Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week, an English auteur sets up shop in Key West. With Isaac whipping its way through South Florida, one has to wonder if anyone who recently relocated to the island…
Better than: Most everythingMatty’s on the Drive, a Wilton Manors staple, celebrated its fourth anniversary with chatter about acceptance, drag queens hanging around in street clothes, gays in baseball caps, and genuinely excited Lady Miss Kier superfans. The former Deee-Lite frontwoman brought a butt-ton of attitude, following up Saturday’s DJ…
Where in hell did Meek Mill come from?Of course, we know the literal answer to that question: Mill was born Robert Williams, grew up in Philadelphia, and spent his rookie season as an MC under the wing of rapper T.I.’s Grand Hustle imprint before ultimately aligning with Ricky Rozay’s Maybach…
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See alsoIs It Wrong to Love Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias? There are certain acts who will always be hometown favorites. Despite their global reach, international marketing appeal, and success outside of the tri-county area, those select few scream South Florida. Gloria Estefan’s not a worldwide superstar, she’s a distant relative who…
Isaac is “barreling” toward South Florida. It’s “hugging” the Cuban coast, and “raged” over Haiti today. But this tropical storm is not gonna fuck things up for the Repubs. That show will go on (UPDATE: the show will be delayed to Tuesday). But what, you ask, is going to happen…
It’s impossible to deny the abundance of homegrown talent budding in our very own backyard. Miami quartet Krisp, comprised of Andres Ledesma, Jason Mavila, Alex Lopez, and Charlie Woods, is blooming under the South Florida sun and thriving in the scene. They make boogie ready music that is both chill,…
In the cutthroat nightlife world, it’s a big huge deal when a venue survives two or three years, let alone 25. West Palm Beach’s alternative rock club Respectable Street Café managed to endure just that many as of this Saturday. It’s comparable only to the legendary heights of clubs like…
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If we have to spend another minute in this cubicle pushing papers and farming dust, we’re gonna snap.Thankfully, there are approximately six hours ’til we can GTFO of the office for a few days and pretend like we’re never going back.And as far as making the last stretch of our…
Yesterday, Spin magazine wrote a go-fuck-yourself critique on Lupe Fiasco (we know, who cares?) and his new single and video for “complex” girl power tune “Bitch Bad.” The song and video describe three ways “bitch” is used in popular rap and urban culture — first is the supreme-chick, the second…
See also:Misfts’ Jerry Only on Reuniting with Glenn Danzig: “Nothing Is Out the Realm of Possibility.”This weekend in South Florida you can catch the Misfits twice — the first time on Friday at Revolution, and the second on Saturday at Respectable Street as part of the club’s free 25th anniversary…
West Palm Beach act Bonnie Riot started some eight years ago, but it was really in the past handful of those that they became a staple on the local circuit. Their female-fronted, punchy material straddled the lines between punk, power-pop, and dance-rock, full of high-octane choruses and crunchy chords. But early…
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Roller derbies became part of middle America’s idea of what tough girls do after school when Whip It hit theaters. All the wimpy chicks out there (us included) looked longingly at these athletic, angry females, powerfully involved in a contact sport for just us ladies. Palm Beach’s Dub City Derby Girls are…
See also:Kate Pierson, the B-52’s Redheaded Siren, Talks Top Chef, Cyndi Lauper, and VinylNever in my whole life have I ever been as starstruck as when I first saw Fred Schneider in real life. It was 2006, and I spotted him as I left the john at a Cat Power…
See also: Warped Tour 2012: Machine Gun Kelly on Frat Rap, “That Shit is Wack as Fuck!” Last July, County Grind spoke with Machine Gun Kelly — a 22 year old Cleveland-bred lone wolf Beastie Boy with a hip-hop-crust fashion sensibility — about “frat rap,” a hip-hop variant epitomozed by unabashedly suburban…
See also:Terry Richardson’s to Thank for Rick Ross Looking So Sexy on the Cover of Rolling StoneBig Elvis to Shake Up Suspicious Minds at Coconut Creek Casino, Aug. 19 I can’t even describe the feeling of simpatico brotherliness I felt whilst gazing at the cover of Rolling Stone a few…
Before Christian Grey was forcibly “parting” Anastasia Steele’s legs, leaving her “spread-eagle and totally vulnerable” in E.L. James’s suburban soft-core gem Fifty Shades of Grey, the women of the world got frisky fantasizing about a strong black man from Richmond, Virginia. This man is named Michael Eugene Archer, best known as…
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Misfits’ bassist and current vocalist Jerry Only (born Gerald Caiafa) has made a career out of playing dress-up. With his ghoulish getups and pointy, trademark Eddie Munster tribute “devilock” ‘do, Only sports one of punk’s most recognizable looks. His band is an innovator of the horror-punk movement, an antiestablishment culture…
