Holy Ship! Preparty Featuring Major Lazer Revolution, Fort Lauderdale January 5, 2011 By all known counts, only one out of the three people who usually comprise Major Lazer was on stage last night — Diplo. Switch and hype man Skerrit Bwoy were nowhere to be seen. However, they didn’t seem…
People, we’re just over a week away from the very first County Grind Live Music event at Green Room featuring the infectious synth-pop mirth of Afrobeta. The Saturday, January 14, event also includes live music from some other fine locals: Sumsun, This Heart Electric, Dino Felipe, Boxwood, Möthersky, and Astrea…
Creed’s debut album, My Own Prison, will be 15 years old in 2012. To celebrate, the band’s playing the record and follow-up Human Clay in full as part of intimate two-night engagements around the country in April and May. Hand-wringing and eye-rolling ensued among those with whom County Grind discussed…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, the Gun Hoes.The Gun Hoes, at first glance: a punchy pun of the classic term “gung-ho,” which at its root…
SoFla Flow pays tribute to South Florida’s wonderful jam-band, reggae, and related activity — both the homegrown, heady, local stuff and national acts passing through.As this new column sets sail, the annual Jam Cruise is about to as well. And you all know what that means: shows out the wazoo!…
The talented members of Toubab Krewe play not only traditional rock instruments but also traditional African ones. These include noisemakers you’ve probably never seen in your life: the soku, kamelengoni, and kora. The band is composed of white dudes who marry West African sounds with American jam-band music. Since 1997, Toubab Krewe…
Gary Richards is a superbusy dude. He is a professional party planner. He is a gigging DJ known by the name Destructo. Plus he’s the mastermind behind the nationally touring Hard electronic music festival. This Friday, Richards and his Hard series will hit the high seas aboard the inaugural Holy…
Friday’s show at Revolution doesn’t officially have anything to do with the Jam Cruise, but it might as well. Boat or no boat, upstate New Yorkers Donna the Buffalo are cut from the same free-wheeling, improvisation-based musical cloth as many of their buddies who are sea-bound the following Monday. As…
Miami foursome Krisp is one of the few local acts to actually label itself “chillwave” on its various web pages rather than running quickly in the other direction from even the vaguest whiff of that derided term. More oddly, that pseudo-genre tag doesn’t even fit. Sure, Krisp plays gently retro…
The annual Jam Cruise, departing from Fort Lauderdale on January 9, has long been sold out. But the onslaught of music cruises leaving from South Florida is the gain of land-bound music fans, thanks to the requisite kickoff shows open to the public. The Jam Cruise has always been particularly…
Here reside the finest South Florida releases of the past 12 months, compiled with the help of our resourceful and brainy staff of freelancers. Capturing the myriad styles that reside comfortably at the beach, in the warehouse, at the Snooze Theatre, on the Florida Turnpike, and all of the above…
Another fine year of live entertainment in South Florida is now in the books. This is an especially bittersweet collection of memories from 2011 since I now know that I’ll be writing a year-end wrap in a different part of the country this time next year. Some concerts were impressive…
Miami’s emerging indie darlings Plains, who released New Times Broward Palm Beach’s favorite album of 2011, continues its victory lap with a four-date trek northward later this month. This could be the sort of practice run the guys need so that a lengthier tour can happen in March to coincide…
Michael Stipe helped define the sound of college radio’s first big star, the now-retired R.E.M., with a vocal approach that was often all but incomprehensible and decidedly detached. Although he turns 51 today (January 4) and later refined his style somewhat as his lyrics became more socially and politically attuned,…
It didn’t take Train very long to get “back on track” after returning from a three-year hiatus begun in 2009. They had all but disappeared from the public eye, and there was serious doubt among fans, their label, and themselves as to whether they would return at all. And, if…
Creed frontman and Boca resident Scott Stapp has decided to do a massive amount of purging for 2012 and is liquidating a ridiculous collection of studio gear. (This comes not long after his “White Christmas” showing in Delray Beach.) Owning a piece of equipment that has been at least near,…
Is Anyone Up? New Year’s CelebrationHosted by Hunter MooreSpeakeasy Lounge, Lake WorthSaturday, December 31, 2011Better than: Sitting at home in front of a MacBook, we guess.”You guys are awkward as fuck,” Is Anyone Up? revenge porn site founder Hunter Moore said at one point from the stage as he looked…
Most people know John Baldwin — or, rather, his pseudonym, John Paul Jones — as the bassist for Led Zeppelin. Of course, it’s easy to typecast certain individuals, particularly musicians, but Baldwin… err, Jones… has proven himself a man of remarkable diversity and instrumental dexterity. Since Zeppelin’s demise, he’s performed…
Can you feel it? It’s coming back again. The forces are pulling from the center of the Earth! Of course we are referring here to the coming of 2012, and the pending annihilation of life as we know it. Don’t buy into that? How else would you explain the second…
New Year’s Eve in South Florida will never be the same after Hunter Moore, founder of the revenge porn site Is Anyone Up?, unleashes on us to welcome in 2012. He and his pal Carlos Jacome are hosting a bash at the Speakeasy Lounge in Lake Worth that is the…
Like last year, we’re gonna count down the finest South Florida releases of the past 12 months. Many of them have received some attention via this blog, and some of them have received ridiculous amounts of attention.This list comes from a whole lot of slouching in my office chair in…
County Grind is counting down 2011’s best local albums in South Florida. Monitor our progress here.Plains’ self-titled debut album is damn near perfect. Leader Michael McGinnis has crafted 41minutes of music that begs to be looped endlessly. The melodies of this Miami rock outfit float higher than Damon Albarn’s soaring…
