the Lovers will be joined at their record release show by Like Diamonds, the solo project of Phoenix-based Ark Calkins. A Florida native, Calkins plays psych-rock that has shades of yacht rock and is all chill. Dreamend, from Savannah, Georgia, will be deploying a brand of shoegaze-y, post-rock bluegrass that has been described as Mono meets Explosions In the Sky. Rounding out the bill is Kid Dakota, from Minneapolis.

Kid Dakota is the moniker for Darren Jackson, whose current release is a 7” called, “Get Her Out of My Heart.” It’s a beautifully lush and seemingly forlorn treatise on lost love, a la Elliott Smith. The last two acts have put out records with Graveface Records. ”Ecotones” surfaces digitally on March 2 and on vinyl soon after. Along with a good shakedown cruise for the new Mills record, expect a fun night of fuzzed-out indie bliss, with no shortage of surprises from this varied, one-nightonly lineup.

Lindsey Mills and the Lazy Lovers debut “Ecotones” at an album release party with Like Diamonds, Dreamend and Kid Dakota, March 9 at Voltaire ~ Tim Moffatt

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ALLAH-LAS PLAY OKEE Last summer the Los Angeles band Allah-Las had a brush with death. The band canceled a show in Rotterdam in August, when suspects in a planned concert massacre were arrested

by Dutch police acting on tips from Spain. This was on the heels of coordinated vehicular attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils that killed 14 people, for which the Islamic State claimed responsibility.

Before any of that, Allah-Las were already accustomed to explaining the band’s name to ALLAH-LAS people, including some who took offense. Formed in 2008 by singer/guitarist Miles Michaud with drummer Matthew Correia, bassist Spencer Dunham and lead guitarist Pedrum Siadatian, the Allah-Las are a patchwork of music styles and location-inspiration without a hidden socio-political/religious agenda.

“Allah-Las kind of came about as an homage to the ‘las,’ like the Shangri-las, kind of a nod to California kitsch; very tongue in cheek,” Michaud told AXS in 2017. “We put Allah in there as a reference to the Orientalism movement of the American West. A lot of California architecture and layout, palm trees in California, are a result of the Orientalist movement. … Also, it just sounds musical, Allah-Las. It sounds like a song.”

Somewhere at the crossroads of garage, psych, surf and 60’s rock ’n’ roll, Allah-Las find their comfort zone. Starting safe with 2012’s self-titled album but insinuating — by way of a cover image of a girl listening to a seashell — they would only grow and get better, they hit full stride with 2014’s “Worship the Sun.” Their third full-length, ”Calico Review,” takes the spirit of their collaboration and raison d’être to new heights (and to a new label, Mexican Summer).

Sophisticated and relaxed, “Calico Review” has the pop gravitas of the 60’s revival they’re attuned to and a balanced pastiche of each member’s personal taste.

There’s a lot going on, with ornate musical landscapes reminiscent of the sense and spirituality evoked by the band’s name. It’s heartening to hear music with a clear sense of itself and the power to cut through the confusion, misunderstanding and hostility of our present age.

Allah-Las perform at Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, which runs March 1 through March 4. okeechobeefest.com ~ Abel Folgar

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LITTLE DRAGON PLAY REVOLUTION Sweden pumps out stellar music. In pop (ABBA, Ace of Base), rock (The Sounds, The Hives) and electronic (Eric Prydz, Avicii), this Scandinavian country has excelled in mastering melodies. Electro-pop quartet Little Dragon continues the streak, blending beats with jazz, r&b and alternative for a creation all its own.

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Across five albums, frontwoman Yukimi Nagano bares the vocal range of an otherworldly siren, while drummer Erik Bodin, bassist Fredrik Wallin and synth player Håkan Wirenstrand create infectious backing from the band’s personal studio in Gothenburg.

It’s hard to believe they’ve been together LITTLE DRAGON for 22 years. Their popularity skyrocketed only in the late 2000s. Last year they played Coachella.

Also driving that rise is their outstanding artist collaborations — a musical interest and openness that spans guest spots with Gorillaz (“Empire Ants,” 2010) and SBTRKT (“Wildfire,” 2011) as well as a showcase for ’90s r&b favorite Faith Evans on Little Dragon’s own 2017 track, “Peace of Mind.”

The band’s latest full-length, 2017’s “Season High,” finds them still capable of their signature upbeat sound. But a newfound mellow sensuality is what really defines this album, their first with an outside producer — James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco. As Nagano told The Guardian, “[W]e have an easy time coming up with songs, but we sometimes have a struggle finishing them. So having James Ford come in at the end was really helpful[.]”

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“High” is an enticing jam about using marijuana with a lover that conveys the feeling of actually being under the influence. Nagano in a blue wig and a fabric crown, breathily saying, “Roll another one for me,” is probably one of the sexiest moments in modern music video. “Pop Life,” although danceable and dreamy, offers a jaded look at today’s world. “Sweet” feels a bit like its lyric: “Candy overflowing/my love sugarcoated.”

Nagano told The Fader that she intended “Sweet” as a kind of parallel to overpowering attraction: “It could be love, it could be a drug, it could be anything you feel extremely addicted to.” If South Florida, with its eclectic and easygoing club culture, doesn’t already love Little Dragon, “Season High” should seal the deal.

