Blowfly Zodiac Blowfly (Weird World Records) blowfly.com By now, we all know how dirty and awesome the world’s first rapper truly is, but here is a succinct and on-point blog regarding this album by Aesop D. from his site Cosmic Hearse (a one-stop shop for incredibly great and obscure music…
County Grind and Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records hook up to discuss each week’s finest new releases in Moving Units. This week, The Fool by Los Angeles indie-rock group Warpaint.”Warpaint’s debut LP, The Fool, has become one of my favorite records of the past few months. All the essentials are here:…
To be clear, this post is equally about the song above and what’s finally going on today. Vote Sumsun at your favorite digital retailer!After so many months of obsessing over Sumsun’s upcoming — or “impending,” given the reverberating prettiness of this guy’s early tracks — album, Samo Milagro, you are…
Among ’90s boy bands, Hanson held the unique distinction of being actual songwriters and musicians. They also held the unique distinction of confusing young men. As they rose to fame in 1997, a common comment was “the girl is pretty cute, if only she was a little older.” The “girl”…
View a slideshow from the concert here.La RouxWith Francis & the Lights and Panic BomberCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleMonday, November 1, 2010Better than: A canceled show.La Roux’s Elly Jackson is a radiant creature, from her soap-white skin, sturdy fingers, elastic legs, and, naturally, her perfectly coifed rust-colored hair. Heartbreak is her…
Good idea: Pairing Ray LaMontagne’s delightful scratch with a lesser-known Bob Dylan gem that gained a new life through its association with “The Dude,” Donny Kerabatsos, and Walter Sobchak. “The Man in Me” is featured in the opening credits of The Big Lebowski, and it arguably is as essential 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, backstage haunts and Disney digs.As the title of this column implies, I’ve prowled quite a few backstage haunts in my time, from the dingiest clubs…
Miami post-punk outfit Astari Nite just premiered a new video for “True Romance” that will send fans of Anton Corbijn’s moody, black-and-white imagery into a blissful state. The clip was created by Artex Productions.For those who need to see frontman Mychael Ghost’s seductive, asymmetrical tendrils up-close, the quartet is set…
Homestretch Comatose EP (self-released) homestretch.com This seven-inch EP’s been out for a while, and it is also available in cassette format from the technologically adept but actual music-sounding savvy kids over at Drugged Conscience Records. The energetic power-violence influenced hardcore punk within will satisfy purists of many genres and give…
Bierbrunnen German Pub427 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort LauderdaleCall 954-462-1008It was a breezy, balmy early autumn day in Fort Lauderdale when I jumped up to the emerald-green bar at Bierbrunnen, a modest, open-air pub hidden in an alley just off the beach and a block away from raging party…
Photographer Alex Markow was on the scene for the second day of Lake Worth’s Halloween Street Scene & Soul Parade festivities. Belly dancing for even the littlest of angels, and a whole lot of homegrown rock. As it turns out, Surfer Blood’s performance would be the first of two on…
View a detailed, 50-photo Moonfest slideshow featuring amazing costumes and performances right here.MoonfestWith a Place to Bury Strangers, Weird Wives, Surfer Blood, the Freakin Hott, the Band in Heaven, a Hunter’s Pace, Woodmen Hall, Bladesong, June Bug & the Reborn Highway, the Clementines, and Under Every Green Tree.500 block of…
It begins with that unmistakable soothing hiss of a record player’s needle dropping onto vinyl and a loop that sounds straight out of a ’70s R&B album. Motor City transplant Mr. Chief’s previously unreleased track “Ironic” certainly has an old-school flavor one can nestle up to. The introspective themes covered by…
Usually, the festivalgoers who get the worst rap are the dreaded (pun intended), stinkin’ hippies. At this moment in South Florida, though, as the First Annual Southern Monster Smash Music Festival approaches, there exists a group that is even more stigmatized than the hippies: the monsters. People of all ages…
The Psycho Daisies 30 Milligrams of Your Love (Resonance Records) psychodaisies.com This album by the Psycho Daisies is the band’s third. It follows a wild opening record for long-gone Dutch label Resonance Records, which signed them in 1991 for Sonicly Speaking. The party continues in this album with the dearly…
West Palm Beach’s Surfer Blood has always done its part to represent what’s really going on in South Florida — good and bad. In the November issue of NYLON (courtesy of Freegums’ Jen Stark), the guys are consulted for a mixtape of Florida bands worth hearing, and among them are…
Along with Cee-Lo and My Chemical Romance, diva-with-an-edge Pink is in on the “take your ubiquitous new song, make a preview of the actual video with the lyrics” thing. “Raise Your Glass” is one of a couple of fresh tracks featured on her Greatest Hits… So Far!!, due out November…
EP3 is a band that takes its name from a position in the cosmos: Eight Planets Past Pluto. To be more specific, the moniker could be Atlanta, Georgia. But based on the futuristic sounds EP3 pumps out, there’s an intergalactic audience being targeted that may or may not have heard…
Earlier this week, County Grind highlighted Vanilla Ice’s list of his top five rappers to get a little closer to what the sound of “Born on Halloween,” the South Florida resident’s new track with Insane Clown Posse’s Violent J, would be like. We had no idea we’d hear the line…
We’ve been silently weeping into our PBRs since we first heard news of next February’s Bruise Cruise. It’s really hard for a 20-something to give up $615 for three days of fun in the Bahamas — even if some amazing bands will be playing in place of a traditional calypso…
Method Man and RedmanWith DJ Immortal, K-Razor & IcueRevolution, Fort LauderdaleWednesday, October 27, 2010 Better than: The last time Method Man and Redman played at Revolution, and they were six hours late. Luckily for Method Man and Redman, they’re two of the most beloved MCs of all time — or…
This weekend, a new music venue, Vibe, opens in Fort Lauderdale on Las Olas Boulevard — right next to YOLO and O Lounge. We spoke to one of the owners, Tim Petrillo, about the space. (We also talked to him about his restaurants — YOLO, Tarpon Bend, and more –…
