Heavenly BBQ Delights

Over 100 beers to sample, the best BBQ in town and a stellar musical lineup of the grooviest blues players around, all in one place, sounds like you have died and gone to heaven? Not quite, this divine night of all-around delights is an earthly affair happening at the Seminole…

An Irie Time For Gals and Guys

The rock reggae fusion of West Palm Beach’s Making Faces provides the perfect soundtrack for this week’s edition of Ladies’ Night at cushy indie dive bar Propaganda. Fresh off a marveling performance at the Delray Affair, Making Faces is adept at igniting crowds of all musical inclinations. Not such a…

Surfer Blood Premiere New Video for “Demon Dance”

Praise for our local boys made good, Surfer Blood. These guys just keeps rolling in. On the cusp of their Warner Brother’s debut, Pythons, the West Palm Beach four-piece graced Rolling Stone’s website yesterday, with exclusive first look at the group’s newest music video for their single “Demon Dance.” Stating…

Monarchy Nightclub Is Officially Closed and For Sale

County Grind received word this week that West Palm Beach nightclub Monarchy had officially shuttered its doors. The reason? Unpaid rent. Our source, who wanted to remain anonymous, is involved with one of the many groups in negotiation with the owner of the building at 221 Clematis Street — where the 6,000-square…

Blindsided by Laughs

You might never have heard of comedian Sean Patton, but one thing is for sure: Make it to his show Saturday night and you’ll never forget this New Orleans’ native’s free-association style of comedy. Patton’s routines are outside-the-box funny; he keeps audiences on their toes with gags that come out…

The After Fete Fete

Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, Lake Worth’s Reggae Fest never disappoints in its steadfast rock-steady musical acts and delectable jerked-chicken, oxtail, and curried-goat delights. Despite all the festival’s unfaltering Caribbean enchantments, there are always those insatiable ones craving just one more irie tune or a few more sudsy brews…

AbdeCaf Confirms, All Ukrainians Are “Badasses”

AbdeCaf — whose moniker is reminiscent of a Scantron — is the stage name of 21-year-old, Ukrainian-born, Miami-raised producer Rostislav “Steve” Vaynshtok. The beatmaker dishes out ethereal electro. He’s a sweeping one-man digital act that, like the name itself, challenges listeners’ receptors. Conscious chillwave, if you will. AbdeCaf is prolific,…

Top Ten Dive Bars in Palm Beach County

Continuing with our list of the top tier, grimiest joints to have a drink, here are the top ten dive bars in Palm Beach County. See also – Top Ten Dive Bars in Broward County 10. The Ugly Mug About half an hour after the Eastside of Atlantic Avenue shuts…

Shop Till You Drop

The Night Owl Market swoops into the Flagler Village once again this Saturday night for another round of shopping, drinking, and eating delight. Altogether, there will be 60 local vendors selling their vintage and handcrafted goods at this nighttime extravaganza. A pop-up of Public Image Vintage will also be around,…

A Costume Boogie

This Friday night, don’t be surprised if you spot Spider-Man grinding a sexy anime character at Fort Lauderdale indie club Green Room. Why, you ask? Because it is the last Friday of the month, when the downtown haunt hosts its Cos-Play Fridays. On any other given Friday, Green Room reserves…

Amateur Beatdowns

Are you the type of mixed martial arts fan who does not miss one single live-stream fight? Does the thought of witnessing the great Georges St. Pierre at the start of his career excite you? If so, then you are exactly the type of devoted fan that mixed marital arts…

Eric Biddines Thinks Rick Ross Is “Disconnected from Florida”

Delray Beach-based hip-hop artist Eric Biddines is not your run-of-the-mill aspiring rap star. Born in Ocala, Florida, he moved to Palm Beach County when he was 6. Biddines was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, but his strict religious upbringing isn’t what makes him such an unusual rapper. Mainly it’s his fascination…

Eric Biddines Is So Obsessed With Coffee, He Even Raps About It

Delray Beach-based hip-hop artist Eric Biddines is not your run-of-the-mill aspiring rap star. Born in Ocala, Florida, he moved to Palm Beach County when he was 6. Biddines was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, but his strict religious upbringing isn’t what makes him such an unusual rapper. Mainly it’s his fascination…

Pub Crawling Across the USA

For the first time in its five-year history, pub-crawl service (seriously, there is an industry that caters to this) Pubcrawls.com is launching one of its self-guided pub tours in Fort Lauderdale. Hard to believe it has taken this New York-based company this long to organize a boozy event in a…

Shake Hands with the Champ

The Seminole Casino Coconut Creek is quickly establishing itself as the ultimate destination for local MMA fans, broadcasting vital mixed-martial-arts fights live at no cost nearly every weekend to the delight of the full-contact-combat sport’s feverish aficionados. This weekend is no exception; the casino is bringing in Rashad “Suga” Evans,…

Christopher Moll of the Postmarks Returns with Soulful the Lovers Key (VIDEO)

Picture Marvin Gaye, Morrissey, and Amy Winehouse all rolled up in one,” a big name mélange, which accomplished Coral Springs musician Christopher Moll uses to describe the R&B-infected vocals of Maco Monthervil, Moll’s newest musical discovery. Moll is the gifted multi-instrumentalist behind the saccharine chamber-pop sounds of the Postmarks. Monthervil is a…

You Don’t Have to Bike Alone

In an effort to build excitement for Delray Beach’s Twilight Festival, a nighttime criterium cycling competition (a bicycle racing event that occurs on closed public roads) that will take over the streets of downtown Delray Beach on March 22, event organizers have been organizing weekly group bike rides every Sunday…

Peel Back the Onion

The satire will be uncontainable at the Parker Playhouse this Sunday night as the team behind heralded farcical news source the Onion pays Fort Lauderdale a visit. It is the first time the comedic staff from this witty periodical and website has been to our shores, so expect South Florida…

Prideful Giggles

Celebrating gay pride can be a laughing matter; standup comedian Jason Stuart has made a career of it, matter of fact. Since 1993, this openly gay comic (known also for guest roles on television shows such as Will and Grace, George Lopez, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) has been…