RESPECTABLE STREET: Deli Girls w Poncili Creación, Ursa Arcana, Machine Poetry, Halo in the River ARMORY ART CENTER: Walk & Talk w Kandy G. Lopez
THE PEACH: Art Talk @ Every Fine Art, Live Art + Talk
REVELRY: Live Music Bingo w Smerks & the Nightmares PROPAGANDA: Open Mic Takeover w/DDBR
12/4-6
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Tribeca Film Festival
12/5
9TH ST SOBE: Beach Towel Art Show
LUNA STAR CAFE: Timothy LaRoque & Friends
CHURCHILLS PUB: Portraits of an Apparition, Deli Girls, GUTTR vs Latinacroft vs “Sweet”, Prison Warder, Bleeth, Adhesive, Creature Cage, Deformative, Period Bomb, Ladyboy, Andy Ortmann, Poncilí Creación, Shredded Nerve, Metruliated Quaipé, WEIG, Laundry Room Squelchers, Male Model, Humanfluidrot, Hard Fun, Dania Sixto, The Reverend, Christopher Lombardo, FTMF, Suicide by Cop x Strawberry Labotomy, Microminx, Sudden Seizure, Rafa
PROPAGANDA: Butterbrains ft Angelo Moore of Fishbone, Fuakata
TARPON RIVER BREWING: 13th Annual Dan Hosker Music Continuum ft DJ Skidmark, Connie Brand, Subeesu, Jamie Granger, Death By Holiday, Les Norris, Nervous Monks, Shaved Hamster, John Camacho & Friends, Tongues of the Heartworm (members of Load & Postface), Cori Elba, Shakers, Mr Entertainment & the Pookiesmackers, Arlan Feiles, Wolf Wench & Her Sexy Plague Doctors, Lightworkers, Humbert, Nil Lara
CHURCHILL’S PUB: Drippy Eye & Spiral Studios Photography Showcase ft Curtis Godino, Zippur, The Dewars. Drag Brunch
WAR MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM: U-N-I Sound Sessions, Kenny Rivers, Blanca, Joyful Noize, DJ Fleiva CULTURE ROOM: The Wallflowers, Joe Pug BREWHOUSE GALLERY: Songwriters Circle THE PEACH: YOGA
12/8
THE PEACH: Comedy Workshop, Open Mic, Drawing & Acrylics Class
CHURCHILL’S PUB: Miami Jazz Jam, Raven Open Mic
12/9
THE PEACH: Come Paint w Me, Taco Tuesday CHURCHILL’S PUB: Kinoplex Cinema
12/10
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Fais Do Do ” Rythym Foundation Gala ft Galactic
THE PEACH: Artist Talk & Critique, Play w Clay
12/11
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Nicole Henry Holiday Concert, Love: The Greatest G BOYNTON BEACH: Snapshots w Santa, Harbor Marina
THE PEACH: Art Talk @ Every Fine Art, Live Art + Talk 12/12
CHURCHILL’S PUB: A PureHoney HollowDaze Party w Cassie Ramone (Vivian Girls), MOLD!, The Dreambows, Kenny Moe
PROPAGANDA: Jacuzzi Boys Benefit w SoL, Give it Up
BOYNTON BEACH: Holiday Boat Parade
REVELRY: Dead Bronco
HEX MOTO: Slimers, TC Silk, Blabscam, CTE
REVOLUTION LIVE: Violet vs. Gottmik TATS & TACOS: Medley
12/13
PROPAGANDA: A PureHoney HollowDaze Party w Cassie Ramone (Vivian Girls), Rude Television, The Dreambows, The Dewars RESPECTABLE STREET: Goblin Kings Fantasy Ball
CULTURE ROOM: Beats Antique
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Ela Taubert
GUANABANAS: Surf Rock Christmas ft Waist to
REVELRY: Our Lady Avery
12/14
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Elf Jr the Musical THE PEACH: YOGA
REVELRY: Ink + Drink Sunday Social: Sagittarius Edition, Nancy Tatt x ShangriLa Collective,
Silverstein, Thursday,
12/15
THE PEACH: Comedy Workshop, Open Mic, Drawing & Acrylics Class CHURCHILL’S PUB: Miami Jazz Jam, Raven Open Mic
12/16
THE PEACH: Come Paint w Me, Taco Tuesday CHURCHILL’S PUB: Kinoplex Cinema
12/16-21
CHURCHILL’S PUB: 305 Fest
12/17
THE PEACH: Artist Talk & Critique, Play w Clay
12/18
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Sonora Tukukuy
RESPECTABLE STREET: SoundLab Turns One!
