Vanilla Ice’s Top Five Rappers Didn’t Include Insane Clown Posse

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…

Radio-Active Records’ Top 5 Releases for October 19-25

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…

Y100 Jingle Ball 2010 Lineup, From Best to Worst

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…

Video: Kanye West’s “Runaway” Is 34:32 Long — Be Warned

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…

Blond Fuzz Album Release Delayed, But an EP Coming Instead

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…

This Week in Print: 7 Walkers and Ladies of Invisible Music

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…

MP3: Ghost Arm at Flaunt Thursday Tonight

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…

Video: Glasser’s “Mirrorage” Directed by Carlos Charlie Perez

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…

Photo: Local Musicians’ Baby a Prenatal Metalhead

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…

Ghost Arm Brings Gritty Hip-Hop to Flaunt Thursday

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…

Radio-Active Records’ Top 5 Releases for October 12-18

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…

Is Beyoncé Pregnant This Time? Twitter’s Response Mixed

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”…

Do the Vivian Girls Even Know About the Miami Music Festival?

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…

Slideshow: Flaming Lips at Sunset Cove Amphitheater, October 16

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…