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Eight Reasons You Should Audition for MTV's Real World This Saturday at Vibe Las Olas

By Falyn Freyman Wed., May 15 2013 at 12:44 PM
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The reality TV show that started it all, MTV's Real World, is heading into its twenty-ninth season, and rumors abound that its next seven strangers will be picked to live in a house in none other than the Magic City. This Saturday, an open casting call from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Vibe on Las Olas will give you the chance to become a part of the next chapter.

If the current season in Portland is any indication, today's collective of American youths aged 20 to 24 are rife as ever with reality TV potential. In fact, with lots of us still freeloading at home, binge drinking into oblivion, and taking up menial service industry jobs to fund our flailing, post bachelor's degree lifestyles, you might argue the Real World is more real than ever.

Here's a list of eight reasons why you should take a break from scouring the part-time section on Craigslist from your couch and audition for the next season of the Real World.

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Billy Boloby Shares Five Songs That Heal His Soul

By County Grind Tue., Apr. 2 2013 at 11:52 AM
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Editor's note: Jason Budjinski, AKA Billy Boloby, is a former New Times Broward-Palm Beach music editor and South Florida musician. His friends are joining musical forces at an upcoming concert to help raise funds for his liver transplant, which is necessary due to the effects of Crohn's disease and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). Read his full story on County Grind. 

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By Billy Boloby 

While medical science tries its best to keep this "bag of bones alive" (thank you, Flamin' Groovies), I often turn to music to get a quick shot of "soul relief." Here are some of my go-to songs for rejuvenating the spirit, in no particular order.

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Five Reasons Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Should Start Selling Weed in Florida

By Matt Preira Tue., Mar. 19 2013 at 12:40 PM
Categories: Good Ideas, Happy 420, Stoners, Useless Lists
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Bone Thugs and Harmonizer Flesh-N-Bone needs to move to Florida, join the legalization movement, "fill 'em on up with the icky, sticky," and then bathe in money.
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony didn't just invent the quick-tongued R&B-rap style that spawned a thousand A$APs and Kendrick Lamars.

They are also one of the most 420 friendly ensembles in the history of hip-hop. All rappers love weed. But none with the insatiability of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, who would smoke their own mothers if they heard it would get them high.

Until then, thuggish ruggish affiliate Flesh-N-Bone has developed his own strain of weed, dubbed "Phifty Caliber Kush," to be sold at dispensaries in states where medicinal marijuana is legal. As experts in narco-trafficking pop stars, we think that if Flesh is serious about starting his herbal investment, it's high time the rapper brought that ish to Florida. Here are five reasons Bone Thugs and Flesh-N-Bone should slang trees in the Sunshine State. More »

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Pinback Brought Lush Sounds and Vintage Visuals to Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale

By David Von Bader Thu., Mar. 14 2013 at 11:02 AM
Categories: Concert Review, Good Ideas, Gothic's Corner
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Better Than: Wait... is Daft Punk playing SX?! 

The dynamic indie-rock duo that is Pinback graced Fort Lauderdale's Culture Room with a lengthy set of its twangy and twinkly compositions last night. 

The duo has been releasing albums of lush soundscapes for nearly 14 years, and last night's performance provided an up-close encounter with the band's deceptively simple sounding music in the sonic flesh -- complete with a perfect reel of grainy and distressed visuals and film clips that truly enhanced the experience. 

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Drake's 50K Strip Club Spree, and Five Better Ways He Could Have Spent the Cash

By Matt Preira Mon., Mar. 4 2013 at 2:58 PM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Good Ideas, Useless Lists
Drake doesn't just have "Money to Blow..." He's got a lot of money to blow!
TMZ reports that rapper/singer Drake dropped (flung, threw, tossed, etc.) $50,000 at a strip club in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Apparently Drizzy and his posse rolled in with a cardboard box loaded with dough.

And then proceeded to make it rain. Profusely. Like, Old Testament-flood style.

