Tyga Makes It Rain Ones at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale

​TygaRevolution Live, Fort LauderdaleWednesday, February 22, 2012Better than: Watching a below-average “swag” rapper.After a few high-energy openers, the crowd’s anticipation heightened after every song the DJ played before Tyga hit the stage. Cheers filled the room once the stage crew uncovered giant letters that lit up and spelled out his…

Vote for the Best Gay Bar of 2012

The 2012 poll has closed. Click here after June 14 for the results. Here’s your chance to vote in our New Times Broward-Palm Beach Readers’ Poll 2012 for your favorite gay bar. The results will appear in our annual Best Of Broward-Palm Beach issue June 14. Click here for a…

Diana Ross on February 23 at Hard Rock Live

Adele’s recent Grammy sweep may signal a return to the idea of the mainstream successful soul songstress, but that archetype probably wouldn’t exist were it not for the great Diana Ross. Her voice helped define soul just as her reported offstage behavior helped define diva. But all of it put…

The Doobie Brothers on February 24 at Hard Rock Live

It’s funny to think an act originally from California could sound so swampy and Southern by today’s standards, but the Doobie Brothers were very much of their time. It was the early ’70s, and these happily hairy guys seemed to embody everything about a sort of just-posthippie, freewheeling, motorcycle-on-a-long-road sort…

The Purehoney Sixth Issue Party on February 25 at Propaganda

In the current media and musical climate, it takes guts — or another, more rude-to-reference body part — to launch a straight-up print magazine focused on the local scene. Yet if anyone’s equipped to make it successful, it’s Steve Rullman, the man behind the Honeycomb, one of the area’s best…

Download: Knowledge Medina and Numonics – Never Enough EP

Sometime before the official recording of Never Enough, the new joint EP between South Florida MC Knowledge Medina and producer Jonathan “Numonics” Rosenfeld, the latter suddenly became convinced he was going to die. Numonics was working on a session for another rapper when he felt intense chest pain and pressure…

“Rick Santorum or Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine?” Quiz Is Genius

​You probably read recently, maybe even here on County Grind, that Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine has a hankering for some Rick Santorum. We were kind of grossed out by the whole affair, but after some tossing, turning, and musing, we let the sitch lie. However, someone brilliant over at Mother Jones kept the…

The New’s Lori Garrote Begins Anew

​If music were all about what was laid down on tape, then the formula to success would be much easier than it is. For Lori Garrote, lead singer and guitarist for the New, her role within the South Florida music scene has been both as musician and outspoken voice within a…

Welcome to Rack City: Tyga at Revolution Live Tonight

​It’s been almost four years since Tyga’s told us to “put the lime in the coconut and twist it all up” with his cousin, Gym Class Heroes’ frontman Travie McCoy, on his debut album, No Introduction.Don’t worry if the album doesn’t ring a bell. It was overshadowed by his boss’…

Vote for the Best Radio Personality of 2012

The 2012 poll has closed. Click here after June 14 for the results. Here’s your chance to vote in our New Times Broward-Palm Beach Readers’ Poll 2012 for your favorite local radio personality. The results will appear in our annual Best Of Broward-Palm Beach issue June 14. Click here for…

Questions About Odd Future’s New Video “Rella”

Odd Future’s got a new video that is like a dumber, goofier cousin of “Black Hole Sun.” The song is “Rella,” and it is not the problem. The video is… well, let’s just say that it made us wonder about a few things. Since Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All…

Chris Brown Will Be Rihanna’s Next Boyfriend, Say Oddsmakers

We’re not sure what’s going on in Ireland these days, but it must be pretty boring, because the country’s largest bookmaker has drawn up extensive odds on who will be Rihanna’s next boyfriend.Paddy Power plc sent us a cheerful press release this morning with the title, “HE RI RI LIKES…

Self and Other Bring Calculated Improvisation to the Snooze Theatre

Self and Other is a project born from geography and distance but rooted in an ethical ideology. Rob Goyanes, bassist for metal outfit Slashpine and occasional Miami New Times writer, was living in Miami while Gabe Miller was based out of Providence when they began the project. A 2009 road trip…