Local Motion: Skeleton Warrior/Preaux Breaux Geauxld Split Seven-Inch

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…

EXTENDED DEADLINE for MasterMind Awards: $4,000 in Art Contest Prizes

​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…

MP3 of the Day: Pretty Please – “Sugarcane”

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…

Blast From the Past: Six Pack To Go – Various Artists

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…

MP3: Blond Fuzz Covers “Proud Mary” Proudly

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…

Hank III’s Hellish Days at Curb Records are Nearly Over

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: The Clementines

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…

Moving Units: Radio-Active Records’ Top 5 Releases for August 17-23

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…

Tonight! Jeffree Star at Ground Control

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…

Atlanta Rapper B.o.B’s Persistence Turns Into Pop Power

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’s South Florida Gig Stirs Up Terrors From Drummer’s Past

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…

Glimpses of the South Florida Scene: The Band in Heaven

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…

Moving Units: Radio-Active Records’ Top 5 Releases for August 10-16

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…

Blast From the Past: No Consent — Nowhere to Hide

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…