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…
Stow another South Floridian entry in the blogger-darling chillwave file with Sumsun. Back in March, this hypnotic, retro-leaning dance act signed to Los Angeles-based label Leaving Records — a subsidiary of Alpha Pup, which houses Daedelus, Busdriver, Solillaquists of Sound and Nosaj Thing. West Palm Beach native Judson Rogers is…
50 Cent has avoided confrontation exactly never in his 12-year career. His debut full-length, meanwhile, is universally hailed as a hip-hop classic. So he’s been a polarizing force for a long time. You could say that 50 took an artistic stumble with Curtis, perhaps due to an increasing involvement in…
Ska is one of the only music scenes in which the community is overwhelmingly positive and everyone is friendly,” declares Matt Turner, organizer of SkaFest 2010 and lead singer of Paranoia Dance Party!, one of the festival headliners. That mentality is echoed in the architecture of the festival, which has…
Since releasing a rhapsodic, fuzz-laden debut, Carnavas, in 2006, the Los Angeles-based Silversun Pickups have assiduously chiseled a name for themselves in modern rock’s pantheon. Carnavas’ hissing kickback set against lead singer Brian Aubert’s bittersweet melodies was immediately embraced in the hip L.A. neighborhood, Silver Lake, that the band calls…
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.To the right is the cover art for the debut Sleigh Bells album — a work of post-post-postmodern, blown-out pop mastery that…
Gotta hand it to Korn for taking a stand against BP in the wake of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. When the band comes to West Palm Beach’s Cruzan Amphitheatre for the Mayhem Festival on August 11, you can be sure that their trucks have nary…
Hot off Kill Miss Pretty’s performance on CBS 12’s morning program — where the band’s set was cut short after producers were allegedly shocked by the group’s music and wardrobe choice — Boynton Beach’s sexiest foursome has announced a tour. They’ll kick off with a date at the Monterey Club on June…
After we heard that Mario “Souleye” Treadway, a former Whole Foods employee whose rhymes are like a shot of wheat grass, had reportedly knocked up one of Canada’s best-known musicians, Alanis Morissette, this announcement shouldn’t go down like a jagged little pill. According to People, Treadway and Morissette got married…
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.Yeasayer is coming to the Fillmore Miami on October 5. Admittedly this band was a…
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, Boca Raton’s Goolsby.Goolsby’s music creates the best sort of soundtrack for youthful escapades like making out and riding your…
On the heels of some middling news about the future of live music in Lake Worth comes some of the best flippin’ news about the future of live music in Lake Worth: ex-native son Kevin Barnes, who has gone on to indie-rock stardom with Of Montreal, is coming back to…
Wednesday night’s Noise Ordinance Taskforce meeting at the Compass Community Center Lake Worth was the latest milestone in a 20-year dispute between residents who live near downtown Lake Worth and venues hosting live music nearby. According to the flier circulating, the meeting was intended to discuss upcoming recommendations to the…
Trusted scribe Alex Rendon puts out a rock-solid music email newsletter for New Times Broward-Palm Beach every week that you can sign up for right here. Here’s one stimulating entry from this week’s edition:Pantera-loving thrash quartet Fall of Olympus’ self-titled debut album is now available in physical form. To celebrate…
The next time you’re browsing for guitars on eBay, look for a 1981 Gibson SG with a Paper and Plastick skull sticker on the back, or a Sparrow Les Paul, also donning a Paper and Plastick skull sticker. They may belong to Boca punk band Protagonist, who have become the latest South Florida group in…
Evan Rowe is an opinionated and articulate young man with some good insights into the nuances of the music business as business. That’s what it is. Though an argument can be made as to the artistry behind music; in the end, when it becomes available, it falls into some type…
The Dewars are a magical set of twins who make hazy songs that are so dreamy and good and sometimes tucked in between Leonard Cohen covers when played live. Anthony Dewar was awesome enough to email me “Pedophile Pete,” off their EP Songs from the Neverglades. It’s told from the…
After explaining his position once via his website, David Byrne is taking his legal battle with Florida Governor Charlie Crist to the pages of Rolling Stone. To review, the former head of the Talking Heads was incensed when “Road to Nowhere” was used in a political ad by Crist. We…
After more than four decades, numerous personnel changes, and a musical trajectory integrating blues, rock, prog, folk, classical, and practically every other genre either straddling or circumventing pop’s progress over the past 40 years, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has remained the band’s leader and musical mainstay. His iconic image as…
Cobra Starship is a bit of an anomaly — the veritable mullet hairstyle of popular music. The fluorescently dressed, power-pop and punk-infused electro band sticks to a strict regimen when it comes to its work but still manages to be all about joking around. It rose to fame with its…
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.As each Moving Units column is lovingly compiled, we’d like to think that we’re administering critical care to the terminal patient that…
Well that was quick. Although we didn’t realize it at the time, New Times Broward-Palm Beach officially ran the last major piece on Stonefox because the band is no more. During Saturday’s performance at Propaganda in Lake Worth, Stonefox lead singer Jordan Asher Cruz announced that he, guitarist Dave Barnard,…