BOYNTON BEACH: Snapshots w Santa, One Boynton
REVOLUTION LIVE: Salmo
REVELRY: Wax On Wax Off
THE PEACH: Art Talk @ Every Fine Art, Live Art + Talk PROPAGANDA: Dyke Night: Queer Party, Burlesque
12/19
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: The Heavy Pets
PROPAGANDA: Punk Rock X-mas Show
GRAMPS GETAWAY: Hiltronix + Medley
GARDEN DISTRICT: Queer Mkt: Bad Santa, 15+ Vendors, Flash Tattoos, DJ Booty
REVELRY: Petty Hearts
12/19-1/31
CULTURAL COUNCIL for PBC: Mark Forman –Stimulating Thoughts.
12/20
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Matisyahu
REVELRY: Live from 05
REVOLUTION LIVE: The Taylor Party
12/21
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Matisyahu THE PEACH: YOGA
REVELRY: Whimsical Winter Wonderland Burlesque
12/22
THE PEACH: Comedy Workshop, Open Mic, Drawing & Acrylics Class CHURCHILL’S PUB: Miami Jazz Jam, Raven Open Mic
12/23
THE PEACH: Come Paint w Me, Taco Tuesday CHURCHILL’S PUB: Kinoplex Cinema
12/24-12/25
THE WICK THEATRE: Sarge the Comedian!
12/26
PROPAGANDA: No Name Ska Band
CHURCHILL’S PUB: Equinox Booking Showcase
REVELRY: Mighty Flea Circus
12/27
RESPECTABLE STREET: Litmas X PROPAGANDA: Cumbiamba, Cholo Sonido OFF THE CLOCK: Medley
REVELRY: Shakers, Tall Walker
12/28
THE PEACH: YOGA
12/29
THE PEACH: Comedy Workshop, Open Mic, Drawing & Acrylics Class
CHURCHILL’S PUB: Miami Jazz Jam, Raven Open Mic
12/30
THE PEACH: Come Paint w Me, Taco Tuesday CHURCHILL’S PUB: Kinoplex Cinema
Sonora Tukukuy
by abel folgar
In a city where rhythms collide as naturally as languages, Sonora Tukukuy have emerged from Miami’s post-pandemic haze with a pulse that never stops. Born out of long friendships, late-night jams, and overlapping band histories that stretch back to the late ’90s, the group’s hypnotic blend of cumbia, funk, and psychedelic groove feels like a communal exhale: A dance floor therapy session stitched together by rhythm and memory.
For this Latin American sestet, cumbia with its telltale double beat wasn’t a choice so much as a birthright — “something that’s always been part of our bloodstream,” band member Gabriel Ayala tells PureHoney. “Its elasticity and generosity as a genre made it the perfect canvas to channel everything we were feeling and to let the sound evolve with us.” Peruvians Ayala and Roberto Taninaka, Venezuelan Alex Izaguirre, Colombians Alejo Angee and Jorge Moreno, and Argentinian Daniel “Dito” Reschigna carry serious Miami pedigree, with roots in local acts like Minimal, Estacion Local, Soniko, Aura Band, and Panasonicos. Their union feels like the natural next step in the city’s ongoing evolution: musicians raised on Latin rock, punk, and funk rediscovering the cumbia heartbeat that once pulsed through backyard parties and block gatherings in the southwest suburbs.
