In rather large Surfer Blood news, it’s just been announced that our boys from West Palm Beach will be one of the headlining acts for this year’s CMJ Music Marathon in New York from October 19-23. This is pretty big, as last year they were just beginning to build some…
Skeleton Warrior/Preaux Breaux Geauxld Split Seven-Inch (Roofless Records/Cephia’s Treat Records) rooflessrex.com cephiastreat.com Matt Preira at first struck me as a nice gent of questionable Portuguese ancestry. I love grilled octopus, vinho verde, and bacalao as much as the next guy who fancies himself an eater, but upon further inspection of…
UPDATE: DEADLINE IS BEING EXTENDED UNTIL NOVEMBER 1, 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New Times Broward-Palm Beach is excited to kick off our second-annual MasterMind awards. We’re giving away $1,000 apiece to four local artists. Fashion designers, filmmakers, visual artists, performance artists, tattoo artists, and more are invited to apply. We’re especially interested in…
Drummer Juan Oña returns to the South Florida music scene with his latest endeavor, Pretty Please. While I am not sure as to who comprises the band currently other than Oña, Didi Aragon performs vocals and guitar, Bavie Grafals does vocals and Ana Farina MacKliff fiddles the bass with added…
We’re not sure how many times we have to keep reminding you: We loveee Surfer Blood. We love ’em so much we’d probably surf in blood for them. Well, maybe not that much.As merely innocent, loyal onlookers in the media circus that constantly engulfs the West Palm Beachers, we can’t…
Six Pack To GoVarious Artists(Stiff Pole Records)www.stiffpolerecords.com In honor of Richard “Big Stiff” Konwinski, who passed this past July in Tampa, I’ll be juggling between the County Grind and Crossfade blogs doing my Blast From the Past thing on the record label that he founded, Stiff Pole Records, that, in…
Boca Raton retro rockers Blond Fuzz, currently in the midst of filming a music video, keep churning up discussion prior to October’s release of Perfect Breakfast. Earlier this year, the Fuzz posted an unhinged take on the Velvet Underground, and here, we have a cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival…
Who said you can’t go home again? Certainly not Tears for Fears. The band’s trajectory has technically been intact for the past 28 years — although its two principals, Roland Orzabel and Curt Smith, parted after peaking in the early ’90s. While Orzabel carried on with the band’s branding, Smith…
Sometime about six years ago, Hank Williams III first felt a strain in his throat. Then in his early 30s, his attempts at belting out a twangy ballad about loneliness mustered only a raspy, huffing sound — not the yodeling crack his audiences had grown accustomed to. “It was the…
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 the Clementines. The Clementines have a “song” on their MySpace page titled “Unbridled Enthusiasm” — two…
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.Once you get past the Holden Caulfield lyrics (“I hate myself man, but who’s to blame?”) on Wavves’ latest, King of the…
To see photos from the show, click here.Socially prescribed gender norms stay in place like brick walls in the minds of most, so it’s necessary to bombard such walls with battering rams of deviance. A common and simple tactic for chipping away at the bricks of prejudice is to sport…
Only 19, local rapper of County Grind’s affection J-O is young enough to be Debbie Harry’s grandson, which makes the strains of “Atomic” on his just-released mixtape Speakers Blow even more endearing. The song uncorking the Blondie snippet is “Make It Magnificent” — and it does. Other curiosities strictly on…
The recent hip-hop trend of paradigm-shifting MCs continues with the big-top arrival of B.o.B, whose The Adventures of Bobby Ray debuted at number one on the Billboard album chart in April. There has been something preordained about his rise, but it’s been an intermittent ascent for Atlanta’s Bobby Ray Simmons…
Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino looks beyond comfortable in a shirt and tie. So do vocalist Paul Banks, guitarist Daniel Kessler, and now-departed bassist Carlos Dengler — and the New York band’s GQ, stiff-upper-lip aesthetic has arguably helped heighten its noir postpunk beyond leagues of other acts inspired by Joy Division…
Following in the tradition of Evan Rowe’s lack of necessity for actual musical files in lieu of what he terms “blasts,” here’s a song from David Briekse’s musical alter ego, Fsik Huvnx. Please don’t ask me to sound it out; just enjoy a little piece of paranoid composition from a…
This year marks a couple of big milestones for Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino. He has been with his current band for a decade. One of his previous outfits, South Florida’s own the Holy Terrors, got its start 20 years ago. Both bands come up in this week’s music feature, because…
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 the Band in Heaven.The Band in Heaven is the stuff of dreams, channeled directly from the…
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. As one of the world’s preeminent dubstep DJs, Briton Skream is in similar company with premier bike messengers, mumblecore directors, and…
Somewhere, T-Pain is nodding in approval. According to Sharyn Peach, mouthpiece for local hair-metal act and 2009 Readers Poll winner BitchFire, U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene’s yacht was the best party on the high seas. “I saw more tits and ass in one night on Jeff Greene’s Summerwind than I…
No Consent Nowhere to Hide (Stiff Pole Records) stiffpolerecords.com In honor of Richard “Big Stiff” Konwinski, who passed this past July in Tampa, I’ll be juggling between the County Grind and Crossfade blogs doing my “Blast From the Past” thing on the record label that he founded, Stiff Pole Records…
We’re big Surfer Blood fans over here at County Grind. And we do mean big. But you already know that. The homegrown West Palm Beachers are currently touring the world as they prepare for their U.S. tour with five Florida stops, one being in Miami on September 18 with the…
