Urban Jacksonville

This morning’s show was cancelled but there’s still some good shows going on this week you need to know about. Get out there and support your local scene!

Monday, February 8

Freebird Live ($24)

a little emo/pop-punk blast from the past
New Found Glory
Saves the Day
Hellogoodbye

Tuesday, February 8

Black Pearl Warehouse (free.99)

1971 Dobbs Rd. St. Augustine Fl. 32086
Pre-International Noise Conference
bands from across Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas and more converge on their way to Miami for the International Noise Confernence
biku (Baltimore, MD)
AG Davis (Palatka, FL)
Bright Orange (Jacksonville, FL)
Chicken Jolt (Jacksonville, FL)
Dark Inside the Sun
Drums Like Machine Guns (Philadelphia, PA)
ECM3 (St. Augustine, FL)
Hex Apparatus (St. Augustine, FL)
Hot Mess (Jacksonville, FL)
How I Quit Crack (Alief, TX)
Marlo Eggplant (Seattle, WA)
Mincemeat or Tenspeed (Philadelphia, PA)
minim (Gainesville, FL)
Mr. Lazari (Philadelphia, PA)
Oddknock (Gainesville, FL)
Pony Payroll Bones (GA)
Scared Rabbits (Jacksonville, FL)
Sphinxes (Jacksonville, FL)
Stress Ape (Chicago, IL)
Terror Probe (St. Augustine, FL)
The Lady of Situations (Gainesville/Tallahassee, FL)
The Suicide Magnets (Philadelphia, PA)
Trapbomb (Jacksonville, FL)
Waterdigger (Tampa, FL)

Facebook Event Page

Thursday, February 11

TSI ($5)

infintesmal record’s weekly sirens night
Thumbnail Sketch
Memphibians

Dustin Harewood’s Portraits Exhibit

Art Institute

From the Ai Event Page:

Dustin Harewood’s large-scale portraits explore the complexity of the common gaze; a gaze that can magnify both expression and vacancy. These never-seen-before works are a shift from the popular abstract paintings that have become a signature of Mr. Harewood.

Friday, February 12

Warehouse 8B ($3-5)

support the movement!

DigDog
AC Deathstrike
Thee Tsar Bombas
Sunday Cervix

Super Wonderful (free.99)

1992 San Marco Blvd.

Exhibition featuring works by:
Matt Allison
Clay Doran
Barrett Fiser
Dustin Harewood
Tonya Lee
Kyle Lemstrom
Jen Morgan

Listen to Kyle talk about the show from UJW.
Facebook Event Page

Facebook Event Page

Saturday, February 13

Pass the Mic ‘N Bike II (free.99)

the first event was a much-talked about success, not to miss. meet at memorial park at 7:45. on your bike of course.

Premadonnasaurs (St. Augustine)
Staring Daggers
Civilization
Devil Runs the Truckstop

Facebook Event Page

The Red Affair ($15 Donation)

Karpeles Manuscript Museum
101 W 1st Street

spoken word, neo-soul and poetry hosted by Tough Junkie

The amazing Art Behind the Fridge boys contributed cover art to this Urban Jacksonville Mixtape. You won’t meet a nicer pair of dudes in the city. They’re always involved in the art community and we’re lucky to have them. Thanks to you Nick and Jim!

Download Urban Jacksonville Mixtape #13

If you like what you hear, you can get more tonight at First Friday’s in 5 Points. I’ll be DJing at Underbelly from 9 till close. Treehouse Yall! Nick Fresh will be there from 6-9 and there will be a show featuring art from the famous Jacksonvillian Jim Draper.

On To The News

Credit: I’m Board IV from Tara Kane

Credit: I’m Board IV from Kicksluvme904

It was an epic FAIL to miss last night’s I’m Board IV. I heard it was awesome. Until next year! Here’s some footage from my friend Dennis, now let the rest of the photos and videos roll in!

I’m Board Art Show from Thought & Theory on Vimeo.

Re-imagining JTA

The Concept Design students at the Art Institute have been working on a JTA re-design project. The studente have re-envisioned the logo, the bus stop sign, bus wrap and bus stops.

You can see all of their work on the class blog.

Springfield Car Wash Heading for Appeal

The Springfield car was hype machine is revving back up
Silas Jones is probablly silently singing that O Jay’s song to him self: they smile up in your face, backstabbers. Last month Silas’ carwash was approved by the SPAR and now there are behind-the-scenes efforts to get the approval reversed by some on the SPAR board.

Many supporters of the carwash say this negatively impacts the development of the neighborhood by devoting energy to sqaushing a project instead of working with the business owner to help him push his project forward. At this point Silas Jones has spent about $400,000, according to some.

