We’re not really sure how much “crap” the folks over at Buzz 103.1 have “cut through” in the past 15 years, but one thing’s for sure: They love reppin’ the Sunshine State. The radio station even put a contest together to add some more local talent to this year’s festival…
We’ve been silently weeping into our PBRs since we first heard news of next February’s Bruise Cruise. It’s really hard for a 20-something to give up $615 for three days of fun in the Bahamas — even if some amazing bands will be playing in place of a traditional calypso…
Dane Cook won’t be showing his face in South Florida anytime soon.You’re probably really looking forward to loving/hating Dane Cook on Saturday. He’s tall, dark, and kind of handsome. He’s a bro’s bro, a ladies man, a man about town. Hey, we were too. We were even going to chat…
View 29 eye-melting photos from the Matt & Kim show in a slideshow here.Matt & Kim with Donnis and Fake Problemsat the Culture Room, Fort LauderdaleThursday, October 14, 2010Better than: Joining the Babysitters Club and taking a bunch of 11-year-olds to a concert field trip… Oh, wait. The Review:Once keyboardist…
We were a little put off when we heard Atlanta-based rapper Donnis was going to be opening up for Matt & Kim at the Culture Room tonight. We expected a pop-infused hybrid born of pixie sticks and high-pitched tricks to take to the stage and open for possibly the happiest…
Buzz Bake Sale is turning 15 this year. When they first started putting it all together in 1996, we were in middle school, we had braces, and we weren’t that into music that reached beyond the realm of MTV and pop culture. Yeah, we feel old. The lineup for this…
Don’t be sad, Jello.When news of ’80s legends the Dead Kennedys making a stop in South Florida January 1, 2011, hit our inboxes, we just didn’t know what to do. Should we hide our obvious hangovers and go out again in honor of our favorite San Fran-based hardcore punk rockers?…
via their MySpace pageChris CarrabbaHearing Dashboard Confessional or anything in association with Chris Carrabba gives us intense flashbacks. We’d go to local shows to catch Carrabba and company making us swoon while he “screamed infidelities” — a right of passage for most girls in high school in the early 2000s…
Photo by Ian WitlenMayer Hawthorne & The CountyMayer Hawthorne & the Countywith Gordon VoidwellAt Culture Room, Fort LauderdaleSunday, October 3, 2010Check out a slideshow from the concert here.Better than: A Southern down-home BBQ hootenanny. The Review:Something about soul music infused with R&B and hints at 1970s disco funk promised at…
via their MySpace pageHelen Folasade Adu — better-known as Sade — is a woman who just refuses to age. Now 51, she’s still smokin’ hot and still singin’ about what she knows best: Gettin’ it on. She’s been doing this for so long, we wouldn’t doubt it if someone told…
via their MySpace pageYou know we just had to say this: Wake up, wake up, wake up. It’s the first of the month. Get up, get up, get up. So cash your checks and get up. We love us some Bone Thugs-N-Harmony over here at County Grind, and ever since…
Photo by Ian WitlenCocoRosiewith Raffa & Rainerat Revolution, Fort LauderdaleFriday, September 24, 2010Check out a slideshow from the concert here.Better than: A drum circle with a beatboxer, a pianist, a woodwind combo, harp, and images of horses and beach scenes. Wait. Does that even exist?The review: Attending a CocoRosie show…
Photo by Ian WitlenRaffa Jo HarrisRaffa Jo Harris is that Miami-based guitarist/vocalist who’s taught untrained ears that it is in fact cool to “rock a little softer.” The 29-year-old sultry songbird often shares the stage with her partner in crime, Rainer Davies, as Raffa & Rainer, and they’re known for…
Are Fischer and Finn long lost Minnesota twins?Here at County Grind, we have two favorite Minnesotans: The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, and our very own Reed Fischer. The two native Twins fans have been connected previously — mainly because Fischer interviewed Finn prior to their performance in South Florida earlier…
We were ecstatic when we heard that West Palm Beach’s Surfer Blood are slotted as one of the headliners of this year’s CMJ Music Marathon. What better way to get the word out on South Florida’s amazing music scene, than by getting our bands out there on one of “the…
via their MySpace pageMost of us remember Stone Temple Pilots as that mid-’90s rock band that loves art school girls and interstate love songs just about as much as they do creeps and vasoline (sic). Their arena rock stylings influenced many a teen to trade in their vans and JNCOs…
Sierra and Bianca Casady are hard to pin down. The sisters’ output as CocoRosie — the increasingly electro-styled folk project with nods to European television, Native American chants, Victorian operettas, and Hipstamatic photographs — still gets tagged as freak-folk, and it’s all over the map. Unsurprising, then, that New Mexico,…
Dane Cook is one of those comedians we all love to hate. Sure, a lot of his comical observations are pretty on point (what do you tell an atheist when they sneeze?), but several of his trademark arm-flailing showstoppers are often seen as drab and pretty standard when it comes…
In rather large Surfer Blood news, it’s just been announced that our boys from West Palm Beach will be one of the headlining acts for this year’s CMJ Music Marathon in New York from October 19-23. This is pretty big, as last year they were just beginning to build some…
We’ll proudly admit that we enjoy a little Matt & Kim when we’re feeling down. Sure, we’re not from Brooklyn, and we don’t make it a habit of stripping down naked in the middle of the street. But that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy their pop-infused sugar-high indie anthems that…
We’re not sure how many times we have to keep reminding you: We loveee Surfer Blood. We love ’em so much we’d probably surf in blood for them. Well, maybe not that much.As merely innocent, loyal onlookers in the media circus that constantly engulfs the West Palm Beachers, we can’t…
CocoRosie never ceases to amaze us. Sisters Bianca (“Coco”) and Sierra (“Rosie”) are two of the most recognizable mustached ladies — barring only the bearded lady at the circus. But why go to the circus when you can actually see the performance art meets full-on stage spectacle that is CocoRosie…
