Lee, your jaw looks awfully swollen!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, Lee gets wired, but it’s definitely a bringdown.I may be the only person in the history of mankind to ever…
One of the things that we tend to forget with “modern” hip-hop is the sheer amount research that goes into lyrical work. Like anything, there are varying degrees of interest involved in the final output. Orion’s been a busy bee. It’s possible that this young man’s gonna burn himself out,…
Anthony and Zachary DewarWest Palm Beach folk-rockers the Dewars have enjoyed considerable local fanfare (and a few barbs) from the County Grind/Crossfade music news machine during the past few months. But there’s plenty of excitement as the guys are heading out on the road with Surfer Blood and the Drums…
Lulu’s Bait Shack17th S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Ste. 212, Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-463-7425, visit here.Lulu’s is an unadulterated year-round spring-break joint where barely legals sip Technicolor liquor from giant fish bowls and a cover band blasts Blink-182 hits in the background. Photos of bikini-clad, sun-bronzed beach bunnies and New…
Photo by Sayre BermanShakira at BankAtlantic Center, September 25, 2010.Shakira BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise Saturday, September 25, 2010Check out a slideshow from the concert here. Shakira’s last South Florida performance in 2006 meant that fans have had four years, and one successful CD release, to prepare for Saturday night’s concert at…
Photo by Ian WitlenBoynton Beach electro goth act Kill Miss Pretty just dropped one for the dancing zombies this Halloween. The already menacing “Judy Garland” gets some more thuds and post-industrial scrape behind it for the Mozart & Friends remix, now streaming at the group’s YouTube page and lovingly embedded…
Photo by Ian WitlenCocoRosiewith Raffa & Rainerat Revolution, Fort LauderdaleFriday, September 24, 2010Check out a slideshow from the concert here.Better than: A drum circle with a beatboxer, a pianist, a woodwind combo, harp, and images of horses and beach scenes. Wait. Does that even exist?The review: Attending a CocoRosie show…
Photo by Antoine VerglasShakira loves her pop music.Shakira is blessed with a treasure of a larynx and is notorious for her physical appearance — and talents for propelling herself through space to inspire a fervid, “loca” following — but she also digs a lot of different types of music outside…
Photo by Ian WitlenRaffa Jo HarrisRaffa Jo Harris is that Miami-based guitarist/vocalist who’s taught untrained ears that it is in fact cool to “rock a little softer.” The 29-year-old sultry songbird often shares the stage with her partner in crime, Rainer Davies, as Raffa & Rainer, and they’re known for…
Neil YoungWith Allen ToussaintHard Rock Live, HollywoodThursday, September 23, 2010 For musical chameleon Neil Young, a solo show at the Hard Rock would have seemed prime to sample his more subdued side, but in truth, he went mellow only in moderation. Young’s well-documented evolution from rock to rockabilly, folk to…
Glimpses 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, Sumsun.It’s hard to talk about Sumsun without mentioning the redundant “chillwave” or its sister term, “glo-fi.” Sumsun has all…
It goes without saying that the Heartbreakers have been one of the most influential rock ‘n’ roll bands on the whole punk thing. They’re right up there with proto acts like the Velvet Underground, the MC5, the Stooges, and Question Mark & the Mysterians. Whether they considered themselves punks or…
More touring ruined by bad behavior for today: A wild night almost two years ago has finally caught up with R&B singer Lyfe Jennings. Back on October 19, 2008, Jennings reportedly got in a spat with manager/baby mama Joy Bounds, fired a few bullets, and was eventually apprehended by police…
C. StilesRob Van Winkle knows a thing or two about a media blitz. As a matter of fact, there had never been anything like the publicity machine behind Vanilla Ice when he exploded all over America 20 years ago. Compared to that, his recent publicity — in anticipation of his…
Are Fischer and Finn long lost Minnesota twins?Here at County Grind, we have two favorite Minnesotans: The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, and our very own Reed Fischer. The two native Twins fans have been connected previously — mainly because Fischer interviewed Finn prior to their performance in South Florida earlier…
We were ecstatic when we heard that West Palm Beach’s Surfer Blood are slotted as one of the headliners of this year’s CMJ Music Marathon. What better way to get the word out on South Florida’s amazing music scene, than by getting our bands out there on one of “the…
MySpace.comThe Methodaires pack the stage at Churchills.After three years of gigging up and down South Florida’s coast, Fort Lauderdale ska-revivalists the Methodaires have put the final touches on its debut EP. With lead singer Nia Devine belting out choruses Patti LaBelle-style, the group is also known for its crowd-pleasing rocksteady…
When Ryan Alexander handed us a new album from his electro-acoustic outfit Alexander called It’s Not Always Signs, It’s Not Always Wonders, at Respectable Street’s 23rd Anniversary Party on July 31, we were a little taken aback with the news. We hadn’t received any kind of advance warning that a…
via their MySpace pageMost of us remember Stone Temple Pilots as that mid-’90s rock band that loves art school girls and interstate love songs just about as much as they do creeps and vasoline (sic). Their arena rock stylings influenced many a teen to trade in their vans and JNCOs…
Earlier this year, Creed frontman Scott Stapp swung and missed with a Florida Marlins anthem proclaiming that the marine animals would “soar.” After recording a track for the upcoming Santana album recently, the Boca Raton-based singer is back to his “bread and butter,” using a VH1 Storytellers concept for his…
Restless artists are practically like chameleons — changing their style and stance with each new outing to keep their fans guessing. Bowie, Byrne, and Prince are the most obvious examples, but Neil Young ranks as the all-time champ of transformation. He’s so prolific that critics have practically forced themselves to…
Legendary Shack Shakers are not typical Southern-fried fare, no insipid Nashville Muzak served up safe and soft. Think demented Dixieland instead. Imagine vaudevillians, carnies, punks, and Tom Waits producing whiskey-drizzled psychobilly. Bursting with weird flourishes, they trample and resurrect genres with mad glee. While straightforward songs like “No Such Thing”…