Quick Hits

Abel Harding says Jaguars should market to women
Fogle Art Gallery to close
Lomax Lodge (aka Shantytown 2) to open on 2/15
Why Jacksonville Should Immediately Invest In Rail
Late Night Cookery with Bert Noshirt

Updates and Clarifications on Conmoto

• The special guest isn’t Black Kids, Ian Ranne (Triclops I) DJing local music between the sets and the Troupe Shoot Dancers performing with Lazerstar.
• The Art Show will be upstairs at Burrito Gallery from 11p – 1a, Three Olive martinis will be free for of-age art lovers.
• Afterparty – The official afterparty on Friday is at Birdies. TSI has said they will let ticketholders in to TSI for free that night.
• The official afterparty on Saturday night is at The Pearl. It will be DJed by the musicians from Conmoto.
• Beforeparty – Dinner with the bands. Bands will receive a 20% discount at Burrito Gallery on Friday and Saturday. Festers are invited to come hang with the bands from 4 – 630 both nights before the shows start.

Worst picture ever, but it’s all good. This was not our worst show ever, probably one of our best. Not only do we talk about Conmoto, we also talk about FRAM or Farmers at RAM and Bikevemberfest at RAM.

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EU Magazine Music Issue

EU Music Issue Issue and Conmoto Article

Art by Dog and Pony Showprints
Rob Roy on Entourage
Conmoto Ticket Pricing, Conmoto Schedule and Art Show Details

Tickets will be available starting Thursday at the box office of the Florida Theatre at 128 E. Forsyth Street. Tickets will hopefully also be sold on this page starting tomorrow (assuming the gods of the Internet so allow).

• Tickets will be $20 for all access (all venues both days + afterparties)
• $10 for Friday only (Florida Theatre)
• $10 for Saturday only (All Participating Venues). Afterparty admission not included, patron can pay at the door of afterparty.

The Commercial

Conmoto Art & Music Festival – Jacksonville Florida – Complete Film from JonBosworth on Vimeo.

Recommendations

Joey: Jaguars feature articles on Metro Jacksonville and their updated homepage
Jonathan: Being awesome at the Conmoto music fest and work (LAME)
Tony: Conmoto After Party at TSI
Jack: Buff Clout’s last show in Jacksonville

Next Week on the Show

Abel Harding, Jacksonville.com business columnist and UJW political consultant along with Fresh Ministries will join us to talk about the possible links between Springfield and East Jacksonville. Check out this video to get up to speed:

Join us Monday morning on Urban Jacksonville Weekly at 9:30am. We’ll be talking with Jon Bosworth about the Conmoto Music Festival, Jacksonville’s largest local music festival. Proceeds from this year’s festival will benefit Habijax (Jacksonville’s Habitat for Humanity).

There is a massive line up of bands and an art show component too. Watch the show, ask questions via Twitter and Facebook, tell your friends. You can find Conmoto on Twitter and Facebook.

Watch Urban Jacksonville Weekly
Monday, November 16th at 9:30a.m.

Conmoto Art & Music Festival – Jacksonville Florida – Complete Film from JonBosworth on Vimeo.

Friday » Florida Theatre (7:00pm-12:00am)

kLoB
Shangrala
SPECIAL GUEST
Lazerstar
Rob Roy

Saturday » Burrito Gallery (7:00pm-12:00am)

7:00 – Jameyal
7:45 – Strange Fires
8:30 – Fountain
9:15 – AC Deathstrike
10:00 – Manatella
10:45 – Thumbnail Sketch
11:30 – Rusholme Ruffians
12:15 – Airport Factory

Saturday » TSI (7:00pm-12:00am)

7:00 – Business Casualties
7:45 – Single White Herpe
8:30 – Sephiroth Chorus
9:15 – Rich and Mindy
10:00 – Crash the Satellites
10:45 – Lazerstar
11:30 – After the Bomb Baby

Saturday » The Sinclair (7:00pm-12:00am)

7:00 – Scared Rabits
7:45 – When Tides Collide
8:30 – Eugene
9:15 – Tuffy
10:00 – Rails
10:45 – Pine and Bone
11:30 – Lackawanna Carriage Works

Saturday » Cafe 331 (7:00pm-12:00am)

Hip-Hop with Mas Appeal, Mr. Al Pete, And more

Saturday » Dive Bar (7:00pm-12:00am)

7:00 – I Hope You’re a Doctor
7:45 – Pilar Arevalo
8:30 – East China Sea
9:15 – The Heyday
10:00 – Christina Wagner

Saturday » London Bridge (7:00pm-12:00am)

7:00 – Grabbag
7:45 – National Dairy
8:30 – Locust Grove
9:15 – Dig Dog
10:00 – Chicken & Whisky
10:45 – X Sister Z
11:30 – Status Faux
12:15 – SkatterbrainThe Lineup

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Wambolt in Talleyrand

Note: a wambolt is not a furry tailed marsupial.

• Very warehouse-y. Cheap and no bathroom
• One of the challenges: It’s very DIY
• Bands looking for space can rent practice space
• Three blocks north of the Matthews Bridge
• Blog: Devil’s Playground
• Blog: Wambolt 8B
• Discussion of demon symbolism
• Discussion of “big churces”, downtown and development

Recommendations

Jonathan Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s new director
Jack Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival at the 5 Points Theatre
Tony Conmoto Music Festival. Jon Bosworth will guest next week to talk about the festival. BIKEVEMBERFEST November 21st at ArtWalk.
Clay 229 Hogan Street Art Space. Above Underwoods in Hemming Plaza. (map)
Joey Ritz Chamber Players at MOCA

The Decemberists were the featured band September 29th at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre. It was a Tuesday, so there was not as much of a showing as expected for such an acclaimed band. Still, the audience was mostly made up of those who knew the songs, and were truly excited to be there.

