YOLO, 333 East Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-523-1000, or visit here. Actually, YOLO (“You Only Live Once”), its adjoining bar called the O Lounge, and VIBE are all owned by the same bunch of guys (who must have a thing for capital letters). Despite its name, YOLO is…
Earlier this week, County Grind reported that Everymen washboard player Cowboy is in the hospital receiving treatment after a serious fall. A benefit concert will be held Friday at Propaganda, and the rest of the band has decided to perform in support of their ailing comrade. Viva Le Vox, Bonnie…
Machines deserve some TLC from time to time, especially if they’re the means for creating music that programs our bodies to shake. Extrapolate that thought to the Digital Love Thursday night party series that begins tonight at Green Room in the Revolution/America’s Backyard complex in downtown Fort Lauderdale.Resident DJs Andie…
Young gouda baby. Lil Wayne goes all in for the Green Bay Packers on his remake of Wiz Khalifa’s “Black and Yellow,” which is called “Green and Yellow,” natch. Although he makes it clear that “this ain’t a dis song,” it’s still a magnificent collection of verbiage that Pittsburgh Steelers…
We were very happy to hear that Robert Plant is coming to town with the Band of Joy, his new project, which works gospel and country material as well as Led Zeppelin classics. And we are very happy for Robert Plant for, well, seeming so happy. One peek at his…
Vibe, 301 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-713-7313, or visit here. Vibe is spell-binding. Waitresses, attired in white ensembles that consist of a little fabric and a lot of leg, scampered around with trays of shining beverages. Smooth sculptures of naked female bodies (think of a cross between…
When Rick Ross lumbered onto the national stage in 2006, he was something of a blank slate. Though he was a protégé of EPMD’s Erick Sermon who had signed to venerable Southern labels Suave House and Slip-N-Slide, his story was largely unknown. His debut, Port of Miami, didn’t fill in…
At the dawn of 2011, Jimmy Eat World is one of the few rock bands to blow the hell up out of the early-’90s indie-rock (even, perhaps, the proto-emo) scene without later getting bashed for selling out. The group’s longevity — nearly 18 continuous years as a band, with new…
Most of your American friends don’t know composer Yann Tiersen by name. But play a couple of ten-second clips from songs like the melancholy accordion-and-piano piece “La Dispute” or the waltzy whirlwind lament “J’y Suis Jamais Allé” and your test subject will almost immediately identify him as “that guy who…
Last September, Boynton Beach indie band Your Umbrella performed at Propaganda, the group’s first show at a serious local venue. Frontman/songwriter 22-year-old Daniel Demosthenes, backed by 17-year-old drummer Mike Taylor and 22-year-old bassist Douglas Anderson, presented 11 of the songs that he’s been writing and developing since 2006. A handful…
Norwegian composer Leif Inge has taken a recording of Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony” and stretched it out to 24 hours — about 24 times its normal length — and without changing the pitch. The daylong result came out on two DVDs last year from the Table of the Elements label, that…
It’s not surprising that the majority of offerings in Yonder Mountain String Band’s recorded catalog are culled from live performances. A foremost proponent of the so-called “new grass” phenomenon (think the Dead or Phish), the band couples guitars with banjos, bouzouki, and mandolins to spur the communal enthusiasm. Investigate YMSB’s…
For a practitioner of a style as young, relevant, and underground as dubstep, Vaski (AKA Alex Brouwer) was introduced to electronic music via an unusual everyday source. Brouwer’s father — a house and trance enthusiast — both turned him on to synthesized music and bought him Sony Acid Pro 2.0,…
Experiencing Pitchfork’s ultimate fringe music site Altered Zones mirrors much of the music discussed on the site. It’s disorienting, precious, youthful, and insidery. There’s a slight temptation to grumble the way Andy Rooney does on 60 Minutes (“Does anyone even play piano anymore if it isn’t out in the middle…
We should have seen it coming; the clues were all there. The White Stripes breakup was looming and imminent. When Jack White joined the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather and started lending his talents to Beck, Alicia Keys, and Wanda Jackson, we wondered how he was going to find time…
Karaoke is like candy. It’s a guilty pleasure that’s relatively harmless — unless you go sing “My Way” in the Philippines. The loud backing tracks and onscreen lyrics, wiped clean of any explicit content, have become a ritual for the overworked and underpaid. While karaoke used to be limited in…
Let’s get acquainted with Royal Bangs. Not just a great name for a hair salon, this fuzz-rock trio from Knoxville, Tennessee, is coming down to South Florida for gigs at the Vagabond in Miami on February 18 and at Respectable Street on February 19. Given the level of crunchy, fierce…
For all of the bickering that goes on in South Florida, a lot of local musicians unwittingly say the same things as many of their contemporaries. Regardless of the style of music a person plays, for example, a prevailing theme in conversation is, “We’re not all like Rick Ross down…
Deftones fans in South Florida get an unusual treat this spring: the second visit by the band to the tricounty area in less than six months, after a previous multiple-year absence. (Before last August’s show at the Fillmore Miami Beach, the band had last visited the area during the 2006…
Hey, anonymous lurkers and proud County Grind readers, we want a lot more of your input. A lot. Here’s a great opportunity to prove how superior your opinion is in several categories relating to our local music scene. Remember the adage that “this is not a popularity contest”? Well, this…
Does anyone love Rush more than the bromantic comedy I Love You, Man’s main characters Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) and Sydney Fife (Jason Segel)? In a new Funny or Die sketch, the pair reprise their roles and dare to bite into Neil Peart’s hallowed sandwich in the band’s green room…
Cast your vote in the comments field below for the best music venue in Broward and Palm Beach counties. The poll ends May 15. Your votes will appear in our New Times Best of Broward-Palm Beach edition June 16. Click here for a full list of Readers’ Poll categories. Follow…
