The unintentional irony of the advertising industry never ceases to amaze. It’s not a coincidence that college-educated, 18- to 35-year-old female caffeine addicts with a hankering for hipster fashion will likely compose the crowd at a Neon Trees show. It’s a premeditated big-business marketing ploy. In May, Seattle coffee giant…
Diabetes, a literal hole in the heart, and severe brain hemorrhaging would almost certainly kill the common man. But Poison’s Bret Michaels is not your average Joe. “I feel really great,” Michaels recently told the Columbus Dispatch. “I’m about 90 percent back from the hemorrhage and the heart surgery. I…
Chief Keef is not a sentimental dude. When the Chicago rapper was approached by the city’s newspaper, the Tribune, and asked how it felt to perform in front of his largest hometown crowd at the Pitchfork Music Festival, Keef said, “This? This ain’t s—.” Similarly, when Rolling Stone caught up…
Steve Vai is truly a guitar icon. He was a protégé of the legendary Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth’s answer to Eddie Van Halen after the band and Roth parted ways, and he even battled Ralph Macchio in Crossroads. There hasn’t been a guitar magazine printed in the past 30…
Dirty Projectors with Pop EtcCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleAugust 7Better than: Marshmallows that fall in the fire. When New Times interviewed Dirty Projectors’ Amber Coffman and Pop Etc’s Chris Chu prior to their show last night at Culture Room, it was revealed that both have long enjoyed the music of pop diva…
Yesterday, Kanye West informed the Twitterverse that “Perfect Bitch” — the song he debuted at a recent NYC club gig — is, in fact, about his girlfriend, professional big butt and Celebreality star Kim Kardashian.Apparently, the tune is “about his search for the perfect woman and how he has now…
There’s something genuinely unique about Chan Marshall. We all know the singer and songwriter by her playful stage name, Cat Power. But this siren isn’t only a great beauty with a soulful voice; she’s a sort of elusive figure who, at the same time, is very accessible. She has a…
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There’s no other way to describe it. Whitney Houston’s sudden passing in a bathtub at the Beverly Hills Hotel this past February was a horrible waste of talent and a tragic loss for the world.Houston’s battle with drugs and the horrors of an abusive marriage aren’t uncommon in the world…
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Steve Vai is truly a guitar icon. He was a protégé of the legendary Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth’s answer to Eddie Van Halen after the band and Roth parted ways, and he even battled Ralph Macchio in Crossroads. There hasn’t been a guitar magazine printed in the past 30…
You may remember Pop Etc’s music when they were working under a different name. The group changed a lot of things about themselves recently. One thing was their title from the Morning Benders, which apparently had homophobic connotations in the UK. They just released their eponymous debut under their new…
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Good news on the bloopy-bleep, bleepy-bloop front! Boys Noize, the rousing, static-heavy, electro project from Berlin-based DJ, Alexander Ridha, will be bringing his skeletal beats to the U.S. for his first full live tour of America. It’s a 16-city jaunt that will commence right here in Fort Lauderdale on November…
Drake debuted his oddly conceived and highly anticipated “duet” with late singer Aaliyah at Tronoto’s OVO Festival on Sunday. We are a little horrified that the rapper, who never knew or worked with the siren, used her voice to create his own track. The song, “Enough Said,” we think, was…
Mountain man crooner Bon Iver is responsible for some of the most heartfelt sensitive-bearded-guy ballads since Michael McDonald. His mix of transcendental folk and Hawaiian-shirt wearing yacht rock yielded some pretty sweet records, which we at County Grind may have cried to once or twice. Naw, just kidding. We didn’t…
Canadian dubstep duo Zeds Dead played a noticeably well-attended and rapturously received show at Revolution a couple of weeks ago. It was part of an epic 70 date tour of North America to support their new release The Living Dead EP on Ultra Music. The production team of DC and…
South Florida’s own Ketchy Shuby debuted their song “Long Live the King” on Record Store Day this year. The band is now, months later, premiering the rather grandiose video for the tune right here on County Grind. Unlike many that settle for the standard performance shots, the men of Ketchy…
Yes. Oh, fuckin’ yes. So stoked to announce that Waka Flocka Flame will be sliding through Revolution, November 14, for a ratchet-ass Fort Laudydawdy-style concert. The rapper’s Lex Luger- and Troy Taylor-produced album Triple F Life: Fans, Friends & Family features Drake, B.o.B, Trey Songz, and Meek Mill and was just…
Whether it be spoiling a film to a friend (“Bruce Willis was a ghost the whole time! Oh, you didn’t see…”), bringing a fussy baby to any public place ever, or using the term “bro” or “dude” as punctuation at the end of your sentences, all of these actions deserve…
Over the weekend, our favorite be-fanged lover, Robert Pattinson finally made his debut post-breakup public appearance. The location: Deer Lodge in Ojai, California. Rumors via way of Twitter said Pattinson and friends were singing along to a band playing Nirvana covers. While we don’t know the RPatz personally, we have…
When experiencing something as phenomenal and unusual as Todd Rundgren’s Musical Revival Camp, you learn a few things. After spending a spectacular late-July week at the Full Moon Resort in New York’s lush Catskill Mountains, I also gained some perspective on life. The camp is all about fellowship, fun, and,…