As post-Enlightenment secular humanists, we can't help but feel like he could have used the money a little more wisely. So, here are five better ways that drake could have spent 50K, instead of on lap dances.
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5 Musicians, Other Than Morrissey, Who Might Have Food Restrictions at Their Concerts

By David Rolland Fri., Mar. 1 2013 at 8:30 AM
Categories: A Gay Ol' Time , Good Ideas
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There are several surprising facets to Morrissey's concert tonight at Los Angeles' Staples Center.

The first is that Morrissey is able to play a venue as large as the arena that houses the LA Lakers basketball team. The second is that Morrissey requested that all the vendors at the arena only sell 100% vegetarian food. The third is that the venue actually listened to him and is following his orders. McDonald's will be closed down, and a portion of all proceeds will go toward PETA. When Paul McCartney made a similar request years earlier, he had been turned down, but, then again, McCartney never made a case as strongly for vegetarianism as when Morrissey sang with The Smiths Meat Is Murder.

For years, bands have made strange requests for their dressing rooms, but this is the first known case of a dietary request for the entire venue. In the press release, the Moz said, "I don't look upon it as a victory for me, but a victory for the animals." Hearing of Morrissey's (and the surviving animal's) success, we wondered what other musical acts might impose dietary restrictions on their audience.  

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A Practical Guide to Trap Music

By Ryan Morejon Fri., Feb. 15 2013 at 7:16 AM
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I'll be honest, I've been sitting on this article for more than a month now, deliberating how exactly I'm supposed to map out the essentials of trap music. Even saying the word now kinda irritates me because it's been thrown around so much, especially with its popular electronic/rave crossover. But my editor will kill me if I don't write this.

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There are both critics of trap and critics of people who are into trap. Both pose the same statement: "Trap isn't new -- it's been around forever." Well, yeah, we know that, and I think that ravers and such know that as well. It's a familiar Southern rap sound, very well identified here in South Florida, re-appropriated within the electronic/bass context.

Trap music, for all intents and purposes, has left a giant footprint on our local culture especially. And back when I was into emo and hardcore, I absolutely hated the genre, mostly because of its association with douchebags middle schoolers. Now that it's been re-purposed for club consumption (less King of Diamonds and more Fabric), there's an appreciation growing for it, isn't there?
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Elvis Stars in Army of Darkness in Dave Berns' Iron Forge Press Creation

By Liz Tracy Wed., Jan. 16 2013 at 6:49 AM
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A few weeks ago, artist Dave Berns introduced an image of Elvis Presley as the Army of Darkness protagonist on the internet. The King stands tall, triumphant, muscular arms holding his shotgun high in front of the gates of Graceland. The artist created a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to afford a printing of the image with Iron Forge Press.

Chuck Loose of the Fort Lauderdale-based printing and graphic art company says: "Dave is an amazing artist and one of the few that I know of that really understands the media of serigraphy. The guy has a lifetime of experience, from Cracked Magazine and the Weekly World News to producing some of the coolest gig posters we've had the honor to produce."

We asked Berns to delve deeper into his infatuation with the King and this cult zombie flick. He notes that it goes back to his days as a student at the Joe Kubert School, which he calls "a place where grown-ass man-children (or overgrown-ass, as the case may be) learn to glorify the male archetypes they're most infatuated with, in color and line, for mass consumption."

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Music to Look Forward to in 2013

By David Rolland Thu., Dec. 27 2012 at 11:32 AM
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Now that we've outlasted the Mayan calendar, we can dare to peek ahead and see what music there is to look forward to in 2013. 

Obviously this is a subjective list coming from one South Floridian's perspective, so you will have to go elsewhere to read about Justin Bieber finally playing a concert in Turkey. 

Without further ado, in chronological order...


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Dress Like Avril Lavigne and Nickleback's Chad Kroeger at the Sum 41 Concert

By Liz Tracy Wed., Nov. 28 2012 at 8:30 AM
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We here at County Grind don't ask a terrible lot from you, our dear readers. But today, we do have something to request. 

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When heading to see Sum 41 at Culture Room for their Does This Look Infected 10th anniversary show, we'd like to ask you to dress up like Canadian pop "punk" princess Avril Lavigne and her fiancé, Chad Kroeger of the most hated band of all time, Nickelback. 

Sounds like a good idea, right? Let us tell you why it just makes sense.

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