“California, look what you’ve done to me,” Billy Corgan sings on “Owata,” a new song from the forthcoming Teargarden by Kaleidyscope. If you’re curious about what the title means, get to the first chorus of this upbeat acoustic guitar and synthesizer number.As for what the Golden State has done to…
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 literally goes off the wall. Autographs are strange commodities. In procuring someone’s signature, you feel like you’ve captured something so intimate and unique that it…
Montgomery Drive Life on a Seesaw (Self-released) montgomerydrive.com Montgomery Drive is Marshall Rones and living on a seesaw is presented as seven heartfelt acoustic ditties that in earnest open windows into the frail psyche of this singer/songwriter. I do not know Mr. Rones but I suspect that he’s grown up…
It’s beyond exciting that the SW 3rd Ave Music Festival is this week! Friday, to be exact. We have just received finalized set-time information for all of the stages, including our own New Times-curated event at the Green Room.One key bit of information: IT STARTS EARLY. Doors open at 5…
Today, in the media blitz following reports that U.S. forces shot bin Laden dead while raiding a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, (also the same day Adolf Hitler’s death was announced in 1945) there’s a soundtrack developing to accompany the elation currently felt by many Americans. One unifying “song” in the…
Tonight marks the local unveiling of Cop City/Chill Pillars’ latest exploration into “the center of the center” and other unimaginable locales. Propaganda is hosting a release party for the Lake Worth psychedelic punk trio’s latest, Held Hostage on Planet Chill, and it’s likely that an assortment of area musicians will…
SunFest Day 5:West Palm Beach WaterfrontSunday, May 1, 2011Better Than: Watching the Celtics lose to the Heat. OK, not entirely, but you catch my drift. Sure, there was dank in the air, but Sunday was all about the dancing room as SunFest came to a blissful close.As we all melted…
The wedding guests are packed shoulder to shoulder waiting for the bride to appear. “Harry looks so cute!” one woman gushes over the best man, the groom’s brother. She’s fiddling with the large brim of her straw hat, trying to keep it from getting jostled off her head in the…
SunFest Day 4: MGMT and StyxWest Palm Beach WaterfrontSaturday, April 30, 2011Better than: Your average Saturday in the park.Throughout Saturday’s portion of SunFest, an abundance of music festival types wandered the grounds, aimlessly searching for party beads, another beer, or possibly their shirts — a large portion of the men…
SunFest Day 3: Gregg Allman West Palm Beach WaterfrontFriday, April 29, 2011 Friday at SunFest wrapped up with a mellow set from the legendary Allman Brothers frontman Gregg Allman. The weather was cloudy and rather cool compared to the heat of the day, and the music matched. Allman seemed a…
InterpolWith School of Seven BellsThe Fillmore Miami BeachFriday, April 29, 2011Better than: Taking a love potion.The review:Much like a first date, Paul Banks was shy early in Interpol’s set Friday. He loosened up quite a bit after the first couple of songs were played. By midset, he was courting us…
My bottom-three predictions were way the hell off last night, because last night there was no bottom three. Apparently, when there are only six people left, dividing the contestants in half seems uncouth — and makes it too, too easy to predict who’s gonna be left standing in five weeks.We…
The delightful music festival on the high seas that was the subject of a New Times cover story earlier this year has returned! The second Bruise Cruise Festival sails February 10-13 next year from the Port of Miami to the Bahamas and back, and this time 520 bruisers are invited…
In a surprising move, Lil Daggers have parted ways with our good friends over at Livid Records, America’s friendliest indie label. Although some might argue that Livid does not have the means to support the Daggers to the next step of indie superstardom, some will say that they were a…
It goes without saying that Nardwuar the Human Serviette is the best celebrity interviewer of all time. Drake knows this, so he decided to go long for a fellow Canadian and got this prime chat set up with Lil Wayne. As Passion of the Weiss points out, Weezy “may be…
County Grind readers already know that Atlanta psyche-punk outfit Carnivores will perform tonight at Propaganda, but we’d like to offer up three compelling words why they should consider making the drive to Lake Worth’s J Street a wee bit early this evening: Space Between Words. Made up of former high…
Outkast’s Big Boi and Andre 3000 haven’t parted ways, but, as evidenced by Big Boi’s solo album and their complete separation from each other on their own CDs, they don’t want to spend too much time together. Plus, as Big Boi revealed on his Twitter, he has started seeing other…
SunFest Day 2Cee Lo Green and Jason MrazWest Palm Beach WaterfrontThursday, April 28, 2011View a slideshow from SunFest Day 2 here.Better than: A grueling hourlong drive from Miami.I popped my SunFest cherry with a power duo of headliners I’ve loved for a long time but never seen live. I’m an…
Not owning the Carnivores’ material is harder than owning it. The Atlanta quartet made it abundantly easy to stock up on its claustrophobic melodies by offering the four-song Chandelier EP via Bandcamp or a Mediafire link.If the title track’s speedy R&B bass line and guitar stabs are a little too…
Last night was a sad one on American Idol, not least of all because the Sun-Sentinel’s television critic, Tom Jicha, was for once justified in his moony adoration of metalhead James Durbin.It was Carole King night on Idol, which, perhaps counterintuitively, is an ideal night for a metalhead to show…
Dreams came true for boy-band fanatics at the 2010 American Music Awards when members of New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys joined forces onstage introducing themselves at NKOTBSB. Following their debut performance, the guys announced they’d be working on a collaborative album as well as heading out on…
With DJ EsotericCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleWednesday, April 27, 2011Better than: Seeing Daft Punk in concert.Witnessing Ghostland Observatory live is comparable to trying heroin for the first time. You feel each beat vibrate through your body. You become mesmerized by frontman Aaron Kyle Behrens’ moves. And when the show is over,…
