JME Live Music Calendar

Your guide to concerts and music events in Jacksonville and across Northeast Florida.

See the full list of upcoming shows below, or check out our Go Concert Picks to see what the Jacksonville Music Experience team wants to see and hear this week (we update our picks every Monday).

Past Events

Date/Time Event
Sunday, May 15, 2022
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Laney Jones Laney Jones
Blue Jay Listening Room
Flying Saucer Presents and Blue Jay Listening Room present Laney Jones.
Saturday, May 14, 2022 - Sunday, May 15, 2022
8:00 pm - 12:00 am
Appalachian Death Trap Appalachian Death Trap
Jack Rabbits
Appalachian Death Trap is a 4-piece metal rock band from Northeast Florida.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
8:00 pm
Rosevvilder Rosevvilder
The Walrus
Local acts Rosevvilder, Bebe Deluxe, Heaven Slept and Evelyn Gray play The Walrus in Murray...
Friday, May 13, 2022 - Saturday, May 14, 2022
8:00 pm - 12:00 am
Easy Honey / Parks and Razz Easy Honey / Parks and Razz
Jack Rabbits
With sounds reminiscent of early brit-rock and a nod to 90s alt-rock, Easy Honey captures both the playfulness and maturity that accompanies one’s coming of age.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 - Thursday, May 12, 2022
8:00 pm - 12:00 am
Five For Fighting Five For Fighting
Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
Singer-songwriter John Ondrasik has spent the past decade writing deeply personal songs that include social...
Sunday, May 8, 2022 - Monday, May 9, 2022
8:00 pm - 12:00 am
Madeleine Peyroux Madeleine Peyroux
Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
Every great musical project starts with a feeling that it’s time. So it was, in 2004,...
Saturday, May 7, 2022 - Sunday, May 8, 2022
8:00 pm - 12:00 am
Hotel Fiction Hotel Fiction
Jack Rabbits
Hotel Fiction is an Athens, Georgia-based band consisting of best friends Jade Long and Jessica Thompson. Both women have been playing music for over ten years and began writing, performing, and playing together in January 2019. In August, Hotel Fiction released their debut single “Astronaut Kids” to all streaming platforms which received a warm welcome from local audiences and several major U.S. cities. Hotel Fiction’s sound has often been described as genre-fluid, with indie, pop, and rock influences. With Jade’s dynamic vocals and piano and Jessica’s complementing lead guitar and harmonies, the two create a unique experience for listeners.
Friday, May 6, 2022 - Saturday, May 7, 2022
8:00 pm - 12:00 am
Reckless Road & Sweet Melissa Reckless Road & Sweet Melissa
Jack Rabbits
Original Rock Soul Blues Reckless Road & Sweet Melissa are: Melissa Stuto lead vocals Barry Rapp keyboard/vocals Phil Swindle guitar Sammy Buonocore drums/vocals John Piantadosi bass/vocals
Thursday, May 5, 2022 - Friday, May 6, 2022
7:00 pm - 12:00 am
Battles Battles
Jack Rabbits
Battles return this autumn with their fourth album Juice B Crypts on Warp Records to follow their complex, mind-bending predecessors Mirrored, Gloss Drop, Dross Glop and La Di Da Di. Their latest album is a sensory overload of information that throws everything you thought you knew about Battles into flux once again. Battles redefined line-up puts Ian Williams (Keys, Guitar, Electronics) and John Stanier (Drums) at the core of the covertly named Juice B Crypts, which was produced and mixed by Chris Tabron (Trash Talk, Beyonce, Mobb Deep, Ratking). Marrying synthesizer loops, cut-throat drum patterns and cyclical riffs, the album flirts with new technology, questions of authenticity and the technicalities of reinventing the wheel at the eleventh hour. In true Battles form, the pair have encrypted the album with hidden codes and secret languages that only they know. What does the composer of “Taxi”, a semi-modular analog subtractive audio synthesizer, a two cycle gasoline tie drilling machine and a 70’s band with fifteen studio and six live albums have to do with Juice B Crypts? One answer Ian points you to is the concept of ‘medium specificity’ coined by New York art critic Clement Greenberg, which valued artists’ abilities to manipulate mediums based on their materiality. Like painters on the vanguard of modernism, Battles apply their medium of choice: intricate arpegios sequenced on an Elektron Octatrack, mind-altering pitch-shifted chord progressions, sixteen-measure time signatures and twisted clues to do the talking. All to be somewhat expected from the band responsible for boundary-defying songs such as “The Yabba”, “Atlas” and “Ice Cream”. The announcement of Juice B Crypts is timed with the first single “Titanium 2 Step”. Featuring No Wave legend Sal Principato from the iconic ‘80s New York band Liquid Liquid, this first offering is an homage to the city, resembling a lost New York classic. “We loved making this record in our hometown of New York and cannot be more pleased that Sal from Liquid Liquid is on the track,” explains John, “it could not have been more perfect”. While they’ve always been from New York, Juice B Crypts is the first album Battles have written and recorded living there. Influenced by its rhythms, it joins the dots of their lived and unlived experiences there, mapping them out on the LP artwork. This is also envisioned by local artist and friend Andrew Kuo, whose colourful abstract bars and triangle pixels on the album artwork test the limits of 2-D flatness with 3-D manipulations, and create an optical pattern that resembles the way Battles notate, coding phrases and patterns with memorable names. Starting its life as a venerated weight of information and data, Juice B Crypts is the refined and repeated ingestion of human inflections into machine learning. As Battles explore new territory for the first time as a duo, their approach to composition and live performance intends to dismantle the traditional band format. On this album they’ve become featherweight ghosts within the machine, changing direction with ease they leave the listener at the mercy of their instincts. Juice B Crypts is Battles untethered, Ian expands: “It’s about chord progressions, resolutions, returning home. Take that and throw it into a blender of modern electronic tools like glitching devices, or use melodic lines and take them and regurgitate them and pulverise the traditional stuff but at the same time try and retain harmonic relationships while completely smashing them up”. Arriving at around 40 minutes, Juice B Crypts is opened by “Ambulance”, which dives straight into Battles core sound with its meticulously tight guitar loops and maverick levels of instrumental deconstruction and arrangement. “A Loop So Nice…” offers a peculiarly attractive hand up in to “They Played It Twice” featuring New York vocalist Xenia Rubinos, whose vocals resonate on a granular level, liberating the track. Full of surprises, Battles invite Taipei’s psychedelic band Prairie WWWW and Yes vocalist and progressive rock icon Jon Anderson to push vocals through the wire shaped gaps on “Sugar Foot”. As well as hosting a party of vocalists, including Shabazz Palaces and tUnE-yArDs, the album boasts instrumental highpoints, like “Fort Greene Park” and the title track, which emits alternating beams of pitched energy that obfuscate and scramble your thoughts. On album closer “The Last Supper On Shasta (feat. tUnE-yArDs)” a piano plays the synth notes heard at the beginning of the album, reconditioning and corrupting the loop, demonstrating the limitless potential of these metapatterns that run deep through instrumental phrases to lyrics, like those heard in Prairie WWWW’s feature: “no beginning to the story, no end to the time”, which are looped like a tautological code twisting in time.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 - Thursday, May 5, 2022
7:00 pm - 12:00 am
Mephiskapheles Mephiskapheles
Jack Rabbits
Mephiskapheles, the band that helped define third-wave ska, then defied critics by exploring even greater possibilities with its darkly original ska fusion, forges ahead with amazing shows and a new full-length record in the works. Formed in the East Village of New York City in 1991 by a group of punk rockers/artists/ad guys/jazz musicians, Mephiskapheles played its first show on Long Island. From day one, the band began attracting a diverse, dedicated fan base. Sold-out NYC gigs led to tours with the Buzzcocks and GWAR, and hits on the Hawaiian Islands Chart with three singles from the band’s first album, 1994’s God Bless Satan, produced by Bill Laswell. While touring relentlessly, Mephiskapheles followed-up in 1997 with Maximum Perversion, a jazz-influenced work that didn’t take long to be hailed as a classic. A deal in 1999 with Koch Records resulted in the band’s hard-hitting, exploratory third album, Might-Ay White-Ay. The band released the self-titled EP Mephiskapheles in 2015, featuring the single “Satan Stole My Weed,” an instant classic. The Never Born Again EP, released in 2019, brings the band back full circle to its dark and melodic roots. Fronted by lead singer Invidious aka the Nubian Nightmare, along with the hottest rhythm section in New York, and the Horns of Hell, Mephiskapheles spreads its evil seed with an ongoing reissue program, epic shows, and new music to be released this year.