“It’s not really a genre I listen to,” a bearded, crossed-armed and stoic fan admitted during set break, “but given not one, but four or even seven talented musicians like those guys up there, and I’d listen to anything they played. Even bluegrass. Anything would sound good played by the…
Want to have as much fun as these people? Follow the jump and we’ll give you the low down on what’s off the chain this week in BroCo and the PBC. See also- Best Concerts This Week in Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach County- Five South Florida Food & Drink Events…
Just this past Christmas, Steve Aoki’s label Dim Mak snagged talented West Palm Rapper Will Brennan. We named the best Palm Beach County rapper on a recent list of 10; though not a ranked list necessarily, he definitely stood out to us as an MC with breakout potential. See also-…
“I didn’t think any one else liked it but me,” Annie Leibovitz told a group of snapping cameras and scratching pens yesterday about her photograph of artist Agnes Martin. Taken in Taos, it shows the woman simply sitting on her bed, facing forward, back straight. But as the photographer explained…
Yesterday we reported on musician/producer/DJ Sonny Moore — known across the Internets as Skrillex — lighting himself on fire like the monk on the cover of Rage Against the Machine’s first album.See also:- Skrillex Goes Up in Flames Trying to Blow Out Birthday Candles Ever since we read about Moore’s…
In part one of our interview with comedian and musician Margaret Cho, we probed her about the Grammy award winning album Cho Dependent and she told us about her knee tattoos of presidents Lincoln and Washington.See also:- Margaret Cho On the Weirdest Place to Get a Tattoo (Interview, Part One)In…
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Tommy Castro may not be a household name, but amongst denizens of the blues’ scene Castro is a living legend. In 2008, the California-based musician cemented his reputation as a searing 12-bar axe man when he took home the Blues Music Award for the Entertainer of…
Better Than: Staying home and watching Palladia.In our experience, artists who file with the prefix “classic” before their genre face the inevitable loss of some of “the magic” with age.However, Paul Rodgers’ performance last night at Hollywood’s Seminole Hard Rock Live showed that he’s a man who deems himself above…
Is there anything better than a world-famous MP3-jockey catching on fire in the midst of trying to celebrate the fact that he’s alive in the first place?We’ll answer that one for you: No. There is absolutely nothing better.Which is why County Grind is bringing you that much closer to ejaculating…
Margaret Cho is one comedian who will never lose her audience. Not only because gays and Koreans won’t be going extinct anytime soon, but because she is, herself, an evolving artist.See also- Part 2 of this Interview: Margaret Cho Talks about Being Seen as a Smothering Mother to the PlanetShe’s…
There’s plenty of poetry in music, and music itself is the less socially awkward, cuter cousin of poetry. Both evoke all kinds of emotions through things like words, beats, rhymes, and notes. It’s all (f)art. The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is merely days away, and we didn’t want to overlook…
Krewella is an electro-house-dub-party-sex trio born from the windy streets of Chicago. And before PETA has a freak out, they don’t kill puppies, but damn can they murder some beats. Their Play Hard EP, released last summer, had them “Killin It” all over the country and 2012 charts. They recently…
Malissa Reese is the Program and Volunteer Coordinator at the Norton Museum of Art. For 14 years, she taught art at various private and public schools, community colleges, and art centers throughout Delaware and Maryland before coming to West Palm Beach.”Artists have always studied works of art from the past,”…
Having a massive hit single early on in a career usually results in one of two things. At worst, the artist finds him or herself stuck with the stigma that they’re a one-hit wonder. At best, however, the astute musician uses that success as a stepping stone and an ongoing…
Guitarist Derek Trucks is an amiable guy, armed with a ready laugh. Then again, he’s got plenty of reasons to smile. He’s the nephew of longtime Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks. He’s amply employed, both as a regular member of the Allmans and as co-leader of the Tedeschi Trucks Band,…
In “The Motto,” Young Money rapper and former actor Drake raps in his lazy, Weezy-wannabe singsong manner: “You only live once/That’s motto, nigga, Y.O.L.O./And we ’bout it e’ryday…” His lines always seemingly drenched in ennui, Drake was once best described by a fellow New Times writer as a guy who’s…
Hip-hop duo Kris Kross spells out the history of its music on Facebook, plainly, simply, and with little adherence to a single stitch of grammatical regulation: “kriss kross are two men daddy mac and mac daddy. 33 years old now.” Reunions are pretty goofy in the first place. But it…
With four studio albums in the bag and the recent release of their second installment of live recordings, titled Tooth and Nail, Vol. 2, the Wood Brothers have maintained a steady balance of studio and performance time.See also- Derek Trucks of Tedeschi Trucks Band Says Working with His Wife Is…
A few weeks ago, artist Dave Berns introduced an image of Elvis Presley as the Army of Darkness protagonist on the internet. The King stands tall, triumphant, muscular arms holding his shotgun high in front of the gates of Graceland. The artist created a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to…
For the past six or seven decades of North American popular culture as we know it, it has been sufficient for creative types to pick a set of motifs, a broad set of thematics, or an aesthetic school of influence, and then charge head first into the fray. But in…
While everyone else in the world are trying to keep their chilly booties toasty, we’re stripping down and cooling off in our mama’s pool. It’s hot, friends, and it’s winter. To even mention global warming, with 80 degree weather dominating December and January, would mean to admit that the polar…
If you must know, yes, we’re totally obsessed with Girls. Not youthful females, ya weirdos, but the HBO series created by 20-something Lena Dunham and funny guy Judd Apatow. We’re not the only ones tuning in every Sunday night, and the proof is in the two Golden Globes pudding. With songs by LCD…
