Though we love it, we know, we don’t give trap music enough play here at the County Grind. Lord knows, there’s enough of it oozing out of every car speaker around in these parts, but not enough local beatmakers are touting the speedy, bass-heavy genre. Danny Brunjes, frontman for the…
Adam Foster is a South Florida-based DJ and producer, founder of twilightnotes.com, and entertainment director for the Restaurant People. He was named best DJ of 2014 by New Times Broward-Palm Beach. In the Booth is his new column about electronic music, DJ culture, and South Florida nightlife. Visit his Facebook…
Adam Foster is a South Florida-based DJ and producer, founder of twilightnotes.com, and entertainment director for the Restaurant People. He was named best DJ of 2014 by New Times Broward-Palm Beach. In the Booth is his new column about electronic music, DJ culture, and South Florida nightlife. Visit his Facebook…
A slew of Grammy-winning jazz artists are coming to Pompano Beach for the Sea of JazzFest this Friday and Saturday at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre. Christian McBride, Ken Peplowski, the Clayton Brothers, Randy Brecker, Hubert Laws & Tierney Sutton, Nanny Assis & Brazilian Carnaval Jazz, and the Phil Woods Quintet…
Every year since 1971, with Pazz and Jop, our sister paper the Village Voice has polled music nerds worldwide to determine which were the best albums released the year prior. In 2014, most of us came together in agreement that D’Angelo’s Black Messiah — which just snuck in before the…
The Pembroke Pines all ages venue the Talent Farm may no longer exist as a location, but it appears that in other way, the talent continues to flow out of this onetime essential venue. Kevin Burns, the man behind the Talent Farm, just finished the debut full length from Brodyn,…
By Evan Rowe Local musician Dave Shelley, who sings and plays guitar and percussion, usually with his band Bluestone, has cancer and is flying out to California for treatment. He and his supporters have set up a GoFundMe page dedicated to helping cover his medical expenses. The page explains that…
Game of Thrones is a huge, huge deal. You know that, though. The fantasy drama is HBO’s most popular series ever, and reached the event horizon where novelty craft beers are now brewed in its honor, and T-shirts emblazoned with slogans and images that only viewers understand abound. And let’s…
It’s springtime in Hollywood. The sky is cloudless and blue. Tourists bake in the sun and the Hollywood sign winks from the hills. A low-flying plane poops smoke trails overhead. On the rooftop of a 1920s apartment building, two girls are smoking a joint and listening to music from a…
One of the things that makes South Florida’s music community an actual community in function and not just in concept is that it is incestuous in the best way. Bands down here swap and share members constantly and, whether or not you’re into our musically polyamorous reality, it really does…
Photo by: Monica McGivernScott Stapp is going so crazy, it’s almost not even funny anymore. The Creed frontman, now a resident of Boca Raton, has been at the center of a very public downward spiral for the past couple of months. His wife, Jaclyn Stapp, had to file for divorce…
Scott Stapp needs you to hold him, now. He’s six feet from the edge of total mental collapse. For the past two months, the former or maybe still frontman for Creed has made headlines for his shockingly erratic behavior. From seemingly insane and violent text messages to his wife to…
Boca’s only student run label, Florida Atlantic University’s Hoot/Wisdom Recordings, has successfully launched a crowdsourced funding project on Power2Give to raise money for upcoming album releases, upgraded recording equipment, and promotion of the label’s music beyond South Florida. This is the first time they’ve used the web to raise cash…
On Thursday, November 20, tattoo artist and musician Chip Harris was riding his Harley-Davidson Sportster down Okeechobee Boulevard on his way home from work. Somewhere by Breezy Lane, a woman driving west didn’t see his bike coming. In one terrifying and tragic moment, she T-boned Harris’ motorcycle. Harris is both…
There is a certain type of celebrity the world wants, yearns for, even. It’s the type of person who does everything wrong. This person starts fights with other celebrities, burns bridges, uses copious levels of narcotic drugs, possesses a laughable sort of vanity, and lives a public life filled with…
South Florida rapper, Apakalypse has been one of the busier gents of the local hip-hop scene. Just this fall season he’s released two full-length efforts, Future From the Past and Earth’s Special Forces. Either he’s been on an incredible creative kick or he simply has nothing better to do, but…
There’s a rebirth of old school drum ‘n’ bass and purist-friendly dubstep happening in a particularly unlikely place: West Palm Beach. Friends Alex Gerhardt (DJ Depth), Kevin Kocak (DJ Bownce), Landon Yerby (Dcypher), Bradley Brown (Rok Is Dead), and Rene Aguiar (The Reazin) are the five-strong beatmakers behind the collective…
We’ve said it before, and we’re sure we will say it again: John Wylie is almost without peer when it comes to the sort of tangible contributions he’s made over the years to South Florida’s music community. Between the man’s early days playing guitar for a laundry list of seminal,…
Amy Fleisher Madden, better known to South Florida’s punk scene as Amy Fiddler, began a strange journey into self-publication and independent record label operating at the tender age of 16. Her fanzine, Fiddler Jones was indicative of the pop punk ’90s with a Cometbus-styled bend that balanced band interviews, reviews,…
Dan Gorostiaga has been a key a figure in South Florida’s underground. As founder and sole constant of Cavity, he put Miami on the metal map during the ’90s with the band’s highly imitated, stripped-down sludge. Since its split in 2001, I have personally pestered him about the band getting…
Make no mistake that Judas Priest forever changed the development of heavy metal, helping it progress in a way that few other bands ever will. Though we know few fans of the genre are ignorant enough to fail to make that distinction, it’s important to remind everyone now and again…
Picture it: Munich, 1810. OK, so you probably can’t without the help of a Google search. But that’s when Germany’s first Oktoberfest took place to honor the marriage of Prince Ludwig and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Since then, the world has been celebrating that special day by boozing heavily while garbed…
