Most of you didn’t grow up listening to music on vinyl. You had CDs, the internet, and remember those little square guys that would tangle and unravel in your tape player, cassettes? You know, though, that music sounds so much sweeter when that needle hits the wax than when you’re…
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…
Plains ain’t no plains band. These guys make music that sticks, and everyone’s ears have perked at the sound of their tunes, from the big shots at South by Southwest to all of South Florida. Today this supergroup of sorts released a new video for their song “Dry,” directed by…
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…
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“We really didn’t know how to do it. It was kind of figuring things out,” Violens’ Jorge Elbrecht says of playing in bands in the late ’90s South Florida music scene. It revolved around Cheers, he remembers. “There was nothing else to do; everyone just went to these shows. It…
In the wake of Nirvana, the major-label punk-rock gold rush of the ’90s ripped open the underground like a vulture picking at a fresh carcass. And with their acclaimed, multiplatinum breakthrough, Dookie, Green Day were the ultimate symbol of moving from the secret world of house shows and Food Not…
Weed, it’s the healing of the nation. At least, according to dozens of reggae songs. From tuberculosis to epilepsy, ganja has been touted as a cure-all by toasters and DJs for decades. And since Friday is that day of the year when undergrads and other smelly demographics with nothing to do in the…
See also: *”What My Spirit Hood Means To Me”: Coachella-Goers Explain *Coachella: The Black Lips’ Cole Alexander Goes Full Monty, Plays Guitar With His Ding-Dong – Ben WesthoffAt Coachella, folks come from all over the world to lose themselves in the music. They’ll employ almost anything in this quest — but mostly drugs…
It’s Friday night at 11 p.m., and instead of joining the antics of the typical booze-ridden downtown Fort Lauderdale scene, I’ve decided to do something a bit different. After a long night at work, I make my way over to get in line for Formula Ink’s special $13 Friday the…
Attention, all craft brewheads, musicaholics, and those who casually fall into both categories: Delray Beach is offering some impressive, libation-infused music events for you this 4/20 weekend. The first incarnation of the Old School Beerfest will be held Saturday at Old School Square on Atlantic Avenue and is set to…
View the entire slideshow here.Green Room was booked solid on Friday night. The Goddamn Hustle’s video premiere party took the stage from 6 to 10 p.m., and then the nightclub’s regular gothic party, Black Fridays, was set to begin. The theme for this Black Friday was a masquerade party. So…
Supervillains Culture Room Friday, April 13, 2012Better than: Smoking weed on your couch, imagining that you’re hanging out with Bradley Noel. There’s plenty of philosophical discussion about whether any given performer’s work has artistic merit. All that will be said in that vein, in response to the Supervillains performance at Culture Room…
Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires Budos BandRevolution LiveSaturday, April 14, 2012For the full slideshow, click here.Better than: Being raptured by the Holy Ghost.”Can I go to church?!? I said… Can. I. Go. To. Church?!?” Charles Bradley yelled to the intimate audience at Revolution on Saturday night. Sure, it wasn’t the Lord’s…
Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Day One *”What My Spirit Hood Means To Me”: Coachella-Goers Explain *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers*Radiohead, Weekend 1: No Alarms, No SurprisesLink to original article. Radiohead certainly had the most prefestival buzz for Saturday, but…
Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly RadioheadCoachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, IndioApril 14, 2012- Adam LovinusRadiohead might have a problem. The band is so consistently great that an elite performance, such as the one turned in Saturday night at Coachella, could be seen as missing that element of surprise that comes with…
Within Hard Rock’s Disneyesque alleys, littered with pricey food and secondhand-smoke-filled slot rooms, the holy temple of comedy this week is over at the Improv Comedy Club, where friends and co-conspirators Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell are making people laugh all weekend. Both have extensive stage experience, both are wicked…
Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyCoachella! Yeah!Day one of The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival brought something more unusual than ironic outfits or that poor guy who couldn’t get his flip flops on for the life of him: this year there was rain. The festival held in the Southern California desert is known for…
Gabrielle CanonSee also: *Spirit Hoods: The Weirdest Fashion Startup Ever *Expected Fashion Trends at Coachella Spirit Hoods are back! At Coachella this year these fuzzy animal-themed head gears resembling furs (but not!) have returned with a vengeance; one’s instinct remains, as always, to mock them, but this year, with heavy winds and thick…
OK — quick question. What do Barack Obama and Tina Turner have in common? Maybe a lot of things, but most important, both have quoted that soulful crooner Al Green — Turner in her incredible comeback hit, a redo of his standard “Let’s Stay Together,” and the prez in a…
The Final Digital Love Featuring Millionyoung and Sumsun Thursday, April 12, 2012 Green Room, Fort LauderdaleCheck out the slideshow here.In the moments before Sumsun took the stage at the final Digital Love party at Green Room, credits rolled on the backdrop screen. “What’s with the credits?” one attendee asked resident…
Christian Clarke isn’t a Florida native. He’s not really native to any one place, though he admits to having been a surf and motorcycle bum in Los Angeles for a period in his life. He settled down in Fort Lauderdale in 2005 and in 2010 started his first band ever:…