“Miami may not be the first city people associate with cumbia,” Ayala says, “but it’s made of collisions; cultures, sounds, and stories constantly blending.” From the sprawl of Cutler Bay and Homestead to the warehouse spaces of Allapattah, the band finds inspiration in the city’s creative edges, where the spirit of improvisation and collaboration still thrives. Their music is born between worlds, proud of its heritage yet unafraid to wander. With cumbia landing in Berlin clubs and Tokyo record shops, Sonora Tukukuy see expansion, not dilution. “Cumbia doesn’t lose its roots,” Ayala insists. “It extends them.”
With six singles out and a full-length debut coming in December, produced by local artist Delusion Bay, the band’s momentum feels unstoppable. It’s a love letter to Miami, to its rhythm and resilience, and a promise that the Tuku familia will keep growing, one sweaty, joyful dance floor at a time.
Sonora Tukukuy play 7pm Thursday, December 18 at Miami Beach Bandshell in Miami Beach.
Beats Antique
by amanda moore
Beat freaks, unite! The metamorphosis has begun. For one night in December, the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale becomes a nexus of rhythm, dance and music when Beats Antique arrive with their Metamorphosis Tour and their first album in nine years. Formed in 2007, the original trio of David Satori, Sidecar Tommy Cappel and Zoë Jakes practice a hypnotic fusion of global textures ancient and new set to bass and breakbeat rhythms. Sometimes called “ethnotronica,” their sound defies category, bending time and tradition into a raw, sensual and unforgettably human current. Fans of Thievery Corporation, Papadosio and La Femme will find a new obsession here in music that is both primal and futuristic.
Beats Antique started out as the band for a bellydancing company that Jakes toured with under the management of music impresario Miles Copeland. One of their first joint projects was music for a bellydancing instructional DVD, and the collaboration has far outlived Copeland’s Bellydance Superstars, yielding LPs, EPs, singles and compilations (and a wild 2013 collaboration, “Beelzebub,” with bard of dystopia Les Claypool). Their musical palette has expanded, too: cello and bellydance colliding with glitchy synths and thunderous tribal drums while drawing on influences from across the globe. “Beauty Beats,” from 2008’s Collide, shimmers with percussive brilliance and cinematic flair. “Three Sisters,” from 2016’s Shadowbox, channels a desert dreamscape. Their new single, “Night Forest,” is a story set to rhythm — part ritual, part electronic reverie.
Beats Antique stopped releasing records for several years after Shadowbox, and in 2022 Satori stepped away from the touring ensemble, replaced by Miles Jay. Beats Antique announced their new album, Metamorphosis, with an Instagram picture of Jakes, Cappel and Jay, and they’ve called the record a “new chapter.” Whatever the lineup, in concert they are their fullest selves. A Beats Antique show unfolds as a conversation between music and movement, with costumed dancers and a charge of spontaneity. Every Metamorphosis. show will be, in the band’s words, a “shared creation” with improvised elements and crowd energy “inspiring us and shaping the experience.” Jump right in: This unspoken exchange of awe promises to be transformative.
Beats Antique play 7:30pm Saturday, December 13 at The Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale. beatsantique.com
Evan Orellana
by kelli bodle
A glance at Evan Orellana’s Instagram, @long_river_ designs, is a dive into archetypal South Florida life: surf scenes, an alligator wrestler, a swamp monster, and any number of exuberantly made characters proclaiming “you’ve surfed worse” with resigned good cheer.
A surfer since college, the PureHoney artist of the month found some of his first collectors for this visual menagerie in the perfect place. “I did one little market at a surf club,” Orellana says. “I always attend — but this time I popped up with some of my art and my own tent, and people loved it.”
