In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.In addition to the usual hip, young buzz bands, this week’s top sellers feature two bands that have managed to remain cool…
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, Alexander.Ryan Alexander is a superhero. When I met with him to ask him about his band (entirely his brainchild),…
Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes will make a special visit to the Lake Worth community on August 7 for the day-long, bang-out Lake Worth-It 2010 fest. A new album from the Athens, Georgia resident and his band titled False Priest is scheduled for release in the fall. Every bit is a…
Regular readers of our Moving Units column know that we regularly get down with Radio-Active Records’ Mike “Mikey” Ramirez to rap about the best-sellers at the store. We’re juiced to announce that the already well-documented revelry of Tuesdays at the Monterey Club has been co-opted to commemorate Ramirez crossing the…
So maybe Crossfade and County Grind are living separately, but our split was completely amicable. Here are a few stories reported recently via Miami’s raddest music blog that we want to make sure our readers see.School of Seven Bells: ethereal, gorgeous melodies featuring a dude from Secret Machines and On!Air!Library!…
The Heavy PetsThe Heavy Pets Even the biggest fans of the biggest jam bands don’t expect much from a studio album. In this writer’s view, the jam band studio album can serve a couple of purposes. The first is to superficially introduce the band to newbies and the new songs…
We here who grind away in the County Grind like to respect and promote our local efforts. In today’s Local Motion, we look at a pair of releases by Boca Raton’s Livid Records, a fine compendium of local and out-of-state acts that is rapidly becoming one of the “friendliest” independent…
Interracial R&B group the Crests charted many doo-wop hits, including “16 Candles,” during its heyday in the ’50s and ’60s. After a late-’70s breakup, the rotating cast of members found a new following thanks to the John Hughes film named after their hit, as well as a cover of the…
Freaks and fans alike can brace themselves for Lake Worth act Viva le Vox’s upcoming CD-release party, a spectacle some might refer to as a “hillbilly zombie circus.” Freaks aside, the band is a local work of art worth checking out if you want to feel scared and uncomfortable yet…
Blood of the Prophets has rapidly distinguished itself in the metal community with melodic fretwork, elements of thrash, and forays into synthesizers. Formed in 2008 in Toledo, Ohio, this sextet’s standouts are drummer Will Clark and keyboardist Elizabeth Croak, who affirm the intensity via blast beats, heavy cadence, and gothic…
Back in 1995, Timothy Wiles performed his first show as Uberzone at the Edge in Fort Lauderdale. Since then, the name of the club has changed a couple of times (it’s now home to Revolution Live), but the name Uberzone has become well-recognized among the international dance music community. Throughout…
After winning American Idol in 2007, Jordin Sparks hasn’t attained Carrie Underwood-level success, but she’s fared far better in her pop career than Idol alums like Taylor Hicks. Her self-titled debut album featured two smash singles, “Tattoo” and a duet with Chris Brown, “No Air.” Both songs showed that Sparks…
The electro-savvy Briton DJ Deekline’s international following pulls his bass-heavy, hard-core jungle rhythms back and forth over the Atlantic. His breakbeat prowess was even put to work to remix Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s biggest hit, “Got Your Money,” featuring Kelis. Deekline is a delight live when he gets that sweet vibe…
Hailing from the same city as Girl Talk and the Steelers — which he’s affectionately dubbed “Pittsburgh, Pistol-Vania” — Wiz Khalifa hasn’t let being from a place not typically synonymous with hip-hop get in the way of his grind. In the past 12 months, he has released his second full-length…
What do you do in Boca after all the frozen-yogurt shops have closed? And more specifically, where do you go if you just want to kick back, have a good time, and not be judged by the supermanicured elite? Well, I embarked upon a quest to find a couple of…
Local eclectic, eccentric, soulful tune dude Mike Mineo has announced the dates for his upcoming solo tour up to NYC and back. Mineo, who was recently named New Times Best Male Vocalist 2010, will be playing intimate cafes and coffee shops all the way up and back down the coast…
Sumsun’s Judson Rogers has been busy with two upcoming releases detailed here, and taking his sparkling, R&B-inspired magic (thanks to syrupy vocals by Cleverly Hustle, AKA Beverly Russell) to more northern sects of the state. Still, he found the time to remix Young Jeezy’s “And Then What” featuring Mannie Fresh.Considering…
In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.Local bros the Jacuzzi Boys not only have a winning album cover for the limited-run Bricks or Coconuts three-track vinyl (Ratatat’s new…
In anticipation for their show tonight night with Lagues at Propaganda, it is important — necessary — to get oneself into the right headspace for the Band In Heaven. Indeed “headspace” is the right term for such foggy, fuzzy stuff recalling both outer space and My Bloody Valentine, the Orlando-based…
Charlie Pickett “If This Is Love, Can I Get My Money Back?/Slow Death” (Open Records) One of the beautiful things that we can wholeheartedly enjoy here while County Grinding is the fact that we don’t necessarily have to come up with explanations from the get-go. I’ve been enjoying a good…
Impose Magazine deemed Lake Worth’s the Jameses “another reason Florida doesn’t completely suck”; this is slightly true. They’re deserving of a headline based less on the supposed suckiness of their surrounding environment and more on the quirk-and-catchiness of their banging lo-fi, which Impose went on to fairly acknowledge.It’s the nature…
Congratulations to West Palm Beach’s Lavola, the band chosen to join Against Me! and the Henry Clay People as support for the Silversun Pickups’ performance June 16 at the Sunset Cove Amphitheatre in Boca Raton. The West Palm Beach trio’s enormous, bombastic melodies proved to impress the majority of the…
