An afternoon of solid blues pickin’ awaits attendees who head to Rosey Baby on Sunday. This Lauderhill Cajun restaurant that specializes in crawfish and other New Orleans-inspired dining boasts a special appearance by local guitar luminary Albert Castiglia sitting in with another area blues act, Shelley” href=”http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/related/to/David+Shelley”>David Shelley & Bluestone…
The fabled Club Sandwich (no website, no official address, no problem) is probably a small, live music hole somewhere in Lake Worth. Definitely harder to find than Fort Lauderdale’s DIY 1921 venue, it might be where the Skunk Ape takes some rest, or it could just be in a small…
Earlier this week, the YMCA announced that it is rebranding itself as just “the Y.” The Village People are understandably pissed, but the decision makes good sense. The acronym YMCA stands for Young Men’s Christian Association, after all, but the organization today is outwardly almost as secular as Bally Total…
It is with pride that we point to this week’s print feature, another segment of Christine Borges’ lengthy interview with Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan. Ahead of the band’s visit to Revolution in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, Corgan proved to be a far more gracious and fascinating interview than many…
An afternoon of solid blues pickin’ awaits attendees who head to Rosey Baby on Sunday. This Lauderhill Cajun restaurant that specializes in crawfish and other New Orleans-inspired dining boasts a special appearance by local guitar luminary Albert Castiglia sitting in with another area blues act, David Shelley & Bluestone. Organized…
After announcing the first 15 bands set to rock West Palm Beach’s 500 block of Clematis Street a couple weeks ago, Respectable Street has unveiled eight more local artists taking part in its 23rd Anniversary Street Party on Saturday, July 31, with the telling tagline: The Oblivion Continues.The new artists…
With all due respect to the needy internet, this is merely a brief observation of a local band performing in a local setting. Restaurant reviews typically require multiple visits, and so should artists. This installment features West Palm Beach/Miami guys Weird Wives in what local historians believe is the band’s…
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.From personal record store experience, artists like the Scissor Sisters have amazing luck selling albums once a person enters of the few…
So maybe Crossfade and County Grind are living separately, but our split was completely amicable. Here are a few stories reported recently via Miami’s raddest music blog that we want to make sure our readers see.Bayfront Park might as well dig up all the grass and coat the ground with…
FTL Collective, the blog-about-town when your town is Fort Lauderdale, yesterday decried a smear on the local downtown bar scene: America’s Backyard. The wildly popular haunt — located between Live Nation venue Revolution Live and the tippler’s dive Poor House — is impossible to miss, in part because the Black…
Nearly 20 years after the Wu-Tang Clan’s ascent from Staten Island, there’s a hip-hop group hailing from the admittedly less gritty streets of West Palm Beach ready to extend the Wu’s influence southward. Nearly every reference to the Watchmen trumps them as “Wu-Tang Affiliates,” and with the RZA’s cousin John…
It’s easy to see why an assortment of colorful nicknames would follow pipe-puffing ink superstar Sailor Jerry, who is credited with popularizing a style of body art featuring pinup girls in Hawaii during World War II. Hori Smoku, a Japanese play on “holy smoke,” is another nickname chosen by tattoo…
The guys in Surfer Blood have made the most of their time back in West Palm Beach. In addition to some karaoke (here’s a clip of J.P. Pitts singing “Hooked on a Feeling”), deflecting baseless accusations regarding similarities to Brian Eno that were perhaps summed up by this very publication,…
As Lake Worth faces ongoing challenges settling on a noise ordinance, another South Florida community is considering revising its policies regarding live music. The Lantana Town Council will meet tonight at 7 to discuss new noise ordinance guidelines that would shut down “live/recorded/video music at 9:00 p.m.”One venue that would…
The dominance of Mad Men — the almost annoyingly best show on TV with Party Down now out of the way — owes some of its rep to the music selections that provide bumpers and interludes in every episode. With the fourth season’s premiere looming Sunday, July 25, on AMC…
Sleigh BellsWith Po Po and Nerve CityRespectable Street, West Palm BeachThursday, July 8, 2010View slideshow from the concert here.That bullshit adage about girls wanting to be Sleigh Bells vocalist Alexis Krauss and guys just wanting to know her didn’t apply Thursday evening inside a balmy Respectable Street. No gender boundaries…
Although this evening’s Sleigh Bells performance will probably feature fewer backup dancers than a Mike Weinstein campaign slot, videos of past performances (like the one above) suggest that a noisy melee is likely.If this is your first visit to County Grind, there’s an unfair amount of material to help familiarize…
Fort Lauderdale-based Iron Forge Press creates some of the most eye-popping rock posters we’ve ever seen. Whenever possible, we’ll share their designs right here on County Grind.One reason we have such a great country is decidedly Ted Nugent, a man who relishes killing liberal buzz just as much as he…
Credit the Juice’s expert reporter (and closet audiophile) Tom Francis for identifying one of the catchiest political campaign songs since “I Like Ike.” Kenny Loggins probably won’t have much of a case if he goes after Jacksonville Republican Mike Weinstein — a dead-ringer for the Bluth family patriarch — but…
County Grind and @thephoneycomb doused each other in champagne last week after Pitchfork shouted out the Jameses on two occasions, and just when things had started to sober up, this happened. Whenever folks ask the awkward question of “where can I find out about new music?” the answer is invariably…
Ear-searing crunk-rock duo Sleigh Bells reps New York today, but the Sunshine State can take plenty of credit for its formation. In the early ’00s, guitarist Derek Miller played ragged post-hardcore in South Florida as part of Poison the Well. Meanwhile, vocalist Alexis Krauss’ mother is from Thonotosassa, a small…
“I always wanted to work with a female vocalist; I generally prefer them.” — Sleigh Bells guitarist Derek Miller. Indeed, Alexis Krauss’ tough-as-spikes vocals are preferrable — be it for amplifying bracing shoulder workouts, or turning an ordinary automobile into a mobile nightclub rivaling Flaunt Thursdays. Rest assured, this punk-edged…
