Editor’s note: If you grew up in South Florida, you’ve lived a delightfully half-baked existence. You’ve definitely smoked the stickiest crippy and the worst Jamaican schwag. County Grind got all stoned and thought, why not ask these toasty South Florida musicians to give us a taste of their favorite pot-inspired…
Editor’s note: If you grew up in South Florida, you’ve lived a delightfully half-baked existence. You’ve definitely smoked the stickiest crippy and the worst Jamaican schwag. County Grind got all stoned and thought, why not ask these toasty South Florida musicians to give us a taste of their favorite pot-inspired…
It’s easy to forget that our human melodramas, joyful and bummeriffic, are happening as vibrations in the infinite cosmos. And that these vibrations — the vibrations of our orgasms, breakups, and boredom — were apparently created by the same occurrence, 13.7 billion years ago, that formed our sun, planet Earth,…
Ray Manzarek and Roy Rogers are two venerated “California acid heads” on a mission: to have fun, expand consciousness, and bring the blues into the 21st Century. “We’ve run the 1-4-5 chord changes,” says Manzarek. “We’ve all done that, and that’s marvelous. But we’re just looking to expand the paradigm.”…
It’s a rare feat in music, especially with rock acts, when the bass player outshines the lead singer in recognition and popularity. Be it the stylized wardrobes, the Peter Hook-influenced bass playing, or the Crispin Gloveresque conflicting personality, Carlos Dengler embodied everything that was cool about Interpol and the postpunk…
The feeling you get when you realize you have fallen in love with something you cannot separate yourself from, no matter what your friends or family tell you, you know how you feel. That’s called a jones. That jones could kill you, or it could mold you into one of the…
Here we are, another year, another April, and another April 20. Does this mean anything to you? Should it? Aren’t most holidays really just a bunch of nonholidays anyways? Do you feel a little Irish when St. Patrick’s comes about? Do you claim to be an observant Jew when Yom…
Editor’s note: If you grew up in South Florida, you’ve lived a delightfully half-baked existence. You’ve definitely smoked the stickiest crippy and the worst Jamaican schwag. County Grind got all stoned and thought, why not ask these toasty South Florida musicians to give us a taste of their favorite pot-inspired…
After nearly an hour of conversing with Dick Dale, he apologizes for getting into storytelling mode. The time spent on the phone with the “King of the Surf Guitar” made me feel like I was 5 years old and listening at the feet of that wise, old, clean-living grandfather I…
It’s hard to separate the name of Los Angeles rock act Great White from the event in recent history with which they’re most associated. It was supposedly this group whose pyrotechnics caused a notorious 2003 club fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people, including the band’s then-guitarist. Unfortunately, the…
German six-piece Rammstein was among the great bogeymen of the late ’90s, right up there with Marilyn Manson and Tool as bands you could blast in your room to disturb conservative parents. Indeed, much of the band’s shtick, from its gut-churning, throbbing industrial take on metal to its deliberately provocative…
Last September, erudite Englishman, ex-punk, and eyewear enthusiast Elvis Costello was forced to postpone his globe-spanning “Spectacular Spinning Songbook” tour, including a South Florida show, “due to matters pertaining to the very serious illness of a close family member.” At the time, Costello’s camp was secretive about the identity of…
One of rock’s more tragic tales has to do with the story of Alexander Lee “Skip” Spence, a talented, innovative songwriter and guitarist whose first flush of brilliance was waylaid by emotional upheaval. Born in Canada on April 18, 1946, Spence played a critical role in the evolution of San…
Editor’s note: If you grew up in South Florida, you’ve lived a delightfully half-baked existence. You’ve definitely smoked the stickiest crippy and the worst Jamaican schwag. County Grind got all stoned and thought, why not ask these toasty South Florida musicians to give us a taste of their favorite pot-inspired…
Editor’s note: If you grew up in South Florida, you’ve lived a delightfully half-baked existence. You’ve definitely smoked the stickiest crippy and the worst Jamaican schwag. County Grind got all stoned and thought, why not ask these toasty South Florida musicians to give us a taste of their favorite pot-inspired…
Thursday, Mizner Park Amphitheater will play host to the young rap anomaly Mac Miller on his extensive college tour down the East Coast. Rolling off the release of a number-one Billboard record last November, Mac is bringing the steady buzz of his new mixtape, Macadelic, to South Florida’s bassheads. Although not…
Every now and then, Britney Spears makes an attempt to get back into the limelight. Whether it be with an album or a shaved head, she manages to keep her name in our circles of celebrity gossip. Once again, she’s making her way back into the spotlight, but this time…
The annual Hukilau extravaganza, a unique event that’s part fandom convention, part history-buff gathering, part retro-tastic spring break, returns on Thursday, April 19, to South Florida, this time at the Best Western Oceanside at Fort Lauderdale Beach. The four-day event as a whole celebrates tiki culture, a retro-loving scene based…
Of all the ill-advised remarks Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has uttered throughout his career, few raised as much ire and indignation as a comment he made to a group of Republican faithful a couple of weeks ago at a gathering in St. Petersburg. That’s when he made the following dimwitted…
“Filter was a special band I alway respected because of Richard Patrick’s gift of melody and interesting lyrics,” says singer/songwriter Fernando Perdomo, whose Dreaming in Stereo act will open for Filter this Thursday at Revolution Live. Turns out, he’s a big fan of the band. “One minute the band would be…
Editor’s note: Is It Wrong is a therapeutic column examining feelings we have about music that just aren’t quite right. To ease any discomfort, County Grind will explore these emotions and thoughts, breaking down from whence our feelings of guilt, disgust, and shame arise. And, as they say, even a…
The world asked yesterday: Why did Tupac come back from the dead in hologram form at Coachella? More important, we want to know, where was hologram Biggie?You know the story. During Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s performance at this West Coast music festival, “Tupac” crashed the stage as a hologram. “Tupac”…