Little Dragon performs March 15 at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale. jointherevolution.net ~ Olivia Feldman

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TYCHO, POOLSIDE AT FILLMORE Lauren Crew

There’s a deliberate calm to Scott Hansen’s music as it dives and breaches like a digital submarine through oceans of IDM, chillwave, ambient, electrogaze and downtempo, piloted by someone who also understands rock ’n’ roll. The calming effect is symmetric — organic and digital, lofty and lofi, rich and accessible.

TYCHO Wonderful and perfectly balanced. Hansen’s is a space of ethereal harmony that never turns toxic or cloying.

Hansen can do this because he, too, is in perfect balance — musically as Tycho and visually as ISO50. Tycho, an experimental ambient project that he began in his 20’s, has grown and matured alongside his work as a visual artist under the name ISO50; a charted evolution that is evidenced by the albums he has created and the ephemera of their physical releases. He’s one of the most exciting electronic musicians working today and his music, though it continues to venture along experimental avenues, grows ever more focused.

His debut album — “Sunrise Projector,” released in 2004, re-released in 2006 and reissued in 2010 as “Past Is Prologue” — was telling of where he’d go and how his mind tinkers. Strengthening the original with fresh tracks was a deft way of living up to the lofty (but linguistically similar) new title for a revisited album.

This kind of balance would be fine-tuned through a series of singles and EPs in the interim years before 2011’s “Dive,” a solid sophomore effort that garnered positive reviews and has grown to be more appreciated over time.

Built almost exclusively on a Minimoog, “Dive” is as much an aural vacation as it is a lush tapestry from which you can zoom in on points of interest.

Productivity and creativity erupted in unison from then on, with Hansen’s output shining in 2014’s follow-up “Awake” and concluding this trilogy cycle in 2016 with “Epoch,” which was nominated for a Best Dance/Electronic Album Grammy. As a triptych, it is the corporis maximi laboris at this stage in his development. Wherever Hansen, now in his early 40s, turns next, it’s safe to say it will be somewhere wonderful and perfectly balanced.

Tycho, with Poolside, March 1 at The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater fillmoremb.com ~ Abel Folgar

DEAD BOYS DESTROY CHURCHILLS

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The Dead Boys are largely associated with the New York punk scene of the late ’70s, but were actually a band that relocated from gritty Cleveland, Ohio. This explains a lot about they managed to stand out even among the Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads.

The band oozed frenetic energy and a nasty sneer that was more sincere than the Sex Pistols who, while brilliant … for a minute … tended to come off as

If you’ve read Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s brilliant tome, “Please Kill Me: the Uncensored Oral History of Punk,” you probably have an idea of who the Dead Boys were. In a nutshell: They would drink your beer, do your drugs and steal your girlfriend. They were, for all intents and purposes, the punkest band of the era. The Dead Boys went through some serious shit in their short stint as New York’s answer to the Sex Pistols, an initial run of 3 years. Their impact is still being felt 40 years later.

Which brings us to today. Stiv Bators, the stick-thin madman at the microphone, has been a literal dead boy since 1990. However, with a “renewed” interest in certain circles — see that maligned CBGB film — it was decided the Dead Boys must ride again. Last year they came through town for the Miami Punk Rock High weekend with just one original member, guitarist Cheetah Chrome, to kick out the proverbial jams and play the hits. This time around it’s for the 40th anniversary of the group’s groundbreaking album, “Young, Loud and Snotty.” If you haven’t heard it — and you probably have, because anchor track “Sonic Reducer” has been sampled by the Beastie Boys and used to sell televisions — then you’re completely missing a seminal part of punk history … if you’re into that sort of thing.

The Dead Boys, once thought to be a chapter in an awesome book about history have risen. Chrome and founding drummer Johnny Blitz, will be bringing the snottiness to Miami one more time. The guy from “The Hangover” and Ronald Weasley will not be included, thank God. The Dead Boys play with Shark Valley Sisters, Sandratz and Death Lottery on March 21 at Churchill’s Pub in Miami. churchillspub.com ~ Tim Moffatt

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An Evening with Jason Mraz March 16

A Chorus Line April 20

Kravis Center for the Performing Arts 701 Okeechobee Boulevard

Kravis Center for the Performing Arts 701 Okeechobee Boulevard

Spring Choral Concert with Concert Choir and Women's Chorale April 6

SunFest May 3 - 6

Desantis Family Chapel 300 Okeechobee Boulevard

A Conversation with Alexander W. Dreyfoos April 11 The Society of the Four Arts 2 Four Arts Plaza Brought to you by the West Palm Beach Downtown Development Authority

Downtown Waterfront 101 South Flagler Drive

Book+Art/ Muck City: Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town May 12

Equus May 18- June 3 Palm Beach Dramaworks 201 Clematis Street

Pairings: Food & Wine Event May 31 DowntownWPB (Various Locations)

Founders Day June 5 Henry Morrison Flagler Museum One Whitehall Way

Norton Museum of Art 1451 S. Olive Avenue

For a listing of our cultural partners and activities, visit DOWNTOWNWPBARTS.COM. Keep an eye out for more upcoming events #wpbARTS The West Palm Beach Arts & Entertainment District is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization.