Secondhand Serenade Brings a Little Acoustic Love to the Culture Room

Secondhand Serenade brings to mind wearing a recycled engagement ring or dating someone who has past lovers’ names tattooed on them. It can be an awkward and potentially dangerous thing. In the case of this California group’s soft, acoustic repackaging of alternative emo rock, it comes completely naturally. Singer/guitarist John…

Summer Slaughter Tour Rolls Into Revolution With Murderous Intent

There’s nothing as invigorating as getting fully immersed in a sea of blood and thrashing bodies to get rid of a “case of the Mondays,” and that’s exactly what the extensive metal bill on the Summer Slaughter Tour promises. Well, maybe not the blood, but definitely the thrashing bodies. Headliners…

Tonight! Unter Null and Cyanotic Industrialize Respectable Street

Unter Null has been Portland, Oregon, resident Erica Dunham’s industrial-music baby since 1998. With elements of punk rock, IDM, metal, and electronica, she’s managed to stay relevant with theatrics that set her apart from her peers. It also helps that the band that backs her live manages to reproduce her…

Unter Null and Cyanotic Industrialize Respectables

Unter Null has been Portland, Oregon, resident Erica Dunham’s industrial-music baby since 1998. With elements of punk rock, IDM, metal, and electronica, she’s managed to stay relevant with theatrics that set her apart from her peers. It also helps that the band that backs her live manages to reproduce her…

RIP Norm “Sugarbone” Sloan, 1948-2010

Norm “Sugarbone” Sloan was an outstanding bass player and a true gentleman of our music scene. Transplanted to South Florida in 1969, “Sugarbone” quickly immersed himself into our then-burgeoning music scene. Well-versed in playing blues, country, standards, Top 40, R&B, classic rock, and jazz-rock fusion in the bar scene, Sloan…

MP3 of the Day: Remembering Never – “Time Eraser”

Remembering Never is a five-piece hardcore/metal band that’s been making a racket in Fort Lauderdale now for a number of years with the requisite personnel issues and stop-and-go schedules, but I’m happy to report that they are gearing for an upcoming album and this MP3 is solid proof that nothing’s…

Concert Review: Earth, Wind and Fire at Hard Rock Live, June 27

Earth, Wind and FireHard Rock Live, HollywoodSunday, June 27, 2010 Better than: Subjecting myself to YouTube videos of questionable funnies. The Review: My last experience on Casino lands involved an hour-long hunt for parking and once said parking was located, a very long walk to my destination on their restaurant/bar/club…

Black Sun Alchemy Decants Precious Metals at the Monterey

Fort Lauderdale’s Black Sun Alchemy takes its cues from Werner Herzog films and delivers desperate screams of neo-power-violence over straight vocal cadence. Plus, the requisite juxtapositions of Bush administration follies as detailed in the video for “Into the Storm.” It’s easy to get a strong feel for Satan’s Pimp Records-era…

Seven Questions With Earth, Wind & Fire’s Verdine White

Since its formation in 1969, Earth, Wind and Fire has been a gleaming bastion of positivity and artistry. Enduring through major changes of musical tastes du jour, political landscapes and a fan base that has evolved with them, Earth, Wind and Fire continue on a four-decade path in which they…

Tonight! Texas Hippie Coalition Brings a Little THC to Revolution

Texas Hippie Coalition’s moniker shortened to an acronym is THC, which is cute and makes sense with hippies. However, these fellas are darlings of major “biker” events and cruise with brute-leather know-how and a rather unhippie musical mentality. The only real tie with the hippie tag: the massive amounts of…

Six Questions with Shroud Eater’s Janette Valentine

Truth be told, I came upon this heavy trio on a chance encounter at Churchill’s one night. Ms. Valentine was an engaging young lady who represented in one quick conversation everything that I happen to like about heavy music. She also runs her own photography studio (Terribly Girly) which I…

Black Sun Alchemy Decants Precious Metals at the Monterey

Fort Lauderdale’s Black Sun Alchemy takes its cues from Werner Herzog films and delivers desperate screams of neo-power-violence over straight vocal cadence. Plus, the requisite juxtapositions of Bush administration follies as detailed in the video for “Into the Storm.” It’s easy to get a strong feel for Satan’s Pimp Records-era…

Texas Hippie Coalition Brings a Little THC to Revolution

Texas Hippie Coalition’s moniker shortened to an acronym is THC, which is cute and makes sense with hippies. However, these fellas are darlings of major “biker” events and cruise with brute-leather know-how and a rather unhippie musical mentality. The only real tie with the hippie tag: the massive amounts of…

Tonight! DJ Deekline Brings Breakbeat to Respectable Street

The electro-savvy Briton DJ Deekline’s international following pulls his bass-heavy, hard-core jungle rhythms back and forth over the Atlantic. His breakbeat prowess was even put to work to remix Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s biggest hit, “Got Your Money,” featuring Kelis.Deekline is a delight live when he gets that sweet vibe going,…

MP3 of the Day: Evan Rowe/Catalonia

Evan Rowe again makes good on his promise that musical formats as we know them are dead with another “burst” of a track that is as much music as it is his idea of what images should be made an association with. Keeping in the same vein of the last…

Local Motion: Glocca Morra and The Illustrated

We here who grind away in the County Grind like to respect and promote our local efforts. In today’s Local Motion, we look at a pair of releases by Boca Raton’s Livid Records, a fine compendium of local and out-of-state acts that is rapidly becoming one of the “friendliest” independent…

The Crests Celebrate Johnny Maestro at Coconut Creek

Interracial R&B group the Crests charted many doo-wop hits, including “16 Candles,” during its heyday in the ’50s and ’60s. After a late-’70s breakup, the rotating cast of members found a new following thanks to the John Hughes film named after their hit, as well as a cover of the…

DJ Deekline brings breakbeat to Respectable Street

The electro-savvy Briton DJ Deekline’s international following pulls his bass-heavy, hard-core jungle rhythms back and forth over the Atlantic. His breakbeat prowess was even put to work to remix Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s biggest hit, “Got Your Money,” featuring Kelis. Deekline is a delight live when he gets that sweet vibe…