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CAMP RAY! MEMORIAL DAY WKND! The importance of blues and jazz to genres that came after was never lost on Ray Carbone, the man behind the legendary, scene-building Ray’s Downtown Blues. That West Palm Beach live-music hangout, born in 1994, expanded beyond its founder’s first loves to become a showcase for punk, rock and metal — homegrown and touring. Gone since 2007, its influence on the region’s cultural life endures.

Last September Carbone took up weekly residence at Voltaire, the cozy West Palm club upstairs from Lost Weekend, creating a new space for live blues and more. Ray’s Downtown Presents holds court at Voltaire on Sunday nights, with RAY CARBONE Carbone booking the acts and slinging the drinks. All of which brings us to CAMP RAY, a culmination of the Voltaire gig and everything Carbone has done to make jazz and blues happen in South Florida. The confirmed lineup for the inaugural CAMP RAY as of press time includes J.M. and the Sweets (soul), JL Fulks (blues), Joey George (blues), TCHAA (funk), The Blues Crusaders with Rockin’ Jake and The Derek McLean Trio. This is Carbone throwing a Memorial Day party jam with a few of his favorite bands.

Ray’s Downtown at 519 Clematis Street was a beacon for music heads and, for better and worse, a catalyst of neighborhood revival. In a story as old as development itself, a cultural outpost operating on a shoestring in a beat-up part of town showed others the value of a written-off urban space. Speculation, gentrification and storefront rent spikes followed. While some pioneering venues, like the even older Respectable Street, survived the onslaught, Ray’s folded, a victim to some degree of its own good work.

Carbone stayed busy. He opened another club for a while, and has found other gigs and event nights to promote. With Voltaire he’s returned to Clematis. So here we are in 2018, back among people who made the art that made a scene and people who sustained and supported it. Meanwhile, official West Palm seems to be reconsidering its efforts to turn downtown into a theme park. It’s a good moment. So come out and say cheers to one of the people that put Clematis on the map for all the right reasons.

CAMP RAY begins 7pm on Sunday, May 27 at Voltaire in West Palm with J.M. and the Sweets, JL Fulks, Joey George, TCHAA, The Blues Crusaders with Rockin’ Jake and The Derek McLean Trio. sub-culture.org ~ Tim Moffatt

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SHE WANTS REVENGE Girls really dig a dreamy goth guy with a guitar. There’s no argument to be made there — it’s the male counterpart to the manic pixie dream girl. She Wants Revenge are just such a band of dudes who came out of the Myspace-era early aughts.

Seemingly ready for Hot Topic mall mania stardom, the band did pretty well for themselves SHE WANTS REVENGE early on, having had their music included on “American Horror Story,” “Fringe” and “The Number 23.” All of these outlets have an otherworldly, dark feel to them; so, perfect for post-punk goth rockers to sink their teeth into. Yet in 2012 the band went on indefinite hiatus.

Three years later, however, the band’s signature song “Tear You Apart” resurfaced on the premiere episode of “American Horror Story: Hotel,” essentially coaxing the fellas out of hiding. While it is good to let the dust settle when you’re a touring act, it is always nice to get back in the saddle. Since 2015, She Wants Revenge have been touring, ready to make a splash in the latter half of the 20-teens. After a well received tenth anniversary tour in 2016, fans have been eagerly awaiting a new record. But nothing since 2011, leaving us wondering, “Where are you guys at with that?”

There’s a hole in the market, left when She Wants Revenge, Interpol and the dark bands of the early aughts went into their caves to dream up new ideas.

Perhaps this is the perfect opportunity for She Wants Revenge to bring back the halcyon days of black eyeliner, angular guitars and smart-dressed guys singing about dark things. Perhaps we can blame Obama for the downturn in moody output over the past couple of years? When the future looks bright who wants to hear about the dark underpinnings of midnight trysts in sketchy places with creepy people? I mean, there’s a time and place for everything, perhaps that time is coming back? We eagerly await the return of the moody rocker boys to the studio. In the meantime there’s always the live show, which is always what counts anyway.

She Wants Revenge, with Boston Marriage and Grinder 6, play May 19 at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach sub-culture.org ~ Tim Moffatt

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Pavement. Outkast. Verlaines.

Cream.

Breeders.

Modern English.

Chad & Jeremy.

Mudhoney. Polaris. West Palm Beach. Indie rock. And the number five as a concept. What might look and read like an exercise in future-progressive list poetry, is actually a cutesy word jumble to signify a disparate but strangely symbiotic recent effort — an entire album of covers — by Orchid City rock ’n’ roll darlings Surfer Blood.

That, and a return-to-form album of new originals, 2017’s “Snowdonia,” have helped the band rebound from losses both self-inflicted and random.

Surfer Blood now find themselves at a less contested crossroads, where the way forward is theirs to choose. They have experienced a renewal of goodwill, first in the upwelling of fan support for Fekete as he fought for his life, and then, after his passing, in the palpable sense of his presence in the music that followed. “Even in his absence his tastes and sensibilities continue to influence my writing,” Pitt told Vice in 2016.

Newest members Lindsey Mills on bass and Mike McCleary on guitar sound fully embedded into the fold with Pitts and founding drummer Tyler Schwarz. Having risked themselves on an uncertain project, McCleary and Mills are now enjoying the benefits of belonging to a band that has both a body of work and room to grow.

They’re also letting themselves have fun and recharge, courtesy of “Covers,” which pulls from a varied set of influences and likes — from ’60s British folk (“A Summer Song”) to Hotlanta hip-hop (“Hey Ya!”), and with diverse rockers thrown in (see the aforementioned word jumble).

The band geography was altered when Pitts moved to California’s Bay Area, but the personal bonds may be stronger than ever. All four members are alumni of the same high school, Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm. As a group, Surfer Blood seem to have climbed back and found their balance on the board.

Surfer Blood performs an intimate show May 4 at Voltaire in West Palm Beach with wake up, Poparazzi and Watch Glass. ~ Abel Folgar

TUESDAY, MAY 1

DADA: Poetry Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Open Mic

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2

DADA: Rewind Wednesday

DADA: Xotic Yeyo HULLABALOO: Heller Floor KILL YOUR IDOL: Shore Things

RESPECTABLE STREET: Battle of the Bands Final CWS: Marijah & The Reggae All-Stars

RESPECTABLE STREET: Myspace Wednesday

THURSDAY, MAY 3

VOLTAIRE: Fireside Prophets & Kelly Blanx at Church of Dub FILLMORE MIAMI: Todrick Hall American BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Open Mic

BROWARD CENTER: Victor Wooten Band, Sinbad DADA: Markis Hernandez Trio

RESPECTABLE STREET: Never Loved CWS: Victoria Cardona

FRIDAY, MAY 4

VOLTAIRE: Surfer Blood, wake up, Poparazzi, Watch Glass

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Grey & Orange, Gold Dust Lounge DADA: Johan Danno HULLABALOO: The Ricca Project KILL YOUR IDOL: Heavy Drag STACHE: Pockit

SATURDAY, MAY 12

CWS: Bobby Lee Rodgers

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY BLOCK PARTY feat. Summer Gill, Brett Staska, Raised By Wolves, Nate Ginnity, Xander James, David Tenenbaum, The Bside Band, Yardij, JEPHTHEmusic, Odyssey, Grey & Orange, Neverglades, Rogue Theory, The String Assassins

SATURDAY, MAY 5

VOLTAIRE: Sushi Sessions & Cabaret Voltaire

RESPECTABLE STREET: May the 4th Be With You RESPECTABLE STREET: Mac Lethal & Wax BREWHOUSE GALLERY: RoXout

VOLTAIRE: Deb Silver “Tropical Swing” VOLTAIRE: Saeed Younan, Inlighten STACHE: Dj Lindersmash KELSEY THEATER: Red Wanting Blue DADA: Electric Red KILL YOUR IDOL: Immersed CWS: Fusik

SUNDAY, MAY 6

VOLTAIRE: Ray’s Downtown: JM & the Sweets BREWHOUSE GALLERY: A Sunday Kind of Blues LOST WEEKEND: ɅɅ][×+∆PΞ feat. Kevin Goff KILL YOUR IDOL: Game Show Sunday

MONDAY, MAY 7

DADA: Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Drag Mondays

TUESDAY, MAY 8

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Photography Critique & Geek DADA: Comedy Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Open Mic REVOLUTION LIVE: Sum 41 CWS: Diogo Das Virgens

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9

DADA: Rewind Wednesday KILL YOUR IDOL: The Hoy Polloy

DADA: Big Chief

KILL YOUR IDOL: Keep It Deep

RESPECTABLE STREET: Sock Hop REVOLUTION LIVE: The Wonder Years STACHE: Tchaa CWS: Spred The Dub

SUNDAY, MAY 13

VOLTAIRE: Ray’s Downtown: Rockin’ Jake Band KILL YOUR IDOL: Game Show Sunday REVOLUTION LIVE: Kamelot, Delain, Battle Beast CWS: Tasty Vibrations LOST WEEKEND: ɅɅ][×+∆PΞ feat. Steve Blouse

MONDAY, MAY 14

DADA: Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Drag Mondays

TUESDAY, MAY 15

DADA: Comedy Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Open Mic

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16

POMPANO AMP: #ParklandStrong, A Benefit New Found Glory; Chris Carrabba, Ryan Key KILL YOUR IDOL: Sun City Riders

THURSDAY, MAY 17

VOLTAIRE: Public Sounds presents The Funktion KELSEY THEATER: HammerFall & Flotsam and Jetsam

WPB WATERFRONT: Wonderama

THURSDAY, MAY 10

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Open Mic DADA: The Savants Of Soul

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Open Mic DADA: Migrate

VOLTAIRE: The Cube Guys

VOLTAIRE: Cosmic Barley: Custard Pie (Valdosta, GA) WPB WATERFRONT: Eli Mosley CWS: Mitch Herrick

FRIDAY, MAY 11

O’MALLEY’S: Slaughter To Prevail BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Markis Hernandez Trio

FRIDAY, MAY 18

KELSEY THEATER: The Tritones CWS: Solemark DADA: Bitter Blue Jays, Koffin Varnish HULLABALOO: The Cravens STACHE: Brendan O’hara KILL YOUR IDOL: American Grime

RESPECTABLE STREET: Soul Fuzzy Dance Night

KILL YOUR IDOL: The Wire

SATURDAY, MAY 19

VOLTAIRE: Sushi Sessions & Cabaret Voltaire RESPECTABLE STREET: Surf Rider Party

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Acoustic Soul DADA: Ashiyushi & Earlyface CWS: Jl Fulks Band STACHE: Prohibition Peepshow Burlesque Revue KILL YOUR IDOL: Breaks Yo!

SUNDAY, MAY 27

VOLTAIRE: Sushi Sessions & Cabaret Voltaire

CWS: Marcus Amaya REVOLUTION LIVE: Big Boi

VOLTAIRE: Ray’s Downtown presents CAMP RAY! JM & THE SWEETS. THE BLUES CRUSADERS w.

