Music video director and South Florida native Carlos Charlie Perez welcomed County Grind into his New York workspace in September for the filming of Los Angeles synth artist Glasser’s “Mirrorage” video. The results color a profile of Perez featured in this week’s music section. This represents his 15th project –…
We’re not really sure how much “crap” the folks over at Buzz 103.1 have “cut through” in the past 15 years, but one thing’s for sure: They love reppin’ the Sunshine State. The radio station even put a contest together to add some more local talent to this year’s festival…
To quell the pain besieging fellow employees at the New Times Broward Palm Beach, we announce with pleasure that Randy Moss will not be suiting up in a Dolphins uniform. The past couple of days yielded some serious digs (not Diggs, however) against Moss, a former Viking-Raider-Patriot-Viking who apparently spends…
Carlos Charlie Perez is lip-synching with a pen as his microphone. Bulbs powerful enough for an entire stage illuminate his animated face, painted with a slightly hammy smile and peeking out from under a mop of dark brown hair. A wood-paneled cylinder with rainbow-splashed walls about 16 feet in diameter…
It seems we have earned Ray LaMontagne’s eye contact. Looking back at his past album covers, not until his third do we get a glimpse of Ray’s face. The mustache and beard deny us the opportunity to get too close to the man, whose reticent gaze appears fixed to the…
Clad in a black bra that barely concealed her astonishing rack, the woman carried drinks over to her husband, a lanky gent with graying hair who was seated on a couch in the VIP section. She was beautiful. Probably in her late 50s, she appeared much younger: bleached-blond hair; tanned,…
The Ambry German and American Restaurant3016 E Commercial Blvd., Fort LauderdaleCall 954-771-7342, or visit ambryrestaurant.comI walked through the quaint, pocket-sized “beer garden,” pulled open the brassy, cathedral-like door, and poked my head inside the Ambry. It was dimly lit, with brick walls, wooden ceilings, arched windows, and the aroma of…
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, West Palm Beach’s (and New York City’s) Tumbleweave.Tumbleweave is Ben Mendelewicz and Matt Cutler, who make irreverent songs that…
Blowfly Zodiac Blowfly (Weird World Records) blowfly.com By now, we all know how dirty and awesome the world’s first rapper truly is, but here is a succinct and on-point blog regarding this album by Aesop D. from his site Cosmic Hearse (a one-stop shop for incredibly great and obscure music…
County Grind and Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records hook up to discuss each week’s finest new releases in Moving Units. This week, The Fool by Los Angeles indie-rock group Warpaint.”Warpaint’s debut LP, The Fool, has become one of my favorite records of the past few months. All the essentials are here:…
To be clear, this post is equally about the song above and what’s finally going on today. Vote Sumsun at your favorite digital retailer!After so many months of obsessing over Sumsun’s upcoming — or “impending,” given the reverberating prettiness of this guy’s early tracks — album, Samo Milagro, you are…
Homestretch Comatose EP (self-released) homestretch.com This seven-inch EP’s been out for a while, and it is also available in cassette format from the technologically adept but actual music-sounding savvy kids over at Drugged Conscience Records. The energetic power-violence influenced hardcore punk within will satisfy purists of many genres and give…
Bierbrunnen German Pub427 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort LauderdaleCall 954-462-1008It was a breezy, balmy early autumn day in Fort Lauderdale when I jumped up to the emerald-green bar at Bierbrunnen, a modest, open-air pub hidden in an alley just off the beach and a block away from raging party…
It begins with that unmistakable soothing hiss of a record player’s needle dropping onto vinyl and a loop that sounds straight out of a ’70s R&B album. Motor City transplant Mr. Chief’s previously unreleased track “Ironic” certainly has an old-school flavor one can nestle up to. The introspective themes covered by…
The Psycho Daisies 30 Milligrams of Your Love (Resonance Records) psychodaisies.com This album by the Psycho Daisies is the band’s third. It follows a wild opening record for long-gone Dutch label Resonance Records, which signed them in 1991 for Sonicly Speaking. The party continues in this album with the dearly…
Earlier this week, County Grind highlighted Vanilla Ice’s list of his top five rappers to get a little closer to what the sound of “Born on Halloween,” the South Florida resident’s new track with Insane Clown Posse’s Violent J, would be like. We had no idea we’d hear the line…
Much like Robyn, Little Boots, and Annie, La Roux is another European alt-dance commodity with outlandish hair and songs seemingly too brash for ubiquity in the U.S. Yet La Roux’s flame-maned vocalist Elly Jackson and keyboardist/co-producer Ben Langmaid have infiltrated America (much like Robyn’s brief reign 14 years ago) with…
It’s a little too perfect that A Place to Bury Strangers is headlining Moonfest 2010. The Brooklyn shoegaze act not only has a name that screams spookiness, but the trio’s history of sheer sheets of noise suggests that the decibel level should stretch all the way up and down West…
This week’s edition of New Times Broward Palm Beach is dressed as an NBA basketball player — or as a drifter dressed like an NBA basketball player. Not bad, but readers of the music section can do more. Halloween is upon us, and there are probably some leather items in…
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.The intrigue of the week: Esben and the Witch is an English trio (featuring no one named Esben) ready to cast spells…
Red Eye seems to be the immature, slightly annoying Fox alternative to high-minded news comedy hours like the Daily Show and Colbert Report; almost like the bratty punks of late-night comedy. But judging by the roster of musicians the show has invited on — Danzig, Fucked Up, Rob Zombie –…
The Psycho Daisies It’s No Fun To Be Paranoid (Suspicious Hallucinations) www.psychodaisies.com Not only are The Psycho Daisies one of South Florida’s most criminally underrated outfits but Mr. Johnny Salton is no longer with us. The bastard cancer ate him like it has eaten many. I can only hope his…
