A lot has happened in the six years that Floridas Dying has been around: the Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s moon, Titan, the Stardust spacecraft returned to Earth and, in that same geographically-disconnected vein, the world above this isolated state starting paying more attention to its musical stirrings. This could…
Based upon its fiery live act, Lavola was picked from a slew of equally great local bands to open for Silversun Pickups earlier this year. This feat earned the West Palm Beach trio even more of the attention it so deserves — but singer-guitarist Julian Cires, bassist Matt Hanser, and…
County Grind is counting down the best local albums in South Florida. Read the rest of the top ten here.The story behind Judson Rogers’ first full-length is chock full of subcultural trivia, travel stories and leaked singles. “Samo” is a reference to both Jean-Michel Basquiat’s former tag name and the…
Zitfest Day 2With Sumsun, the Dewars, Plains, the Monster, This Heart Electric, LLLR, Little Beard, Teepee, Go Ghosts, Band in Heaven, Guy Harvey, the Jameses, and Love Handles.The Orange Door, Lake ParkSaturday, December 18, 2010Read Day 1 coverage here.The seriously anticipated second day of Zitfest lived up to all the…
County Grind is counting down the best local albums in South Florida. Monitor our progress here.Holding the Jameses’ first release in your hand is to understand near-perfection. The killer cover art, the equally haunting tracks on both sides. It is, dare we say, poised. Of the trio’s two murky, slow-moving…
A musical starring Travulous & Friends, goodies for sale, local bands, and candy canes: This sounds like a stimulus overload, but it’s all holiday magic.Travulous was once described by our own Erica K. Landau as a “glam-fab superstar,” a wonderman with a Ziggy Stardust steez. This was last summer, when…
With Shake Off the Dust… Arise’s release in 2005, Matisyahu initially seemed like a cultural hybrid who could exist only as a postmodern gimmick: a Phishhead who became a Hasidic Jew rapping in Rastafarian inflections. Here’s the thing, though: He’s so earnest, so true to his faith, and such a…
Harry Merry isn’t technically free jazz or elemental jazz in practice. But the Netherlander’s uninhibited, avant-garde approach pairs nicely with any free-flowing and experimental music and shows a creator fully absorbed by his subconscious. Thus, his inclusion in Radio-Active Records’ third Continental Drift music night, which will focus on jazz’s…
The best Thanksgiving mix doesn’t have to be thematic — as with all music that accompanies a gathering like the one Thanksgiving requires, it should be easy to listen to, unrecognizably pleasant: background music. But our goal here isn’t necessarily to give you songs to accompany the event. It’s to…
A bounty of local and semilocal musicians will converge upon Pompano Beach’s Edge Logistics — a killer name for a venue — for the Trash to Treasure event Saturday. With Orlando’s Emily Reo and her gossamer melodies plus soundscape virtuoso Sumsun leading the way, the night’s potential to take the…
The best art openings don’t need to contain exhibits that go together; in fact, sometimes it’s important that they don’t, in order to produce in the viewer vastly different feelings and sensations in one evening — it’s like traveling. The directors of 18 Rabbit Gallery, Leah Brown and Peter Symons,…
The pop culture represented at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade spans a weird gamut. According to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade website, the giant balloons this year represent Diary of a Wimpy Kid (very current), a Smurf (The Smurfs, a film, is set for release around August 2011 – promotion!),…
Whoa! A bounty of local and semilocal musicians will converge upon Pompano Beach’s Edge Logistics — a killer name for a venue — for an event bearing the name Trash to Treasure set for Saturday, November 27. With Orlando’s Emily Reo and her notably gossamer melodies leading the way, plus…
South Florida’s relationship with local foods is a conundrum: The soil is rich and the climate is suitable for plenty of organic, local produce to be available year-round, yet accessibility to that would-be cornucopia is limited. The mission of the Yellow Green Market, which opened in Hollywood this fall, is…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, West Palm Beach’s (and New York City’s) Tumbleweave.Tumbleweave is Ben Mendelewicz and Matt Cutler, who make irreverent songs that…
To be clear, this post is equally about the song above and what’s finally going on today. Vote Sumsun at your favorite digital retailer!After so many months of obsessing over Sumsun’s upcoming — or “impending,” given the reverberating prettiness of this guy’s early tracks — album, Samo Milagro, you are…
Courtney HambrightGlimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Fort Lauderdale’s Sweet Bronco. Chris Horgan laid the foundation for Sweet Bronco some years ago, exclusively playing acoustic…
Rachel KnightGlimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, former West Palm Beach residents Hear Hums.Hear Hums stretches the boundaries of a proper band to include a…
Stephanie Rae Berzon of Nozreb.comGlimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Coral Springs’ Millionyoung.A proper interview with Millionyoung’s Mike Diaz is long overdue. Since getting his…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Sumsun.It’s hard to talk about Sumsun without mentioning the redundant “chillwave” or its sister term, “glo-fi.” Sumsun has all…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, West Palm Beach’s Shit Ton of Funk.Shit Ton of Funk — with a name like that, little is left…
Sleepy SunWith Strangers Family Band, Blond Fuzz, the DewarsRespectable Street, West PalmTuesday, September 14, 2010 With at least one new venue appearing and the mainstays suddenly more appealing to out-of-towners, it isn’t difficult to get weird in West Palm: For a Tuesday night at Respectable Street to start with the…
