As Summer comes to a wrap, most of us are stressing about the proverbial black cloud hanging over our heads as we prepare to return to school. With things like financial aid approval, loan payments, soaring tuition and book costs, one can really sink into a rotten mood this time…
Consummate Palm Beach County music champion Steve Rullman is taking a stab at the publishing business with a new print publication called Purehoney. The newspaper-style monthly will be an extension of Rullman’s webiste TheHoneycomb.com and his weekly e-mail newsletter of the same name — but with a twist. Rullman is…
In a previous article, we covered a taste of the sour sentiment from fans regarding the release of Rhino Records’ comprehensive Smiths boxed set. In a thread from Rhino’s official Facebook page, a few irate commenters aired their grievances, harsh criticism of the set’s £249.99 price tag. Fans have continued…
What’s up, students? Need some “real world” experience to mix with your pottery classes, beach-combing, and Food Not Bombs meetings? Today, we said farewell to a guy with ice-cold shoes and a serious hatred for the Beatles, Ryan Burk. Now it’s back to square one.Ideally, County Grind is looking for…
Andy Samberg, the star of arguably the best movie ever made, Hot Rod, is turning 33 today. As the leader of comedy/music group the Lonely Island, Samberg’s risen to the top of the charts while singing about creamed jeans, mermaid sex, and letting everyone know that he just had sex…
Sick of the urban wasteland you call home, being old, and summer’s stickiness? Time to book a flight to the pastoral wilderness of Bon Iver’s mind courtesy of his new “Holocene” clip.Essentially, this is the visual equivalent of everything we already understood about Justin Vernon’s soothing missives — why sing…
Richard D. James, best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, said back in the early ’90s, “if you lived to a hundred but you didn’t sleep, it’d be like living to two hundred. Originally, it wasn’t for more time to make music, I just thought sleep was a bit of…
Summer Slaughter TourWith the Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, Darkest Hour, Six Feet Under, Dying Fetus, As Blood Runs Black, Oceano, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Within Ruins, and Powerglove. Revolution, Fort LauderdaleAugust 17, 2011Better than: Autumn Assassination Tour.Metal tours seem to be diversifying themselves these days, as was the case with last night’s…
Babes, booze, and boobs is the latest trifecta of late night fun at the Manor’s brand new night Bittersweet Thursdays. Usually the multi-level dance club is jam-packed with shirtless men, but for one night of the week, the females completely take over. Walking in all I kept thinking was, “Great,…
Those missing the late, great but short-lived Miami act Beings might be cheered to know that at least a third of the trio — and one of the coolest thirds — has already gone on to form a new project. Drummer Betty Monteavaro’s new project is Holly Hunt, also featuring…
Rascal Flatts, like so many of its contemporaries out of the Nashville music machine, is technically a country band but with further-reaching pop sensibilities. This may be, in fact, because the band hails from north of the Mason-Dixon line — Columbus, Ohio, to be exact. This innate Midwesternness comes through…
Boston rock ‘n’ roll lifers Guster mark some 20 years of existence as a band this year. Its career has moved along at a steady clip despite only occasional mainstream attention. That’s not to say Guster lacks pop chops. Actually, for an act that gets lumped into the jam scene…
Music inspired by tints and tones is a pretty obtuse concept, but the Dear Hunter’s latest outing works surprisingly well in practice. Over the course of nine EPs — and an album that samples the best of the batch — the experimental rock act’s founder, lead singer, songwriter, and all-around…
Vinyl hounds will be hard-pressed to pass up the limited edition version of Surfer Blood’s Tarot Classics EP, which will finally meet the public in a wild duel of rock and emotion on October 25.Just put up for pre-order at Insound, the package includes the EP’s four brand-new songs, and…
It’s often a great thing when American musicians get outside of their natural surroundings to create. And when we’re especially lucky, word of collaborations with artists from far-flung lands injects a load of fresh culture into indie-besodden ears.In the case of Tinariwen, there are a lot of factors at play…
Funny what a studio owned by a shoe company (owned by another shoe company) can churn out. Although the output of Matt & Kim, Soulja Boy, and Andrew W.K. hadn’t crossed paths before, Converse Rubber Tracks got ’em all in for an ominously titled song, “I’m a Goner.” Unfortunately, there…
It’s inevitable that when singers leave bands with which they started, anything they do in their solo career will inevitably get compared to those earlier efforts. Rod Stewart may have proved an exception, but we’d wager that even such icons as Mick Jagger, Roger Daltrey, and Sting will always find…
Anti-folk pioneer and half of the Moldy Peaches, Kimya Dawson is releasing her eighth solo album, Thunder Thighs, on October 25. Her child-like singing, funny/abrasive lyrics, and unconventional guitar strumming are adored by the nerdy and the hip. Without Dawson’s unique voice, the soundtrack to 2008’s Juno would’ve been nothing…
After Dawes’ debut album, North Hills, found Americana underground pundits fawning with admiration, the group elevated the anticipation with Nothing Is Wrong, a tellingly titled sophomore set. Showing obvious fondness for the Laurel Canyon crowd — specifically the ’70s sensibilities pervaded by Joni, Jackson, Stephen, David, Graham, and Neil –…
When Gilby Clarke stepped into Izzy Stradlin’s snakeskin shoes in 1991, legions of Guns N’ Roses fans were ready to throw him to the lions. But once he got onstage, with only a couple of days to prepare, in the middle of the infamous and almost never-ending “Use Your Illusion”…
Summer is beginning to wind down, which means bidding adieu to drunken afternoons at the beach and back to reality. But before you trade in the flip-flops for those loafers, our friends over at Duffy’s Sports Grill want you to join them in closing the season with their first Sunday…
Lady Gaga’s latest video for her fourth single, “Yoü and I,” off Born This Way, was set to be released on Thursday via Twitter as Gaga’s 1,000th tweet. However — like most things in the music industry — the video leaked two days early. So in an effort to still…