Arriving casually on his local art scene with selftaught mixed-media and woodblock prints fits with Orellana’s coastal and community DIY ethos. He is regional manager for the Surfrider Foundation, East Coast Florida and Puerto Rico chapters. When he’s not illustrating surf life, Orellana is working to protect it by documenting beach erosion, fighting for public shoreline access and clean water, and lobbying lawmakers to act. He also runs the Delray Surf Club, which puts on meetups and events including the annual Surf Swap Festival & Flea in West Palm’s Warehouse District.
The practice behind Orellana’s art is similarly aligned: He gets supplies at Resource Depot, the long-running nonprofit creative reuse outlet in West Palm Beach, and he says the collector relationships he establishes selling his work at surfer meetups and elsewhere are at least as important to him as the transactions.
While Orellana sells under the Long River name, this is not a brand story. It’s a process-over-product saga that emphasizes the long game in lieu of visual trends. “I had been doing digital art, messing around with that. But then I went to Resource Depot,” Orellana says, “and they just happened to have this architectural paper vellum, a very nice drawing pad, and oldschool xylene ad markers — the ones that really smell. “There’s something about when you get a nice pair of markers and paper,” Orellana continues. “I started doing the same stuff I would do on the iPad, but by hand.”
More recently he started bringing his woodworking designs to shows. “My first market was the 2023 holiday market at Island Water Sports in Deerfield Beach,” Orellana says. “They let me do a pop-up, and it worked out really well.”
His newest project is a print series entitled Paradise Awaits. “It focuses on the idea of Florida as a tropical paradise,” Orellana says. “People want to be here, but it creates problems. There’s that whole Catch-22 of what you get: Enjoying something, but then you end up ruining it. You can’t help it.”
Paradise Awaits depicts an imaginary setting to embody the love-it-to-death dilemma. “I work with nature and Florida for my conservation job, so I decided to do something cool with the culture and the coastal lifestyle,” Orellana says. “I was like, okay, it’s going to be a fake Florida town that has a little bit of every outdoor vibe.” Employing what he calls “old Florida pop art style,” Orellana mixes woodblock printing with found materials and retro typefaces like Googie and Art Deco. Many of his prints depict beach life from a surfer’s perspective. “I surf every day if I can,” he says.
While it is at events such as the Surf Swap where Orellana displays and sells most of his work, he has sights set on a gallery show — “where I can tell a story through art,” he says. South Florida gallery goers might not be aware that they’ve already seen Orellana’s handiwork in a museum setting.
“At the Sandoway Discovery Center in Delray, all the exhibition signage is my design,” he says. “I got to make graphics, mount things, and create exhibit flow. Before I worked there, I walked in, and there was nothing on the walls. Or, someone laminated a piece of printer paper and put that up. I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if one day I could remake this place?”
Whether he’s redecorating a museum, restoring beaches, or building a little paradise print by print, Orellana wants to better his surroundings and encourage others to do likewise. “I’m a big believer in, no matter what, every day, make something, draw something, doodle, be creative,” he says. Visit Evan Orellana @long_river_designs on Instagram
Soundlab
by tim moffatt
The human brain, that buzzy little organ weighing three pounds give or take, is responsible for higher-order functions such as communication, cooperation, and creativity. But these don’t exist in a biological vacuum; input is needed. Creatives thrive by feeding off of like minds, everybody riffing together. Therein lies the key to SoundLab, a free-admission, uniquely collaborative open mic at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach marking its first anniversary in December. Every third Thursday of the month, the session put on by Good Problems Collective begins with three producers trying out new beats for an audience including lyricists, rappers, vocalists and songwriters that then votes on its favorite.
Good Problems co-founder Matt Kelly tells PureHoney what happens next: “We leave the winning beat on for 20 minutes, let the writers write, and then we have an open mic.” To quote one of the collective’s social posts, “What can you write in 20 minutes???” (No pre-writing allowed.) Kelly says he got the idea for SoundLab while living in Oakland, California, and brought the open-mic variation he saw there back home to South Florida with the blessing of its creators. Almost one year in, he says, “The community impact has been tremendous: 600 sign-ups in 10 months, and 185 individual artists have been tracked, bringing in new people and repeat artists.”
