Progressive rock seems to have staged a comeback of sorts recently. One need look no further than Rush, who loaned their 1975 song “Fly by Night” for a current car commercial or that Yes still draws a good crowd even with a substitute singer recruited from a cover band. Likewise,…
When the members of Swans bring their live show back to Respectable Street Café on Wednesday, bring your earplugs. See also- Swans’ Michael Gira: “At the Best Moments, Music Plays You and Not the Opposite.”- Swans’ Michael Gira on Ecstatic Feelings, The Seer, and Being “All in the Sound”- Review:…
Here’s a good question: What is a funky biscuit? It’s an intriguing name for certain. Up at Boca’s live music and dinner venue with that same title, you can marinate in sounds by jazz, jam, and funk bands while munching on food created by Chef Derek Leinonen. His menu is…
Do you long for the golden age of pop-punk-with-horns otherwise known as the 1990s? Of course you do! Everybody loves the ’90s! Can you think of a better way to express your deepest nostalgia for the blowjob-laden Clinton Era than by celebrating one of the decade’s biggest reggae-rockers, Sublime? You’ll…
To make it in the music biz it’s always good to have a helping hand. So the fact that singer and songwriter Maia Sharp has a dad with industry savvy certainly didn’t hurt her own career prospects. Randy Sharp penned songs for such country icons as Clay Walker and Patty…
Rihanna and Chris Brown appear to be back together after a bizarre, sexually-tense, passive-aggressive break-up, or hiatus rather. This information has fueled many fucked up emotions in all of us.See also- Response: Leave Chris Brown and Rihanna Alone Unless You’re Suggesting a Couples CounselorWe all know how it ended, with tears,…
“All I want for my birthday is a big booty ho.” Indeed, 2 Chainz. Well said. In fact, over half the the lines in the artist formerly known as Tity Boi’s magnum opus “Birthday Song” are new personal mottos of ours. Forget Y.O.L.O.: “When I die bury me inside the…
Cash Money mogul Birdman (aka Baby), has purchased a 9-bedroom, 17-bath mega-mansion complete with 25-foot ceilings, in-house spa and gym, a theater and a fucking cabana. All this a week after we at County Grind heard thirdhand that he was crashing at the Diplolmat on Hollywood Beach. The intense luxuriousness…
If you missed the premiere of The Walking Dead last night, we’re bringing you some brain eating, membrane covered zombie realness from Friday’s Fort Lauderdale Zombie Walk to make up for any unsatisfied blood lust ya got. See also- Slideshow of Fort Lauderdale Zombie Walk 2012Swarms of rotting souls invaded the Green…
Apparently, at noon today on the Eastern coast of the U.S. of A. and sometime around high tea in London, Ultra Music Festival will announce something they proclaim is “so big, so crazy, so intense that it will knock you off your seats and leave you thinking ‘WTF’.” In about…
South Florida got a taste of Italian style on Saturday night, or as they might say, un assaggio di stile italiano, at an all Italian musical showcase in Hollywood. Dubbed Hit Week, the traveling fest brings top contemporary Italian acts to major cities in the U.S. and around the world…
A packed house anxiously awaited the experimental funk rock sounds of Dopapod at (appropriately) Boca’s Funky Buddha Lounge this past Friday night. The Brooklyn-based act has spent ample time in Florida, having played at Bear Creek and Aura Music Festivals and numerous other venues in our strange state over the past several years. The band’s following…
Yoga is a controversial topic. On the one hand, it’s seen as something done by yuppies and hipsters with too much time on their hands. It’s the co-opting and whitewashing of the cultural practices of “brown people” packaged tidily for the average suburbanite with an eco-friendly mat and a green…
The internet has been straight-up shitting its already caked pantaloons over the latest Texas tour-bus drug bust, this time featuring rapper/actor Nelly. See also: – Nelly and Crew Busted in Texas With 36 Bags of Heroin, Ten Pounds of Weed, and a Loaded GunThe twist? Alongside the usual firearms (a…
Jim Gaffigan has mastered the art of the food joke. Jokes about food, you say?! We want to belly laugh about deep shit. Dark shit. The stuff of nightmares. Stuff we’ll still be crying to our shrinks about in ten years. The kind of jokes we can never, ever get…
Chances are, if you’ve attended a hardcore, metal, or punk show in South Florida, you’ve met Joshua “Chip” Shomburg. Between his duties playing bass in ambient-doom band Ether, leading the charge on vocals for death-metal infused hardcore band Ironside, and filming just about every show to hit the tri-county area since…
Followers of the local music scene will have no trouble recalling the echoes of West Palm Beach’s Doorway 27. Embracing an eclectic sound that was alternative, indie, surfer, and mainstream all at once, the band had a far-reaching fan base. Although they have since parted ways, lead singer Bryan Wohlust…
Better than: If American Idol and So You Think You Can dance? combined forces.A lengthy wait last night for Sean Paul to hit the stage at Revolution was eclipsed by the presence of two lady dancers. They kept our eyes glued to the stage instead of our moods altering. Not long after…
It’s been a pretty decent past few years for the gay community. You guys got silver fox Anderson Cooper for sursies and young buck Frank Ocean too. Don’t ask don’t tell was overturned and you can get married, sort of, in like 16 states. Sure, shooting for 50, but you…
Ahh. where do I begin, sweet reader, where do I begin? Well, let’s start at the beginning like all the true and honest pieces we’ve shared here in the past. Let this old dino have another couple of years of local journalism… Because let’s face the facts, me ankles are…
Beats AntiqueCulture RoomWednesday, Oct.10, 2012Better than: Running away to join the gypsy circus with Mux Mool. The night began on a sour note. At first, the crowd was scarce due to the rain. When we arrived, LYNX finished her set of belted out originals, closing with some beatboxing magic. To our…
History shows that it can take a good long while to really break through in the hip-hop game. This is true, even more so when rapping is your second attempt to claim some fame in this lifetime (#YOLO gone wrong). Though you may be a natural at wrestling, basketball, or…
