Although Hey Monday vocalist Cassadee Pope is only five weeks shy of her 22nd birthday, she’s racked up more legal trouble than most people see in a lifetime. We recently reported on the $50 million lawsuit filed by her managers for six years, Driven Entertainment Group, and have since discussed…
Here’s an interesting concept for anyone trying to make money selling remixes of songs they don’t have permission to remix: Make the consumer pick up the tab for you.Legitmix, which as been in private beta since March, just released a new Diplo mixtape today called Mad Legit. The known purveyor…
Local eclectic songcrafter Mike Mineo could probably be a yarn-spinner in his spare time if he didn’t possess such a marvelous set of pipes and some impossible-to-ignore candor.Pick up this week’s music section (or click here) to read Alex Rendon’s illuminating story about the creation of Mineo’s latest disc, Beach…
A clip accompanying Noah Wall’s “Mind Games” continues our fascination with the directorial work of Carlos Charlie Perez, who was sprung from beginnings in South Florida to a successful music video career in New York. Read New Times’ feature on him here.With the minimalist touches of Brooklynite Wall’s synthesizer score…
If there was ever a moment to top Tom Cruise’s epic volleyball scene from Top Gun, this is it. As mentioned last week, the cast of the Rock of Ages movie is going to rip the (nonexistent) roof off Sun Life Stadium from 1 p.m. until they finish.Bon Jovi’s “Wanted:…
Normal American Sex (Surfer Blood)With Band in Heaven and This Heart ElectricRespectable Street, West Palm BeachSaturday, July 16, 2011Better than: Your average cover band.With all four members of Surfer Blood onstage, Saturday’s performance at Respectable Street had the appearance of so many of the past for this local indie-rock success…
Wiz KhalifaWith Big Sean and Chevy WoodsSunset Cove Amphitheater, Boca RatonFriday, July 15, 2011Better than: Not wearing bug repellent.Here is a full 35-photo slide show from the Wiz Khalifa show.For the large crowd assembled at Sunset Cove, there would’ve been precious little better than Wiz Khalifa and Taylor Gang rolling…
Well, the giddy acoustic flourishes of Guster and Jack’s Mannequin’s slickly honed alt-rock are apparently not amphitheater-worthy in South Florida this time around.The two bands’ joint summer tour will not take place at the 3,000-capacity Pompano Beach Amphitheatre but will be moved indoors to Revolution, which holds about 1,000. Sluggish…
We are now at the finish line. DJ Khaled’s Cash Money debut, We the Best Forever, is out next Tuesday. After many, many, many months of buildup since “Welcome to My Hood” entered our consciousness back in January, the rollout has been steady.Most will hold every Khaled track to come…
Tom Cruise’s Rock of Ages filming has moved away from Fort Lauderdale, and into Miami-Dade. Before the big event next Monday at Sun Life Stadium (find out how to be in the movie here), Crossfade’s Marta Xochilt Perez has an excellent set of photographs up showing Miami doing its best…
Back in December, the excitement was ramping up for Poison frontman Bret Michaels’ Super Cruise. County Grind’s Travis Newbill even coined the phrase “Rock of Love… Boat” for the four-day party heading from Miami to Cozumel set for this November. However, further proof that every rose has its prickly thorn,…
J. Cole, Roc Nation’s first signee, is all raw potential at this stage. He has spoken to the streets via high-profile mixtapes that include his own beat production, and his clean-cut playboy rhymes, exhibited in “In the Morning” and “Work Out,” are ready for a pop audience. In anticipation of…
The time has come to thread together every single local art discipline under one roof. ArtServe’s annual “Red Eye” event, now in its sixth year, fuses the loftiest gallery art, gritty street creations, short film, poetry, installations, and live music into an invigorating onslaught that will surprise, shock, and inspire.The…
In a post-Drake world, respected hip-hop superstars can be pulled from almost any sort of background. Consider Jermaine Cole, who raps as J. Cole and was the first signee to Roc Nation, Jay-Z’s partnership with concert giant Live Nation. He’s a well-spoken guy from North Carolina who studied communications at…
Look, people. The burden of creativity has to be occasionally usurped by the sheer joy of reporting something truly breathtaking and wonderful. Elvis (the living one) is coming to South Florida in our lifetime. So take your vitamins and observe that Declan Patrick MacManus will be in the local area…
If there was any hesitation about attending the Identity Festival at Miami’s Bayfront Park in August, it had better not be about the ticket price. The traveling electronic music fest has just launched a 20-hour fire sale on admission lasting until 5 a.m. Thursday that slashes it down to just…
Perhaps Lil Wayne has softened a bit in his late 20s. A couple of years back, he was telling Katie Couric, “I am a gangsta, Miss Katie. I don’t take nothing from no one. I do what I wanna do.” But today he dropped a mixtape apologizing (!) for the…
In a post-Bruise Cruise world, virtually no musician is above hitting the high seas for an indie-rock adventure. Look no further than the Weezer Cruise, which sets sail January 19-23, 2012, from Miami to Cozumel, Mexico. “Island in the Sun” is so on repeat!Although County Grind has expressed some concerns…
As South Florida dashboards become blister centers of heat and doom, it’s apparent that the Jacuzzi Boys’ “Cool Vapors” couldn’t have come soon enough. The first MP3 to emerge from the trio’s Hardly Art debut, Glazin’, is a riotous bit of fun. This song is keyed in perfectly to the…
R&B genre bender Lloyd is back with his finest album yet, King of Hearts, and last week he showed off one of the finest skull tattoos ever inked. Now before you get it twisted, this is not a tattoo of a skull, but it’s wrapping around the back of the…
These days, most mediaphiles can look forward to a clever new Tumblr page only every so often to fulfill their reading appetite, so the debut issue of No Tofu magazine is quite a contrast. We stumbled across the daring publication over the weekend at the Snooze Theatre. Since it was…
Last Friday, County Grind jumped all over a particularly charged note posted by Forward Motion Records scion Fernando Perdomo. The gist: There’s too much crappy noise rock being created locally, and the music press is drooling all over it (definitely scroll down and read the comments too). Since then, my…