RESPECTABLE STREET: She Wants Revenge, Boston ROCKIN’ JAKE, JL FULKS, JOEY GEORGE, TCHAA!, Marriage, Grinder 6, Black Lodge Afterparty DEREK MCLEAN TRIO

SUNDAY, MAY 20

KILL YOUR IDOL: Game Show Sunday LOST WEEKEND: ɅɅ][×+∆PΞ feat. Hensley

POMPANO AMP: Brian Wilson presents Pet Sounds CWS: Brendan O’Hara

MONDAY, MAY 28

KILL YOUR IDOL: Game Show Sunday LOST WEEKEND: ɅɅ][×+∆PΞ feat. David Alfonsetti

TUESDAY, MAY 29

VOLTAIRE: Ray’s Downtown: The Harden Project MEYER AMPHITHEATRE: California Gwen

DADA: Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Drag Mondays

MONDAY, MAY 21

DADA: Comedy Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Open Mic

TUESDAY, MAY 22

FILLMORE MIAMI: Jake Paul KILL YOUR IDOL: Ex Isles

DADA: Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Drag Mondays DADA: Comedy Open Mic KILL YOUR IDOL: Open Mic

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23

DADA: Rewind Wednesday

THURSDAY, MAY 24

VOLTAIRE: Law-a-palooza

BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Open Mic DADA: Flipturn

WPB WATERFRONT: Paul Anthony & The Reggae Souljahs CWS: 432 Duo

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 THURSDAY, MAY 31

WPB WATERFRONT: The Goodnicks DADA: The Holidazed CWS: Mark Telesca

FRIDAY, JUNE 1

VOLTAIRE: JC Dwyer & the Blackbirds, Raised by Wolves, Marcus & Emmanuel

SATURDAY, JUNE 2

500 BLOCK OF CLEMATIS STREET: RESPECTABLE STREET, VOLTAIRE, SUBCULTURE ALLEY, HULLABALOO: Celebrate 31 Years of Respectable Street with headliner Peter Hook & The Light performing the best of Joy Division & New Order.

Free block party feat 1983 The Band – Afrobeta – AnastasiaMax – Astari Nite – Boston Marriage – Castafellas – Church Girls – Dénudés – Everymen Foul Play – Heller Floor – Inside Jokes – Markis Hernandez Trio – Millionyoung – Nervous Monks – Never Loved – Old Habits – Poparazzi – Prison Warder – Space Coast Ghosts – The Burrito Supremes – The Muggles – The State Of – The Wombombs – Yardij – The Zoo Peculiar REVOLUTION LIVE: Flatbush Zombies

FILLMORE MIAMI: Ivy Queen & Tito

FRIDAY, MAY 25

VOLTAIRE: Citizen Badger, Mona Lisa Tribe, Cardinal Moses, Mood Swing VOLTAIRE: Mass Vampire Burlesque, Carlos Menendez FLOYD MIAMI: Skatebard BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Jakob & Tony DADA: Poparazzi FILLMORE MIAMI: Nacho STACHE: Black Friday/Black Market HULLABALOO: Electric Red KILL YOUR IDOL: Shameless Burlesque CWS: Tchaa REVOLUTION LIVE: AWOL Nation

SATURDAY, MAY 26

DADA: Fern Street Music

SUNDAY, JUNE 3

VOLTAIRE: Ray’s Downtown: JP Soars & the Red Hots RESPECTABLE STREET: Suicide Commando, Cyanide Regime, DMA LOST WEEKEND: ɅɅ][×+∆PΞ feat. Adam Sheetz

THURSDAY, JUNE 7

WPB WATERFRONT: Reggae Brew, The Resolvers

SUNDAY, JUNE 10

VOLTAIRE: Ray’s Downtown: Joey Tenuto Band LOST WEEKEND: ɅɅ][×+∆PΞ feat. Joshua Islas

TUESDAY, JUNE 12

VOLTAIRE: Las Rosas

THURSDAY, JUNE 14

VOLTAIRE: Cosmic Barley presents Guavatron

PETER HOOK TO PLAY RSC 31 Don’t ever let anyone tell you that too much of a good thing is bad. Peter Hook and The Light are a perfect example. For those not initiated: Peter Hook was in Joy Division, a post-punk band from Manchester that had a dodgy following based on their name, but were incredibly influential.

