Saturday’s Y100 Jingle Ball at the BankAtlantic Center was a night of amazing hits, and even more amazing pants — or no pants, in the case of Katy Perry. Photographer Sayre Berman got a load of great shots throughout the night, and the full 41-photo slideshow is here. And her…
National Lampoon Underground Comedy Club & Grill 900 Sunrise Lane, Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-306-2689, or visit here.Bikers, booze, and belly-laughs: a combination you can’t get just anywhere these days. Throw in some sexy local stand-up comics, a huge mural of Animal House, plus plenty of “Red Death” shots — and…
After getting jacked, pushing back the release of long-awaited Detox, mentoring Lakers forward Ron Artest, and slinging headphones that give you Tinnitus after about ten minutes, Dr. Dre just dropped his latest single. “Kush” features Snoop Dogg, Akon, and a deep, stripped-down beat that screams Dre after about two milliseconds…
We’ve been touting the merits of West Palm Beach quintet Surfer Blood for quite some time now, even listing its hook-heavy debut album, Astro Coast, as one of our favorites last year. Well, it comes with great local pride (and some vindication) to share the news that we are not…
I’m happy to announce to our foreign readers that legendary hardcore/thrash/power-violence act Asshole Parade will be making it across the bigger pond and hitting Japan and Australia for some tour action next year as well as playing some West Coast dates. Well-known and respected outside of Florida, these moneymakers for…
Some folks will hem and haw at pop icon Miley Cyrus lifting herb smoke into her lungs from a glass bong, but prudishness is not how County Grind got started. Yes, it could be salvia, according to TMZ, but that’s seems unlikely and irrelevant. The pantheon of pop stars definitely…
The grainy footage and lack of bulging air pockets in the sneakers suggests that New Jersey combo Delicate Steve’s new video for the synth-rock instrumental “Wondervisions” is a compilation of Hoosiers-era pickup basketball. But look closely; these ballers have tattoos. Even if the style of play harks back to Bob…
The $13.2 million the 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service has spent on advertising in the past dozen years has not gone to waste. The Broward-based company — which solicits clients who have been in car accidents and refers them to chiropractors and personal injury lawyers — is popular enough to have more…
fun. With Steel Train and the Postelles Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Wednesday, December 8, 2010 fun. (all lowercase, period at the end) is the brainchild of Nate Ruess, whose distinctive vocals you recognize from the Format. His backing band of Andrew Dost and Steel Train’s Jack Antonoff came onstage Wednesday…
This week marks another enormous explosion of pop music courtesy of the Y100 Jingle Ball at the BankAtlantic Center. We already broke down the lineup, and rated our preferences for the evening. One performer with a local tie is Miami-bred Enrique Iglesias, and Christopher Lopez’ story about the man makes…
By now, news of Jim Morrison’s imminent pardon is making the rounds. Gov. Charlie Crist did his fellow Florida State University attendee a solid and backed the measure, which would lift an indecent-exposure conviction handed down in Miami four decades ago. We did not agree that this was worth the…
Here’s Clarence Reid’s bizarro comedy album, The Butterfly, co-emceed by longtime associate The Butterfly, Milton “Butterball” Smith, who’s sadly no longer with us… but he’s with us on the Tarzan of the Apes routine… seriously, white folks want everything… and now they want to come to Florida and get what…
It’s easy to forget that Enrique Iglesias is essentially a Miami boy. After all, his reach is global. He boasts a decade-and-a-half-long career of musical success in both English and Spanish, racking up chart-toppers (21 number-one songs on Billboard) and accolades in the process. He counts several Grammys, multitudes of…
Even in dire economic and political times, Americans have an enormous amount to be thankful for. But as South Floridians think over all that is good and hopeful this holiday season, there probably won’t be nearly enough gratitude for Rob Van Winkle — the man you know as Vanilla Ice…
Dieselboy’s influence is hard to overstate. After years of making hard-core rave mixtapes — before drum ‘n’ bass even existed as a genre — as a 20-something in Philadelphia in the late ’90s, he started the pioneering weekly d’n’b night Platinum. From there quickly mushroomed an insane career that has…
Joe Bonamassa possibly followed in the footsteps of his blues guitar forefather, Robert Johnson, and made a deal with the devil during the past two years. In a bending, wailing whirlwind, Bonamassa was named 2009 Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards, Eric Clapton…
Originally, the now-extinct 93 Rock, which had a mean “alternative hard rock” edge, was sponsoring this event. When I tuned in to their broadcast, all I heard was really, really bad Christmas music. So admittedly, I was the last to know that Cox Radio (93’s daddy) pulled the plug on…
Epica is not to be taken lightly. Yes, the Dutch symphonic metal band features string instrumentals and choral scores juxtaposed with mad-crazy guitar licks and death grunts. Yes, angel-voiced frontwoman Simone Simmons is fucking hot. Yes, she’s featured prominently (and occasionally somewhat nekkid) on several of Epica’s album covers. But…
Other than perhaps Phil Collins and the business-card industry, no one else benefited more from Mary Harron’s film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel American Psycho than Huey Lewis & the News. We haven’t been able to hear “Hip to Be Square” without imagining Christian Bale decimating Jared Leto with…
Area singer-songwriter Mike Mineo, who notched Best Male Rock Vocalist by this very paper earlier this year, has a new music video showcasing his zany antics. Of course, we already knew about them because of Courtney Hambright’s in-depth piece earlier this year.Here in this video, which stars Mineo’s mother as…
Attention, students with writing skills, the beginning stages of tinnitus, and amorphous schedules: An internship has just opened up with your name on it in the County Grind/New Times Broward-Palm Beach den of music appreciation.Emphasis that you must be in school of some sort (undergrad, grad, post-grad, you pick), so…
As much a I’d like to sit here and polymerize and pontificate, I’ll say this much: I am incredibly grateful that the Methodaires have finally gotten it together and unleashed upon our ears a shiny platter of their offerings!When the third wave of ska went down in this glorious land,…
