Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions and observations about the local scene. This week: Ed Hale talks music, mobility and his attempts to save the world… When translated into Latin, the word Transcendence suggests an upward motion and a feeling of going beyond, freely tempered…
Just in case there’s any doubt, Lil Wayne can upstage anyone by doing virtually nothing. Take last night’s Odd Future/OFWGKTA performance at Fillmore Miami, which did not feature a performance by Weezy. (It also did not feature an assault on a female photographer, to our knowledge, because shooters are reportedly…
Los Angeles’ Fitz & the Tantrums offer up a grassroots success story built on unadulterated creativity, elbow grease and and just the right amount of luck. All systems were a go after the practice session in late 2008, and the band played their first gig just a week later. Six…
Moonfest, featuring Glass CandyWith Millionyoung, Under Every Green Tree, Brobrah Nation, Sweet Chariots, Darling Sweets, Dharmata, Luna Rex, Doorway 27, Hard Richards, Band in Heaven, and Loxahatchee Sinners Union500 Block of Clematis Street, West Palm BeachSaturday, October 29, 2011View a slide show from Moonfest here.Better Than: Digging under a car…
Spaghetti WarholWith the Heavy PetsSaturday, October 29, 2011Funky Buddha Lounge & Brewery, Boca Raton Shedding their questionably suggestive nomenclature for something a bit more on the silly side, Fort Lauderdale’s the Heavy Pets transformed into their Halloween-enhanced doppelgänger act Spaghetti Warhol at the Funk Buddha Lounge & Brewery on Saturday…
Kendrick Lamar Revolution, Fort LauderdaleFriday, October 28, 2011Better Than: White girls from Oakland yelling “Gucci Gucci.”Judging by the crowd screaming “Kendrick Lamar” ten minutes before he stepped onstage as if they were calling for an encore, the up-and-coming California native is no longer a secret. The Compton MC, who has already received…
Little more than a homemade demo, Memoryhouse’s The Years has snowballed, and its sweeping cinematic soundscapes have rolled with increasing heft and purpose ever since. Barely out of their teens, the Canadian duo of vocalist Denise Nouvion and classically trained producer Evan Abeele’s lo-fi amorphous-yet-resilient recordings got them inked to…
Born and raised in Compton, 24-year-old rising rapper Kendrick Lamar unsurprisingly counts Tupac and Dr. Dre among his musical idols. But rather than just aping the gangster posturing without any of the depth, Lamar has put his own fresh spin on West Coast hip-hop. Some have tagged him as “conscious…
The average Talent Farm showgoer was in elementary school during the first, early-’00s heyday of the Savannah, Georgia, act Circle Takes the Square. The band’s influence on the posthardcore, DIY scene can still be felt several generations removed. Thus, hopefully, if there is any musical justice, this show will draw…
Wednesday’s show at Revolution is a rare coup for area metalheads, with an intimate club performance by two of the top legends of thrash metal: Anthrax and Testament. The former, led by the always-goateed and outspoken guitarist Scott Ian, has remained steadily in the public eye over the past four…
Butch Walker’s multiple musical lives have developed as the only-in-Hollywood variety since he first headed west from his native Georgia in the late ’80s. His early musical projects included straight-up Sunset Strip-style acts with creatively spelled names like Byte the Bullet. Following that came the power-guitar-rock act Marvelous 3, which…
Backstreet Boys founding member Kevin Richardson has announced that he’s back with the group after a five-year break — for a little vacation time in the Bahamas.Yes, Richardson has wisely decided to make his reentry during the second-annual Backstreet Boys Cruise, which embarks from Miami via the Carnival Inspiration on…
Update: Here’s a review of the 2011 Y100 Jingle Ball!The Y100 Jingle Ball lineup is here! The annual pop showcase at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise and all of its trimmings was just released to Y-VIPs — and you know County Grind is one of them.One of the biggest local…
When Michigan’s punk-rock juggernauts the Meatmen formed in 1980, they crashed their way into the serious hardcore scene and turned it into a party. While other bands were pontificating smugly about society’s woes, the Meatmen were sinning for a living while singer Tesco Vee was having an “Orgy of One.”…
South Florida fans of producer/musician/label honcho Johnny Jewel have plenty to rejoice about this week. Most obviously, Jewel is in West Palm Beach with one of his acts, Glass Candy, for the West Palm Beach Halloween extravaganza Moonfest this weekend. Much more about Jewel’s work with his many groups and…
View all of our Kiss Kruise coverage here.Although some Kiss Navy members were already planning their 2012 Kiss Kruise experience the moment they got onboard the Carnival Destiny two weeks ago, now the thing is official.Echoing sentiments he expressed during the band’s second full-makeup show of the mid-October excursion from…
This Thursday, the current lineup of the Beach Boys and their good bro John Stamos, of Full House and great hair fame, will assemble for a fundraiser show in Boca Raton.The intimate event, limited to 400 attendees, takes place inside Mizner Park’s Spin Ultra Lounge. As of Monday afternoon, only…
Off!With Retox and Cerebral BallzyCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleSunday, October 23, 2011View a slide show from the concert here.Better Than: Whatever else you were doing last night.Last night Off!, a band that has an insane amount of buzz, played in South Florida, and many were absent. Not only was it a…
Life has finally settled back into a world without 24-hour buffet lines, a pocketful of poker chips, and a daily dose of Kiss. For those who attended the Kiss Kruise on October 13 to 17, the withdrawal symptoms are getting heavy. To cap off County Grind’s extensive coverage — for…
Our complete Kiss Kruise coverage is here.One young Kiss Army member put it best when he said, “All other music fans are measured against Kiss fans.” With about 2,000 diehards aboard the Carnival Destiny — many of whom never considered taking a cruise previously — a weekend voyage dubbed the…
The Reverend Horton HeatWith Supersuckers and Dan SartainThe Culture Room, Fort LauderdaleThursday, October 20, 2011 Better Than: Waiting for Saturday night to start the honky tonkin’. “Rock ‘n’ roll is here to stay; it will never die.” Danny and the Juniors were fucking right, ace. Last night at the Culture Room,…
Chuck Livid believes that the greatest success of his DIY label Livid Records is the bonds it has created between the bands and the label. These are bonds so intense that he thinks of all 16 of them as, in his words, his own “flesh and blood.” On this, Livid’s five-year…