Their singer Ian Curtis committed suicide, and his mates took a decidedly different turn, but ultimately for the better, in forming New Order. With hits including “Blue Monday,” “Bizarre Love Triangle” and “Age of Consent,” New Order embraced dance music as well as alternative rock and punk, reaching into more scenes and subcultures than Joy PETER HOOK Division. But New Order has had several starts and stops, leaving individual members to pursue their own projects. Currently, they are together, but minus Hook, who apparently prefers to stay busy, given his prolific touring with The Light and a trio of well-received memoirs.

This incarnation of Hook’s road show will pay homage to both Joy Division and New Order and let’s be honest here, why not? If people absolutely love what it is you have done, don’t you owe them the opportunity to see you perform your life’s work? This group’s recorded output says as much: six live records culled from standout dates and one studio EP, from 2011, containing three rerecorded Joy Division songs and a previously unfinished, unreleased track of theirs, “Pictures in My Mind.”

The split legacy bred harsh words and litigation between Hook and his former comrades, but a legal peace, at least, has prevailed since all sides settled in 2017. And whatever bad blood might have existed among the band principals, Hook has consistently rewarded his fans what they want since 2011. So, really, it’s nobody’s fault that Peter Hook and the Light have basically sold out all of their shows and been joined on stage by a who’s who of alternative rock weirdos? If you can write a great song and take pleasure in performing it every night to people who want to pay you to hear it, that’s a love that will never tear you apart.

Peter Hook & the Light play a FREE showJune 2 with 30 more bands at the 31st year anniversary party for Respectable Street in West Palm. ~ Tim Moffatt

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WONDER YEARS

WONDER YEARS

In the idylls of Americana, “The Wonder Years” represented a prime-time distillation of the baby-boomer experience.

The six-season saga, 19881993, was a bildungsroman of the young protagonist’s trials and tribulations through the turbulent ’60s, the sociopolitical climate of the Vietnam War, family and school life, love, loss, etc. It was the best aspects of memory summarized and stylized for consumption.

The Wonder Years, a sextet out of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, in the North Penn Valley suburbs of Philadelphia, is in a lot of ways a packaged memory of pop punk. But where the TV show drew from deep wells of nostalgia, the band finds its strength, and its voice, by absorbing numerous offshoots of rock ’n’ roll in order to forge its path through the morass of its own era.

Formed in 2005 from the ashes of Lansdale’s The Premier, TWY is comprised of Dan “Soupy” Campbell on vocals, Matt Brasch and Casey Cavaliere on guitars, Mike Kennedy on drums, Josh Martin on bass and Nick Steinborn on keys and additional guitars. Veterans of numerous tours including a pair of high-profile Warped Tour engagements, the band is six full-length albums into its run.

The first was 2007’s “Get Stoked On It!,” a messy affair of musical amalgams.

TWY buckled down for their next three releases, testing the reach of their influences while creating a more succinct and approachable body of music.

After this exhaustive process, their fifth album, “No Closer to Heaven,” was a lauded concept album.

Think of their latest, “Sister Cities,” as the marquee feature built on relentless refinement of all the previous work. It’s a remarkably inspired effort that shows TWY flexing serious musical muscle beyond “pop” and more in the realm of melodic hardcore and post-rock — even with tinges of country.

As erudite as it is crunchy, it’s an album that takes all of the band’s prior lessons seriously — but not too seriously. In the early promotion of “Sister Cities,” 7-inch singles went out with an album track on the A-side and on the flip, a spokenword poem.

The Wonder Years and Tiny Moving Parts perform May 12 at Revolution Live in Ft. Lauderdale. jointherevolution.net ~ Abel Folgar

VICTOR WOOTEN Air Force kids who moved from place to place and found their anchor in music, the Wooten brothers are a story that continually amazes and inspires. Keyboardist Joseph Wooten has been a member of rock’s Steve Miller Band since 1993. Percussionist Roy “Future Man” Wooten is a longtime Flecktone — a bandmate of the unclassifiable banjoist Béla Fleck. Along with guitarist Regi Wooten and the late saxophonist Rudy Wooten, who died in 2010, the Wootens have occupied and defined musical space in multiple genres for decades. Innovators in sound, technique and instrumentation, they’ve given plenty to the arts.

