Critic's Notebook

Based upon Travis Newbill’s lead feature about Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann’s new band, 7 Walkers, in this week’s music section, the Swamp Thing might be at tonight’s show at Revolution. In addition to the process and personnel behind the band’s boggy, marshy jams, learn here that Kreutzmann is cultivating…

The Crumbs Gator Kicks(Livid Records) www.lividrecords.com Livid Records has been doing a bang-up job recently with local and national acts while at the same time endearing themselves to a lot of people as one of the nicest indie record labels in the business right now and I’d feel remiss if…

This actual sonogram photo comes from Jeff and Susan Snow, both members of the Lake Worth Americana act Invisible Music and subjects of Courtney Hambright’s story about three simultaneously pregnant women associated with the band in this week’s print edition of New Times Broward Palm Beach…

Talk about time management: along with putting in bassist duties for lovably quirky West Palm Beach indie-folk group the Dewars while canvassing the nation with Surfer Blood, Lake Worth singer/songwriter Evan Mui somehow found enough time to post a two song EP titled Nighttime on his personal website.The talented multi-intrumentalist…

For 30 years, Bill Kreutzmann was the sensitive stick-wielder channeling psychedelic rhythms as the Grateful Dead’s drummer. After Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995, Kreutzmann moved out to Hawaii — something he and Garcia had promised to do together if the band were ever to break apart. Since then, Kreutzmann has…

How many people can say they headlined a music festival before they were even born? This month, two local rock ‘n’ roll babies will arrive with serious bragging rights to that effect — as well as a third that has been in the front row for the recent Lake Worth-It…

Happiness is warm vinyl.​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.Although it’s not County Grind’s policy to meddle into the lives of local record buyers, there seems to be…

The new issue of US Weekly seems to think so. According to an anonymous source, Beyoncé Knowles and husband Jay-Z are expecting their first child. She is reportedly in her first trimester. Look to the right of Reese Witherspoon’s “newly engaged” chin, in the middle, got it? “Her Surprise Pregnancy”…

Courtney Hambright​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, Fort Lauderdale’s Sweet Bronco. Chris Horgan laid the foundation for Sweet Bronco some years ago, exclusively playing acoustic…

Canadian superstar Celine Dion has been admitted to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach to prevent early delivery of her twins, according to a statement released by the hospital. If this doesn’t seem like big news, recognize that the twin boys she is set to deliver could possibly…

The magnificent Millionyoung, AKA Mike Diaz, has just premiered a new track via Yours Truly that plainly shows that this guy isn’t satisfied being quite so chill. Sounding more like a full-band concept more than ever, our Glimpses of the South Florida Scene alum shows a twee side for “Calrissian.”…

After what has been a long, bitter fight between nightlife businesses in Lake Worth and several angry downtown-area residents, city commissioners voted Tuesday to enact a noise ordinance that will affect the city’s nightlife — or more precisely, its burgeoning music scene. Over the past few years, Lake Worth has…

Here’s another single from the upcoming Orion project, Hunting Season. Using a stellar cast of local rappers, this track doesn’t entirely deviate from his traditional intellectual hip-hop, but it does come through with a certain eeriness. The subject matter is darker than usual, and it is accentuated with clever synth…

Rachel Knight​​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, former West Palm Beach residents Hear Hums.Hear Hums stretches the boundaries of a proper band to include a…

Even though Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch sounds proud of his band’s newest album, There Is No Enemy, he’s aware of its typical critical appraisal. “First good record they’ve made since the 1990s,” he mockingly spits in a dumbass drawl. That isn’t altogether true. Still, there’s not much doubt among…

Before going any further, let’s clear up any confusion surrounding Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. First of all, Edward Sharpe is not the band’s frontman. That’d be Alex Ebert, of Ima Robot fame — but the name isn’t his alter ego either. As for Ebert’s long-haired, bearded, Jesus-in-neohippie-garb look,…

In promotion of his forthcoming renovation-themed reality show, Rob Van Winkle (better-known as Rob Van Winkle) has been on quite a media blitz. He’s bantered about The Vanilla Ice Project with Jay Leno, George Lopez, the crew from the Today Show, and several other publicity tour staples. But it was…

The week or so of more quality concerts than any one music enthusiast in South Florida could hope to attend is upon us. Wear earplugs, and avoid pink beverages. The Beach House/Vampire Weekend event is already on your radar for tonight (as is Howard Jones), so let’s get the rest…

Who gives a Shit? We do.​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.A name means everything — be it John Lennon or Shit Robot. The former became iconic because…

Last week, news spread of a Seattle man named James Burns who is so fed up with Weezer that he is hoping to raise $10 million to pay the band to quit. Weezer responded — not saying that they wouldn’t disband but that the price had to be doubled. Now…

​”My baby calls me the Loch Ness Monster/Two great big humps, and then I’m gone/Actually I’m the Abominable Snowman/And I guess that I loved you for too long.” This could only be from the demented mind of Nick Cave, whose Grinderman 2 album is already fixing to be one of…

Well, now we know what this was about.​Although County Grind enjoyed Surfer Blood’s interpretation of Lit’s “My Own Worst Enemy” plenty, taking on an early Pavement track is likely to rustle up more high-brow plaudits. “Box Elder,” a song about getting the fuck out of Stockton, California (or possibly West…