Photo by Cindy FreyLocal punk fans have it pretty easy this Friday with the massive lineup of Sick of It All, Street Dogs, and Devil’s Brigade gathered at Revolution for a night combining hardcore, the Irish-inflected Boston punk sound, and psychobilly. The latter two acts — both Hellcat Records signees…
The Pink Lincolns Pure Swank (Stiff Pole Records) stiffpolerecords.com In honor of Richard “Big Stiff” Konwinski, who passed away this past July in Tampa, I’ll be juggling between the County Grind and Crossfade blogs doing my “Blast From the Past” thing on the record label that he founded, Stiff Pole…
MySpace.comGirls who wore Abercrombie & Fitch in the late ’90s and boy band fans everywhere mourn the loss of LFO frontman Rich Cronin, who died Wednesday after a long struggle with leukemia, TMZ reports. He was 35.Best-known for the hits “Summer Girls” and “Girl on TV,” Cronin and his bandmates…
Since Crystal Castles first pissed their way into my heart with the irritatingly catchy “Alice Practice” in 2007, I haven’t been at peace with my manic devotion to a duo that seems to take pride in being total assholes. These total assholes, however, keep making great records that I can’t…
Sleepy Sun plays psychedelic rock filtered through a kaleidoscope of sludgy, swampy, and freak-folk textures. With tracks ranging from two to nearly ten minutes on Fever, the Bay Area sextet’s sophomore release on ATP Recordings, the sometimes-epic, sometimes-subtly gorgeous music has time to run the gamut genrewise. According to Pitchfork’s…
Life isn’t easy when you’re a band called Asspiss. And the hardcore punk quartet felt the burden of such a name earlier this summer, when a show was canceled because of it. Booked to play Lake Worth restaurant-by-day/alleged new hot music spot-by-night Little Munich with bands Kill Now?! and Bartholin,…
Pretty Please’s self-designations as power pop and experimental couldn’t be more appropriate. At times, such as on “Leftover for the Dogs,” the Miami four-piece approaches the sheer exuberance of grunge-era pop masters the Rentals. It’s kinda nice when a band can take you back without making the ’80s throw up…
Love him or abhor him, John Mayer as an interview subject makes for a good read. His detailed masturbation stories, dubbing Jessica Simpson “sexual napalm,” and, of course, his Benetton heart/David Duke manhood conflicts in a recent Playboy interview ensured that plenty of folks who have never heard anything past…
The duo Yellow #6, named for a soda ingredient, started in February when area songwriter Thom Beals, who played bass in hard rock bands years ago, befriended Black Weather Shaman’s Armand Ignelzi. Both band members are into Radiohead as well as bluegrass greats like Doc Watson and Bill Monroe, which…
Bleeding Through boasted an intriguing albeit guy-linered and slightly emo blend of hardcore and metal when it emerged from Orange County, California, in 2000. Following the rage surrounding Limp Bizkit and Korn, the band gained traction because of a heavily covered tour mishap with A Fire Inside: An equipment trailer…
With a moniker as abrasive as Fucked Up, it would be easy to prejudge the Toronto indie-hardcore punk outfit as either ridiculous or talentless. But its measure of success (winning the Canadian version of the Grammy, the Polaris Music Prize, in 2009 for The Chemistry of Common Life and rave…
Anyone who says punk is dead and has been replaced by pretty boys, pop punks, and the posthardcore set hasn’t been keeping an eye on Hellcat Records. The Los Angeles-based indie label, founded by Rancid’s Tim Armstrong and Bad Religion’s Brett Gurewitz, continues to churn out quality releases and fuel…
In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.The members of !!! (sometimes pronounced chk chk chk) had to be kind of pissed about two years ago when a whole…
Reef Road Restaurant & Rum Bar 223 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. Call 561-838-9099, or visit here.I was sitting inside Reef Road, vegging out to an ultrachill Sublime cover by Caribbean Club, the two-man band on stage. The bottles of rum behind the bar shone temptingly, illuminated by an electric-yellow…
Update: Here’s the review of the October 6 show.For some folks, it would have been enough to put up a copy of Blonde on Blonde with a chipmunk chewing on it: Bob Dylan’s coming back to South Florida! The concert takes place October 6 at the Arena at the Don…
Not a mane of hair you’re likely to forget.Danny McBride is a magnificent actor and is fortunate enough to have HBO’s Eastbound & Down to wreak havoc in all of his mulleted glory. Its second season premieres September 26, and there are plenty of fans who are ready for more…
It is no secret that for many years, I tormented the Garrote family with a $20 debt incurred by older brother Joe (of the Basicks and The Can’t Stand Ya’s fame) circa 1996 outside of Cheers. With his move to supershitty NYC many a moon ago, it fell on the…
Photo by Ian WitlenDada’s Tenth Anniversary Party in full swing Saturday evening.Delray Beach eatery and cultural hub Dada got a big, wet kiss from us in the form of a decade retrospective last week leading up to its Tenth Anniversary Party.For Saturday’s festivities, the street next to the iconic residence…
“Back to you in the studio, J.P.!”Surfer Blood’s just-released video for “Floating Vibes” is the perfect companion for Pitchfork’s new feature “The 1990s in Lists” — it has all of the goofball, lo-fi charm of the alt-rock videos of the era. We had an inkling of that back in June…
In celebration of Norwegian natives Apoptygma Berzerk performing tonight at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach, a little musical culture from your friends who grind away here in County Grind.Proving that the Great White North has created more than gothic-styled electronic music in heated basements, here are five contemporary musicians…
Freddie looking a lot dreamier than he does offstage.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: Even in the music biz, actions can be deceiving. An artist’s onstage persona is often dramatically different…
Snoop DoggWith the Spazmatics and Fourth DimensionRoxy’s Pub, West Palm BeachSunday, September 5, 2010Snoop Dogg is a master party performer — which is to say that his cool is contagious. For the duration of his hour-plus set Sunday evening, the fenced-off parking lot behind Roxy’s Pub looked like a sweaty…
