Photo by Andrew SouthamToby Keith With Trace Adkins Cruzan Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach Saturday, September 4, 2010 The review: All the fireworks, the patriotic flag-waving, and the macho chest-thumping that typically define a Toby Keith show were present and accounted for at the Cruzan Amphitheatre on Saturday night. There was…
In a June 29, 2000, article about Delray Beach restaurant/performance space Dada (or “DaDa” for some) in this very paper titled “Get Yer Dada Out,” John Ferri describes the Salvador Dali-inspired bulbous black ants on the walls of the 1924 Tarrimore House and how it was inspired by the famous…
Let this be the signal that the holiday gift season is at hand: South Florida rap legend Maurice “Trick Daddy” Young is releasing an autobiographical tome titled Magic City: Trials of a Native Son on November 16. There’s no helping you if the “tale of a boy whose father was…
Photo by Ian WitlenBefore riotous Boca rockers Blond Fuzz gets to be known as a retro cover act — recent Tina Turner and Velvet Underground revamps are doing wonders for that rumor we just started — the upcoming release of new album Perfect Breakfast will bring the focus back to…
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, Weird Wives.Weird Wives is not a Jesus Lizard cover band, contrary to the reader comments over here. Nor are…
Down with performers from down under? Experience singer/songwriter Xavier Rudd, who is the subject of this week’s lead feature and will perform at Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday. Writer Lee Zimmerman describes Rudd’s laid-back approach to playing a shitload of instruments: “Surrounded onstage with a collection of guitars,…
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.This Deftones poster for the band’s recent show at the Fillmore Miami with Baroness is one of the most sinister and enticing things the…
Sumsun’s Judson Rogers is a pretty tall dude, so it’s possible that “Ants” is just in reference to the rest of the population. More likely, though, that the West Palm Beach electronic artist, who recently relocated to North Carolina, has tied the first song from his upcoming album to the…
jhnmyr.tumblr.com”Goodbye, fanbase!”Speaking as a decided nonfan of John Mayer’s music, it was semicompelling to read recently that his creative tides might be turning. He starts out this posting on his Tumblr asserting that he’s not trying to please everybody — and his overpolished guitar tone, crumpled face, and croon-by-numbers love…
Idaho indie-rock gentle giant Built to Spill performs for a collection of fans who no longer have youthful bodies but retain the fertile minds they had way, way back in 2010 in the “Hindsight” video. After rereleasing cherished cuts in chillwave form earlier this year, this Bob Odenkirk-directed clip shows…
In the post-“Summer of Love” late ’60s — smack-dab in the middle of the Vietnam War protests, draft-card bonfires, and the Chicago Democratic convention melees — Merle Haggard dropped a couple of jingoistic little H-bombs titled “Okie From Muskogee” and “Fightin’ Side of Me,” which told the hippies burning their…
The name Arlo immediately conjures up images of the great “Alice’s Restaurant” songwriter Arlo Guthrie, son of Woody. Columbus, Ohio,’s Arlo & the Otter’s multifaceted folk band core isn’t a far cry from Guthrie — a lot’s going on here. The story goes that the group started as Our Cat…
Electronic dance music is rarely the genre summoning words like emotional impact and subtlety. Pulsing beats, flashing lights, and sweaty club kids are the aspects of dance culture projected on the mainstream consciousness. John Digweed, one of the most recognizable names in the worlds of progressive house and trance, takes…
West Palm Beach hip-hop team Jabrjaw & DJ Dee Dubbs’ infectious collaboration “Songs Like These” outlines their musical methods succinctly. Over a bit of vintage soul chopped up and layered with impressive scratching by Dubbs, Jabrjaw proclaims: “We make it happen, causing action on the scene/So relax, take a rest…
No one should hate Metallica more than ’80s Bay Area thrash icons Exodus. Even the 335,435 fans Metallica tattled on for sharing their music on Napster are probably less bitter. First, Kirk Hammett, named as the 11th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone, left Exodus for Metallica in…
If you need an argument against the idea that smoking marijuana will rob you of your ambition, you need look only as far as Snoop Dogg. The continually blunted West Coast rap superstar is less a business-savvy artist than a gigantic marketing steamroller, appearing in movies and reality shows, designing…
Anyone who considers South Florida’s hardcore scene to be in decline should head out to see 15-year hardcore vets Bane, hailing from Worcester, Massachusetts, and the more recent mosh brutality of Trapped Under Ice on Monday. The show affirms a solid local support network that has withstood its fair share…
Has anybody noticed the abundance of old-school outfits coming to South Florida lately? Is there a rekindling of local interest in electronic and industrial music afoot? Regardless, Apoptygma Berzerk, AKA Apop to the fans, has 21 years on its side, and founder Stephan Groth seems to know what he’s doing…
Xavier Rudd would seem to have a charmed existence. Traveling the world with an arsenal of instruments and a surfboard to boot, he creates a musical tapestry incorporating aspects of each diverse culture he encounters. It’s a joyous blend of folk, blues, rock, reggae, and other world rhythms borne by…
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, Tricky Dickie and Lester the Lunatic. Now that the primaries are past, it’s time to get serious about the midterm elections! (Pause for collective yawns…
If there’s one man who typifies today’s homogenized and sterilized corporate country music, it’s Toby Keith. But it’s not his music that makes Toby Keith as fun to hate as your neighbor’s barking coon dog. No, it’s the guy behind the guitar, that loud-mouthed, semipro football washup. So before he…
The world was a very different place before Cee-Lo Green unleashed “Fuck You.” The brilliant dancing-text video had captured the retro soul vibe of the music, as well the modern frustration — XBox versus Atari — of its lyrics. Now that everyone’s just a little more comfortable with the phrase…
