Hey Monday is heading back on the road for a month of headlining dates between October 20 and November 27 — that last one is a performance at Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale. This string of performances follows a lengthy summer trek along with the Vans Warped Tour. The group…
The wiseacre South Florida/United Kingdom hip-hop collective Wizard Sleeve point enormous pointy purple hats at a legion of models clad in American Apparel-style gold lame and acid-wash denim in the new video for “Hipster Slut,” released Sunday. Subtle and/or tasteful would not be the ways to describe the body-painted debauchery…
Wanna worship in the temple of rock on Sunday (August 22) morning? Boca Raton trio Blond Fuzz is filming a music video in West Palm Beach for “Black Magic Touch,” the first single from its forthcoming album, Perfect Breakfast. Regular New Times contributor Ian Witlen is filming the clip and…
Adult contemporary radio programmers have got to be already scrambling to come up with a way to repackage Cee-Lo’s new song, “Fuck You.” Although this song is more of a Sunday-morning Al Green gospel tune than the peppy “Crazy” or the salacious “Pimps Don’t Cry,” crossover success is imminent. Judging…
Earlier this week, Riviera Beach rap producer Noah “10 Pound” Saunders was found dead with a gunshot wound to his torso after his silver Toyota Corolla crashed into a tree in the Westgate section of West Palm Beach. He was 23.According to witness reports, two men were seen fleeing the…
County Grind tends to enjoy the writings of Anthony Miccio, and his modestly titled blog Anthony is Right, so it was great pleasure that we see him posting a song today from his favorite band in the entire galaxy, Electric Six. For those with spotty memories, this is the very…
Subjects of one of the most factually accurate interviews ever conducted by County Grind, Lake Worth shed-rockers Love Handles recently unveiled 12 new two-minute jams. The majority of these were assembled with the assistance of Roberto Pagano, who captured them while studying at SAE and has also worked with Miami…
Only 19, local rapper of County Grind’s affection J-O is young enough to be Debbie Harry’s grandson, which makes the strains of “Atomic” on his just-released mixtape Speakers Blow even more endearing. The song uncorking the Blondie snippet is “Make It Magnificent” — and it does. Other curiosities strictly on…
Experimental sound collage specialist Hear Hums, also host of one of the most committed indie music blogs in South Florida, just let a new track from its forthcoming Psyche Cycles bubble up. Streaming at Dead as Digital, “Sunsoaked” is the West Palm Beach collective displaying a mastery of adding new…
Adventurous wax purists, unite! Listen to a bizarre sampling of musical obscura from around the globe during Radio-Active Records’ “Continental Drift” event featuring the Bally-Hi Soundsystem on Saturday.Sounds from all over the map — both geographically and stylistically — make up this audio game of truth or dare that could…
Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino looks beyond comfortable in a shirt and tie. So do vocalist Paul Banks, guitarist Daniel Kessler, and now-departed bassist Carlos Dengler — and the New York band’s GQ, stiff-upper-lip aesthetic has arguably helped heighten its noir postpunk beyond leagues of other acts inspired by Joy Division…
Since the release of Illmatic in the mid-’90s, Nasir Jones has kept the increasingly ringtone-ready hip-hop genre alive with anthemic tales of the street that are as clever as they are detailed. The storied New York rapper and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley wove together a passionate, brutal performance at the…
Adventurous wax purists, unite! Listen to a bizarre sampling of musical obscura from around the globe during Radio-Active Records’ “Continental Drift” event featuring the Bally-Hi Soundsystem. Sounds from all over the map — both geographically and stylistically — make up this audio game of truth or dare that could end…
That’s right. The Doggfather himself is set to blaze up Roxy’s Pub in West Palm Beach this Labor Day (Sunday, September 5). Roxy’s has already launched several contests to drum up support over at the Facebook invite for the event, including: “Whoever uploads the best bong hit video to Roxy’s…
From the same sort of minds that introduced us to the obscenity-laced “Read a Book” a few years back comes the sweet and slightly shrill “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury” by Rachel Bloom. Taking place in a high school, the video has all the come-ons of a pop song — and…
This year marks a couple of big milestones for Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino. He has been with his current band for a decade. One of his previous outfits, South Florida’s own the Holy Terrors, got its start 20 years ago. Both bands come up in this week’s music feature, because…
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. As one of the world’s preeminent dubstep DJs, Briton Skream is in similar company with premier bike messengers, mumblecore directors, and…
Somewhere, T-Pain is nodding in approval. According to Sharyn Peach, mouthpiece for local hair-metal act and 2009 Readers Poll winner BitchFire, U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene’s yacht was the best party on the high seas. “I saw more tits and ass in one night on Jeff Greene’s Summerwind than I…
Zachary Dewar (left) has confirmed to County Grind that he and his twin brother, Anthony (right), who perform Everglades psychedelic folk as the Dewars, will hit the road later this fall with their buddies in Surfer Blood and the Drums. The dates of the Dewars/Drums/SB overlap are October 3 in…
“We initially planned on playing Limp Bizkit’s ‘Break Stuff,’ and that evolved into a Kid Cudi song, and that evolved into ‘Roses’ by OutKast,” says John O’Callaghan, singer for Arizona pop-punk act the Maine (we don’t get it either), regarding taking on the supercharged, choco-thunder, Prince-inspired OutKast classic “Roses” in…
Guy HarveyWith the JamesesThe Vagabond, MiamiFriday, August 13, 2010Miami’s unkempt beard quotient went through the roof on Friday with two rough-and-tumble indie-rock acts from Palm Beach County and a lot of their friends infiltrating the sleek downtown venue the Vagabond. The occasion: the official release of Guy Harvey’s debut seven-inch,…
Now that the Honeycomb’s Steve Rullman has shifted his focus to Lake Worth’s Little Munich, Cecil Lunsford’s Shaman Stick Productions has stepped in to structure programming at Propaganda. In a news release, SSP confirms that Justin Thompson, Mauricio Guerrero, and J.J. Contramus will continue with some of the venue’s bookings,…
