The Methodaires are such a refreshing welcome to the South Florida musical landscape, we almost wish they’d perform with a little more frequency. But in lieu of saturating the local airwaves with their infectious reggae-ska, we’ll take the occasional gigs when they occur. Now everybody knows that this coming weekend…
Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carrabba has done his fair share of wooing behind his guitar. Lauded as one of the poster boys of the emo indie-rock movement, he’s challenged other competitors to be just as charming and sincere with their lyrics as he is — and they’ve all failed in…
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: Catching concerts in all kinds of places In 2010, South Florida boasts an abundance of clubs and venues that host live music. However, that wasn’t…
South Florida bedrooms are turning to nurseries come April 2012, because Sade has confirmed a 2011 summer date at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. County Grind already suggested a bunch of appropriate baby names for the tykes inevitably conceived after a rapturous evening with the peerless soul goddess setting the…
IrationWith the Movement and the GreenCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleFriday, November 19, 2010 “This ain’t no funky reggae party.” So said the late Bradley Nowell, pioneer of the SoCal sound that has been carried on by bands like Slightly Stoopid, Pepper, and a plethora of other beer-slugging, white-boy Jah lovers like…
Kid Rock has established his place in American rock music pretty firmly. Since his 1999 multiplatinum album Devil Without a Cause, he’s been dropping hit after hit. He does so well because he gives people exactly what they want. You kind of like rap, but you like rock more? Kid’s…
Tonight, Bauhaus and Love and Rockets alum David J visits, performs and enshrouds Radio-Active Records and the Monterey Club here in Fort Lauderdale. Those tight black clothes are a very good start, but get a further refresher on the guy right here.As detailed at the Radio-Active blog, Mr. J will…
Talented Miami rap duo Ghost Arm upped another couple songs to its Facebook page that would sound hot popping off of some wax, especially “Relocative Frequencies.” This particular track features production by Roberto Pagano, and continues the duality within the group that relies equally on vintage soul samples (in this…
In the mid-’90s, just after Kurt Cobain’s death and when bands like Green Day and the Offspring saturated the radio, punk-rock fans saw a lot of their heroes defect to the dark side. Punk is more than just a style of music; it’s about having the freedom to say and…
Fort Lauderdale’s taking back Sunday with a new monthly indie dance event even Steven Spielberg can get down for, Jams the Party. There might be fewer regulars watching football this weekend at McSorley’s Beach Pub because the Dolphins played Thursday night, but we can already picture the heightened interactions at…
Iron & WineFillmore Miami Beach, MiamiThursday, November 18, 2010Better than: Just iron or just wine or Badly Drawn Boy. Midway through a raucous (for him) show at the Fillmore last night, Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam mused over how little South Florida had changed in the five years since he…
Whoa! A bounty of local and semilocal musicians will converge upon Pompano Beach’s Edge Logistics — a killer name for a venue — for an event bearing the name Trash to Treasure set for Saturday, November 27. With Orlando’s Emily Reo and her notably gossamer melodies leading the way, plus…
The recent news that Iron & Wine has moved from its longtime label, Sub Pop, to Warner Bros. should be no cause for alarm. The title of its January 2011-released album, Kiss Each Other Clean, and songwriter Sam Beam’s promise of “radio-friendly music” replete with horns and synths is another…
Just because a star was bred in Hollywood doesn’t necessarily mean he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Just take Mickey Avalon, the unlikely king of Los Angeles’ swanky clubs. He came from beginnings far beyond dubious and well into deranged, a fact he’s celebrated in his…
Chicago-bred blues man Reverend Raven has squeezed out soulful guitar notes for the past 40 years and earned his share of blues cred. But he doesn’t rely on it to impress his audiences and maintains that he’s “only as good as last night’s gig.” Judging by the praise sung for…
The young men in Santa Barbara reggae-rock act Iration are so full of green energy that it’s almost criminal — in the sense that it should be regulated by the government. But can the government really regulate island jams infused with the six-piece’s Hawaiian roots? Let’s hope not. Building upon…
Diana Ross was the first modern pop diva, a benchmark of haughty elegance that laid the path for Whitney, Mariah, and Christina. Her front-and-center attitude could be trying; she constantly overshadowed fellow Supremes Flo Ballard and Mary Wilson and demanded top billing in the trio’s final years. Still, you couldn’t…
Nile is perhaps the only death-metal band with the stones to sing about Egyptian deities boasting the penile fortitude of a three-day Cialis binge. The South Carolina quartet did just that on its fifth album, 2007’s Ithyphallic. The record’s title track details a fertility god (Min, perhaps) who annihilates his…
After reading through nearly every blog entry addressing this past weekend’s Miami Music Festival, it’s a mixed bag.First and foremost, credit Miami New Times/Crossfade workhorse Music Editor Sean Pajot for providing a ton of evenhanded festival coverage for dissemination throughout. Now in its second year, the fest faced plenty of…
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: Walter Salas-Humara and Raul Malo stand tall among our hometown heroes.Although I’ve mostly used this column to describe my encounters with national and, on occasion,…
Arena-rock monolith act Linkin Park has chosen South Florida as the launch pad for its 2011 tour dates in support of A Thousand Suns. One of the crankiest, stodgiest music scribes around (and a friend of County Grind) freakin’ loves this album, raving in sister paper Village Voice: “the easiest…
Nitzer EbbGrand Central, MiamiSaturday, November 13, 2010Better Than: The Miami Music Festival (at least on Saturday night, at which fans braving the Vivian Girls’ headlining show were tossed out for dress code non-compliance and price-gouged for $10 beers) The Review:Sometimes, when the live music stars align, a venue, audience, and band…
