It has been said that no matter what flavor of heavy metal you prefer or what band you’re most attached to, there is a Swedish group out there that does it better. For fans of progressive metal, Stockholm’s Opeth is the reigning king of post-Rush prog. Fleet-fingered guitarist/composer/vocalist Mikael Akerfeldt…
Is it surprising that Borgore, the Israeli-born DJ known as Asaf Borger in real life, was once a member of a death-metal band? If you’re familiar with his most popular party song, “Decisions,” this might cause you to raise a brow. But so many other things about this rising EDM…
While mainstream punk may be sleeping or in a deep coma, it is the underground scene that is still poppin’. A prime example of that thriving undergrowth is Fort Lauderdale band the 707’s, composed of Casidy Moser, Josh Young, Shaun Meyer, and DC. The 707’s play what they describe as…
The annual Mad Decent Block Party delivers a full day of musical performances and tons of fun activities at outdoor venues across the country each summer. This July, the 2013 Block Party tour will kick off in Calgary and make its way to 13 venues, promising to be bigger and…
Each year, West Palm Beach is granted its fill of national acts thanks to the waterfront concert SunFest. This year, there’s a buttload of big names, like Smashing Pumpkins and Slightly Stoopid, Kendrick Lamar and Black Crowes. But the folks behind the scenes are no dummies; they know that South…
If we are superior at anything at New Times, it is at having opinions. We’re talking like we even have something to say about the kind of toilet paper your mom buys (leaves stuff in our butts!) or the size of raindrops falling from the sky (they’re too skinny). So,…
Don’t blink too long, or it’ll already be SunFest! For the average downtown West Palmer, our whole year revolves around this five-day festival of awesomeness. It’s basically the only time any huge national music acts come to Clematis. Oh, and wait, there’re like 50 of them! For the newbie, this…
Edward Sharpe is fictional character from the whimsical mind of Alex Ebert, founding member of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. The character was put here to save the world but is constantly distracted by perpetually falling in love. This is a sentiment that resonates with the ten-plus band members…
There will be a musical act on stage this Wednesday at SunFest with the official name of Smashing Pumpkins. This band will be singing and playing chord progressions of music we recognize as being by Smashing Pumpkins. But there will be only one recognizable face from the video of “Cherub…
As you probably read earlier this week on County Grind (and if you didn’t, shame on you!), C&I Studios Twilight Notes, and All Together Now presented a multidisciplinary cultural event called Dialect this past Saturday night. And given that it was part of Fort Lauderdale’s FAT Village art walk, you…
County Grind readers may not be very familiar with West Palm Beach four-piece, Making Faces, but they should start taking note. This ’90s throwback alternative rock act is arguably one of the hardest working bands in Palm Beach County. Although they don’t grace our alt weekly pages often, the quartet…
When New Times sat down with STS9’s David Phipps last week, the moral of the interview was that great music comes from a combination of talent and intention. The band’s goal, as Phipps put it, is to make music that makes people feel like “this is the best life ever.”…
By Jesse Scheckner Suddenly, on screen someone is being fellated. In a bargain motel room in the stretch between Miami and Athens, Georgia, sometime during their summer tour of 1998, two members of South Florida’s oft-overlooked goof-pop-punk quintet Piddie Korn are tag-teaming some Tampa tail. To what is sure to…
While you could argue that there are two types of people in the world, those who like Rush and those who don’t, I don’t think that’s quite right. There is, however, a line in the sand with which you can divide serious students of rock ‘n’ roll, and that line…
When we think of the ’90s, our chemically damaged brains get flooded with remembrances of outdoor music festivals, tattoo-covered girls, excessive body piercings and poorly-kept facial hair. It was a simpler time, and George W. Bush was just another guy in Texas. SunFest promises to transport those of us that…
It’s not often in your life that you hear a heckler cry out, “hoo-ah!” or even “Attica!!!” But at Al Pacino’s One Night Only event at Hard Rock Live, this happened more than once. In fact, it happened many times. You can call it a show — there’s storytelling and…
I wouldn’t dare make any suggestions to the brilliant minds behind the AMC tv series Mad Men. They’re doing just fine on their own, blowing our minds each week with witty quips and pitch perfect illustrations of the emptiness of our consumerist culture. But I couldn’t help to notice that…
Paul Rodriguez is more than just one of “those guys that was in that thing.” You know him from The Newlywed Game, if you’re a little older, and the Original Kings of Comedy if you’re not so old. He’s been around show business so long that his son is almost…
The word plush may be employed as a noun (a “rich fabric”) or an adjective (“luxurious”). In both instances, the term signifies smooth sensuality and delicious comfort. Which is exactly what Miami native and Palm Beach County resident, Christina Farrah (known to many of her friends and acquaintances as “Kiwi”)…
At every show or concert, there is a clicking camera that counts. It’s that one that those onstage should take notice of over the scores of bopping iPhones in the crowd. Photographer and New Times freelancer Monica McGivern’s lens is that special one. It captures life as it’s happening and…
At the very beginning of 2013, we declared that Canadian Tweety Bird heartthrob extraordinaire, Justin Bieber, was going to the year’s Pothead to Watch. And while we maintain that Le Biebz is rapidly degenerating into a perpetually tardy, perma-smelly pothead, and that his mounting, life-consuming addiction to reefer has him…
One of Diplo’s greatest creations is the Los Angeles-based label Mad Decent. Together with Major Lazer cohorts Jillionaire and Walshy Fire, he’s built an EDM empire that is actually, and undeniably cool. Mad Decent, is taking its annual Block Party on tour this summer, making its South Florida stop at…
