Remixes are aplenty for the holiday season. Sort of like an early holiday present that has already been regifted, rarely do the reworking resonate as much as the original — until now. Throw the bird (not Birdman) on a sagging track, and it’s bound to get better. Now let’s get…
The pop culture represented at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade spans a weird gamut. According to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade website, the giant balloons this year represent Diary of a Wimpy Kid (very current), a Smurf (The Smurfs, a film, is set for release around August 2011 – promotion!),…
The Methodaires are such a refreshing welcome to the South Florida musical landscape, we almost wish they’d perform with a little more frequency. But in lieu of saturating the local airwaves with their infectious reggae-ska, we’ll take the occasional gigs when they occur. Now everybody knows that this coming weekend…
Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carrabba has done his fair share of wooing behind his guitar. Lauded as one of the poster boys of the emo indie-rock movement, he’s challenged other competitors to be just as charming and sincere with their lyrics as he is — and they’ve all failed in…
We here at County Grind don’t usually get involved with people’s personal business. That is, unless it involves us somehow. And, these days, if something involves LeBron James, it involves us; because the Dolphins suck, and if the Heat don’t take over the world, we’re all going to just shit…
With Arcade Fire busy filming music videos alongside Spike Jonze and puddle-jumping to promote their latest The Suburbs, you might be getting an itch craving Canada’s finest. Meanwhile, homegrown John Legend and the Roots have just finished collaborating on a their recently released Wake Up!, a collection of 12 covers…
Fort Lauderdale/Miami punk act the New is now Ocean Front Records’ newest signee. The Long Island-based label’s CEO Ray Los tracked down the quartet after hearing them on a local radio station, and the former subsidiary of Motown is now branching out for the spry, spunky New sound.New Times (yes,…
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: Catching concerts in all kinds of places In 2010, South Florida boasts an abundance of clubs and venues that host live music. However, that wasn’t…
South Florida bedrooms are turning to nurseries come April 2012, because Sade has confirmed a 2011 summer date at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. County Grind already suggested a bunch of appropriate baby names for the tykes inevitably conceived after a rapturous evening with the peerless soul goddess setting the…
The beginning of Sufjan Stevens’ “Too Much” video features him rolling around in a bunch of colorful garbage — and it’s hard not to see this as a direct allusion to the music on his latest album, The Age of Adz. (That z does the trick.) Long known for his…
It’s now been one year since Rob Stannard and company first hit the ignition on the Monterey Club. To celebrate, they shifted into high gear and threw a heck of a party that brought together several of the elements that have given the Monterey its distinct character over the past…
IrationWith the Movement and the GreenCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleFriday, November 19, 2010 “This ain’t no funky reggae party.” So said the late Bradley Nowell, pioneer of the SoCal sound that has been carried on by bands like Slightly Stoopid, Pepper, and a plethora of other beer-slugging, white-boy Jah lovers like…
Kid Rock has established his place in American rock music pretty firmly. Since his 1999 multiplatinum album Devil Without a Cause, he’s been dropping hit after hit. He does so well because he gives people exactly what they want. You kind of like rap, but you like rock more? Kid’s…
Tonight, Bauhaus and Love and Rockets alum David J visits, performs and enshrouds Radio-Active Records and the Monterey Club here in Fort Lauderdale. Those tight black clothes are a very good start, but get a further refresher on the guy right here.As detailed at the Radio-Active blog, Mr. J will…
Talented Miami rap duo Ghost Arm upped another couple songs to its Facebook page that would sound hot popping off of some wax, especially “Relocative Frequencies.” This particular track features production by Roberto Pagano, and continues the duality within the group that relies equally on vintage soul samples (in this…
Spike Jonze is one of the finest music video directors because he illuminates an artist’s existing message the way a gushing fan might, but with the technical skill and seasoning to make it breathtaking. “But by the time the first bombs fell/ We were already bored” is a heavy couplet…
In the mid-’90s, just after Kurt Cobain’s death and when bands like Green Day and the Offspring saturated the radio, punk-rock fans saw a lot of their heroes defect to the dark side. Punk is more than just a style of music; it’s about having the freedom to say and…
Fort Lauderdale’s taking back Sunday with a new monthly indie dance event even Steven Spielberg can get down for, Jams the Party. There might be fewer regulars watching football this weekend at McSorley’s Beach Pub because the Dolphins played Thursday night, but we can already picture the heightened interactions at…
Iron & WineFillmore Miami Beach, MiamiThursday, November 18, 2010Better than: Just iron or just wine or Badly Drawn Boy. Midway through a raucous (for him) show at the Fillmore last night, Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam mused over how little South Florida had changed in the five years since he…
T.I. and Tiger Woods are two men who recently had their lives royally screwed up at the point where fame, hubris, and the laws of society intersect. And boy, are they both apologetic today. Tip took to his personal blog, and Woods penned an essay appearing in Newsweek titled “How…
Buffalo hard-rock-gone-soft act the Goo Goo Dolls will perform at halftime of the Orange Bowl this upcoming January 3 at Sun Life Stadium — only about 17 years too late. Back in the early ’90s, when the band was a rising scuzz-punk act frequently compared to the Replacements with songs…
Never thought County Grind would sound so much like Alex P. Keaton in these pages, but here’s a rail against the “counterculture” supporters in the New York Times’ latest piece discussing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s support of pardoning Jim Morrison. Writer David Itzkoff unravels the issue beyond its basic talking…
