West Palm Beach pop-punks Hey Monday, currently on the road for the Vans Warped Tour 2010, are in prime position to release a new EP, Beneath it All, next Tuesday. The six-song collection, including “Don’t Wanna Dance,” is now streaming in its entirety on MySpace. This is the first recording…
The bad boys of Boca Raton, Blond Fuzz, recently passed along the tidbit that its first album since switching the moniker from Stonefox will be out in October. According to frontman Jordan Asher Cruz, the original plan was to record an EP, but the plans got scrapped when there were…
UPDATED: Steve Rullman has posted a statement regarding his new involvement with Little Munich (see below).Big things are under way at Little Munich, the German eatery located in the 800 block of downtown Lake Worth. Several local musicians and others closely associated with the scene already embraced the space as…
County Grind’s assessment of Saturday’s Lake Worth-It 2010 festival in Lake Worth’s Bryant Park summed up the hot, occasionally rainy day celebrating the local scene as a solid first draft for what we hope can be a yearly event. Given that Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes pulled out as the headliner…
Disney darlings the Jonas Brothers already have to elude legions of fans trying to get close to them, so it’s fitting that singer Joe Jonas would tether this rabid support into a charity event. This Labor Day, September 6, supporters can take part in the Joe Jonas iWin 5K Fun…
Umpteen conversations about Lake Worth post-punk outfit Guy Harvey begin with mentions of a T-shirt empire featuring legions of deep-sea delights, but usually matters shift rapidly to the interworkings of one of the area’s best live acts. Finally, the punch of concert climax-inducer “Take Your Time (With Me)” can be…
West Palm Beach indie pop quartet the Clementines recently unveiled a pair of new recordings on its Bandcamp page that nearly made morning coffee superfluous — that’s how much of a positive jolt they pack. “Everything Will Be Okay” was already stuck in County Grind’s head back in June, and…
DJ Steve Aoki provided fuel and hundreds of South Florida’s neon-obsessed revelers provided the fire at Club Cinema’s “If It’s On, It’s Neon” party Tuesday in Pompano Beach. As an attendee of the event, County Grind can confirm that the photos of the young, near-nude, frisky crowd do feature a…
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.About 156,000 people legally purchased the Arcade Fire’s third album, The Suburbs, in its first week of release. Suspicions abound that there…
For the most eclectic of music fans with a penchant for shuffleboard and swans made out of towels, 2011 already promises the Jam Cruise on January 4-11, the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise on January 24-28, the indie-rock Bruise Cruise on February 25-28, and the just-announced New Kids on the…
Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records once again opens its doors to potential demolition by welcoming a collection of unkempt audible abominations Friday. The night’s main course: avant-jazz/noise collage act Kenny Millions. Don’t let this man near your bassoon, for it will be forever corrupted.Add the bracing speaker serration of Last, Drowning…
A few jokes last week regarding the Lost possibilities stemming from Weezer titling its forthcoming album Hurley are enough to feel like one of the Oceanic six today. Hurley’s cover is Hugo “Hurley” Reyes, the band’s first album via Epitaph. Listen to the first single, “Memories,” here. Or maybe this…
This cab driver in The Big Lebowski, and countless other Eagles fans in the area have reason to be excited (even if Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski and County Grind aren’t buying into it). Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit are coming to the BankAtlantic Center on…
Lake Worth-It 2010With John Ralston & Invisible Music, Black Weather Shaman, Black Finger, the Jameses, Guy Harvey, Jesse Baumann, the Dewars, Everymen, Kill Now?!, Sweet Bronco, Yellow #6, Bladesong, the People Upstairs, Angry Pudding, Grey and Orange, Leading the Heroes, the Ridicules, Blond Fuzz, the Hard Richards, and Wayside FlyerBryant…
Cee-Lo Green videos were making County Grind smile all the way back to the “Closet Freak” days and prior. “Pimps Don’t Cry” with sultry Eva Mendes (who knew?) and a funktacular backing ensemble, created for Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg’s goofy buddy cop film The Other Guys, is the kind…
Not much to say about the gorgeous footage combined with County Grind’s favorite Surfer Blood song, aside from that the washed-out Super 8 clips are reminiscent of the washed-out packaging accompanying the Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. Kudos to Cecilia Bodin from Rio de Janeiro for stringing together such a gorgeous…
“You look like a playground to me, player,” a lyric from Of Montreal’s forthcoming False Priest, is one of the myriad ways frontman Kevin Barnes keeps turning heads. Aside from an unpredictable stage show that can involve face paint and coffins filled with shaving cream, this time around, Barnes takes…
If the answer is “no,” head to Propaganda tonight and purchase from the unflappable Dewars, who are playing with our new allies Shit Ton of Funk and the Alphabet (Soup?). Show starts 10 p.m. The Facebook invite is here. If the answer is “not tonight,” then give it a shot…
Florida governor Charlie Crist has filed court papers telling David Byrne that media consultants Stevens and Schriefer Group should be held responsible for the unauthorized use of Talking Heads classic “Road to Nowhere” in a political ad. Back in May, we reported that Byrne was suing Crist for using the…
Well, the first half of that statement is a definite. Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo announced via Twitter on Wednesday that the days with Geffen are over, and they’re moving to the biggest indie punk label around, Epitaph. (Hey, if it worked for the Offspring…) Due September 14, Hurley is the first…
Weird Wives, the visceral art-punk princes of South Florida, unveiled two new songs via Surfer Blood’s Twitter this morning. And there’s evidence that at least one is from their upcoming LP. “Head Bugs” (download here) starts with some discordant thrusts and sneaks a progression that sounds a bit like “Fast…
“You look like a playground to me, player,” a lyric from Of Montreal’s forthcoming False Priest, is one of the myriad ways frontman Kevin Barnes keeps turning heads. Aside from an unpredictable stage show that can involve face paint and coffins filled with shaving cream, this time around, Barnes takes…
