We have a massive 2009 resolution, and we need your help to geet er dun. In the coming months, we will be working on an ALL-NEW surfthedrift.com. The goal is simple: Make a freaking awesome site that becomes a necessary part of your daily online experience.
How do we do it? By continuing to exploit […]

By Nick McGregor
The Oldest City has attracted scores of heavy hitting bands since the St. Augustine Amphitheatre reopened after renovations in 2007. But nobody thought the St. Johns County Fairgrounds, which underwent its own ‘07 facelift, would also drastically improve the music scene on the First Coast. With the three-day Harvest of Hope Fest […]

By Haley M. Walker
Mike Fretto and the Rosa Loves crew have created a new shirt to bring hope to what can at times seem like a hopeless part of the world.
Rosa Loves released its new design, “Hope Transfusion,” last month in efforts to raise funds needed for a child’s heart surgery in Iraq. Fretto […]

GIRL TALK
FEED THE ANIMALS
Illegal Art, 2008
By Nick McGregor
Have you heard the joke about the biomedical research engineer from Pittsburgh? He walks into a bar one night, finds the thumping club beats bland and uninviting, and decides to create his own cut ‘n’ paste version of dance music from thousands of disparate samples. In […]

By Ant Perrucci
Photos by Rachel Bardin
When Paulette Perhach, our founding editor, wrote a piece on 1980s hair-metal cover band Papercutt for the January 2008 issue, they showed up for the interview in full-on costume, makeup and tight pants and all.
So when members of SumFX 182 – which shares several members with the aforementioned band – […]

Happy New Year, kids. We hope all is well with you. We also hope you’ll recognize the ridiculousness of the January edition, which features our friends SumFX-182, who you may recognize from Papercutt or possibly 32 Ounces to Freedom (there’s a beer joke somewhere in that sentence).
To check out this month’s issue, pick up Drift […]