Concert Review

Aura Music Events Close Thursday Nights at Funky Biscuit With Sosos; Organizers Guarantee Expanded Fest at Suwannee

By Grace Stainback Fri., Sep. 28 2012 at 8:46 AM
Categories: Concert Review, County Grind Live, Festival alert, Local Music
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Ceenan Calzadilla
Sosos at the Funky Biscuit Thursday night.
Aura Music and Arts Festival has certainly come a long way since its 2010 inception. It started out a very modest St. Cloud affair, a town halfway between BFE and the middle of nowhere in Central Florida. It's come such a long way, in fact, that this year, the jam-heavy fest will be held for the first time at the legendary Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, a widely regarded favorite among southeastern festgoers. 

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A cause for celebration? We think so, and apparently the organizers do too. Even though the festival isn't until February, the folks at Aura Music Events have been getting the party warmed up early with a jamtastic night at the Funky Biscuit in Boca Raton on Thursday nights. 

Last night's Aura Thursday, which actually marked the last for the time being, featured Sosos, an acoustic roots group based out of Fort Lauderdale. 


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County Grind Live with Boils and Goyles, the Cost, and the Jellyfish Brothers - Green Room, Fort Lauderdale - September 15

By Liz Tracy Mon., Sep. 17 2012 at 9:42 AM
Categories: Concert Review, County Grind Live
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Some weird and wonderful things happened on Saturday night at Green Room. An impromptu conga line made its way around the pool table, a couple made out on and slid up and down the VIP area's stripper pole, and it seems a bunch of people took off their shoes and piled them in the middle of the dance floor. Most importantly though, we compiled a really rad lineup for this, our fourth installment of County Grind Live. It both demonstrated good taste and a good time, if we do say so ourselves.
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Concert Preview

The Cost on Loving Postpunk: "When Girls Break Your Heart, That's When It Starts to Make Sense"

By Arielle Castillo Thu., Sep. 13 2012 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Concert Preview, County Grind Live, Local Music
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I Am Your Villain 
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A lot of the credit for new South Florida foursome the Cost's mature sound can be pinned on a cool dad. Band cofounders Manny Roman, its frontman, and bassist Nate Molina were middle-school buddies when they started digging into Molina's father's record collection. A transplant from L.A., the elder Molina was an avid new-wave and postpunk fan during that era, and the future members of the Cost discovered that they too loved those urgent, romantic sounds. 

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Q&A

Jellyfish Brothers' Janette Valentine: "I Like Slapping Wigs, Sailor Hats, and Tutus on Boys" (PHOTO)

By Liz Tracy Wed., Sep. 12 2012 at 10:37 AM
Categories: County Grind Live, Q&A
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Maybe you caught the adorable trio the Jellyfish Brothers performing in full sailor garb at Summer of Weirds. You might have been drawn in by their homoerotic... Er, totally campy attire, but you definitely stayed sweaty and huddled around them for the sounds peeling out of their instruments. 

Brothers Gregorio and Eduardo Alvarez and Shroud Eater's Janette Valentine make surfy, dark rock and roll fit for psych-stupid dancing or dramatic head bobbing. All of the Jellys are talented in the visual arts too. Valentine's company Terribly Girly makes sensual pinups out of any lady (or man, as you shall see), and the Alvarezes produce, film, and direct the online music documentary series Audio Junkie. 

In preparation of their upcoming show at Green Room for County Grind Live, the three talents answered our pretty goofy questions after the jump. 

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Rick Diaz's New Project, Boils and Goyles, Is "Darker but More Inviting"; Performing Green Room, September 15

By Matt Preira Mon., Sep. 10 2012 at 1:24 PM
Categories: County Grind Live, Q&A
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The thought of maintaining Miami musician Rick Diaz's Google calendar could give even the best multitasker a tragic case of heartburn. But despite being in every band ever, Diaz, uh, keeps starting new bands.

He founded two-piece noise-rock group hahahelp! amid the dive-bar, weirdo, shit scene centered around Churchill's Pub. But most recently, the vocalist and guitarist has been pulling double duty in two of Biscayne Boulevard's favorite new rock bands: 90s Teen and Boils and Goyles. 

The former is like a scrappy little dog nipping at your heels. The latter is like hitting the vape and eating a grape. We hit up Diaz to break down the differences between his projects, and get real about his new "supergroup" Boils and Goyles with Luma Junger's Dorys Bello and Slashpine's Rob Goyanes. 

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County Grind and Green Room Present the Cost, the Jellyfish Brothers, and Boils and Goyles

By Liz Tracy Wed., Sep. 5 2012 at 11:58 AM
Categories: County Grind Live
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Don't let anyone tell you there's no good music coming out of South Florida. Our scene may be compact, but some of the most delightful things in life are diminutive, like kittens or sandwiches (the big ones are always kind of soggy, no?).

