Lamb of God drummer Chris Adler, best-known for his rapid-fire contributions to the band’s Metallica-inspired groove metal, is giving the secrets of his trade at a clinic at the Bienes Center for the Arts. Here’s a chance to get up-close and personal with a key component of the thrashtastic act…
The notion of a white reggae band from the California coast may conjure memories of Sublime, but Santa Barbara’s Rebelution plays it far straighter than its genre-blending forebears. The band’s brand of reggae has cleaner upstrokes and tighter corners than dub, and leader Eric Rachmany’s guitar solos show traces of…
Every time I hear about Cradle of Filth, I think of my friend, Electric Bunnies guitarist Eldys. One day, his father came into his room while he was blasting Cradle of Filth to let him know that “This music is very pretty.” It was probably the most shocking reaction to…
This post wraps up our look at the tricounty area bands playing official SXSW showcases. Are you in a band headed to Texas next week to play an unofficial show? Email us here.It’s just these sort of festivals that helped Surfer Blood first break through on a national scale –…
Nothing like a little good-doing to offset the sex-and-drugs image of touring rock and roll bands! For almost a full decade now (!) Hopeless Records has been fighting this good fight, sending out its Take Action Tour around the country, alongside a compilation on its own nonprofit label, Sub City,…
Coral Springs songwriter/singer/producer/multi-instrumentalist guy Mike Diaz was South Florida’s first bona fide chillwave success — although he might now shy away from the term. Whatever the case, he first scored national attention as Millionyoung last year when his nostalgic take on funky electronic pop dovetailed well with a certain blog-driven…
This week, County Grind is taking a look at South Florida bands headed off to play official showcases at SXSW, which starts in Austin, Texas next Tuesday.Nobody gets a Miami dance party going like Locos Por Juana, a longtime favorite on the Latin-alternative circuit. With a lineup at any given…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: The ABC’s of my stint with ABC. After graduating from college all those many years ago, my great goal in life was to work for a…
This week, County Grind is taking a look at the tri-county bands representing for South Florida at this year’s SXSW festival. First, a rundown of the “officially” selected artists. Earlier this afternoon we gave you a free MP3 from Awesome New Republic, and now, it’s time for….Dreaming in StereoMiami’s Dreaming…
Ah, South By Southwest. It’s that time again — the middle of March, when seemingly the entire new-music industry descends on Austin, Texas like locusts, leaving shards of empty margarita glasses and dried taco husks in its wake. Day and night, bands play every hour on the hour at endless…
Up-and-coming twin cities artist SimsThanks to the early pioneers of the Rhymesayers crew, Minnesota’s twin cities have long been hailed for their thriving underground hip-hop scenes. And because of the early genre-crossing tendencies of that scene’s leading artists like Atmosphere and Eyedea (R.I.P.), the Minneapolis sound has never been orthodox…
Just thinking about Primus makes it clear how bland the rock music world has become. There was a time, and it wasn’t all that long ago, that MTV and radio stations played what some people — okay, maybe just one person, me — affectionately refer to as “crazy people music.” Primus…
Ra Ra Riot Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale March 7, 2011 Last night, a fashionably dressed crowd filled the Culture Room. And that’s pretty much all they did, except for when Ra Ra Riot, a good but generic indie rock band, played one of their popular songs. At this point, the…
Grace Potter and the NocturnalsCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleMarch 5, 2011Better than: A Saturday night surrounded by midlife morons. Wishful thinking, I guess.Remember Grace Potter before the bleached-blond mane and sequin get-ups? Neither do I. The raw, uncut version of Potter circa 2006 roared on through for bits and pieces of…
Secret French Kissing SocietyWith John Ralston, The Dewars, Bobby Yapkowitz and Chris Horgan Propaganda, Lake WorthThursday March 3, 2010Better than: West Palm Beach by way of Brooklyn It was a night of reminiscing for Stavros Polentas Thursday night at Propaganda. The charismatically zany Brooklyn-based frontman reunited his defunct South Florida…
A day before tickets are to go on sale, some nice artist additions have been announced for the 2011 Bear Creek Music and Arts Festival, which will take place at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak from November 11-13. The already stacked, funk heavy line-up –…
Last October’s Matt & Kim show at Culture Room was a big, sweaty party featuring an assortment of tween fashions, crowd-walking, and unabashed revelry. This will undoubtedly happen again in June when M&K’s infectious glee hits Culture Room. The June 5 show also features another act prone to onstage antics…
Cayamo Cruise 2011 proved once again that it wasn’t the destination that mattered, but the journey to get there. Along with more than 2,000 partying passengers and three dozen outstanding artists over the course of February 13 – 20, I felt fortunate to be there for the third year in…
ApocalypticaWith Kinlin Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Thursday, March 3, 2011Better Than: Not seeing a shirtless rock cellistThe Review: If metal could take animal form, it would have devoured every inch of the Culture Room Thursday with loud, pulsing intimidation during the performance by Metallica cover act via cellos, Apocalyptica. The crowd loved it…
John Mellencamp Au-Rene Theater, Broward Center for the Performing Arts Thursday, March 3, 2011 “I admire John. He’s trying to survive in a tough business. Yet, he’s stripping it down rather than flowering it up.” That statement comes from photographer Kurt Markus, whose documentary It’s About You opened John Mellencamp’s…
Previously, the Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party, video of Miss Pussycat’s puppet show, Bruise Cruise Day One, Bruise Cruise Day Two, The Black Lips Throw a Bass Into the Ocean, Bruise Cruise Day Three, and Bruise Cruise Slideshow.Sorry to spoil the big surprise at the end of the Black Lips’ latest…
County Grind hearts the Gallery, a super-swell buncha fellas originally from rural Western Massachusetts who decamped to West Palm Beach a few years back. Though they’re nominally based here in South Florida, the longtime friends spend most of the year on the road, chugging through endless national tours. Recently, that…
