By Allison Candreva, September 2008
Wonderful!, Eleven:11 Entertainment
If you like The Fray and Snow Patrol, you’ll like Jacob Jeffries Band. Wonderful!, the second of three EPs released over six months, is inundated with catchy lyrics and piano lead-ins.
By Jake Crown, September 2008
The Second Gleam, Ramseur Records
The Avett Brothers know how to write songs that are honest and true, and their new album The Second Gleam might be their best example.
By Travis Fristoe, September 2008
Nouns, Sub-Pop Records
I used to get too self-conscious thinking about music too long and unapologetically. No Age understands, and these songs stand as irrefutable testimony to keep playing, keep listening and maybe even enjoy some things in life.
By Fred Sowder, September 2008
Yellow and Elephant, Fearless Records
The accompanying press release with this disc describes this band’s musical style as “cinematic rock.” From the tempo and vocals of the opening track, “I Knew You’d Never Fly,” I’d be more pressed to call them “extreme emo.”
By Sarah Wears-Garcia, September 2008
Portuguese Prince, Sorin Records
If, on your debut album there is a song called “Make it Stop,” you would be wise to make your music eminently listenable. Which Goldcure wisely does.
By Jake Crown, September 2008
From the Bottom, No Idea
This might be the best punk record of 2008. Every single song is a sing-along, fist in the air, basement punk song.
By Travis Fristoe, September 2008
A film by Eddie Moretti and Suroosh Alvi, Vice Films
Heavy metal, when defined as only a white, American music fad of the ‘80s, is easy to dismiss. I mean, did you make it through that Metallica documentary?
By Matt “Ned” Brown, September 2008
{Well known in Gainesville’s cultural scene, long time resident Matt Brown passed away last month in a kayaking accident while traveling through Canada. Excerpted from Brown’s journal of his bicycle tour from Tampa to Brooklyn, summer 2004; shared with permission and minimal edits.}
By Mike Walker, September 2008
Jason and I thought we were going to Lebanon. Not the nation in the Middle East, but the spot on the map in western Levy County. I had heard about a park built at Lebanon Station and it sounded like an interesting place to go and shoot some photos.
By Greg Turner, September 2008
Summer ends this month. It’s official. We’re back in Florida, exotic locations forgotten, summer travels fading like so many old photographs. But being back in Florida doesn’t mean an end to wonderful food. Florida has rich, diverse culinary traditions that range from Old Southern and West African traditions that migrated down the coast from Charleston as well as incredible Hispanic and island influences that migrated north from the Caribbean and west from Spain. And many farmers throughout the state grow an abundance of diverse ingredients, all Floridian.
