Electric SixCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleTuesday, October 5, 2010The review:Dick Valentine needed some fire from the Fort Lauderdale crowd, and he occasionally got it. During Tuesday night’s set, the Electric Six frontman exhibited that he had done his part to get ready for a blistering set of funk- and new wave-fueled…
EaglesBand.com”I don’t feel so good right now.”The Eagles have postponed three concerts this week, including Friday’s performance at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. According to the Eagles’ official site, the dates have been rescheduled due to the unknown illness of Don Henley. Tonight’s show in Lubbock, Texas, and Thursday’s performance in…
The local allure of next year’s Bruise Cruise Festival increases significantly with the addition of Miami’s Jacuzzi Boys! This is quite a score for the fest, given the band’s sunny garage-rock melodies and getting local musicians onto the boat departing from an area port. Will there ever be a better…
via their MySpace pageChris CarrabbaHearing Dashboard Confessional or anything in association with Chris Carrabba gives us intense flashbacks. We’d go to local shows to catch Carrabba and company making us swoon while he “screamed infidelities” — a right of passage for most girls in high school in the early 2000s…
Photo by Allen MalschickL to R: Maurice Gibb, Roger Daltrey, Tim Rice, Robin Gibb, Barry Gibb taken at the opening-night performance of Chess at the Jackie Gleason Theater.Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs…
Photo by Ian WitlenMayer Hawthorne & The CountyMayer Hawthorne & the Countywith Gordon VoidwellAt Culture Room, Fort LauderdaleSunday, October 3, 2010Check out a slideshow from the concert here.Better than: A Southern down-home BBQ hootenanny. The Review:Something about soul music infused with R&B and hints at 1970s disco funk promised at…
Photo by Sarah PenelloPhantogramWith EntresolThe Electric Pickle, MiamiSaturday, October 2, 2010Buzz-band Phantogram played the Electric Pickle’s back porch on Saturday night and lived up to the hype. It was a night of samples and layers, laptops and mixers — a more dynamic and sonically interesting show than expected with so…
RushCruzan Amphitheatre, West Palm BeachSaturday, October 2, 2010Rush completed the North American leg of its “Time Machine” tour in West Palm Beach on Saturday on a stage that seemed to unite the past, present, and future for all participants at this venue. The creative antique stage design — complete with…
Photo by Alisa B. CherryCrosby, Stills & NashHard Rock Live, HollywoodFriday, October 1, 2010Crosby, Stills & Nash made a return visit to Hard Rock Live a mere six months or so after their previous appearance. At last count, they’ve visited South Florida no fewer than four times in the past…
via their MySpace pageHelen Folasade Adu — better-known as Sade — is a woman who just refuses to age. Now 51, she’s still smokin’ hot and still singin’ about what she knows best: Gettin’ it on. She’s been doing this for so long, we wouldn’t doubt it if someone told…
via their MySpace pageYou know we just had to say this: Wake up, wake up, wake up. It’s the first of the month. Get up, get up, get up. So cash your checks and get up. We love us some Bone Thugs-N-Harmony over here at County Grind, and ever since…
Facebook.comWidespread PanicFillmore Miami, Miami BeachSeptember 30, 2010There are only a few times a year when a conglomerate of dreaded hippies gather in Miami and that is probably during the Bob Marley-inspired Caribbean festival and the rare occasion that a jam band makes its way down to our out-of-the-way diminutive paradise…
Remember that adage about how it’s hard to miss someone if they won’t stay away? In the case of Crosby, Stills and Nash, that saying still applies, but in a good way. Dominant more than 40 years ago as an early “super” group and originators of the West Coast folk-rock…
The early recordings of singer-songwriter Dar Williams transport the listener to a New England coffeehouse — the setting in which her songs came to life in the early ’90s. The topical narratives’ insights make every word essential. Over the course of Williams’ career since then, a flower garden has grown…
Critical condemnation and popular adulation go alarmingly hand-in-hand in the world of rock music. Often, the same qualities lead those opposing camps to their positions, and such is certainly the case for ’70s and ’80s progressive rock stalwart Rush. Fond of science fiction and Ayn Rand, the group often worked…
Michigan crooner/producer Mayer Hawthorne got in R&B and soul fans’ good graces a couple of years ago with “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out,” a throwback slice of heartbreak off his debut, A Strange Arrangement. Choosy hip-hop imprint Stones Throw pairs well with a guy who isolates smoky cool from R&B…
Last year was especially good for classic metal in South Florida, as all of the big four — Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, and Metallica — made it to the area for headlining shows, and Slayer played a brain-blasting set at the Mayhem Festival. Now we get blasted again courtesy…
Yeasayer frontman Chris Keating’s tongue-in-cheek claim that the band’s sophomore release, Odd Blood, was designed to “sonically challenge Rihanna in the clubs” might be overly ambitious, but it’s a good description of the band’s departure from its earlier work. The Brooklyn-based trio’s critically acclaimed 2008 debut, All Hour Cymbals, melded…
Bob Dylan’s groundbreaking blend of folk, rock, and blues is like an effervescent newborn to some and a crusty uncle to others, but it’s hard not to acknowledge that his songs are part of the extended family that is popular music. In his five-decade career, Dylan has done nothing short…
Enter Shikari does a fairly good job of mixing the unmixable — metal and electronic with a twist of posthardcore. What do these fine British lads mean by the entrance of Shikari? It means “hunter” in the nuances of Punjabi, Hindi, Nepali, Urdu, and Bengali. With some positive vibes stemming…
MySpace.comBrooklyn shoegaze pummel-masters a Place to Bury Strangers have been confirmed for Respectable Street’s annual Halloween extravaganza, Moonfest 2010. If the name isn’t already a pretty convincing vote of confidence for the October 30 event, County Grind can testify from a past ear-smashing that the trio plays loud and sinister…
“Forty-eight hours till the Wailers will be there in Fort Lauderdale! Tell the people to get ready to sing all the hits… ‘One Love,’ ‘No Woman, No Cry.’ Jah Rastafari!” You heard the man. That’s Aston “Family Man” Barrett announcing that the Wailers will be playing Revolution in Fort Lauderdale…
