Though Don Felder, former lead guitarist of the Eagles, wrote the music for “Hotel California,” he is truly a Florida guy. The Gainesville native spent his college years playing music around the state with other future rock legends and many of his adult nights recording in Miami. Felder came up musically…
Statik Selektah & TermanologyGreen Room, Brown Bag WednesdaysJune 6, 2012Better than: Watching the Heat lose to the Celtics.Many of us hip-hop fans down in South Florida probably haven’t heard of Lawrence, MA, but up-and-coming DJ and MC pair Statik Selektah are Termanology are looking to change that. The two, who…
Last Thursday, this reporter received an email from his editor, inquiring if he would like to go check out a young, new, heavy-metal outfit from Fort Lauderdale called Neolythyc. Admittedly, I was a little tentative, to say the least. But the saplings, a four-piece originally from Miami, already had a…
The artist once again known as Prince — and to his mother by his given name, Prince Rogers Nelson — is one of music’s most enigmatic figures, as wildly eccentric and unpredictable as Bowie, Neil Young, Dylan, or any of rock’s other well-known chameleons. However, with that reputation comes certain…
Underneath Arboles Libres’ folksy, sonic psychedelia, interconnected lyrics paint images more powerful than a MacArthur Causeway hallucinogen (read: bath salts). “I woke up next to your heart/And I woke up next to your fears,” frontman Juan “Nacho” Londono sing-speaks on their song “Aura.” “And every morning we had breakfast/And every…
The Maddox Brothers and Rose are widely considered the pioneers of rockabilly by music historians, critics, and experts alike. They were playing “hillbilly” with a “rock-and-roll” twist before the latter was even invented, producing an original subgenre along the way. Though the siblings may have hitchhiked to California from Alabama…
As a kid, you dreamt about becoming an astronaut and part-time music critic. The future looked promising, a gnarly life of walking on the moon and reviewing advance releases of culturally relevant buzz bands. Real life, however, eventually caught up. NASA scrapped the shuttle program, and “relevant” acts stopped playing…
Local MC Gaps is constantly on the grind. Whether he’s performing, organizing events with the Black Locust Society, or doing his best Tupac hologram, this dude has always got something up his sleeve. His latest venture is the debut EP Music for Modern Living & Everyday Situations. Produced by Lake…
Two Door Cinema Clubwith Clap Your Hands Say Yeahand Bad VeinsRevolution Live, June 5Better than: Sneaking out of your parents’ house to catch a show.Tweens and teens donned their best florals, short shorts, and crop tops yesterday afternoon to catch a glimpse of their first rock concert. They hopped in…
Word hit the web via Brooklyn Vegan yesterday that Hollywood trio Beach Day has been signed to Williamsburg’s Kanine Records. The New York indie label also represents Grizzly Bear, Chairlift, and local sonic heroes Surfer Blood. We first heard the band live when it opened with Lil Daggers for Black Lips at…
Normal He’s a musician’s musician who has inspired generations of artists and invented the “ambient music” genre. Coming out of the early British prog scene as a founding member of Roxy Music, his ego was too big to be contained beyond the band’s first two albums, so he went solo…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week: birthday greetings and online affirmation. I had another birthday the other day, an occurrence that seems to take place with increasing frequency at this stage of my life. The…
Nick Zammuto immediately raves about the Radiohead concert he’d just seen the night before after calling for an interview. “It was my first time ever seeing them; I’m still kind of riding high from that. It was amazing,” he says. His newest band, Zammuto is, like Radiohead, currently also on hitting…
Lil Daggers delivers sounds that are stabbingly dark, at times hypnotically mellow, laced with danceable stretches. Influenced by: “Good times. Bad times.” According to their Facebook page (the source of all things true), their music reflects these fractured elements. There’s a psych-stoner appeal to the songs that leads one to…
One of the 20th Century’s most remarkable avant-garde musical artists, Laurie Anderson (born June 5, 1947) made a point of defying musical norms ever since the late ’60s, when she made her debut. A visionary of sorts, she plays violin, piano, and a variety of instruments of her own invention…
Just before the new year, the guys in psych outfit Ice Cream packed their gear and boarded jet planes for New York City. They had just released their first EP, Good, and, having grown a bit too big for their Miami britches, these five guys sadly parted with South Florida. Well,…
City and Colour with David Bazan Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Monday, June 4Better than: An Alexisonfire show. Last night, City and Colour — the solo musical project of former Alexisonfire guitarist and vocalist Dallas Green — made its South Florida debut. The sold-out Culture Room show was filled with romance,…
They may not have invented Americana music or even redefined it, for that matter, but the BoDeans were responsible for one of the genre’s rare mainstream hits, courtesy of the driving anthem called “Closer to Free.” Thrust into the top ten after being tapped as the theme song for the…
Elvis did it. John Lennon did it. Even Ringo did it. But by and large, few musicians have made as successful a segue way into films as Mark Wahlberg, the singer and rapper once known as Marky Mark. Wahlberg, born June 5, 1971, initially felt the heat of the spotlight at…
Every self-respecting Music fanatic living in South Florida needs to be carrying around a copy of PureHoney with them everywhere they go. Everywhere. You wouldn’t want to miss any bands that come down this way because you were ill-informed. PureHoney — which exists both online and in print — offers…
If GET LOW were a human being, it’d be an absurdly loud, dancing toddler, drunk on beats and tallboys. The weekly dubstep and hip-hop blowout is hitting its three-year mark on the Miami scene this Thursday, celebrating with Japan’s Goth-Trad, New Zealand’s Truth, and resident DJs Juan Basshead and Ashworth. The (((SHAKE)))…
Down with PonykillerStone Mountain FreewayCulture RoomJune 1, 2012Better Than: Most of the Sabbath influenced bands playing these days. When County Grind spoke with Down guitarist Pepper Keenan, he mentioned how mind boggling it is that the rock-metal supergroup managed to tour 39 countries since releasing its third studio album, Down III: Over…
