“I don’t know about this weather lately. Everybody’s getting colds. I’ve had bronchitis. Oh man, it’s bad.” The weather classic rock band Vanilla Fudge’s founder, singer, and keyboardist Mark Stein is referring to isn’t related to the snow storms that have been plaguing our Northern neighbors. Actually, he’s complaining about…
Reported by Andrea Richard Lisa “Noodles” Hayden-Gordon’s car was dredged out of the waterway behind Cooley’s Landing Mariana at about 1:35 p.m. on Friday, February 27. Using the boat ramp, Westway Towing pulled the mud-covered vehicle from the water. According to Fort Lauderdale Detective Tracy Figone, the company had conducted…
Update: It’s been confirmed that Lisa’s car was found at Cooley’s Landing Marina. There is a body inside the vehicle, but police will not confirm whose it is. When Fort Lauderdale musician and piano teacher, Lisa “Noodles” Hayden-Gordon, was reported missing, her family, friends, and the South Florida music community…
Florida native Keelan O’Carroll has known he wanted to make music since he was a 16-year-old kid, locked away in his room teaching himself to play guitar and pouring out all his teenage angst into lyrics. Although music was always a passion, the West Palm musician only became serious about…
Lately, there is no local musician that typifies the “local boy made good” idea more than Broward County native Jordy Asher. Dude has seriously hit the big time since moving to New York City a few years back. He’s been known to County Grind readers for quite a while for…
Courtesy of Le Pacte FilmsMia Wasikowska in Maps to the Stars Celebrities are flesh, David Cronenberg would say. Maps to the Stars, the latest film from the cult director, paints a grim picture behind the veneer of celebrity, but it also probes deep below the surface to explore damaged people…
West Palm Beach’s annual five-day downtown cultural jamboree, SunFest, returns in 2015 with what we can honestly call an impressive lineup. Each year (for 33 years), the list of performers serves to satisfy the tastes of more than just the 20- to 25-year old raver crowd. Organizers always are clever…
5. Paleface at Dada with special guest David K 10:15 p.m. Thursday, February 26, at Dada, 52 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. No cover. Visit Facebook. Grammy winner Beck’s former roommate Paleface comes back to play in a living room setting at one of his regular stomping grounds, Delray’s chic…
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…
There is a commanding, outwardly visible shift that starts to happen to a Girls Rock Camp attendee. It takes place somewhere around midweek. Terminal shyness, remnants of self-doubt, and any sour notes start to fade as more important things like song structure, sisterhood, and powerful stage swagger gain significance. “If…
Surely there should be a certain trepidation about Berry Gordy’s Motown: The Musical, since it is based on the famed founder’s 1994 book To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown. Motown’s story is not an easy one to tell and has further been complicated by some…
Arts Garage, the cultural funhouse in Delray Beach, is once again putting on its annual fundraiser, Grunge & Glamour. But this time, the team is doing things a little differently. The president of Arts Garage, Alyona Aleksandra Ushe, said the event was moved from the fall to February 28 to…
“The main thing going on in the music business today is that all the free downloading and streaming has forced bands to go back to playing live,” observes Paul Collins, known as the King of Power Pop. “Unfortunately, that has resulted in astronomical ticket prices for some bands and performers…
When we spoke with Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers, the singer and guitarist was relaxing in Miranda, California. Not that he had much downtime; Johnston just came back from Orlando and next the band was on to stoping that included Boston, Texas, California, then a rock cruise with Alice…
Archaeology, the five-person team intent on bringing back drum ‘n’ bass and purist-friendly dubstep to West Palm Beach, will be packing plenty of beats into this Wednesday night’s Respectable Street show. Alex Gerhardt, Kevin Kocak, Landon Yerby, Bradley Brown, and Rene Aguiar are the local masterminds behind the newly banded…
So you and Trent just crushed an extraordinarily prodigious calf workout after successfully sneaking into LA Fitness. You’re on your way to scoop Doug from his house when you get a text from McKinley saying he just found a debit card on the ground. It’s Saturday. The sun is out…
Combine a heap of ska, a pinch of punk, a dash of metal, some good humor, and disorder. Shake to a reggae rhythm and you’ll get something that sounds like the Expendables. The band has been riding the SoCal ska waves since the early 2000s. Along with Slightly Stoopid and…
In the mid- to late ’70s, Blue Öyster Cult was among the biggest bands in the musical stratosphere. Its records sold in the millions, and the band could claim three hit singles — “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” “Burnin’ for You,” and “Godzilla.” It was also a constant fixture on the…
Friday night, Against Me! slammed back into town for the final show of its tour for the second year in a row, playing Culture Room — same as last time. Before the concert, Radio-Active Records hosted a meet-and-greet with the band. Attendance was surprisingly light, though I’d have to agree…
There’s one reason to advertise your city, like Delray Beach does, with a quaint nickname like “Village by the Sea.” It’s to draw tourists and new residents to your sleepy beachside town. The only problem is, when word spreads too efficiently about the perks of inhabiting that city, the village…
Girls wearing fairy wings and glitter twirled around while a guy dressed as a White Walker creepily watched over the crowd on one of the staircases. Hip white dudes with perfectly coifed ‘dos danced wildly with Dungeons and Dragons fans and kandi girls clad in fuzzy leg warmers. There’s pretty…
When was the last time you went to church? Whenever it was, we’re going to guess psychedelic stagecraft wasn’t a big part of the spiritual production. Maybe the church crowd isn’t really your scene, but if you love great music, great vibes, and great spectacles, Shpongle live might be the…
