Lil Daggers King Corpse 7″ (Livid Records) www.lividrecords.com King corpse? Exquisite corpse? Rotting corpse? It don’t matter… how much damage can a Lil Dagger cause? Leave it to the forensic guys, but on a more rock and roll tip, this blunt blade of fuzzy guitar cuts deep. These guys embody…
Poster created by Iron Forge PressFort 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.View a huge version of the poster here.Album anniversary tours are often like a subtle apology for falling off…
The hat that started it all.Adam Lambert is already in South Florida before his sold-out Sunday performance at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood — and he’s already getting in trouble. Knowing that the guy is a controversy magnet from the review of his Houston performance last week, it’s not surprising…
MySpace.comProtoman is waiting by the phone.Always wanted to be part of one of those crackling phone-call moments in the heart of a hip-hop album? Local rapper Protoman wants your voice on his new collaboration with DJ Rob Riggs, I’m Very Proud of My Accomplishments: Part 2. The mixtape is set…
Listen up, Florida Senators George LeMieux and Bill Nelson.”I am here to be a voice for my generation, not the generation of the senators who are voting, but for the youth of this country — the generation that is affected by this law and whose children will be affected,” Lady…
The Blue Anchor British Pub804 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. Call 561-272-7272, or visit here.I pushed through the ancient window-paned doors and stepped into the Blue Anchor. A blond bartender busied herself wiping glasses; British accents popped and crackled, mingling with island dialects and “Jeepers Creepers,” the 1930s jazz song…
Maybe this was number 26?Only brick-and-mortar businesses were eligible for Rolling Stone’s rundown of the 25 Best Record Stores in the U.S.A., so iTunes, eMusic, and the Pirate Bay are not on this list. A couple of the fine choices that County Grind can vouch for, (even if some were…
Photo by C. StilesAs the October 14 debut of The Vanilla Ice Project approaches, the Wellington-based rapper and real estate mogul is ramping up his promotional game. After stops on Lopez Tonight (video here) and Entertainment Tonight, Robert Van Winkle is getting some coverage in the New York Times for…
Matt & Kim are one of the biggest Brooklyn boosters around. After titling their last album Grand — in reference, among other things, to one of the main thoroughfares in their neighborhood — the Willamsburg Bridge shows up on the cover for “Cameras,” their new single.As a reminder of the…
Middle man: Mayer HawthorneCrooner/producer Mayer Hawthorne got in R&B/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. His cover of Otis Leavill’s “I Need You” also gave us pause recently. On the occasion…
British rock band James’ 28-year career has endured the kind of trials and tribulations that would make for a fantastic episode of VH1’s Behind the Music — unpaid £250,000 tax bills, drug addictions, and a six-year breakup — but its resplendent jangle pop lives on. While never commandeering the charts…
Kings of Leon used to complain that they got to play arenas only when they were overseas at big festival dates — even if each album released since 2004’s Aha Shake Heartbreak inched the band closer to full-on American rock stardom. But thanks to 2008’s Only by the Night, Kings…
Two decades ago, Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet was one of the most dangerous listening experiences possible. Big, fat fingers point at Chuck D’s thunderous proclamations on “Welcome to the Terrordome” and “Fight the Power” and Flavor Flav’s venomous “911 Is a Joke,” but this album was also…
In contrast to Washed Out’s idyllic, well-manicured Life of Leisure, Causers of This, the first full-length from Toro y Moi, AKA Chaz Bundick, is an intentionally chaotic affair. But it turns out that the subgenre chillwave, even in deconstructed form, has its virtues. Though Causers is an undeniably piecemeal assemblage,…
A strong case in point against the “Florida sucks” talk is this Sunday’s showcase of rock ‘n’ roll talent led by the two-album-strong Furious Dudes. Though they might have a second effort under their belts with Boca’s Livid Records titled Florida Sucks, it is in a cheeky, bratty way that…
Fans still feeling let down by the anemic, ho-hum ninth season of American Idol love to predict the show’s demise, especially now that Simon Cowell has departed. But those people have short memories. You only have to look back to the previous season to witness one of the most bizarre…
Malapropisms — emotional, grammatical, etc. — reign on Thank Me Later, but it rarely matters. Not because Aubrey Drake Graham, 23, an R&B-rap hybridist of the highest order, has been tapped as a bona fide star-in-waiting and maybe a savior at a time when hip-hop is frequently lapsing into funks…
“We are trying to show the rest of America that South Florida consists of more than Rick Ross, strip clubs, and cocaine,” declares Tim McClure, a blue-collar Fort Lauderdale MC better-known as Protoman. Engulfed in wafting aerosol vapors at the South Florida Graffiti Expo held in late August at Kevro’s…
Lil Wayne is the Nostradamus of sports prognostication. And Weezy does it all from a jail cell in New York.Three weeks ago, he mailed a handwritten letter (pictured below) to the editors of Sports Illustrated in which he breaks down the top tennis players competing in the U.S. Open. He…
Mellow Mushroom25 SE Sixth Ave., Delray Beach. Call 561-330-3040, or visit here.Sometimes being “mellow” isn’t exactly on my high-strung agenda, but nothing slows me down into a heavy-lidded euphoria like a good strong brew.What’s your most popular beer?” I asked our pretty, pierced waitress. “That depends on what you like,”…
”We are trying to show the rest of America that South Florida consists of more than Rick Ross, strip clubs, and cocaine,” is Protoman’s summation of the task of Footwork4Self Records, a burgeoning hip-hop label in Lake Worth. County Grind has given plenty of shine to the emerging indie-rock acts…
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, West Palm Beach’s Shit Ton of Funk.Shit Ton of Funk — with a name like that, little is left…
