This week’s edition of New Times Broward Palm Beach is dressed as an NBA basketball player — or as a drifter dressed like an NBA basketball player. Not bad, but readers of the music section can do more. Halloween is upon us, and there are probably some leather items in…
Our favorite Wellington neighbor, Robert Van Winkle, has been making so much news with his renovation television show, The Vanilla Ice Project (season two just got picked up!), that we’re just catching up with the developments of his next studio album. Titled WTF, this project is due for a November…
In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.The intrigue of the week: Esben and the Witch is an English trio (featuring no one named Esben) ready to cast spells…
Looking for the 2011 lineup? Click here.Although the Y100 Jingle Ball 2010 lineup isn’t posted on the radio station’s site yet and won’t be announced on-air until Friday, Ticketmaster had different ideas. Ten artists who are “subject to change” are listed on the event page right now for the December…
As mentioned, South Florida electronic act Millionyoung had a busy time at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York last week. Evidence of his recent transformation from a one-man act into a full band is on full display in this clip of “Sundreamm,” filmed at the intimate basement venue Cake…
Friday, November 19, is fixing to be a goth holiday of the highest order with a visit by David J scheduled. The bassist, best-known for his tenures with moody, art-punk bands Bauhaus and Love & Rockets, also worked with Perry Farrell in Porno for Pyros and Jane’s Addiction. His scheduled…
That’s a lot of Twix bars. Although Kanye West’s suite of music and visuals from his upcoming My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is entirely safe for work (unlike his supposed “banned” album artwork for the project) — as long as your boss is cool with you streaming video for over…
Kawabungaliztikz is hard to spell and looks like a mouthful to say, but we’re under good authority that the South Florida hip-hop fusion act pronounces it like what you’d yell if you’re about to swing on a vine, and then you wanted to turn that into an academic discipline. In…
According to a little bird in our ear called Blond Fuzz’s Facebook page, the Boca band is “still working on the album” that we reported would be released this weekend and it has been postponed to an unknown future date. That’s getting the bad news out of the way first.Onto…
No one should be surprised that the Black Eyed Peas have yet another hit on their hands. If “I Gotta Feeling” taught us anything (aside from that tonight’s gonna be a good night), it’s that BEP isn’t satisfied to just rock your prom, AKA the place where Taylor Swift and…
Based upon Travis Newbill’s lead feature about Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann’s new band, 7 Walkers, in this week’s music section, the Swamp Thing might be at tonight’s show at Revolution. In addition to the process and personnel behind the band’s boggy, marshy jams, learn here that Kreutzmann is cultivating…
Tonight, Miami hip-hop duo Ghost Arm comes out of the shadows for only its second official performance as part of Flaunt Thursday at Respectable Street.With rhyming schemes this varied, absurdist, and somnambulant, it’s hard not to get a full-on Definitive Jux flashback churning. FIU students and roommates Robert “Rolodex” Hodgkins…
South Florida native Carlos Charlie Perez has just unveiled his latest music video creation, a collaboration with synth-pop singer Glasser for her song “Mirrorage.” As the camera rotates around the cylindrical space, she fades in and out like a transmission from afar.County Grind previously mentioned Perez’s continuing work for the…
This actual sonogram photo comes from Jeff and Susan Snow, both members of the Lake Worth Americana act Invisible Music and subjects of Courtney Hambright’s story about three simultaneously pregnant women associated with the band in this week’s print edition of New Times Broward Palm Beach…
Miami hip-hop duo Ghost Arm comes out of the shadows for only its second official performance as part of Flaunt Thursday at Respectable Street. With rhyming schemes this varied, absurdist, and somnambulant, it’s hard not to get a full-on Definitive Jux flashback churning. FIU students Robert “Rolodex” Hodgkins and David…
Happiness is warm vinyl.In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.Although it’s not County Grind’s policy to meddle into the lives of local record buyers, there seems to be…
The Halloween Street Scene & Soul Parade in Lake Worth has added Surfer Blood as a headliner. The four-stage event takes place along Lake Avenue between Dixie Highway and Federal Highway in the city’s downtown area on Saturday, October 30 (more events are on October 29 as well). Just in…
The new issue of US Weekly seems to think so. According to an anonymous source, Beyoncé Knowles and husband Jay-Z are expecting their first child. She is reportedly in her first trimester. Look to the right of Reese Witherspoon’s “newly engaged” chin, in the middle, got it? “Her Surprise Pregnancy”…
The 2010 CMJ Music Marathon is now in full swing in New York, which means that it has been a full calendar year since the Surfer Blood blog onslaught began — detailed lovingly by Arielle Castillo at the time. Now, as the likes of Salem, How to Dress Well, and…
Our diligent web guru, Devin Desjarlais, posted last week’s “Four Big Problems With the Miami Music Festival Even the Vivian Girls Can’t Fix” on the Vivian Girls’ Facebook page recently and got a reply that got us worried. As is shown above, the reply mentions playing as part of a…
Photo by Kristian AndrewWayne Coyne elevates at Sunset Cove on Saturday.Although there wasn’t as much rampant nudity as some recent Flaming Lips videos might suggest, our slideshow from the band’s show at Sunset Cove in Boca Raton over the weekend shows that things were far from normal.Photographer Kristian Andrew managed…
Canadian superstar Celine Dion has been admitted to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach to prevent early delivery of her twins, according to a statement released by the hospital. If this doesn’t seem like big news, recognize that the twin boys she is set to deliver could possibly…
