LCD SoundsystemMOCA Art Basel Party, the Raleigh Hotel, MiamiDecember 1, 2010Better than: Dancing Yrself Clean, even after rubbing elbows with filthy out-of-towner Baselites. It’s been almost two months since James Murphy and his dance-party pack combusted electro coitus all over the Fillmore Miami Beach. How could the return be quite…
Included in Pitchfork’s Top Music Videos of 2010 was a clip directed by South Florida native Carlos Charlie Perez, whom we wrote about at length earlier this year. Fang Island’s “Daisy” was the number 19 pick here, and it’s among good company.Picks from the Arcade Fire, Flaming Lips, Baths, Grinderman,…
Go ahead, lie. You might manage to persuade a clueless acquaintance or airheaded first date that you’re some kind of enlightened and worldly art lover with an underground bunker stuffed full of priceless avant-garde treasures. But we’re too wise for that line. Face it: You’re broke. So this week, when…
Joe Satriani is a stunning guitar virtuoso. He’s played with rock royalty including Mick Jagger, Deep Purple, and Alice Cooper while also forging his own distinctive style with a fusionesque frenzy. Boldly venturing into more progressive realms, his fiery pyrotechnics have earned him a reputation as one of the most…
Back in March, up-and-coming Boston rapper Sam Adams’ Boston’s Boy EP debuted at number one on the iTunes hip-hop charts. In doing so, the Trinity College soccer captain made DJ “We the Best” Khaled eat his own catch phrase — for a hot minute, anyhow. While the hip-hop dons reel…
With its ghoulish Eddie Munster getups and iconic skull logo, seminal punk-rock act the Misfits makes every day Halloween. The innovators of horror punk come to town at the tail end of their extended 30th anniversary tour. Diehard fans might scoff at the fact this trio is even touring under…
Harry Merry isn’t technically free jazz or elemental jazz in practice. But the Netherlander’s uninhibited, avant-garde approach pairs nicely with any free-flowing and experimental music and shows a creator fully absorbed by his subconscious. Thus, his inclusion in Radio-Active Records’ third Continental Drift music night, which will focus on jazz’s…
The “This Is a Family Tour” is as good a refresher for the Warped Tour as any. The bill’s five bands hail from Ohio, Connecticut, and California. Feisty post-hardcore Attack Attack! is best-known for popularizing “crabcore,” a microgenre in which guitarists squat and hop while churning out hefty breakdowns. Connecticut’s…
Nate Ruess’ songs imply that he’s been dumped a zillion times. The articulate lead singer/songwriter of Fun. — a trio also featuring Andrew Dost of Anathallo and Jack Antonoff of Steel Train, the opening act — details the minutiae of crushes, heartache, and self-doubt in theatrical streams of consciousness. The…
America’s musical landscape changed dramatically when alternative rock reared its greasy head in the ’90s. Record companies gobbled up these bummed-out, grungy bands, and festivals like Lilith Fair and Lollapalooza popped up everywhere to showcase them. Radio stations could hardly flip formats fast enough to capitalize on the new sound…
Nothing says “royal wedding” quite like a new single from Snoop Dogg, especially when it’s his dirtiest song yet — really. Newly engaged Prince William, prone to blushing, probably turned a new hue of reddish-pink when he heard “Wet” for the first time. …
The cover story in this week’s print product chronicles the life of one of Fort Lauderdale’s favorite characters: Mickey Clean, the man who has drawn crayon caricatures of tourists and locals by the beach for the past ten years.Among the many things most people don’t know about Mickey — born…
“Moving Units” has many connotations, including this crappy dance-punk band and selling mad records, but herein is an album that moved Radio-Active Records’ Mike Ramirez and County Grind to have an effusive discussion about it.The Setup:Absolute Dissent, Killing Joke’s 13th album, finally welcomes the long-awaited return of the original lineup…
We’ve all been there: You hear about a great show lineup, but once you look up the venue, it’s at least a half hour away in Miami, and you still have to pay for tickets. Pffft. Well, this time it’s Art Basel week, and we’ve come up with the five…
305-528-2786!Not only did Flo Rida give out his number during his appearance on Chelsea Lately this week; he fully endorsed calling him in the middle of the night. Now this does give Flo fans (and haters) an opportunity to emote to the king of repurposing songs from the mid-’80s for…
Rivaling “Christmas Party,” we applaud the Walkmen’s choice to revamp Lindsey Buckingham’s infectious solo single “Holiday Road” — probably best-known for its nonseasonal association with Chevy Chase. Yes, the track took off with its placement in National Lampoon’s Vacation, and all of its sequels — except Christmas Vacation, interestingly. The…
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, working radio through fear and frustration. Since starting this column earlier this year, I’ve frequently referred to the fact that most of my backstage encounters had…
Following Vanilla Ice’s ode to Halloween (and himself) featuring Insane Clown Posse’s Violent J and knowing his propensity for holiday cheer, which manifests in his December 11 at Feelgoods in West Palm Beach, it’s not a stretch to think he’s in favor of this slightly twisted push to help the…
Now is the time — at least until the next time County Grind pesters you — to speak up. Which releases from this calendar year created by local artists, be they seven-inches, mixtapes, or full-lengths, rose to the top?We already have a carefully guarded stack of opinions that hopefully readers’…
It was all too clear that Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam has a special kinship with South Florida — even if he hadn’t been here for years until his performance earlier this month at the Fillmore Miami Beach. As Tom Francis detailed, the guy who has cultivated an amphitheater-ready audience…
The time for Zitfest, a two-day local avant music bender in mid-December, is drawing near. County Grind even bought one of those advent calendars with chocolate inside each day and ate the entire thing to nudge a few fresh blemishes out of our pores for the occasion. Organized and curated…
Today, the punkest of the punks call Warped Tour a corporate sponsored, lame-o beast that is more of a capitalist venture than a true punk show. But some of us fondly recall many sun-drenched, tatt-filled summer days over the years where the Mohawked, studded, and skate-type punks came together in…
