You perfectly park your car in the middle of the spot, equidistant from the parallel lines on either side. You lock all of your doors, walk at a moderate pace toward the door, with the price of admission and your I.D. ready in your hand. You stand around and wait…
Chris Conley, vocalist, guitarist, and chief songwriter for emo stalwarts Saves the Day, has never quite left the couch iconically depicted on the cover of his band’s 1999 indie breakthrough, Through Being Cool. That isn’t to say Conley hasn’t gleaned a little life experience in the decade-plus (!) since that…
Cory Smoot — AKA Flattus Maximus of apocalyptic punk-metal extravaganza GWAR — died yesterday from still-unknown causes while traveling into Canada on the band’s tour bus. Many have allowed the Maximus essence to use their body as a medium. But Smoot holds a special place in our hearts for being…
Too many stodgy old farts, Broadway isn’t what it used to be, now that nearly all of the productions are based on movies, TV shows or previous productions, and — these days — every patron shows up dressed like a slob. Hey, sounds like a good time to us. If…
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Gloria Gaynor With The Village People Hard Rock Live, Hollywood Thursday, September 21, 2011 Better Than: A Thursday night bedroom extravaganza in which you are simultaneously Gloria Gaynor, the Village People and the entire audience. Disco gets a bad rep. But you gotta remember: after the tumultuous Civil Rights-Vietnam-Nixon era…
Bad BrainsWith Birdhand and Furious Dudes Revolution, Fort Lauderdale Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Better Than: Any of the Henry Rollins / Bad Brains collabos. The Reunion Mania of the 2000s is a curious phenomenon. Sometimes (usually?) it’s all a bunch of nostalgic, cash-in bullshit. Every now and then — like, for example,…
In honor of the upcoming Death to the Sun III music festival at the Snooze Theater, County Grind will profile select acts from the lineup.Miami’s Toad Eyes are a band to be watched. Not that we have any idea where they’re going. But that’s a big part of the allure…
In honor of the upcoming Death to the Sun III music festival at the Snooze Theater, County Grind will profile select acts from the lineup.Though 90s Teen self-identifies as a revisionist grunge band conducting an exercise in nu-retro stylistics, the trio — comprised of frequent collaborators, bassist Rick Diaz and…
The original running of DIY experimental music festival Death to the Sun occurred in September of 2009 at Harvey’s by the Bay at the MiMO (“Miami Modern”) American Legion outpost. It was a 12-hour local music marathon and, as curator Ricardo Guerrero describes it, “the ultimate farewell-to-summer party.” That first…
Swans With Sir Richard Bishop and Axe & the Oak Respectable Street, West Palm Beach September 14, 2011 View a slideshow from the concert hereLast night, Swans, as led by frontman Michael Gira, lived up to every last bit of hype concerning volume, textural intensity and the laboriousness of their…
photo by bleedingpalm.comThe world is noisy, and so is Kenny Millions. In honor of the upcoming Death to the Sun III music festival at the Snooze Theater, County Grind will be profiling select acts from the lineup. Kenny Millions grew up on the West Side of Detroit, about a mile…
Addressing Dr. Know, founding guitarist and lone constant for Washington, D.C., hardcore outfit Bad Brains, is a tricky proposition. For more than three decades, Gary Miller has used the play-on-a-James-Bond-villain handle, and calling him much else would border on insult. Still, should an interview begin with Mr. Doctor Know —…
The sensitive MC has always been a rare figure in hip-hop. Although the early 2000s did see a spike in “politically conscious” backpack rappers like Talib Kweli and Mos Def (both of whom took a page from Common’s socio-empathetic rhyme book), it’s been 99 percent bitches, guns, money, and so…
Pairing guitarist Sir Richard Bishop with the punishing, grandiose power of Michael Gira’s Swans may seem like a curious partnership. But don’t forget: The maestro of Swans is all about a swinging pendulum of extremities, from loud to quiet and back again. These subtle sonic nuances may often go overlooked…
Swans founder and lone constant Michael Gira objects to the suggestion that the recent activity from his legendary, long-dormant band constitutes a reunion. With the release of the irrepressibly dark and loud outfit’s first full-length in 13 years and comprehensive international tour dates — featuring slots at big-name festivals like…
When it comes to music from South Florida, all of the big names are either Gloria Estefan or rappers. Who’s got time for rock ‘n’ roll when you’ve got a region full of people constantly blasting the trap-rap bangers of Rick Ross, dancing in the street to the Latin-tinged hip-hop…
Hawkwind were hippies who stayed hippies after Altamont, Nixon and the still roaring Vietnam War were seriously bumming out flower power muppet babies across the world. While many late ’60s/early ’70s rock ensembles jumped the Free Love ship into the shadowy waters of sign-of-the-times darkness (the Stooges, Velvet Underground and…
What’s Yr Damage?with SSLOT and OutmodeSnooze TheatreMonday, August 15Better than: WWE Monday Night Raw In the subjective opinion of this County Grind contributor, last night’s show at Snooze Theater in Lake Park was perfect. The Snooze itself is dangerously close to ideal — with its cheap drinks, tucked-away location, charming…
New Jersey’s Saves the Day was a benchmark of late-’90s, mall-friendly pop-punk emo. Frontman Chris Conley sang the same kinda songs about girls with the same eunuch-nasal vocals as all the band’s nationwide suburban peers. But he also slipped in an extra little darkness. His take on teenage white male…
Get ready, Fort Lauderdale: Off! is coming to town. In the years since the advent of Fucked Up, nothing has tickled the indie-rock blogosphere’s punky bone quite like this hardcore supergroup. Since 2009, they’ve been pumping out singles — collected recently by Vice Records as the First Four EPs CD…
Today marks the 48th anniversary of the birth of Artis Leon Ivey Jr., the rapper, Celebreality star, and Juggalo known as the immortal Coolio. “Gangsta’s Paradise” was one of the most infectious film tie-in slash summer jams of the ’90s (see also: Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody” and the essential soundtrack…
