Plenty of excitement that Cee Lo Green will get a televised reward for his masterful The Ladykiller album in the form of a musical performance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Until the Georgia Power tour with Big Boi starts circulating, this is how we’ll get to see the Goodie Mob…
Forget everything you think you know about the banjo. It’s a new year, so it’s as good a time as any to let the Atlanta alt-folk troupe the Back Pockets teach you something new about the instrument’s possibilities. Over the course of the lovingly crafted Blissters N Basements album, the…
Carlos Charlie Perez wants to make a feature film someday. The South Florida native who specializes in music videos told us as much in a music feature last fall. During our visit to his New York studio space, plans were beginning to come together for his collaboration with Opening Ceremony,…
Now listening to M.I.A.’s second mixtape of her career, Vicki Leekx. This 36-minute single track emerged over the weekend, and it seems to be no less fiery than MAYA, an album we actually liked in spite of the massive truffle fry inconsistencies (“Born Free” video wasn’t exactly kind to ginger-haired…
Before we get to Enrique Iglesias’ ribald new single, let’s think back to 1997. At that time, we were entering a brave new era when mainstream R&B singers could be just as lascivious and graphic in their lyrics as they were as people. No more clever metaphors, no more beating…
After joining the New Times Broward Palm Beach music section in late February, it has been a humbling year of catching up. There were bands that I probably should have first caught back before I was old enough to drink (Smashing Pumpkins and Naughty by Nature), a few concerts in…
Over the course of a year, County Grind offers up a lot of music at the affordable price of free. Much of this tuneage is home-grown, and reflects the boundless interests of the local freelance corps contributing to the blog. Area hip-hop, goth, electronica, punk, folk, and ska all got…
Oh, has the world changed, or have we changed? Arguably, it’s a bit of both coming to play in West Palm Beach rock trio Lavola’s latest single, “The Queen Is Dead.” Just to get the question on newcomers’ minds out of the way, no, this is not a cover of…
On this second to last day of December, there are plenty of reasons to cling onto the last scraps of 2010. After all, this was the year of County Grind’s birth — as well as Celine Dion’s twins. However, there’s a seedier side of this idyllic paradise we call home…
It’s a sign the South Florida bass scene has finally arrived (again!) that a once-fringe dubstep act now promises to fill Revolution — and with only local supporting acts, to boot. Frequent attendees of parties like Get Low in Miami will recognize recurring favorite Borgore. But this gig (presented in…
Invisible Music’s John Ralston gets into the holiday spirit with the b-side off his new single “Jesus Christ” single, “A Marigny Christmas,” which has all of the acoustic warmth of a solid-stone hearth — even if that isn’t all that necessary in sub-70 degree South Florida weather. With some lightly…
Intergalactic surf rockers the Gutter Queens ensure that every willing participant can have a very retro and ribald Christmas this year at the Monterey Club. Led by guitarist-vocalist Ryan Black, the Coconut Creek natives (currently students at USF in Tampa) do a mean rendition of Dick Dale’s “Misirlou” dubbed “Gutterlou.”…
The methodology for this list was simple: Any local recording that made a huge impact in 2010 would be considered. This included EPs, mixtapes, Mediafire .zip files, Bandcamp profiles, split cassettes, and ringtones. Music consumption in South Florida shouldn’t be confined by technicalities or “official release dates” — that would…
Earlier this month, outgoing Governor Charlie Crist, recent Doors convert Alex Sink, and the two other members of the Florida clemency board issued a full pardon to frontman Jim Morrison for a 40-year-old indecency charge that remained on his record at the time of his death in 1971. County Grind…
No, County Grind is not a consistent source of couture commentary, but everyone needs a clean T-shirt or a ready-made gift idea from time to time. Since this one comes courtesy of a brick-and-mortar music purveyor, we’ll bite. Add that Radio-Active Records’ line of T’s is not emblazoned with the…
Fanfare here goes to Lee Zimmerman for tracking down some fascinating details of the 1969 Palm Beach Pop Festival. It was a bit like Woodstock, and the Rolling Stones performed, but no one’s talking about it now. Documentarian Ken Davidoff (oldrockphoto.com) and his co-producer on the project, Jack Connell, are…
As much as County Grind would love to associate its comments section with the happy realm of online concert ticket purchases, that Captcha feature that made you type in a random series of garbled numbers and letters is gone. Captcha is released, unpenned, and unassociated with us anymore.What comes instead…
Although Conor Oberst is far too prolific to ever stop putting out records, he managed to put three years of space between entries in his flagship enterprise. Bright Eyes is back with a vengeance on the first single off The People’s Key, “Shell Games.” With a production style on this…
The final piece of County Grind’s coverage of Zitfest, a two-day musical engorgement on the forehead of South Florida that proved impossible to ignore, is this collection of photographs lovingly compiled by Monica McGivern. This welcome introduction of 19 bands to Lake Park’s Orange Door — facilitated in part by…
County Grind is counting down the best local albums in South Florida. Monitor our progress here.Time to embrace Love Handles, one of the umpteen projects featuring the prolific team of lead singer/guitarist C.J. Jankow and organist/drummer Jordan Pettingill. In addition to the guys’ gifts for sly, deadpan wordplay and spooky…
“I just had sex, and I’ll never go back/ to the not having sex ways of the past,” Akon croons in stylishly auto-tuned fashion on the Lonely Island’s latest single, “I Just Had Sex.” The song, which premiered on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, picks up the intensity where…
Happy Holidays from the Jameses, who have been instrumental in getting the inaugural Zitfest together. Although the guys are generally reluctant to be photographed, as was made clear in my interview with them this week, there are always exceptions.On to their gift to you: tonight and tomorrow’s schedule for Zitfest…
