It is with a heavy heart and a vastly underrepresented listing of aural horrors that we come to an end with this list. While our peers over at the LA Weekly blog, West Coast Sound had themselves an easy mark crowning the Dave Matthews Band as the king and queen…
The fun continues on this third installment of the Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, and by now you should be fully aware of just how scientific our approach and methods are on these digital pages. Paired with our impeccable pedigree as South Florida’s end-all/be-all of music, you know…
Here at the Grind, we continue having fun at the expense of your beloved musicians and blatantly ride the coattails of our peers over on the West Coast. Do we care? Hell no! We aim to get a chuckle and maybe a catty comment below comparing us to the much-maligned…
We’re not entirely sure what scientific methods our savvy colleagues over at our sister paper LA Weekly’s West Coast Sound blog used to constitute the absolutely worst 20 bands of all time. But aside from clearly cribbing their steez to generate some dialogue over on our coast, we’ve added to this already impressive collection,…
It’s hard to believe that Justin Bieber has been famous for only less than four years. It seems like he’s always been around, a bizarre, quirky Canadian time-and-space-continuum oddity that has ingrained itself firmly into our consciousness and into the fantasies of many a tween, much to the chagrin of…
Tito Puente Jr., son of legendary Latin musician Tito “El Rey” Puente, continues to forge forward down a path his late father laid for many to follow. Comparisons are unfair, as both men are individually recognizable in sound and way different in looks. While the father’s instantly soul-caressing full set of…
With our recent acquisition of a magic crystal ball, our blogging here at County Grind has taken a decidedly fantastical turn! We’ve also made a number of astonishing other discoveries lately. It was revealed that we have a disproportionate number of musician friends who ply their trades in kitchens, restaurants,…
Michael Davis (06/05/1943 – 02/17/2012) After replacing Pat Burrows in 1964 to become the bass player for legendary and über-influential proto-punk act the MC5, Michael Davis would run a career’s gamut that took him to another bastion of underground influence. This included Destroy All Monsters (of which member, artist Mike Kelley passed…
[jump] 01. Madonna Seriously. The Catholics don’t want her. The Brits don’t want her. The Jews don’t want her. The only people left on the world who want her are the queers. What could be better than a fabulous gay-organized Irish funeral throughout the streets of some random major city?…
Last week we brought you some choice musical and drinking options for this upcoming romantic debacle known as “Valentine’s Day.” Not only do we share in your feelings of anxiety, depression and possible contemplation of suicide, we fully understand and appreciate how this day of all days can act similarly to…
We’ve been accused of a lot of things here at the Grind. We’ve been accused of loving Lil Wayne too much, worrying excessively about dance crazes nobody has ever heard of or cares about, celebrating birthdays of musicians who don’t know we’re alive… in short, grievances have been made against…
One of the biggest blows to the musical community (hip-hop in particular), was the tragic passing of J Dilla back on February 10th, 2006. Cardiac arrest stemming from his lifelong battle with the rare blood disease thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) also known as Moschcowitz Syndrome and lupus was the cause…
He is their Lebowski Rug. He is their raison d’être, their drive, their focusing stone. Regardless of whichever way you’d like to look at it, there’s no simple way Sonic Youth would be Sonic Youth if it hadn’t been for the matched virtuosity of Ranaldo and Moore’s guitars…
Of the many legendary acts surrounding the formation and cementation of South Florida’s punk rock scene, The Reactions hold a special place the hearts of many. This includes those involved at that time, over the years, and from the fledgling collections of some rather hardcore record collectors. Could it be their…
Black Cobra Invernal (Southern Lord Recordings) blackcobra.net Say what you will, but South Florida loves all of its children, whether they live here or not. I can’t think of a better example of this at the moment than the almighty duo of Black Cobra. And that’s not just because album…
Ah! The Holidays are upon us, again, and nothing makes me feel more at ease during this hectic season than cheery songs full of goodwill messages and warm, huggy feelings! It’s true! Nothing makes the Holidays better than traditional songs sung around the fire in the company of family and…
We all know E. Grizzly’s work locally with AlukarD and from numerous ciphers and hip-hop jams around town. What we have here is a fully realized, 13-track album of pure alternative hip-hop goodness titled Helldoesnotexistasweknowit bizzaro mix vol. 0. But let’s talk about the bases first; let’s talk about New…
Evan Rifas has quietly become one of South Florida’s greatest lyricists and perhaps her hardest working musician. With that in mind, I’m delighted to present his latest offering to the local musical landscape with this first video release for Weaving Through the Old World. Part busking, part travelogue, part street…
The Beltones Cheap Trinkets (TKO Records) beltones.com Last year in September, we had the opportunity to revisit one of my favorite local platters from the ’90s, the Beltones’ Lock and Load seven-inch on the sorely missed Far Out Records. It was, as it usually is within these pages, a great…
Foul-mouthed instigator Kenny Millions couldn’t give a hootenanny of fisty flying fucks if you’re into his version of shit and/or jazz and/or noise and/or art and/or life. He is 5,000 years old. He’s recorded more than 60 albums. His sound comes from the ether seconds before creation. He is an…
Jackie Ransom/Luster and Beta Evers Secrets of the World (Zero Hour/Doom & Glamour) zerohour.com.au Aside from being one of the sweetest people around, Jackie Ransom is one local we can be proud of. This seven-inch split with Luster and Beta Evers is proof-positive of vinyl’s superiority as “the” music format…
Paul Simon’s been one of those rare artists who has managed to travel the seas of time unscathed and making worthy contributions to the world’s culture. But he will always be better-known for his work with Art Garfunkel and the seminal generation-defining hits they dropped during that time, like “The…
