Even nearly 15 years after his death, the legacy of Sublime singer Bradley Nowell permeates the musical ecosystem in a number of surprising ways. While many styles and genres have come and gone over the years, Sublime’s pot-fueled white-boy reggae-rock has never really gone out of fashion, with either subtle…
A full-on house party/birthday party of sorts for all the Leos (and non Leos) out there is going down at Stingerz Night Club. Hosted by Walshy Fire, AKA Leighton Walsh, and his brother Courtney Walsh, a famous cricket player in Jamaica, the party also features the Black Chiney crew, a…
It’s too hot these days to wear black, but make an exception for the South Flocal Soundcheck, a glimpse of some of the most talented and active hard-rock acts currently kicking ass around town (and swinging for the national backside). One such act is Nigh Horizon — driving rock sweetly…
Since the release of Illmatic in the mid-’90s, Nasir Jones has kept the increasingly ringtone-ready hip-hop genre alive with anthemic tales of the street that are as clever as they are detailed. The storied New York rapper and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley wove together a passionate, brutal performance at the…
The Fillmore Miami Beach has been absolutely slaying lately with its indie-style bookings, but here’s a new announcement from the venue to make the thinking-man’s-metal fan weep tears of joy. Sacramento legends Deftones will headline Wednesday, when the band plays its first show in South Florida in a couple of…
Natalie Merchant’s latest foray into South Florida comes at a particularly opportune time. Currently, she’s riding the release of Leave Your Sleep, an ambitious opus that finds her turning the lyrics, lullabies, and nursery rhymes of classic literary authors into a varied hybrid of pop, folk, jazz, zydeco, reggae, and…
Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino looks beyond comfortable in a shirt and tie. So do vocalist Paul Banks, guitarist Daniel Kessler, and now-departed bassist Carlos Dengler — and the New York band’s GQ, stiff-upper-lip aesthetic has arguably helped heighten its noir postpunk beyond leagues of other acts inspired by Joy Division…
That’s right. The Doggfather himself is set to blaze up Roxy’s Pub in West Palm Beach this Labor Day (Sunday, September 5). Roxy’s has already launched several contests to drum up support over at the Facebook invite for the event, including: “Whoever uploads the best bong hit video to Roxy’s…
Following in the tradition of Evan Rowe’s lack of necessity for actual musical files in lieu of what he terms “blasts,” here’s a song from David Briekse’s musical alter ego, Fsik Huvnx. Please don’t ask me to sound it out; just enjoy a little piece of paranoid composition from a…
From the same sort of minds that introduced us to the obscenity-laced “Read a Book” a few years back comes the sweet and slightly shrill “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury” by Rachel Bloom. Taking place in a high school, the video has all the come-ons of a pop song — and…
This year marks a couple of big milestones for Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino. He has been with his current band for a decade. One of his previous outfits, South Florida’s own the Holy Terrors, got its start 20 years ago. Both bands come up in this week’s music feature, because…
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 the Band in Heaven.The Band in Heaven is the stuff of dreams, channeled directly from the…
What other tune better baited disco devotees with the promise of pure nocturnal desire than Donna Summer’s throbbing orgasmic anthem “Love to Love You Baby”? Trained as an opera singer but born again as a daringly sensual diva, Summer hit her stride after partnering with producer Giorgio Moroder and creating…
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. As one of the world’s preeminent dubstep DJs, Briton Skream is in similar company with premier bike messengers, mumblecore directors, and…
Somewhere, T-Pain is nodding in approval. According to Sharyn Peach, mouthpiece for local hair-metal act and 2009 Readers Poll winner BitchFire, U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene’s yacht was the best party on the high seas. “I saw more tits and ass in one night on Jeff Greene’s Summerwind than I…
No Consent Nowhere to Hide (Stiff Pole Records) stiffpolerecords.com In honor of Richard “Big Stiff” Konwinski, who passed 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 Records…
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, his sons join the fun.It’s hardly surprising that I got my two sons involved in my backstage exploits at a young age. Natalie Merchant’s upcoming…
Reading through County Grind this past week, I first came across Reed Fischer’s post about Lake Worth’s Little Munich and thought, hey, that’s pretty cool! A new venue! And then I came across Erica K. Landau’s post about a canceled show at the aforementioned venue and I was like wow! What is…
We’re big Surfer Blood fans over here at County Grind. And we do mean big. But you already know that. The homegrown West Palm Beachers are currently touring the world as they prepare for their U.S. tour with five Florida stops, one being in Miami on September 18 with the…
Zachary Dewar (left) has confirmed to County Grind that he and his twin brother, Anthony (right), who perform Everglades psychedelic folk as the Dewars, will hit the road later this fall with their buddies in Surfer Blood and the Drums. The dates of the Dewars/Drums/SB overlap are October 3 in…
“We initially planned on playing Limp Bizkit’s ‘Break Stuff,’ and that evolved into a Kid Cudi song, and that evolved into ‘Roses’ by OutKast,” says John O’Callaghan, singer for Arizona pop-punk act the Maine (we don’t get it either), regarding taking on the supercharged, choco-thunder, Prince-inspired OutKast classic “Roses” in…
Guy HarveyWith the JamesesThe Vagabond, MiamiFriday, August 13, 2010Miami’s unkempt beard quotient went through the roof on Friday with two rough-and-tumble indie-rock acts from Palm Beach County and a lot of their friends infiltrating the sleek downtown venue the Vagabond. The occasion: the official release of Guy Harvey’s debut seven-inch,…