The opening band was Laura Veirs and The Hall of Flames. The Hall of Flames was pleasantly matched with The Decemberists. They had a playful manner on stage and Laura Veirs has a voice with pure intents, curiosity, imagination, and an unjaded take on the world. If you are a fan of The Decemberists, I recommend you check them out.

When The Decemberists played, it felt very much like the audience was being taken on some sort of crazy time hopping trip. The songs unfolded like the scenes in a Victorian play, the music was reminiscent of ancient folk songs from as far back as the time of Gaels and Celts, and much of the singing could have been straight out of Woodstock.

This was entirely appropriate given that the concert’s set list was The Hazards of Love album played in order. The album is a story concocted by Colin Meloy, the lead singer, to play on the timeless theme of star crossed lovers so often found in the folk songs he has become connected to over the last several years.

Colin Meloy, sang for both the hero, William, and the villain, simply known as The Rake. Becky Stark played the heroine and William’s true love, Margaret. Shara Worden played the Queen, the adoptive nature mother of William.

credit: Audrey Keith

Impressively, The Decemberists started on time at 8:30 PM, which is atypical of most concerts. The band made a dramatic entrance on stage. The spell was broken, however, when Jenny Conlee’s organ playing stopped momentarily and Colin Meloy apologized for what he termed a “train wreck.”

Jenny Conlee’s response was “Can we just skip the intro and start with the first song?” This laid back attitude was quickly forgotten as soon as the breathtaking first notes of The Hazards of Love 1 were played.

Becky Stark was captivating, before she even began to sing. She was so very much in character and reminiscent of the silent film star Mary Pickford who so often portrayed damsels and waifs. Her voice was clear and delicate. She was perfect for the part of Margaret.

Shara Worden was definitely an audience favorite as soon as her low, sexy, throaty voice called out over the microphone. She was ideal as the Queen with an immensely earthy, wise, and seductive performance. Becky Stark and Shara Worden put even America’s most famous divas to shame with their voices.

The story played out beautifully and emotionally. Inevitably, Margaret and William died for love. The audience stood, clapped, and cheered enthusiastically as the band exited the stage.

Unexpectedly, the band rushed back on stage in less than a minute. Colin Meloy explained that he had just learned that St. Augustine had a curfew and he wanted to make sure that he could cram as much music in that night so that everyone could go home happy.

This is what separates The Decemberists apart from so many other big names. They don’t play to enjoy the limelight so much as to enjoy entertaining and pleasing their fans. They kept mostly to their upbeat songs and even jokingly played what Meloy termed the worst song he had ever written, Dracula’s Daughter. Then, Meloy decided to play O Valencia instead, fearing that audience members would call up their radio stations and demand to hear Dracula’s Daughter.

The band left and then rushed back on again as the cheering audience was contemplating how best to exit the theater. This time, he returned with Becky Stark and Shara Worden who sang their enthusiastic rendition of Heart’s Crazy On You that had the audience crying out in gratitude. All in all, this was an incredibly successful concert despite the small show of fans. Hopefully, North Florida will get another chance to see this amazing band.

photo credit: Alicia J. Rose

The Decemberists will be performing next week at The St. Augustine Amphitheater and I have two tickets to give away. Jump to giveaway details if you can’t wait.

I’m a medium sized Decemberists fan. The last album I listened to for any length of time was Picaresque. Good stuff still. Audrey Keith will be heading down to cover the show (thanks A!). If you’re planning on going, you should know about the special ticket discount: Buy four tickets for the price of three.

The Decemberists with Laura Veirs & Hall of Flames
September 29th 2009
8:30pm at the The St. Augustine Amphitheater
1340 C A1A South, St. Augustine Fl 32080 (Map)

From the press release: The band’s fifth album, The Hazards of Love, represents the most glorious kind of messing around. It’s the most ambitious and most accomplished project to date from the Portland-based quintet of Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query, and John Moen—a full-length song cycle rooted in ancient language and imagery, yet entirely modern and accessible. The follow-up to the group’s 2006 breakthrough, The Crane Wife (which NPR listeners voted their favorite album of the year), The Hazards of Love solidifies the Decemberists’ standing as one of the most innovative and important creative forces in music today.

The Giveaway Details

photo credit: Dunechaser

I have two tickets to give away and here’s how it will work: You must be able to come to Five Points tomorrow to pick up the tickets.

All you have to do is tweet this post.

At the end of the day (Thursday) I’ll randomly choose a winner. If you’ve won before I’ll pick someone new. I’ll announce the winner on this post and I’ll let the winner know personally when they can come pick up their tickets Friday.