The local allure of next year’s Bruise Cruise Festival increases significantly with the addition of Miami’s Jacuzzi Boys! This is quite a score for the fest, given the band’s sunny garage-rock melodies and getting local musicians onto the boat departing from an area port. Will there ever be a better…
via their MySpace pageChris CarrabbaHearing Dashboard Confessional or anything in association with Chris Carrabba gives us intense flashbacks. We’d go to local shows to catch Carrabba and company making us swoon while he “screamed infidelities” — a right of passage for most girls in high school in the early 2000s…
Trying to describe a band to someone who’s never heard it usually requires a reference to more than one other combo. Here are five songs that not only share sonic similarities with the perverse party rock of Electric Six — featured heavily in this week’s issue and playing tonight at…
Photo by Allen MalschickL to R: Maurice Gibb, Roger Daltrey, Tim Rice, Robin Gibb, Barry Gibb taken at the opening-night performance of Chess at the Jackie Gleason Theater.Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs…
There’s no doubt that ¡MAYDAY! has been hustling pretty hard these days. Not the sort of rap supergroup content to just jam with a pre-incarcerated Lil Wayne, the guys do it all while rocking some of the freshest Dolphins gear in the history of fresh Dolphins gear. Our discerning sister…
Photo by Monica McGivernNow four years in, Stitch Rock has grown into an institution for local cupcakes, crafts, and smiles. Held at Delray Beach’s Old School Square on Saturday, many inked-up artists and participants gathered to compare indie wares. Organizer and New Times cover subject Amanda Linton was on hand…
Facebook.comExcitement abounds for a new song from Miami power-pop outfit Plains. “Team Radio” has all the fuzz and swagger of umpteen bands who use “Super” as a prefix, and it remains to be heard how loud they play it live — “paint-peeling” would be satisfactory. Night Drive Miami debuted the…
Photo by Ian WitlenMayer Hawthorne & The CountyMayer Hawthorne & the Countywith Gordon VoidwellAt Culture Room, Fort LauderdaleSunday, October 3, 2010Check out a slideshow from the concert here.Better than: A Southern down-home BBQ hootenanny. The Review:Something about soul music infused with R&B and hints at 1970s disco funk promised at…
Photo by Sarah PenelloPhantogramWith EntresolThe Electric Pickle, MiamiSaturday, October 2, 2010Buzz-band Phantogram played the Electric Pickle’s back porch on Saturday night and lived up to the hype. It was a night of samples and layers, laptops and mixers — a more dynamic and sonically interesting show than expected with so…
RushCruzan Amphitheatre, West Palm BeachSaturday, October 2, 2010Rush completed the North American leg of its “Time Machine” tour in West Palm Beach on Saturday on a stage that seemed to unite the past, present, and future for all participants at this venue. The creative antique stage design — complete with…
Photo by Alisa B. CherryCrosby, Stills & NashHard Rock Live, HollywoodFriday, October 1, 2010Crosby, Stills & Nash made a return visit to Hard Rock Live a mere six months or so after their previous appearance. At last count, they’ve visited South Florida no fewer than four times in the past…
Photo by Micah BairdMichigan crooner/producer Mayer Hawthorne got in R&B and soul fans’ good graces a couple of years ago with “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out,” a throwback slice of heartbreak off his debut, A Strange Arrangement. Choosy hip-hop imprint Stones Throw pairs well with a guy who isolates smoky…
Hey, artists… If you are anything like us writers, you are big on procrastination. And you’re waiting until that very last minute before the deadline to send in your application for the MasterMind awards. You know, the contest in which New Times is giving away $1,000 apiece to four local…
via their MySpace pageHelen Folasade Adu — better-known as Sade — is a woman who just refuses to age. Now 51, she’s still smokin’ hot and still singin’ about what she knows best: Gettin’ it on. She’s been doing this for so long, we wouldn’t doubt it if someone told…
Photo by Dante DasaroRecent Detroit-to-Florida transplant Chief, who was featured in Alex Rendon’s recent piece on Footwork4Self Records’ local rise, has a new song circulating featuring a rhymer from his past locale (Guilty Simpson) and his current one (Mayday’s Wrekonize). The MP3 of “Can’t Stand It,” a smoothed-out track with…
via their MySpace pageYou know we just had to say this: Wake up, wake up, wake up. It’s the first of the month. Get up, get up, get up. So cash your checks and get up. We love us some Bone Thugs-N-Harmony over here at County Grind, and ever since…
The early recordings of singer-songwriter Dar Williams transport the listener to a New England coffeehouse — the setting in which her songs came to life in the early ’90s. The topical narratives’ insights make every word essential. Over the course of Williams’ career since then, a flower garden has grown…
Facebook.comWidespread PanicFillmore Miami, Miami BeachSeptember 30, 2010There are only a few times a year when a conglomerate of dreaded hippies gather in Miami and that is probably during the Bob Marley-inspired Caribbean festival and the rare occasion that a jam band makes its way down to our out-of-the-way diminutive paradise…
Stephanie Rae Berzon of Nozreb.comGlimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Coral Springs’ Millionyoung.A proper interview with Millionyoung’s Mike Diaz is long overdue. Since getting his…
Neil Young with producer Daniel Lanois and his LincVolt.The roll call of automobile innovators includes any number of familiar names — Henry Ford, Walter Chrysler, John and Horace Dodge, David Buick, Neil Young… Neil Young? Well, yes, actually. On his current tour, the venerable rocker has branched out beyond his…
“We started the band a long, long time ago — maybe like, I wanna say, 20 years ago — and I think we perfected our sound maybe two years into that process. So the last 18 years have really been the downward trajectory.” That’s Electric Six’s Dick Valentine during one…
Poster created by Iron Forge PressFrancesco LoCastro’s Widespread Panic print is intense!Fort Lauderdale-based Iron Forge Press creates some of the most eye-popping rock posters we’ve ever seen. Whenever possible, we’ll share their designs right here on County Grind.As is, it’s exciting enough to see the new works spinning out of…
