For audiophiles everywhere, Record Store Day has become a national holiday. The event was created in 2007 by independent record store owners. It was a way to raise awareness and boost business for local record stores everywhere. Today, there are indie record stores participating in Record Store Day on every…
If you love music, you probably also love the music apps on your smartphone. There are certainly plenty of them out there, everything from Spotify and Beats Music that allow you to live stream all your favorite bands, to Rdio and Pandora that let you create custom radio stations, and…
Pablo Lucero knows where music and movement meet. To him, the people on the floor of a yoga studio and the ones on a dance floor of a club aren’t all that different. Both are there to move, to release tension, and to do it together as a group. These…
On Sunday night, some of music’s biggest names changed their social media profile pictures to a solid blue hue. Beyoncé, Rhianna, Kanye, Madonna and others went teal, and tweeted messages like this. And this. And even Coldplay’s suitably lame attempt at excitement. What the hell was going on? What was…
March is South Florida’s gateway to summer. The shirts come off as the parties move back to the beaches, hotel pools, boats, and backyard barbecues. The month of March gives us the best and worst of South Florida nightlife. On one hand, clubs and beaches are filled with rowdy spring…
Surfer Blood blew up nationally pretty quickly, and seemingly out of nowhere for anybody outside of South Florida, when their 2010 debut, AstroCoast, hit the blogs and indie rock fans got hold of it. The West Palm Beach-borne band is preparing to release their third album, 1000 Palms, and first…
“Some of us have started families and some of them are getting bigger,” explains Hit Play’s bassist Gaston de la Vega. “Life happens as we get older. The balance we’ve found together has brought us to this album.” Hit Play’s been a bit quiet since its debut six song EP…
If anyone understands beauty upkeep, it’s you, South Florida. Yes, New Times is getting a little nip and tuck and coming back to you very soon looking a bit more, um, refreshed. While we’re gone, there won’t be any new content on our site until midday Monday, March 16. (It…
In the Booth is his new column about electronic music, DJ culture, and South Florida nightlife. Visit his Facebook and Soundcloud. Derek Walin is a South Florida native, born and in Boca Raton. He has made his own way in the music business, creating two careers, both as a successful…
Reported by Andrea Richard Lisa “Noodles” Hayden-Gordon’s car was dredged out of the waterway behind Cooley’s Landing Mariana at about 1:35 p.m. on Friday, February 27. Using the boat ramp, Westway Towing pulled the mud-covered vehicle from the water. According to Fort Lauderdale Detective Tracy Figone, the company had conducted…
Update: It’s been confirmed that Lisa’s car was found at Cooley’s Landing Marina. There is a body inside the vehicle, but police will not confirm whose it is. When Fort Lauderdale musician and piano teacher, Lisa “Noodles” Hayden-Gordon, was reported missing, her family, friends, and the South Florida music community…
Lately, there is no local musician that typifies the “local boy made good” idea more than Broward County native Jordy Asher. Dude has seriously hit the big time since moving to New York City a few years back. He’s been known to County Grind readers for quite a while for…
Adam Foster is a South Florida-based DJ and producer, founder of twilightnotes.com, and entertainment director for the Restaurant People. He was named best DJ of 2014 by New Times Broward-Palm Beach. In the Booth is his new column about electronic music, DJ culture, and South Florida nightlife. Visit his Facebook…
Archaeology, the five-person team intent on bringing back drum ‘n’ bass and purist-friendly dubstep to West Palm Beach, will be packing plenty of beats into this Wednesday night’s Respectable Street show. Alex Gerhardt, Kevin Kocak, Landon Yerby, Bradley Brown, and Rene Aguiar are the local masterminds behind the newly banded…
There’s one reason to advertise your city, like Delray Beach does, with a quaint nickname like “Village by the Sea.” It’s to draw tourists and new residents to your sleepy beachside town. The only problem is, when word spreads too efficiently about the perks of inhabiting that city, the village…
Adam Foster is a South Florida-based DJ and producer, founder of twilightnotes.com, and entertainment director for the Restaurant People. He was named best DJ of 2014 by New Times Broward-Palm Beach. In the Booth is his new column about electronic music, DJ culture, and South Florida nightlife. Visit his Facebook…
Tonight, the Jan Moran Collier City Learning Library will be hosting its second-annual The Birth of an American Sound: The Blues. Starring Joey “The Blues Man” Gilmore, the event is centered on fundraising for literacy programs and services. Gilmore noted of the month and his chosen genre, “Blues music is…
No jerks, yes beer. That’s Laser Wolf’s motto, an improbable if not downright impossible mission statement for a bar. Even a pub smack dab in the middle of heaven is sure to have a few drunken a-holes on any given night. Around 1 in the morning, a few angels are…
Valentine’s Day is a dedicated time for love and romance, but for Mary Jane Evans, it’s also a time to spread awareness. In particular, she works to spread the word on addiction and mental health problems through the B.e. Easy Music and Arts Festival at Bryant Park in Lake Worth…
For the past seven years, the Live Nation outdoor venue in Western West Palm Beach was called Cruzan Amphitheatre. And just when we finally got used to the new name, they’ve gone and changed it back to its original name: Coral Sky Amphitheatre. The place opened in 1996 and holds…
Adam Foster is a South Florida-based DJ and producer, founder of twilightnotes.com, and entertainment director for the Restaurant People. He was named best DJ of 2014 by New Times Broward-Palm Beach. In the Booth is his new column about electronic music, DJ culture, and South Florida nightlife. Visit his Facebook…
Though we love it, we know, we don’t give trap music enough play here at the County Grind. Lord knows, there’s enough of it oozing out of every car speaker around in these parts, but not enough local beatmakers are touting the speedy, bass-heavy genre. Danny Brunjes, frontman for the…
