Janka Nabay, who is from Sierra Leone and now lives in Philadelphia, recently hooked up with Carlos Charlie Perez, a music video director with South Florida roots (more on him here). The results of their collaboration is the “Ah Mufan” video, a follow-up single to Nabay’s Bubu King EP, which…
Dubstep triggers either immediate body-jostling or a dismissive smirk. Either way, it’s impossible not to react to Philadelphia producer Starkey’s approach to the genre, which is more akin to skirting it. Making bass-heavy music is the easy part, but adding enough pop twists to keep it compelling is something else…
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.Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are up to a dozen studio albums now, so it’s not a bad time to branch out…
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.Definitely worth noting one more time that Hole is performing (with openers Foxy Shazam) at the Fillmore Miami this evening. Whether it’s a train…
Let’s start with the good news: Wednesday’s Oil.Spill.Benefit show, curated by the HoneyComb’s Steve Rullman and hosted by Lake Worth rock bar Propaganda, raised $3,000 to benefit the Florida Wildlife Federation. County Grind, and many other members of the local music community wore expressive T-shirts to the show, featuring Surfer…
After we stuck our necks out multiple times for Lilith Fair 2010, the lineup for the August 10 date at Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach was a bit of a disappointment. Truth that some of the reasons South Florida ended up with a mostly adult-contemporary version of a traveling…
After a brief mention earlier this week, Pitchfork’s Larry Fitzmaurice gives the full-blown track review treatment to the Jameses’ “The Haunted Rider” today. Momentum! It’s almost as if he attended the Lake Worth band’s performance at Wednesday’s Oil.Spill.Benefit at Propaganda, got a huge buzz from the blizzard of synths, and…
Exciting news for everyone who wanted to see the Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne on the cover of our magazine again. Well, it’s the cover we ran last time, but still. Earlier this year, Lips guitarist Steven Drozd was briefly hospitalized right before the band’s scheduled performance at SunFest in…
South Florida musicians and music fans alike can take pride in the turnout and command performances throughout Wednesday night’s Oil.Spill.Benefit at Propaganda in Lake Worth. More than a few folks remarked that the energy in the packed room was a bit lighter than usual — perhaps because the show was…
Two new bands have been added to Lake Worth’s day-long celebration of local music, Lake Worth-It 2010, which will take place in the city’s beautiful Bryant Park August 7. Boca Raton blues-rock trio Blond Fuzz (soon we will stop telling you that they used to be Stonefox, but not yet),…
Earlier this week, Crossfade announced that music industry titan Bill Aucoin, most famous for managing KISS, had passed away at Aventura Hospital and Medical Center in Miami. According to family, he died following complications from prostate cancer. He was 66. Not only was he nationally known for his successes, but…
Dubstep triggers either immediate body-jostling or a dismissive smirk. Either way, it’s impossible not to react to Philadelphia producer Starkey’s approach to the genre, which is more akin to skirting it. Making bass-heavy music is the easy part, but adding enough pop twists to keep it compelling is something else…
West Palm Beach’s Surfer Blood is giving back to the Florida coastline that in many ways is the band’s identity. Drenched with beach imagery formed on local shores and uplifting indie-rock tropes, Astro Coast earned the band a national following (and New Times’ Best Album of 2010) and significant cachet…
After dismissing reports and press releases and Ticketmaster links suggesting that Neil Young would perform at Hard Rock Live on September 23, Young is happy to announce that he will perform at Hard Rock Live on September 23.As detailed in Rolling Stone, the folk-rock legend (a term County Grind doesn’t…
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.Don’t forget to attend Mike Ramirez’s 30th Birthday Party tonight at Monterey Club!After Devo and the Cure beat back the years last…
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.Nothing new for Iron Forge Press to get some attention from clients in other parts of the country, and this arresting poster for the…
Following some focused coverage on County Grind, West Palm Beach’s synth outfit the Jameses is getting some more national love via Pitchfork’s Forkcast. Read a very short summary of the band, and cop an MP3 of “The Haunted Rider” right here. Although the posting claims that the conceptual shot of…
.hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } –With WithRespectable Street is taking its anniversary to the streets of West Palm Beach on Saturday, July 31. According to organizers, the event will feature “23 bands on 4 stages” to honor the venue’s 23rd anniversary. The event…
File Under “The News Cycle and the Damage Done”: Canadian rocker Neil Young, who taught most of us in the U.S. what Americana should really sound like and owns enough flannel to outfit the entire borough of Brooklyn, will likely play a show at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood this…
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.Fillmore Miami Beach welcomes prog-metal ruffians Deftones and sludgy Baroness for a wimp-free evening August…
Coral Springs alt-country outfit Harvey and the Buckets will play a free show Friday at Radio-Active Records in Fort Lauderdale. Local garage-rock-extraordinaire act Dooms de Pop is also scheduled, bringing some added fuzz to the evening.From Radio-Active’s announcement:”Show runs 8-10 p.m., so don’t show up drunk at 10:05 wondering ‘when…
West Palm Beach’s Surfer Blood is giving back to the Florida coastline that in many ways is the band’s identity. Drenched with beach imagery formed on local shores and uplifting indie-rock tropes, Astro Coast earned the band a national following (and New Times’ Best Album of 2010) and significant cachet…