Beat makers and performers from across the state have become aware of SoundLab, and they’re signing up via QR code to participate, Kelly says. What draws people and distinguishes SoundLab, he believes, is its hybrid of showcase and workshop. “The whole thing is a collaboration, producer showcase, and writer’s open mic, and we’re the only ones doing both,” he says.
Kelly and Co., have worked tirelessly to grow the concept that he first encountered out west. They make each gathering “seamless and immersive,” in Kelly’s words, by deploying bespoke visual projections and other proprietary elements. Recordings of past SoundLab sessions are free online to stream. “We would love for the idea to spread,” Kelly says, adding, “Respectables has been really great about letting us do whatever we want, basically.”
SoundLab’s First Anniversary session is 8pm Thursday, December 18 at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. @goodproblemscollective
DHMC 13
by olivia feldman
Every year at around this time, people gather to celebrate Dan Hosker, who made waves in The Holy Terrors, Harry Pussy, Laundry Room Squelchers and countless other South Florida punk and noise bands. Before his untimely death in 2012, Hosker was a ferociously experimental guitar player with an encouraging spirit that is embodied today by the charitable Dan Hosker Music Continuum
“I was always very impressed with the fact that Dan was one of these guys that would get along and play with any type of person and all different kinds of music, and I would never be able to do that,” Continuum co-founder and ex-Holy Terrors frontman Rob Elba tells PureHoney. “And Dan would live for all that shit, and everyone. That’s why everyone loved him.”
That Continuum’s annual music festival was co-founded in 2012 with Hosker’s surviving family by Elba and drummer Fausto Figueredo. Launched at Churchill’s in Miami, DHMC has since migrated to Fort Lauderdale. Figueredo, formerly of Load, likens it to a class or family reunion: “Never did we expect that at 1 or 2 p.m. we would have almost 300 people there, and there would still be that many people there at 7:30 at night.”
The lineup is a multi-generational arc of South Florida stalwarts who were and are, in true Hosker form, often if not always in each another’s bands and side projects, Elba and Figueredo included. The theme of DHMC No. 13 is “special guests,” meaning everyone on the bill will feature a surprise cameo. The Continuum awards cash grants to high schoolers in the arts. With new grants already funded, proceeds from merch sales this time around will go to Miami noise maestro Frank “Rat Bastard” Falestra, a Hosker bandmate in recovery from a serious car accident.
Elba lives in Los Angeles and Figueredo is moving soon to Tennessee, so the organizational challenges are many. “We’re always like, ‘Should this be the last year?,’ ” Elba says. “But people go, ‘No, you have to keep doing it.’ They really look forward to it.”
Dan Hosker Music Continuum 13 runs noon-10pm Sunday, Dec. 7 at Tarpon River Brewing in Fort Lauderdale. facebook.com/DanHoskerMusicContinuum
Cassie Ramone
by erik kvarnberg
“Ever since I’ve started writing and recording music, it’s been my diary,” Cassie Ramone says ahead of two South Florida tour dates in December, presented by PureHoney, in support of her 2024 solo album, Sweetheart. “As I’ve grown older the contents of that diary change and the way that I speak about things changes.”
The diary fell open with Ramone’s breakthrough band, Vivian Girls, a Brooklyn trio formed in 2007 sounding like a new iteration of your favorite lo-fi garage rock — think The Wipers, Le Tigre, The Raincoats and Plumtree. Vivian Girls put out four energetic and addicting albums over the next 12 years before parting ways. They were as relatable as punk without the politics of punk, singing outright love songs in something of a break with Riot Grrrl practice and the esoteric, academic lyricism that Pavement handed down to later indie bands.
