FastForward is a weekly column documenting the nighttime scene in Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach County. It’s a weeknight stop at your neighborhood dive; it’s a blurry, bass-filled Friday night in the club; it’s that one moment in a conversation you hope you’ll remember the next morning. All I could…
The sun has set, and you’re far from any city lights; there are no clouds in the sky. Whattdya call that? Astari Nite. The Miami New Wave band with that simple but imaginative name dropped a new track today that’s certain to make you think of darkness and of stars…
By Jesse Scheckner Suddenly, on screen someone is being fellated. In a bargain motel room in the stretch between Miami and Athens, Georgia, sometime during their summer tour of 1998, two members of South Florida’s oft-overlooked goof-pop-punk quintet Piddie Korn are tag-teaming some Tampa tail. To what is sure to…
At the very beginning of 2013, we declared that Canadian Tweety Bird heartthrob extraordinaire, Justin Bieber, was going to the year’s Pothead to Watch. And while we maintain that Le Biebz is rapidly degenerating into a perpetually tardy, perma-smelly pothead, and that his mounting, life-consuming addiction to reefer has him…
Poet e.e. cummings said, “To destroy is always the first step in any creation.” For Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, destruction and creation are a way of life. “A good artist is willing to die many times over,” Corgan says. “What’s funny is, I’ve died so many times.” The lead…
Brothers Stephen and Lee Tiger grew up making music on what is now the Miccosukee reservation. When the two were boys, a pile of toys was delivered from Orlando to distribute to the kids in their village. “We found two plastic guitars that were actually tunable,” Lee Tiger says. “So…
The drive out to Sunsport Gardens, a family naturist resort near Wellington, was an exercise in endurance. Finally off the Turnpike, one thunderstorm later, and somewhere near the Everglades, I passed a sign for a gun show, drove by a Starbucks and Jamba Juice. You know, swamp necessities. Not long…
FastForward is a weekly column highlighting the highs, lows, and in-betweens of South Florida nightlife. It’s a weeknight stop at your neighborhood dive; it’s a blurry, bass-filled Friday night in the club; it’s that one moment in a conversation you hoped you’d remember the next morning. It’s everything that’s led…
New music label, Blood Oath Slumber Party, is mainly all about kicking ass and taking names, but in, they say, a very non-aggressive, unselfish manner. They take South Florida bands to places they’ve only heard of in high school geography, like New England. Label founders Chris Dougnac and Virginia de las…
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Praise for our local boys made good, Surfer Blood. These guys just keeps rolling in. On the cusp of their Warner Brother’s debut, Pythons, the West Palm Beach four-piece graced Rolling Stone’s website yesterday, with exclusive first look at the group’s newest music video for their single “Demon Dance.” Stating…
FastForward is a weekly column highlighting the highs, lows, and in-betweens of South Florida nightlife. It’s a weeknight stop at your neighborhood dive; it’s a blurry, bass-filled Friday night in the club; it’s that one moment in a conversation you hoped you’d remember the next morning. It’s everything that’s led…
On singer Justin Bieber’s travels to Amsterdam, perhaps after a visit to a local coffee shop and maybe before checking out the red light district, he visited the Anne Frank house. This historical site where a teenaged Anne Frank and her family hid in a tiny attic from Nazis before being…
After almost a decade of ribald gangsta rhymes spun from controversial trap lord fan fiction, Rick Ross has finally penned the couplet that critics and fans alike are declaring to be his most offensive ever. “Put Molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it,” The Bawse recounts on…
County Grind received word this week that West Palm Beach nightclub Monarchy had officially shuttered its doors. The reason? Unpaid rent. Our source, who wanted to remain anonymous, is involved with one of the many groups in negotiation with the owner of the building at 221 Clematis Street — where the 6,000-square…
Playing alongside huge acts such as Kenny Chesney, Ben Harper, and Lynyrd Skynyrd at the inaugural Tortuga Music Festival is a notable band with a lesser-known name but no lesser amount of soul. Poised to amp up the crowd and blow the LandShark-beer-toting concertgoers off the sand with a high-energy,…
Back in 1999, a still-babyfaced Lil Wayne declared on his debut album that “Tha Block” was “hot.” We have a feeling young Weezy had no idea that circa 2013, the block would be damned near boiling!In fact, Wayne’s water has never been warmer, and the skies around the Cash Money…
We have all, no doubt, suffered through an inarticulate moment or two in our lives. And while there are truly few things as frustrating as searching for the right way to put something and coming up short, it is generally better to not say anything at all until the thought…
As millennials — the underemployed, overeducated, and generally worthless young adults of today’s North America — we will always have a special place in our heart for Pamela Anderson’s sex tape with Tommy Lee. Not that we’ve seen it. OK, fine, we’ve seen it. And you know what? It’s not even…
Club Q is now a thing of the past. But for those raised in Broward, or even Palm Beach County, Club Q was all us poor suburban alternative music kids had. Today, its veterans proudly are scattered throughout the local music scene. No matter which “scene” you branched out to,…
Let’s face it, doing cubicle work or any other type of mundane activity — like dusting, laundry, writing blogs — really sucks. It’s one of those things where Facebook-creeping feels like a better option (it’s not, btw). But when it’s time crunch at your job, you need creative energy to…
