Anthony and Zachary Dewar used to live in New Zealand, but nothing could prepare them for the journey they experienced with their band as the opening act for Surfer Blood and the Drums this fall. Well, actually, they seemed pretty prepared. As reported back in August, this stint fell between…
Major labels of late have rush-released promotional videos to lock up YouTube advertising dollars — and these have generally featured songs we like. See recent smashes by Cee Lo, My Chemical Romance, and Pink. Now the man born Thomas DeCarlo Callaway has returned with another single from The Lady Killer,…
Music video director and South Florida native Carlos Charlie Perez welcomed County Grind into his New York workspace in September for the filming of Los Angeles synth artist Glasser’s “Mirrorage” video. The results color a profile of Perez featured in this week’s music section. This represents his 15th project –…
To quell the pain besieging fellow employees at the New Times Broward Palm Beach, we announce with pleasure that Randy Moss will not be suiting up in a Dolphins uniform. The past couple of days yielded some serious digs (not Diggs, however) against Moss, a former Viking-Raider-Patriot-Viking who apparently spends…
Carlos Charlie Perez is lip-synching with a pen as his microphone. Bulbs powerful enough for an entire stage illuminate his animated face, painted with a slightly hammy smile and peeking out from under a mop of dark brown hair. A wood-paneled cylinder with rainbow-splashed walls about 16 feet in diameter…
This week sees the release of the CompOWLation Vol. 1, a collection of songs recorded by student artists in Florida Atlantic University’s Commercial Music program. To kick off the release, Whole Foods Market (across the street from the FAU campus) in Boca Raton is hosting a release party on Friday…
County Grind and Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records hook up to discuss each week’s finest new releases in Moving Units. This week, The Fool by Los Angeles indie-rock group Warpaint.”Warpaint’s debut LP, The Fool, has become one of my favorite records of the past few months. All the essentials are here:…
View a slideshow from the concert here.La RouxWith Francis & the Lights and Panic BomberCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleMonday, November 1, 2010Better than: A canceled show.La Roux’s Elly Jackson is a radiant creature, from her soap-white skin, sturdy fingers, elastic legs, and, naturally, her perfectly coifed rust-colored hair. Heartbreak is her…
Good idea: Pairing Ray LaMontagne’s delightful scratch with a lesser-known Bob Dylan gem that gained a new life through its association with “The Dude,” Donny Kerabatsos, and Walter Sobchak. “The Man in Me” is featured in the opening credits of The Big Lebowski, and it arguably is as essential to…
Miami post-punk outfit Astari Nite just premiered a new video for “True Romance” that will send fans of Anton Corbijn’s moody, black-and-white imagery into a blissful state. The clip was created by Artex Productions.For those who need to see frontman Mychael Ghost’s seductive, asymmetrical tendrils up-close, the quartet is set…
Photographer Alex Markow was on the scene for the second day of Lake Worth’s Halloween Street Scene & Soul Parade festivities. Belly dancing for even the littlest of angels, and a whole lot of homegrown rock. As it turns out, Surfer Blood’s performance would be the first of two on…
View a detailed, 50-photo Moonfest slideshow featuring amazing costumes and performances right here.MoonfestWith a Place to Bury Strangers, Weird Wives, Surfer Blood, the Freakin Hott, the Band in Heaven, a Hunter’s Pace, Woodmen Hall, Bladesong, June Bug & the Reborn Highway, the Clementines, and Under Every Green Tree.500 block of…
West Palm Beach’s Surfer Blood has always done its part to represent what’s really going on in South Florida — good and bad. In the November issue of NYLON (courtesy of Freegums’ Jen Stark), the guys are consulted for a mixtape of Florida bands worth hearing, and among them are…
Along with Cee-Lo and My Chemical Romance, diva-with-an-edge Pink is in on the “take your ubiquitous new song, make a preview of the actual video with the lyrics” thing. “Raise Your Glass” is one of a couple of fresh tracks featured on her Greatest Hits… So Far!!, due out November…
Earlier this week, County Grind highlighted Vanilla Ice’s list of his top five rappers to get a little closer to what the sound of “Born on Halloween,” the South Florida resident’s new track with Insane Clown Posse’s Violent J, would be like. We had no idea we’d hear the line…
It’s a little too perfect that A Place to Bury Strangers is headlining Moonfest 2010. The Brooklyn shoegaze act not only has a name that screams spookiness, but the trio’s history of sheer sheets of noise suggests that the decibel level should stretch all the way up and down West…
Much like Robyn, Little Boots, and Annie, La Roux is another European alt-dance commodity with outlandish hair and songs seemingly too brash for ubiquity in the U.S. Yet La Roux’s flame-maned vocalist Elly Jackson and keyboardist/co-producer Ben Langmaid have infiltrated America (much like Robyn’s brief reign 14 years ago) with…
The Halloween Street Scene & Soul Parade in Lake Worth has added Surfer Blood as a headliner. The four-stage event takes place in the city’s downtown area on Saturday, October 30 (more events are on October 29 as well). Just in case any Surfer Blood fans staring at a calendar…
Reggae singer Gregory Isaacs, best-known for his pure vocal strength on tracks like “Night Nurse,” passed away on Monday in London at age 59 after a battle with cancer. Since then, a number of tributes and eulogies to the “Cool Ruler” have followed. The Jamaica Observer caught up with several…
It was only a matter of time before the Next Media Animation folks were enlisted for a music video — and Diplo and Lil Jon’s “U Don’t Like Me” is ideal. After purposely skewing and adding uncomfortable moments in digital re-creations of Brett Favre screwing up his career, JetBlue flight…
Tonight’s Phoenix show at Fillmore Miami might not have the same OMG/WTF/LOL quotient of the recent Madison Square Garden extravaganza. But it still might. In any case, we know that Wavves will open for the French rockers, and that has a level of intrigue worth showing up early for.Most important,…
Hey, geniuses. This is perhaps your final reminder. Although it’s going to be a very busy weekend of finding the right Nicki Minaj wig or sculpting the best papier-mâché spike to drive through your stomach, take a few minutes to grab a wad of cash. We’ve mentioned the MasterMind Awards…