County Grind Live already presented several delicious slices of South Florida's scene. Among many other talented artists, we've hosted Afrobeta, Jacuzzi Boys, Holly Hunt, and Shroud Eater on the Green Room stage. We're certainly not done giving you solid chunks of sonic satisfaction. This September 15, Green Room and County Grind present the Cost, the Jellyfish Brothers, and Boils and Goyles.

Trust our good taste and come see them live. No regrets, bro. What follows are some sounds to prepare you for the audio assault of the fourth installment of County Grind Live. 

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Holly Hunt, Shroud Eater, Devalued at County Grind Live - Green Room, Fort Lauderdale - July 21

By David Von Bader Mon., Jul. 23 2012 at 9:05 AM
Categories: Concert Review, County Grind Live
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Photos: County Grind Live With Holly Hunt, Shroud Eater, Devalued at Green Room

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Holly Hunt, Shroud Eater, Devalued
Visuals by Audio Junkie and Bleeding Palm
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Green Room, Fort Lauderdale
Saturday, July 21

We've had a pretty solid reception to our live music nights at Fort Lauderdale's Green Room, and this Saturday night was no different. Though the style of music has changed yet again, the response was none-the-less enthusiastic, and friendly faces from the tricounty region came out to enjoy the sonic heft of some of South Florida's finest heavy acts.

Unfortunately, the men of Slashpine couldn't make it. Perhaps they were still nursing hangovers and sunburns from their meeting with our own Liz Tracy last week, or maybe the preshow goat sacrifice went awry and they were on ice at county. Either way, Devalued stepped in to handle the less-than-coveted opening slot of our little soiree, and it set things off with a bang.

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Shroud Eater on Bush Metal, Luciferian Lesbians, and Getting Caught in a Mosh

By Matt Preira Fri., Jul. 20 2012 at 3:19 PM
Categories: County Grind Live, Q&A
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If one were to employ an extended metaphor that compared South Florida's extreme music (see also: metal) scene to a secret pagan cult, then Shroud Eater would be the guy wearing goat horns and dangling a human sacrifice over the Hearth of Eternal Doom.

That is to say, the brutish trio of guitarist/vocalist Jean Saiz, bassist Janette Valentine, and drummer Felix Torres, play an important role in the region's appreciation of righteous riffs and cookie monster vocals.

Parallel to the ascendancy of their practice space clubhouse -- Beelzebub's Cave -- as a DIY music hot-spot, Shroud Eater is a beacon of productive brutality. They throw a seemingly never-ending stream of quality, cheap live music events. They release their own records. And they don't blink when tapped to open for heavy legends like Corrosion of Conformity. We spoke with Saiz and Valentine about the particulars of the band.

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Radio-Active Records DJs' Picks for County Grind Live's Metal Showcase

By Liz Tracy Thu., Jul. 19 2012 at 8:30 AM
Categories: County Grind Live
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Metal dudes like to have fun too.
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Earlier this week, we braved torrential rains and knee-deep floods to stop by Radio-Active Records. Owner Mikey Ramirez and Mothersky's Richard Vergez are DJing County Grind Live this Saturday at Green Room. Secretly, the goal of our visit to the store was to uncover what songs they'll be playing at our metal showcase. Of course, we assumed they'd be leaving their Debbie Deb and Katy Perry back at Radio-Active, but turns out, they're totally bringing this crap. And spinning it too!

We kid. Debbie Deb isn't crap, and it's unclear whether Mikey or Richard even owns a Katy Perry album. Anyway, these dudes will actually be bringing darkness to the turntables, taking cues from the three bands performing: Holly Hunt, Slashpine, and Shroud Eater. After the jump, get a sample of what records Radio-Active will be toting with them downtown this weekend.

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Holly Hunt Play Fort Lauderdale; Five Essential Ingredients for Effective Stoner Metal (Video)

By Matt Preira Wed., Jul. 18 2012 at 8:46 AM
Categories: County Grind Live, Local Music
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Metal music wears its love of extremity on its sleeve. But don't be fooled. There is no one right way to rock. For example, the drunks in Slashpine play black metal, which means they play as fast as they can. On the other end of the spectrum lie Beatriz Monteavaro and Gavin Perry, AKA Holly Hunt, a drum-and-guitar duo that embraces the slow, syrupy crawl of the epic, atmospheric genre known the world over as stoner metal.

The term itself is a little ambiguous and can refer to a multitude of approaches and techniques. As connoisseurs of brutality, Monteavaro and Perry are not content to simply re-create the formulas set before them but instead construct an impressively personalized sampling of their genre's history.

To break down stoner metal and offer a better idea of what to expect from this Saturday's Green Room showcase, here is a list of five essential ingredients that, mixed together, make something definitely edible in an auditory way: Holly Hunt.

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