Arriving 16 years after Vivian Girls self-titled debut, Ramone’s third solo album registers differently — like a prognosis of the batteries dying in some neglected dream machine, delivered in the moodier vein of U.S. Girls or Broadcast. Ramone tells PureHoney that while recording, music was about the only thing in her life going well. She was performing live again, in a Britney Spears cover band, but everything else by her reckoning was falling to pieces. “Making the album was my North Star,” she says.
Sweetheart’s opener, “I’m Going Home,” showcases the delicate layering of sounds that she and her and Richmond, Virginia-based collaborator Dylan White put together as she mapped out songs on back-and-forth drives between New York and Virginia. The diary-like intimacy is audible in Sweetheart, and Ramone says that “Joy to the World” is maybe the most honest song she’s ever written.
The candor was abetted by accidents of creation that conspired to make songs feel more complete. One example Ramone gives is “Together,” a fasterpaced ballad that evokes the crunching of autumn leaves and driving with windows down. The song had no clear ending, Ramone says, until the vocal lines nudged themselves into that position in a way that clicked for her and White .
The album also features a soft-spoken collaboration with Mac DeMarco, “The Only Way I Know How,” that follows a string of collaborations going back more than a decade. Ramone says the song song takes “Do It Again” by Steely Dan as a reference point for key changes and artistic tensions that the two enjoy about that jazz-inclined classic rock duo. After striking up a rapport while tracking Ramone’s “Leave Me Alone” in DeMarco’s studio, the two reconvened in 2022 to record the guitar and drums that later made it to the final song.
On “He’s Still On My Mind,” an organ-like synthesizer fades in as Ramone’s soothing, faintly harmonized voice drifts across acoustic guitar strums and latches on to White’s loping drums, everything sounding like a lost track from Tame Impala’s Lonerism. “Running Dry” is an ominous stagger, something one might hear in a troubled dreamscape full of breath-stealing scening shifts.
An album-length video accompanying Sweetheart, available on YouTube, is taken from Ramone’s everyday sights around Richmond, along train tracks and in streets. It’s also a break from music norms, an album video capturing in a documentary verite style the liminal space from which the music emerged.
With Sweetheart out in the world, Ramone says she’s been listening to Shower Curtain, Julie, Lightheaded, and “April Suzanne” by Robert Lester Folsome. She has also been challenging, or daring, herself to record a ten-song Weezer tribute album, with each track coming from from a different Weezer LP.
The music and video for Sweetheart came out better than she had initially expected. Her next (non-Weezer) solo project will have tough competition to follow. But Ramone sounds ready for it. “If you aren’t making music that’s true to yourself and is the music that you want to hear in this world,” she says, “what’s the point?”
PureHoney presents a Happy HollowDaze weekend w Cassie Ramone, 8pm Friday December 12 at Churchill’s Pub in Miami and 8pm Saturday December 13 at Propaganda in Lake Worth. Rude Television and The Dreambows open both shows, with MOLD! and Kenny Moe at Churchill’s, and The Dewars and Nervous Monks at Propaganda. cassieramone.com
DECEMBER 2
GUCCI HANDELSMAN
DECEMBER 3
EQUINOX BOOKING DISTRACTION PARTY DECEMBER 5
DEAD SOUTH PRESENTS: DELI GIRLS, PORTRAITS OF AN APPARITION, + 30 ARTISTS DECEMBER 6
BAT BASEL PHLEBOTOMY EVENT
DECEMBER 7
EXQUISITE CORPSE: DRAG BRUNCH DRIPPYEYEPROJECTIONS W/ SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY CURTIS GOD LIVE MUSIC FROM ZIPPUR, THE DEWARS + MORE SPIRAL ART + PHOTO SHOW
DECEMBER 12
PUREHONEY PRESENTS: CASSIE RAMONE (VIVIAN GIRLS MOLD!, RUDE TELEVISION, THE DREAMBOWS, KENNY MO
