Manifesto’s name crops up frequently around town and usually in these digital pages as a great collaborator and vocal counterpoint to the dizzyingly active Serum. This pair last hit the airwaves in November in support of their fun, funky yet hardcore and socially aware “Insurgemcees” track. While experimentation and a…
I’ve been a resident of South Florida since the early ’90s. I love it, and I love America. This is, bar none, the greatest country in the world. Part of the immigrant experience is immersing oneself into the things that make a neighborhood vibrant, like football. I love football, and I…
The great John Waters once mused that you shouldn’t “fuck” someone if you arrive at their homestead, and their shelves are devoid of books. Here at County Grind, we firmly believe in the severity of that statement and posit, moreover, that one shouldn’t consummate with a person if their house…
Regardless of what rumors you’ve heard, or the excessive and rather inane coverage we give inconsequential humans like the Kardashians, the Wests (and their upcoming hybrid model) and the Biebers of the world; your Broward/Palm Beach New Times has always thought of its readership first and foremost. We strive to…
Better than: Thomas Pynchon’s last novel and the severity of a misplaced lover. It is easy to forget oneself in this day and age of vanity and laissez faire shenanigans. It is easy to forget the basic building blocks of a scene, and how the better examples of it, not…
Blondie2012 certainly brought a bevy of class gigs to the tri-county area, but upon reflection, the ones that stood out the most did so for reasons like honesty, longevity, and nostalgia. Not that nostalgia is necessarily a bad thing, but it would be downright criminal to pass up a pair…
Gladys Knight Seminole Hard Rock Live, Hollywood Friday, December 28, 2012 Better than: Wrestling at the Poorhouse afterwards. It’s all about transparency and honesty here at the Grind. For instance, why would renegade rock and roll animal Abel Folgar be given the charge to cover the elusive Empress of Soul’s…
By now it should be fairly evident that this “Mayan Apocalypse” is not going to happen. The same way that Y2K and thousands of years of human bickering have not completely decimated the human race yet. Let’s face it, those murderous Spaniards did the world a favor by crushing their…
Oh man, this one’s been going on slightly unchecked since 2008, and it just keeps getting more stunning! Recently, Rebecca Kadaga, the current speaker of parliament in Uganda, declared that the her country’s Anti-Homosexuality bill, better known as the “Kill Gays Bill” will pass as a Christmas “gift” to the…
Oh boy! Another year almost down the drain, and here we find ourselves running out of shopping time for another holiday season. Great, nothing makes the holiday season better than more unnecessary stress. Well actually, that’s not entirely true; bickering relatives, gaudy sweaters, Uncle Bob thick in the eggnog, all…
There’s the long-running argument that punk rock begat metal music and that’s an argument mostly posited by knuckleheaded punks. The roots of metal can be traced back to groups like Blue Cheer the same way punk rock can be traced back to Question Mark & the Mysterians. In the end,…
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is an instantly recognizable train wreck, heralding the coming end of year festivities. As usual, we do not like to single out religious celebrations in lieu of having to list them all and possibly offend those we might accidentally leave out, so we’ll err on the…
We all know how different cultures have some downright kooky festivals and traditions. And while we’d like to roll out a whole list of them within these pages, we’ve been advised by the legal department against “mocking” and “belittling” others whose “customs” we “don’t understand/appreciate.”Not only do we not want…
It’s pretty safe to assume that Pool Party garners the same fan rift Twilight fans fagged out with, that Team Edward/Team Jacob hullabaloo; you either get the South Florida-fried via Iceland sense of humor or you don’t. Touted as lifting the limp flag left behind by the once mighty Queers,…
Boy is this race getting heated! We, of course, refrain from overt political commentary within these pages because the New Times, and County Grind more precisely, aim to maintain an air of decorum and bipartisan neutrality. It’s your vote, we do not want to sway your decision-making process with cutesy blogs…
Two of our favorite local wordsmiths Serum and Manifesto rock it out like the pair of insurgents they are in our scene. I don’t know if it’s the enjoyable jams they keep kicking out or the sheer amount of work they produce but I’ve often noted that one of my…
Bobby’s gone, just like many of our other musical friends these past couple of years. It has really cast down a rather glum mood concerning the generation of musicians that began putting Florida on musical maps. From his work with the uncontrollable punk rock aegis of Load, to the whiskey-soured…
Here at County Grind we thought it wise to refrain from overt political leniencies during these electoral times. And we know how some of you think, that we’re too flung one way or the other, and according to some elderly gentlemen outside of our favorite cafecito window, we’re “un periodiquito…
It’s easy to throw around high-falutin’ and free-wheeling associations when it comes to describing musicians and their respective musical backgrounds. Examining how, over time, these have influenced them as artists. But when you talk about Alejandro Escovedo, the journey has been a long and bizarre one, where a bucketful of…
Writing obituaries is a miserable way to make a living, especially when you’ve known the person who passed. But such is life, and if did know the dearly departed, as in this case, sitting around and getting down on yourself is not the way to tackle things. You bring the…
Born under the most milquetoast moon ever, Winston Hubert McIntosh on the 19th of October 1944, would never play game to bullshit and/or bullshitisms. Christened Peter Tosh after a horrific accident, after a tenureship with Bob Marley. His untimely death in 1987 at the age of 42 is proof positive that no good deed…
Bronx transplant Stephaine Michaels has been generating some buzz in South Florida through her association with Drastic Measures and has even gained the attention of Slip-N-Slide Records. Ever the working musician, this Puerto Rican/Jamaican dynamo has seen numerous stages throughout the tri-county area and has backed up some high profile…
