If you had to pick one group of fans who should be hand-selected to enjoy the Rapture, wouldn’t it be Parrotheads? Those Hawaiian-shirt wearing, tailgating drunkards can’t join the afterlife fast enough. But Buffett keeps cranking out the albums, over and over and over, a conveyor-belt of chum that seems…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Kevin Popejoy. The common and boyish first name, the seemingly heroic surname: Is there a better moniker than Kevin Popejoy?…
Broward County native Sean Kingston was critically injured early yesterday evening in a Jet-Ski accident near Miami Beach, the Miami Herald first reported yesterday evening. According to authorities, the 21-year-old “Beautiful Girls” singer was riding a Jet-Ski with a female passenger between Palm and Hibiscus Islands near South Beach. Around 6…
A couple weeks back, our look at so-called “frat-rap” here on County Grind, just before Mac Miller’s South Florida performance at America’s Backyard, drew some healthy discussion across the interwebs. Here’s the summary of the back-and-forth across Twitter, Facebook, and in the post’s comment section: Nobody came forward to defend…
This weekend marks the launch of an ongoing dash of a little higher culture to the Revolution/America’s Backyard borg. Green Room, the complex’s intimate venue-within-a-venue, has undergone a mini renovation, and the lounge’s old loft space has been converted into a gallery meant to feature local artists. To celebrate, this…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: Lee attempts to dig the dirt on Dylan I’ve never met Bob Dylan. Never even come close. I’ve seen him live a few times in concert…
Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s seemingly randomly titled song “West Palm Beach” has long been a County Grind fascination. Released in the early ’90s as a one-off single under the “Palace Music” moniker, the sleepy, midtempo song is both specific, and not very much so. The four opening lines of the song…
West Palm Beach 25-year-old singer-songwriter Jamie Rasso has been rising through the ranks locally, with a carefree sound that’s boldly straight-up pop flavored. Intriguingly, Rasso’s summery vibe has won him favor with local musicians from disparate scenes. Swamp-folk act Everymen is a huge fan and so is Jon Glassman, frontman…
You have a very important decision to make this Sunday night before Memorial Day. You could either attend “Respectable Street’s 5th Ever Cheesy ’80s Prom” or “Spring Fling ’90s Homecoming” at the Vagabond. Both events are sure to leave you gooey-eyed and hormonal, so which one to choose?! Duckie on…
Two decades is a long-ass time for anyone to stay interested in the same creative project, even if it has been successful. But this year, Californian punk band Face to Face accomplishes the feat of celebrating a birthday that’s one year away from legal drinking age. Still, the reason that the…
My apologies to Scotty McCreery for all my previous bitching. You’re a sweet kid. You’ve got a fine voice. You’re not really Garth Brooks’ afterbirth. You’ll have a good, long life, if you stay true to God and family and all the other weird ideas that make you feel okay…
Remember Langerado? That little music festival that could suddenly decided it couldn’t anymore after announcing its more-eclectic-than-ever lineup back in 2009 and called it quits. Well, now after a two-year hiatus, it’s back. But you knew that already. Rumors have been swirling regarding the 2011 lineup, but JamBase has confirmed…
South Florida has not exactly been kind to classical radio — hell, we apparently can’t even support a mainstream rock station. After the long-running station WTNI- WTMI-FM went off the air on New Year’s Eve 2001, it was a battle to get the real oldies steadily broadcast throughout the tricounty area. …
The one-man powerhouse born Jeff Baker but known in musical circles as King Django is one of the most influential Americans ever in ska, full stop. In the ’80s and ’90s, he — along with a handful of other figures like Rob “Bucket” Hingley of the label Moon Ska and…
Is this year’s Honda Civic Tour lineup the best ever? The annual late-summer run sponsored by the car company just announced its 2011 artists and dates, and it’s achieved a rare feat — the acts on the bill are massively crowd-pleasing while still enjoying critical acclaim. Headliners this time out…
Those who seek the weird will be immediately drawn to the Dead Kenny G’s — currently on tour supporting Primus and playing a free show at Hurricane Bar on June 5 — simply by virtue of the name. Adding to the allure is their appropriately ridiculous look — they are…
During Memorial Day weekend in South Florida, even if it doesn’t rain, there will be a perfect storm of liquor, music, and dancing from South Beach to downtown Miami and up I-95 to King of Diamonds — not to mention every strip club in between. From all-day festivals at Bicentennial…
Panic! at the Disco — yes, the exclamation mark is back — long ago outgrew the post-emo bombast of the height of the decaydance era of pop rock. Still, the Las Vegas act, helmed from the beginning by pinup-worthy Brandon Urie, has never been successful in fighting its penchant for…
As founder of the iconic futurepop act Icon of Coil, Norwegian sound terrorist Andy LaPlegua showed an early penchant for the darker, harder sounds of the industrial music fringe. However, it was with his current outfit, Combichrist, that he fully realized his caustic musical dreams. Unapologetically eardrum-splitting, brutal, and even…
A native of Richmond, Virginia, and occasional resident of South Florida, singer/songwriter Christian McGee picks up many of the musical threads let out by the millennial neosoul movement. Songs like “Give Me Your Love” hark back to the vintage sexy soul crooning of artists like Teddy Pendergrass. Others, like “Like…
Will Oldham is one of the most gifted avant-garde singer/songwriters of our day, but he remains criminally unheard outside of a tight indie following and a few famous devotees. Johnny Cash was a fan and covered Oldham’s “I See a Darkness” on American III: Solitary Man. Equally enamored of his…
Florida sure screws up a lot of stuff, but here’s one random example of how the state is occasionally responsible for a few wins. And it explains why Phil Collen and his band, Def Leppard, might be super-stoked to play the Cruzan Amphitheatre on June 15. Turns out, our sun-bleached peninsula…
