Jean Saiz is without a doubt, one of South Florida’s leading ladies of rock. Her band Shroud Eater has steadily gained an envious momentum in the short time that they’ve been shredding faces and melting hearts. A talented and accomplished artist, Saiz has added yet another area of expertise into…
Crazy Fingers officially got its start at Ultimate Farms on Halloween of 1990. Founded by the rhythm section of drummer Peter Lavezzoli and bassist Bubba Newton, it wouldn’t be until 1993 that the band would find its strongest and longest lineup with the addition of guitarist Rich Friedman and multi-instrumentalist…
We first met Miami native Alex Segura when reviewing his band the Faulkner Detectives’s EP (Livid Records) The Modern Handshake back in 2012. Since then, his career in journalism and comics publishing has kept him bouncing between South Florida and New York City. His most recent, nonmusical musical endeavor: He…
Ariel Vega is no stranger to our New Times readership. As the drummer for the Honeysticks in the ’90s, he helped pave the way for the alternative sounds of South Florida today. An eternally busy musician with live tried-and-true chops and a penchant for creation within the studio and session…
Broward native Marco Argiro has come a long way from his days fronting the beloved local punk rock trio the Outrights. In a time when preteen was still preteen and the “tween” nonsense had not entered the lexicon, Argiro and his mates had the chops to turn heads and become…
Ed Matus might be blaming fatherhood on his recent lackadaisical attitudes towards shaving, but we all know that’s some straight up bunkum. The truth is that we don’t know what Dickensian fortitude has inspired such facial growth, but we do know that it isn’t for any hipster-like leanings. Ed Matus…
South Florida owes a debt of gratitude to former Florida A&M Marching bandmates, schoolteachers, and music aficionados Willie Clarke and Johnny Pearsall. Without their gamble on the short-lived Deep City Records, there would’ve never been such a culturally identifiable thing as the “Miami sound.” While some of the Deep City…
Our friends in Minneapolis have come unstuck in time and put forth a veritable punk rock powerhouse gig this weekend. It both respects their own roots and nods to the Pacific Northwest as the cradle of raunch ‘n’ roll. Also, it makes us question why we, as proud South Floridians,…
There is a way of speaking and writing that maintains an air of dignity and reverence about that subject that toes the line between eulogia and the elegiac. Thankfully, I as an orator and man of letters have failed with thunderous aplomb in all three scenarios. Don’t let me sing…
Here at the Grind, we’re never short of excuses when it comes to sharing music with our fine readers, and today’s video playlist is thematically in tune with the goodwill of Valentine’s Day and charged with the punk rock energy you’ll want for when the date’s over and the lights…
A couple of weeks ago, I offered a list of ten LGBT punk bands using my usual scientific approach that meets my memory’s criteria. While I fervently appreciate all of your clicks on the blog, I also appreciate those who took the time to jog my memory with some obvious…
Sammy Gonzalez might be best-known to the rock ‘n’ roll crowd as Jacobs Ladder’s bass player, to the classical jet set as the first chair of Miami Beach’s Classical Guitar Quintet, and to bald guys everywhere as the enviable owner of an unruly curly top. While he might not be…
It is no secret that Pool Party is one of our favorite part-time South Florida resident bands. It is also no secret that I am not funny. Two ex-wives and three State of Florida judges will attest to that; but not unlike my Corsican mother, County Grind oils its wheels…
South Florida’s most prolific emcee, Serum continues his APB assault promoting his latest work with Virginia’s Oz ARC Raider and Dutchman Stijn Beats: Megatropolis and this, their latest video in support of the effort features locals Manifesto, LMS, and Chris Black. County Grind has mentioned it plenty of times, but…
Kat Dahlia continues to prove that she’s more than just a pretty face in contemporary hip-hop. Blessed with an acerbic wit and a wavy delivery that is equal parts mournful soul and soaring hope, her work is the end result of a filtering process of her admittedly short life’s experience…
From the ashes of I Don’t Know, South Florida’s most carnival-esque and eclectic outfit Humbert has been ambling along at their self-imposed snail’s pace with a handful of releases to their name. They recently self-released an EP, Se Reparan Todos. It’s the first in a quartet of EPs the band…
It is my pleasure to present ten of the best bands in punkdom that embraced their LGBT roots and took to the airwaves. Am I an expert in queer theory? No. Not at all. But I know what I like, and these bands rage right there alongside their straight contemporaries…
Genesis 6:4 hints, in that cute, sci-fi Biblical manner that giants might’ve once roamed the earth. The Cardiff Giant turned out to be a pretty good hoax back in the 1860s, but make no mistake, Holly Hunt’s Gavin Perry is neither hoax nor Biblical prophecy — and he’s giant through…
I’m usually jovial enough at gatherings to let certain rye libations behind my wheel and commandeer conversations at social gatherings — in a rather obnoxious manner, I’m usually told — and shanghai any topic into a “me-me-me” scenario. Unfortunately, the beers I’ve had now aren’t enough to muster that kind…
Black Cobra’s Rafael Martinez, left, and Jason Landrian, right. Colombian native and former South Florida resident Rafael Martinez has been involved with some of the most electrifying bands in metal since leaving Miami in the mid ’90s to pursue further training and education at the Berklee College of Music in…
J. Lee Glassman is a South Florida poet, musician and novelist. He’s also a man of two worlds; those disparate entities being Palm Beach and Key West. While he might be better known to our readers as Luna Rex’s rhythm guitarist, Glassman is also the author of a 2008 collection…
It is not easy to be a woman these days. It actually has never been, but within this codex, we’ll tackle only the auspices of male-driven muzicks. South Florida, always leading the charge when it comes to progressive, out-of-the-box (no jokes there, please) thinking, is the proud witness to the…
