As soon as we saw the cover art for the new Arcade Fire album, titled The Suburbs, images of various gated communities in South Florida started dancing through our head. After snooping around on designer Caroline Robert’s official site, we discover that photographer Gabriel Jones took the pictures “during a…
American Idol season nine is finally over, and no amount of spoiler saving is going to keep you from finding out that Illinois native Lee DeWyze won the crown Wednesday night. According to a compelling assessment from the New York Times’ Jon Caramanica, runner-up Crystal Bowersox should have been the…
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.Iron Forge Press’ Chuck Loose and Ian Rowan can take any type of music, and come up with a way to match — better…
Knotty hip-hop wordsmith Murs just can’t stop. With more than 20 albums to his credit since the mid-’90s, he has just dropped Fornever, a collaborative album with producer 9th Wonder. The album marries two creative types obsessed with pushing the boundaries of hip-hop, including a fresh revisit to Common’s classic…
In the latest edition of Florida? Yeah!, curated by Fort Lauderdale arts collective the Bubble, Boynton Beach dark-wavers Kill Miss Pretty headline a varied local bill. Fresh off an appearance at Exxxotica in Miami in mid-May, the vivacious Alicia Olink and band are working a new single, “Judy Garland,” a…
You may have heard that New Times’ favorite blues-rock noisemakers Stonefox, profiled expertly last year by Arielle Castillo, broke up. And then they got back together. Here is the review featuring my conversation with Courtney Hambright regarding the “unofficial” Stonefox reunion show at Poor House last month, and here is…
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.Radio-Active’s assistant manager Paul Poletz kept the column alive last week while Ramirez went and abused his wallet in New York. There’s…
Let the Xtina-Gaga rivalry rumors continue as Christina Aguilera has postponed her summer tour and will not visit Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach on August 7. The current plan is to slide the dates to 2011 and to promote Bionic, in stores June 4, at that point. “The singer…
Florida Governor Charlie Crist is being sued by Talking Heads frontman David Byrne for allegedly using the band’s 1985 hit “Road to Nowhere” in a campaign ad without permission or licensing. Crist could get Byrned for as much as $1 million for repurposing the single in January for a video…
As long as Boynton Beach’s Kill Miss Pretty keeps posting eye-popping photos, it is our responsibility to tell the world. Video from the dark electro-pop act’s appearance Sunday morning on CBS 12 has not surfaced yet, but as we can see above, singer Alicia Olink could make quite a career…
Givers’ infectious indie pop recently caught the ear of the Dirty Projectors, and a touring partnership was formed earlier this year. Now the Lafayette, Louisiana, quintet is out on the road as a headliner, and groove-heavy songs like “Ceiling of Plankton” have been positively aligned with Vampire Weekend’s Afro-pop influences…
Heineken Inspire MiamiWith the Hold Steady, Cold War Kids, and Chad HugoThe Moore Building, MiamiFriday, May 21, 2010Click here to view all the photos from the event.It’s difficult to devote more than a couple of lines to the music at Heineken Inspire Miami when this concert was mostly devoted to…
While much of the universe was trying to figure out if Sunday night’s Lost finale was written (spoiler alert!) before or after the BP oil leak in the gulf, Surfer Blood members and friends Weird Wives uncorked a third EP at their blog (the first two EPs are here and…
Cold War Kids’ guitarist Jonathon Russell cut his hand and was briefly hospitalized prior to the band’s performance at the Heineken Inspire event Friday evening at the Moore Building in Miami’s Design District. New Times photographer Ian Witlen, who was photographing the band backstage at the time, says that Russell…
The Hold Steady is in South Florida already, and we’re madly excited for their peformance this evening for the Heineken Inspire event in Miami at the Moore Building. Frontman Craig Finn is almost as excited, in fact. A few items omitted from our overly hyped, but rather satisfying Q&A in…
As mentioned over at our former conjoined twin blog, Crossfade, New Times Broward-Palm Beach has split off to form its own music blog, County Grind, and you’re looking at it right now. The primary focus from here on out will be coverage of the music, culture and nightlife activities of…
Anticipation is building for this evening’s Heineken Inspire concert at Miami’s Moore Building (4040 NE 2nd Ave) in the Design District featuring Cold War Kids and the Hold Steady. Unfortunately for mustache fans the world over, we found out in our recent interview with Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn that…
Givers’ infectious indie pop recently caught the ear of the Dirty Projectors, and a touring partnership was formed earlier this year. Now the Lafayette, Louisiana, quintet is out on the road as a headliner, and groove-heavy songs like “Ceiling of Plankton” have been positively aligned with Vampire Weekend’s Afro-pop influences…
The Hold Steady’s lead singer/barker, Craig Finn, quits drinking every year for a month and a half for Lent, but he’s back to imbibing for the headlining slot at an event in Miami’s Design District sponsored by the king of green-bottled beers, Heineken. The group’s just-released fifth full-length album, Heaven…
Photo by Judson BakerThe Hold Steady’s Craig Finn is on the rightThe Hold Steady’s Craig Finn got on the phone with us for a few minutes last week prior to the band’s headlining slot on Friday at the Heineken Inspire Miami event at the Moore Building, and it wasn’t long…
Image courtesy of Jason CrosbyThis Elvis Costello got us pumped up until we found out it was $2,500Based upon how much Crossfade covers the Bubble and Surfer Blood and, uh, Nonpoint, readers might assume that we’re a bunch of skinny-jeaned, asymmetrically coiffed brats over here, and they’d probably be kind…
Sorry guys, I think this cover is the most interesting thing about the NationalIn 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.This week, Radio-Active Records’ assistant manager Paul Poletz fills…
