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Chill vibe merchants Khruangbin are bringing their perma-laid-back brand of dub-psych-rock to the St. Augustine in April.

Jacksonville Music Experience contributors share a list of their favorite albums of 2024.

The Jacksonville Music Experience team shares a list of more than two dozen of its favorite songs released by local artists this year.

The Jacksonville-based dream-pop project of Andrew Cardin and Jake Phillips recently released a new EP, 'breezeblocks,' the follow-up to 2022’s 'Modern Loss.'

New local music: Jacksonville-based “shark rock” trio Bonnethead have shared their second single, the vibrant “Dive.”

Jacksonville hip-hop artist Kale That Raps is back with an impressive new album. And this time: 'It's Personal.'

Shoegaze titans Slowdive will tour North America this fall in support of their latest album everything is alive, with a stop at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre among just 10 Stateside headlining dates. After early-November sets at Mexico City’s…

Orange Park’s own Jordan Blackburn is back with his second record, the five-track follow-up to last year’s Abnormal Hues. The rising singer-songwriter and producer blends timeless quiet storm R&B with sleek electronic soundscapes on Jordan Blackburn,…

The self-titled debut album from Ancient City alt-country trio Sawpaw is right around the corner, but why wait when we have advance tracks to catch up with? Ahead of Sawpaw’s release on Oct. 11 via Tampa’s Ashtray Monument, the band has shared two…

This article was originally published in February of 2024. Indie-rock institution Vampire Weekend will soon return with their first new album in five years, Only God Was Above Us (April 5, Columbia Records), and to hold us over until then, Ezra…

Melbourne, Australia’s own experimental-rock juggernauts King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced an extensive 2024 tour of North America and Europe in support of their latest album The Silver Cord, including a stop at the St. Augustine…

The lineup for this year’s 11th annual edition of the Suwannee Hulaween festival has been unveiled, with a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Grateful Dead co-founder Bobby Weir and perennial festival fixtures The String Cheese Incident—dubbed…

Summer is special. What other season gets its own song? Sure, there’s a whole industry built around Holiday music. But those tunes tend to be more of the novel variety. And, to clear: “All I Want for Christmas is You” could never introduce an entire…

Jacksonville-based indie singer-songwriter Erica Reese (Coastal Creature) is back with another new track, “Breakfast for Dinner,” the dream-pop sound of a vicious cycle—and, just maybe, an epiphany. Assisted by producer Patrick Taylor (Trash Panda,…

Portland, Oregon, singer-songwriter Haley Heynderickx shared her first new song in more than six years this week, the serene “Seed of a Seed,” heralding a return that has been much anticipated since the 2018 release of her acclaimed full-length…

A pair of interconnected Jacksonville acts bring their creative bond to bear on “Blank Page,” the new track from folk-rock outfit Souvineer and indie-pop project Light the Moon. Since its inception in winter 2020 and the 2021 release of their debut…

Shoegaze titans Slowdive will tour North America this fall in support of their latest album everything is alive, with a stop at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre among just 10 Stateside headlining dates. After early-November sets at Mexico City’s…

Lovers of synth-pop, post-punk, and waves new, dark and cold, lend us your ears: Jacksonville’s own Glass Chapel have released their first new music in more than a year, the darkly romantic “Alive.” The trio self-produced “Alive,” their first single…