In case you haven’t already heard (we’ve only mentioned it a thousand times here at County Grind!), this Saturday is Record Store Day. Radio-Active Records will not only be pumping out the jams for swarms of loyal vinyl lovers but also playing host to a slew of indie craft and…
Editor’s note: If you grew up in South Florida, you’ve lived a delightfully half-baked existence. You’ve definitely smoked the stickiest crippy and the worst Jamaican schwag. County Grind got all stoned and thought, why not ask these toasty South Florida musicians to give us a taste of their favorite pot-inspired…
Editor’s note: If you grew up in South Florida, you’ve lived a delightfully half-baked existence. You’ve definitely smoked the stickiest crippy and the worst Jamaican schwag. County Grind got all stoned and thought, why not ask these toasty South Florida musicians to give us a taste of their favorite pot-inspired…
After nearly an hour of conversing with Dick Dale, he apologizes for getting into storytelling mode. The time spent on the phone with the “King of the Surf Guitar” made me feel like I was 5 years old and listening at the feet of that wise, old, clean-living grandfather I…
Editor’s note: If you grew up in South Florida, you’ve lived a delightfully half-baked existence. You’ve definitely smoked the stickiest crippy and the worst Jamaican schwag. County Grind got all stoned and thought, why not ask these toasty South Florida musicians to give us a taste of their favorite pot-inspired…
“Filter was a special band I alway respected because of Richard Patrick’s gift of melody and interesting lyrics,” says singer/songwriter Fernando Perdomo, whose Dreaming in Stereo act will open for Filter this Thursday at Revolution Live. Turns out, he’s a big fan of the band. “One minute the band would be…
The world asked yesterday: Why did Tupac come back from the dead in hologram form at Coachella? More important, we want to know, where was hologram Biggie?You know the story. During Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s performance at this West Coast music festival, “Tupac” crashed the stage as a hologram. “Tupac”…
Most of you didn’t grow up listening to music on vinyl. You had CDs, the internet, and remember those little square guys that would tangle and unravel in your tape player, cassettes? You know, though, that music sounds so much sweeter when that needle hits the wax than when you’re…
Plains ain’t no plains band. These guys make music that sticks, and everyone’s ears have perked at the sound of their tunes, from the big shots at South by Southwest to all of South Florida. Today this supergroup of sorts released a new video for their song “Dry,” directed by…
“We really didn’t know how to do it. It was kind of figuring things out,” Violens’ Jorge Elbrecht says of playing in bands in the late ’90s South Florida music scene. It revolved around Cheers, he remembers. “There was nothing else to do; everyone just went to these shows. It…
View the entire slideshow here.Green Room was booked solid on Friday night. The Goddamn Hustle’s video premiere party took the stage from 6 to 10 p.m., and then the nightclub’s regular gothic party, Black Fridays, was set to begin. The theme for this Black Friday was a masquerade party. So…
Christian Clarke isn’t a Florida native. He’s not really native to any one place, though he admits to having been a surf and motorcycle bum in Los Angeles for a period in his life. He settled down in Fort Lauderdale in 2005 and in 2010 started his first band ever:…
Editor’s note: If you grew up in South Florida, you’ve lived a delightfully half-baked existence. You’ve definitely smoked the stickiest crippy and the worst Jamaican schwag. County Grind got all stoned and thought, why not ask these toasty South Florida musicians to give us a taste of their favorite pot-inspired…
7 Seas is a band that claims to have “no limitations.” Musically, that is. Their worldly name indicates their exploratory nature. Drummer Andrew Nicholson says that the diversity of sounds, people, and cultures living around the world’s seven seas influenced their moniker and that you can hear the versatility of styles in the writing…
The two-man outfit ANR has blown up all over the country. Not literally, but as an “it” band from South Florida. Last year’s video for the hurricanecentric “It’s Around You” premiered on rollingstone.com (where you can see yours truly dragged around a warehouse floor). It was created by the superwarped…
In 1993, Scraping Teeth was named the Worst Band in America by Spin magazine (read details here). The myth is that when Scraping Teeth opened for Flaming Lips on South Beach decades ago, the now-famous band refused to perform after them. The only remaining original member of this band of…
Van Halenwith Kool and the GangBankAtlantic Center April 11, 2012Better than: VH with Sammy Hagar, even though he’s a fellow Arab-American (sorry, brother).Somewhere between “I’ll Wait” and “Hot for Teacher,” Diamond Dave had a diva moment. It was one of those times when you watch something happen and then wonder to yourself, Wait, that…
Did we mention that we’re excited about Record Store Day? Like really excited?! Thought so. As you probably already know, since 2008, musicians in support of this very sacred occasion put out some very special releases to encourage people to buy actual products in independent music stores. Of course, Napster-haters…
The Dirty Projectors are a band with a human soul, haunting melodies, and a big do-gooder heart. They’ve worked on a variety of projects geared toward making the world a better place and have collaborated with a nice little list of superstar musicians that would impress even the biggest snob. The…
Kool and the Gang didn’t only contribute to the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever but also for that of our party lives. Few bands’ songs are so universally recognizable and still stay so freaking funky and cool from generation to generation. “Too Hot” shows you how you chill out a little…
Charles Bradley was just finishing with a series of other phone interviews before he got on the line with us. The Gainesville-born soul singer’s story of success is typical of no one else. A former James Brown impersonator going by the name of Black Velvet, his golden years are actually his…
Record Store Day brings with it a load of live music and music that was once performed live, recorded, pressed into wax, then purchased and brought home. Though Lil Daggers, who will be performing at Radio-Active Records on April 21, released their LP last year, they’re selling thirty copies of…
