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.Definitely worth noting one more time that Hole is performing (with openers Foxy Shazam) at the Fillmore Miami this evening. Whether it’s a train…
In case you’re wondering, Warped Tour is hitting the hot streets of West Palm Beach in three weeks and one day. We’re a bit excited. Our latest installment in our Countdown to Warped Tour compilation features Alesana’s lead vocalist/guitarist Shawn Milke. The 30-year-old prefers literature and history over trademark relationship…
Let’s start with the good news: Wednesday’s Oil.Spill.Benefit show, curated by the HoneyComb’s Steve Rullman and hosted by Lake Worth rock bar Propaganda, raised $3,000 to benefit the Florida Wildlife Federation. County Grind, and many other members of the local music community wore expressive T-shirts to the show, featuring Surfer…
After we stuck our necks out multiple times for Lilith Fair 2010, the lineup for the August 10 date at Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach was a bit of a disappointment. Truth that some of the reasons South Florida ended up with a mostly adult-contemporary version of a traveling…
After a brief mention earlier this week, Pitchfork’s Larry Fitzmaurice gives the full-blown track review treatment to the Jameses’ “The Haunted Rider” today. Momentum! It’s almost as if he attended the Lake Worth band’s performance at Wednesday’s Oil.Spill.Benefit at Propaganda, got a huge buzz from the blizzard of synths, and…
Exciting news for everyone who wanted to see the Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne on the cover of our magazine again. Well, it’s the cover we ran last time, but still. Earlier this year, Lips guitarist Steven Drozd was briefly hospitalized right before the band’s scheduled performance at SunFest in…
Those unfamiliar with the Beauvilles might hear that Deep South, plantation-perfect moniker and expect a ragged group of Southern-rock traditionalists or perhaps even revved-up psychobilly retro camp schtick. There’s a bit of the former, none of the latter, and a whole lot more to the story. With enigmatic singer and…
Totem Pole’s swirling polychromatic swoon of “Stained Glass On” is like an ominous thunderstorm rolling in, but with a subtle resemblance to a moderately paced version of the Mission Impossible theme. This is the beginning of the previously unreleased track from West Palm Beach psych-pop group. The bewitching, old school…
The Miami Dolphins’ official a cappella group, the Dolphins Voices, are once again looking for South Florida’s finest vocalists. The eight-person group will host invitation-only tryouts July 10, at Sun Life Stadium, and will perform at Dolphins home games and other events throughout the season. Didn’t know the Dolphins had…
Boston’s on the Beach celebrates America’s 234th birthday with three days of this country’s great indigenous art form — the blues. Never mind that the music was created by the descendants of African slaves or that it’s now dominated by white folk. The Delray Beach institution’s Red, White, and Blues…
South Florida musicians and music fans alike can take pride in the turnout and command performances throughout Wednesday night’s Oil.Spill.Benefit at Propaganda in Lake Worth. More than a few folks remarked that the energy in the packed room was a bit lighter than usual — perhaps because the show was…
Remembering Never is a five-piece hardcore/metal band that’s been making a racket in Fort Lauderdale now for a number of years with the requisite personnel issues and stop-and-go schedules, but I’m happy to report that they are gearing for an upcoming album and this MP3 is solid proof that nothing’s…
Two new bands have been added to Lake Worth’s day-long celebration of local music, Lake Worth-It 2010, which will take place in the city’s beautiful Bryant Park August 7. Boca Raton blues-rock trio Blond Fuzz (soon we will stop telling you that they used to be Stonefox, but not yet),…
Earlier this week, Crossfade announced that music industry titan Bill Aucoin, most famous for managing KISS, had passed away at Aventura Hospital and Medical Center in Miami. According to family, he died following complications from prostate cancer. He was 66. Not only was he nationally known for his successes, but…
Earth, Wind and FireHard Rock Live, HollywoodSunday, June 27, 2010 Better than: Subjecting myself to YouTube videos of questionable funnies. The Review: My last experience on Casino lands involved an hour-long hunt for parking and once said parking was located, a very long walk to my destination on their restaurant/bar/club…
Lightning Bolt is a two-piece band from Providence, Rhode Island. In the past 12 years, Brian Chippendale (drums) and Brian Gibson (guitar) have released four chaotic, spazzy art-metal albums that are metal only in the loosest way. Lightning Bolt songs are like crazy, wounded wildcats: dangerous and unpredictable, with jagged…
Room, meet the rhinoplastied elephant in a tutu. To address the new Hole record, Nobody’s Daughter, without considering Courtney Love’s chaos-prone reputation — the “Courtney Love Monster,” as she recently described it on Twitter — is to analyze the recent health care bill without acknowledging President Barack Obama. It’s impossible…
Those unfamiliar with the Beauvilles might hear that Deep South, plantation-perfect moniker and expect a ragged group of Southern-rock traditionalists or perhaps even revved-up psychobilly retro camp schtick. There’s a bit of the former, none of the latter, and a whole lot more to the story. With enigmatic singer and…
Some claim that since jettisoning the Police, Sting’s music has lost its, well, sting. After all, here’s an artist on the front lines of the new-wave rebellion in the late ’70s who gradually acquiesced to a mellower template comfortably nestled in adult contemporary. Like Elvis Costello, another seasoned survivor of…
In 1998, a friend told Thrice vocalist/rhythm guitarist Dustin Kensrue that he’d beaten the game Frogger twice. Kensrue replied he’d beaten it “thrice,” and the rest is band-name history. The post-hardcore, experimental rock act has been going strong since, with six EPs, seven albums, a live album, and a few…
On the eve of Independence Day, while some Americans prep grilling stations and gather fireworks, another contingent will celebrate its right to rave. Yes, rave! Showing that there are no hard feelings two centuries and change after our nation severed itself from England, two British masters of dark drum ‘n’…
Sure, Black Kids frontman Reggie Youngblood sings like an overly earnest Robert Smith impersonator, and sure, the band sounds like a thick patois of nearly every ’80s musical dialect ever put on acetate, but that’s exactly what makes them fantastic. It’s almost as if they’ve tumbled out of a wormhole…
