In lieu of a full-length album at their recent album release show, Gainesville’s Paxico via Mexico released a short four song EP, Ground from the Rind. In light of this, I will give a short review and save a full-length write-up for when the album finally comes to us.
Part of the magic of this band [...]

Central Florida based sibling trio, ramondale and The Family Band, released its debut album, Consider the Birds earlier this year. SP got a hold of a copy of the album, and I briefly review it here for your immediate reading pleasure.

“Hollywood is out of ideas” – a phrase I mutter every few months when I think that the art of film-making is on its last legs, sputtering and choking and hacking out pieces of phlegm like Dude, Where’s My Car?, Battlefield Earth, Disaster Movie, and any feature-length remake of a 1970′s TV show. But then [...]

On the day before Halloween this year in a small Gainesville gallery (The Exchange) five local artists (Evan McIntyre, Josh Pusey, Roberto Evans, Ricky Kendall, Mike McVicar) revealed the fruits of their labor: this is their story.

Heartless Bastards, Paxico via Mexico, T. J. Masters play at UF’s Reitz Union Ballroom during Gator Nights on 23rd October 2009.

Tom Miller’s extravagantly sexual and profane images graced the walls of The Story House as I walked through the creaking entranceway to view his show entitled, “Paintings and Dirty Little Magic Marker Drawings.” The atmosphere and lighting were dim [...]

Chelsea Carnes, Maida Vale, The Northernness, Paxico Via Mexico
1982 Bar
Friday, April 3, 2009

GAINESVILLE, Florida—Friday evening, I arrived at 1982 Bar for the evening’s concert featuring Chelsea Carnes, Maida Vale, The Northernness, and Paxico via Mexico. Overzealous, I found myself an hour early for the performance, but I sat at the bar and ordered a [...]