And then there is bass-playing bandleader Victor Wooten, the best-known of the siblings, and an advocate for music whether or not it’s his. “Vic took me under his wing and championed what I was doing with the kalimba/sansula,” Miami-born musician Brandon Blake tells PureHoney, attesting to Wooten’s interest in Blake’s work with the VICTOR WOOTEN African thumb piano. Blake, who now lives in Seattle, is not touring with Wooten but is an alumni of the Center for Music & Nature, a spring and summer music camp in Nashville that Wooten has run since 2000. Says Blake, “He encouraged me to ‘Get it out there, because it’s unique.’ His input and ideas helped me take my songs to a whole new level.

He’s in every way a mentor, friend, hero and elder, but most importantly, just an all-around good person.”

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Wooten has recorded and jammed with rock, jazz, funk and fusion luminaries, from Dave Matthews to Chick Corea to bassists-in-arms Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller. And of course, his siblings — his bandmates on and off since early childhood. “[T]hey needed a bass player to complete the family band.

Regi started teaching me as soon as I could sit up straight,” Wooten says in his official biography.

The current Fun & Funk Xplosion tour unites Victor with siblings Regi and Roy, brass player Bob Franceschini, and special guest Sinbad — yes, that Sinbad, who’s been known to get percussive with his observational comedy. A Victor Wooten gig is enriching and satisfying, so expect to emerge inspired.

Victor Wooten, with special guest Sinbad, performs May 3 at the Broward Center Amaturo Theater in Fort Lauderdale. victorwooten.com ~ Abel Folgar

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BREWHOUSE GALLERY TURNS 4 Some things have changed in the nearly four years since AJ Brockman opened The Brewhouse Gallery in a struggling Lake Park strip mall. This taproom and culture hub expanded into the adjoining storefront.

It got a companion venue in The Kelsey Theater, a concert hall that Brockman and his team opened in year two of their mall makeover.

They also acquired the mall, becoming landlords. Tenants today include a tattoo parlor, a belly dancing school and a restaurant, Brick & Barrel, that Brockman especially likes for its craft cocktails — “one of the best Old Fashioneds I’ve ever had,” he tells PureHoney.

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This artist and entrepreneur has plenty to toast as he prepares to celebrate another Brewhouse anniversary with a block party that is fast becoming a mainstay of the region’s regular music calendar.

Rogue Theory, String Assassins and a dozen other acts are already scheduled for the May 12 birthday bash.

“We took over the whole plaza and we’re trying to cultivate a whole arts district,” says Brockman. And if the site of this unexpected renaissance was all but invisible before, it’s impossible to miss now, with a painted mural stretching 900 feet along the complex’s back wall. “It really just livens up the whole area and really does scream ‘arts district,’ ” Brockman says.

There’s more to be done, not all of it necessarily on site. “The Brewhouse business model would be duplicatable” at other locations, he says, describing his aim to “revolutionize the way art galleries function.”

In this respect, not a thing has changed. Brewhouse is still a gallery, first. Artists show affordable works to potential buyers who also get to enjoy live music and craft beer. “The music and the beer is what brings people in,” Brockman says.

Beer sales help him recoup what he gives up by charging artists for display space instead of the traditional, hefty gallery owner- commission. Artists in turn keep more of what they earn, he says.

Music was not his first priority at Brewhouse. “But the more music we had,” Brockman says, “the better we did.”

The Brewhouse Gallery turns four with a block party and bands on three stages, May 12 at the plaza along the 700 block of Park Avenue in Lake Park. brewhousegallery.com ~ Sean Piccoli

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