Last Friday, County Grind committed third degree black belt content regurgitation with TMZ’s exclusive scoop on Cee Lo Green’s ecstasy sleazery. See also- Five Questions about Cee Lo Green’s Alleged Ecstasy Sleazery Allegedly, the R&B/rapsensation turned pop culture megastar slipped a woman a Mickey and then sexually assaulted her. We had…
In terms popular culture relevancy — which in the ’90s, was defined by authoritative standard-bearers, like Casey Kassem and Carson Daly, and populist statistics, like record sales and call-in votes — Filter peaked early.See alsoP.O.D.’s Sonny Sandoval Talks ShipRocked, on Korn and Godsmack: “We’re All Friends” Like many rock and…
According to TMZ, Goodie Mob member and solo vocalist, Cee Lo Green, is wrapped up in some messy, confusing shit. It’s a like a he-said, she-said warzone out there. And Green is trying to avoid a cap in his ass. The charges are grizzly: The Top 40 superstar is being accused of…
Y’know those hipsterish-y music videos that are, like, quickly flashing images depicting beautiful people, mad thriftable knickknacks and internetty whimsicality? Well, the video for Ice Cube’s new single, “Everythang’s Corrupt” is similar. Only instead of topless models wearing Zoro masks doing the Macarena and squirrels with eyepatches smoking cigarettes, the…
Look we love half nekkid gals and candy as much as the next hairy-palmed, heavy-breathing content gimp. But, at the end of the day, there’s no denying that Halloween belongs — ultimately and truly — to one key demographic: Kids. See also – Rihanna and Chris Brown Together Again Is Seriously Confusing- Leave Rihanna and…
The serious trick-or-treater doesn’t just wander around his neighborhood aimlessly knocking on doors, hoping the residents are home and have candy.See also- Halloween Guide 2012 for Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach County- My All Time Best Musical Halloween Costumes; From James Hetfield to Bjork- Six Drugs That Britney Spears Could Have…
Five years after YouTube shriek freak Chris Crocker implored the world to “Leave Britney alone,” the pop music megastar’s former manager isn’t getting the hint.For one reason or another, Sam Lufti just won’t shut the fuck up about alleged drug use Spears partook in during the mid-2000s, when she just…
Starting with 1976’s raucous Dreamboat Annie, sisters Nancy and Ann Wilson — the hard-rockin’ masterminds behind Heart — played a critical role in the history of womankind’s right to rock. The Wilsons, with the help of assorted, equally heavy backup shredders, earned the distinction of being called “the female Zeppelin.”…
Keller Williams has been a fixture of the post-Dead hippie jam band circuit since the early ’90s. The scene can arguably be traced back to the o.g. wave of 1960s psychedelia. The jam band circuit, as it exists today, fermented in the twin wake of North America’s obsession with festivals,…
Of the myriad musical artists reuniting, playing albums from start-to-finish, and generally milking their previous achievements for every last drippity-drop of nostalgia dough it’s worth, no band better fits into the contemporary rock schema than the Psychedelic Furs. Long before U2, R.E.M., and even the Smiths were cranking out arena-friendly…
Not entirely sure what LOLing about homeless people has to do with getting married but, uh, pop sensation Justin Timberlake and actress Jessica Biel are in hot shit after a video was screened during their wedding reception that did exactly that. According to TMZ, the video’s creators paid homeless people…
Die Antwoord Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale October 22, 2012 Better Than: 99.9% of live music events. Ostensibly, Die Antwoord is weird. As far as you or I can tell — with our normal (and/or normally-hip) lifestyles — they are a pair of entertainers that are fucked up, strange and/or wholly personify…
The Haitian music industry has been rocked by the suicide of promoter Joseph Kernizan. The 49-year-old agent was a rep for megapopular Haitian konpa band NuLook, until he tragically took his own life Tuesday night. But this lurid story doesn’t stop there. Kernizan’s self-snuffing occurred in the midst of a…
Our interview was supposed to be scheduled with David Brockie, the mastermind behind long-running theatrical rock outfit GWAR. But when we called the number given to us by the band’s manager, the phone rang one and a half measures before we heard the booming voice of a used-car salesman moonlighting…
Rap music and pornography go together like love and marriage, which, in turn, go together like a horse and carriage. Try playing 90 percent of hip-hop for your parents and, almost immediately, the genre’s persistent obsession with the world of quiver-inducing carnal delights will either gravely offend them or make…
Our interview was supposed to be scheduled with David Brockie, the mastermind behind long-running theatrical rock outfit GWAR. But when we called the number given to us by the band’s manager, the phone rang one and half measures before we heard the booming voice of a used car salesman moonlighting…
Do you long for the golden age of pop-punk-with-horns otherwise known as the 1990s? Of course you do! Everybody loves the ’90s! Can you think of a better way to express your deepest nostalgia for the blowjob-laden Clinton Era than by celebrating one of the decade’s biggest reggae-rockers, Sublime? You’ll…
Cash Money mogul Birdman (aka Baby), has purchased a 9-bedroom, 17-bath mega-mansion complete with 25-foot ceilings, in-house spa and gym, a theater and a fucking cabana. All this a week after we at County Grind heard thirdhand that he was crashing at the Diplolmat on Hollywood Beach. The intense luxuriousness…
The internet has been straight-up shitting its already caked pantaloons over the latest Texas tour-bus drug bust, this time featuring rapper/actor Nelly. See also: – Nelly and Crew Busted in Texas With 36 Bags of Heroin, Ten Pounds of Weed, and a Loaded GunThe twist? Alongside the usual firearms (a…
History shows that it can take a good long while to really break through in the hip-hop game. This is true, even more so when rapping is your second attempt to claim some fame in this lifetime (#YOLO gone wrong). Though you may be a natural at wrestling, basketball, or…
Remember the Ataris? Yeah, neither do we. OK, we’re J/King. Despite our greatest efforts (opiates, hypnotism, sensory deprivation tanks), we remember the fucking Ataris. In case your own memory needs some jogging, here are all of the necessary hash tags: #pop-punk, #emo, #late 90s, #early 00s, #makeoutclub, #sanddimashighschoolfootballrules.Are we up to speed?…
For reasons that have still yet to be revealed, Rick Ross has a new mixtape out titled The Black Bar Mitzvah, featuring cover art depicting the heavyweight rapper covered in fur and, uh, the star of David. The only thing weirder than the Teflon Don converting to the world’s oldest…
