Not that long ago, County Grind got obsessed with Miami R&B-jazz ensemble Ketchy Shuby’s current aesthetic direction. This first took hold with “Broke Like My Soul,” a throwback jam for dancing on backroom hardwood floors with hand-rolled cigar smoke curling in the air.Now, the band takes an unlikely approach by…
The Black Eyed Peas indefinite hiatus — which will be capped with a farewell concert at Sun Life Stadium November 23 — now has a more definite cause. According to rapper Taboo, his bandmate and National Anthem specialist Fergie wants to get pregnant and start a family with husband Josh…
With its plentiful unsavory tattoos, botched plastic surgery, and fashion choices that either look like dungeon wear or parrot barf, South Florida is a bit like Halloween every day of the year. The days surrounding October 31 are the days when freakish behavior and appearance is openly embraced, and two…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Astrea Corporation.It’s been established that Astrea Corporation make music for and from the future: somewhere between trip-hop and dubstep and…
Plenty of Prince albums will always sell at a decent clip — Purple Rain and 1999 among them — but it’s a sign o’ the times that the three-disc Lotusflow3r is getting pulled from shelves.Two years and seven months after its physical release, available exclusively at Target stores, the backstock…
Scott Weiland has not only been an iconic frontman for several juggernaut groups but he is the poster boy for rock ‘n’ roll excess and a sad example of what it takes to disable a career. Born October 27, 1967, Weiland has built a legacy that is quite successful on…
Johnny Jewel can’t do it any way other than DIY. As a result, the producer and icy-cool synth-wielder for disco-noir duo Glass Candy has carved his own niche in the underground dance world entirely on his own terms. During the past five years, Jewel has been a key component in…
Remember when MTV played actual music, feathered bangs were sexy, and scrunchies were the hottest fashion craze? Neither do we. Thankfully Respectable Street is hosting a party to remind people of a time when Jersey Shore was only an area and pop stars didn’t need vocal synthesizers to sound good…
Known to most as the high-pitched warbler who’s helped define such classic Yes songs as “Your Move,” “I’ve Seen All Good People,” “Roundabout,” and a steady stream of signature songs initiated in 1968 and continuing to this day, Jon Anderson could easily rest on his laurels without making any moves…
There are some voices that are indisputably created for making music, and Lake Worth singer/songwriter Kevin Popejoy’s rich timbre is one such instrument.The Glimpses of the South Florida Scene vet writes and records evocative acoustic songs that explore the darkness of humanity and wraps them around a core of uplifting…
Radio-Active Records’ days in the Gateway Shopping Plaza are numbered, which means its grand opening at 845 N. Federal Highway is steadily approaching. We recently announced that the longtime music retail source is moving to a more visible spot, and today there are details of the opening celebration.The daylong, blowout…
Happy birthday to the ultimate music satirist, Weird Al Yankovic, who should be known by no other name. Although his instrument of choice — the accordion — wasn’t quite cool enough to ensure rock worship, he has thrived some 35 years after Los Angeles radio personality Dr. Demento opted to…
Those who fondly recall alt-country act the Mavericks’ formative days here in South Florida will likely be buoyed by the fact that a reunion is in the works for next April. Three of the band’s original members — singer/songwriter Raul Malo, bassist Robert Reynolds, and drummer Paul Deakin — reconvene…
To paraphrase the title of one of his early albums, there are several faces of Manfred Mann. Although he gave his name to one of the British Invasion’s more popular combos, it was in fact an alias. Born Manfred Lubowitz to a wealthy South African family on October 21, 1940,…
Today we celebrate the birth of one of the most significant American-born rock ‘n’ roll artists of all time, Tom Petty. The term artist gets attached to musicians in the same way that you’re forced to call a burger from McDonald’s “food.” However, Tom Petty has demonstrated over the course…
Illustration by Tristan Elwell As hard rock blasted through Carnival Cruise Line’s huge atrium in the Port of Miami boarding terminal the afternoon of October 13, nearly 2,000 Kiss fans embarked on a weekend in their musical and geographical paradise. Women with pink hair wearing pink cardigans to match, men…
Just in time for the onset of fall, the Heavy Pets offer up a set of cool, acoustic music on their third studio album Swim Out Past the Sun, which they’ll be celebrating the release of this Saturday at the Stage in Miami.The album’s release is reminiscent in feel to…
Known sports fanatic and “leader” of the now stitched-together Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan has recently undertaken a new endeavor unrelated to music. No, it isn’t another clothing line endorsement, but it might be just as good. Corgan has launched a new professional wrestling league labeled “Resistance Pro” (complete with an…
Well, after much talk on this here blog, Surfer Blood’s Tarot Classics is up for public perusal. It’s a slickly produced collection that begins in the straightforward indie rock territory where the band began, and wraps up where the guys could be heading in the future (during their current studio…
Some thieving thieves made off with an entire drum set Sunday evening in Lake Worth. The kit belongs to Hollywood Lovescene’s Carlos “Chops” Rodriguez, and he’s like it back before it disappears into some pawn purgatory.Rodriguez’s gear was stolen right out of his vehicle parked in his driveway. Consider this…
For a man who’s still of relatively tender age, John Mayer has chalked up quite a career. With a prolific output that’s taken him from Pop to Blues and earned more accolades than most artists achieve in a lifetime, he’s managed to secure his place in the spotlight for the…
Local darkwave vixen Miss FD has shown impeccable timing by releasing her newest ghoulish concoction, “Love Magick,” just in time for Fort Lauderdale’s ghastly zombie walk this evening. Keeping her tradition of releasing frighteningly frisky tracks during the eve of goblins and ghouls, our latex-loving vamp delivers with her newest…
