The Web

Senator Marco Rubio's Spotify Track List Is as Lame as He Is

By Liz Tracy Tue., Feb. 5 2013 at 1:25 PM
Categories: The Internet, The Web
30494688.jpg
If the one thing you're dedicated to in life is music, and are totally committed to remaining totally out of touch with politics, first of all, no. And second of all, turns out Spotify is a good way for your lazy ass to learn about those who you (even by not voting) have elected to office.

Today, for instance, our U.S. Senator Marco Rubio's Spotify track list was posted on Politico Playbook. It demonstrates what a tool he is and makes us wonder if the list is all a setup so that we, the music-loving people, will learn to see him as a human and not a monster.

It's rife with stuff people who hate music listen to, like Coldplay and Will.i.am. It lacks songs of real substance, except for two greats, Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" and TuPac's "Changes." Both seem placed in there just so it seems like he gives a crap about "black people" problems.

More »
Email to Friend
Print Article
The Web

DIY Video Journal Audio Junkie Breaks Ground in South Florida

By Liz Tracy Wed., May 9 2012 at 3:12 PM
Categories: Local Music, The Web
shroud eater audio junkie.jpg
From the Shroud Eater episode. 
Last week, running into Greg Alvarez from Audio Junkie at Churchill's Pub yielded us a handful of awesome, tiny homemade pins. They are the coolest little guys you could ever want to poke into a backpack or T-shirt or guitar strap. Designed by the brilliant minds over at Bleeding Palm, each displays the image of a bleeding ear.

Audio Junkie is a video journal that, according to its creators, "captures a culture immersed and obsessed with audio." The pins, like everything else about Audio Junkie, have a fun, smart aesthetic that is both not intimidating and actually cool. 

Greg and his brother Eduardo work with Ron Gesualdo, shooting, booking, and editing each online program. They highlight talented artists from South Florida. "Every episode is a new experience for us, shaping and evolving what Audio Junkie is for the viewers and us," Greg says. "So in a sense, it is our own twisted surreal video journal." 
More »

Tags:

Animal Tropical, Arboles Libres, Audio Junkie, Deaf Poets, Ice Cream, Kenny Millions, Raja Khan, Rat Bastard, Shroud Eater, The Gun Hoes, The Jellyfish Brothers
Email to Friend
Print Article
Festival Days

Spirit Cat and Total Bummer: Bringing Florida Music to the Forefront

By Liz Tracy Mon., Apr. 30 2012 at 6:16 AM
Categories: Festival Days, The Web
tbcast.jpg
Benji Haselhurst
The Spirit Cat website-slash-movement is more than just a clickable distraction, bringing music from around Florida, mostly electronic, pop, and garage, to the web world. According to the creator of Spirit Cat, J.T. Bringardner, the sounds they post are varied, "We're really open to anything that moves us emotionally or physically!" An off-shoot of the site is Total Bummer, a Winter Park music festival in its third year, featuring over 100 acts from all over the country. It's coming up this weekend, featuring a crew from South Florida, including Guy Harvey, MillionYoung, The Dewars, Sumsun, and Henry Krinkle. It celebrates, he says, "The rich underground scene we've been helping to build in Florida over the past five years." 

For a little background on Bringardner, he's a music-maker and festival-thrower, a screen-printer and he brags, "when the need arises, a pretty bad ass barista." He's lived all around the world, including in Bangkok where his sister was born to Manila where, he remembers "our dalmation ran away and was nearly eaten." Then from California to Gainesville, "To some degree. I came into my own there, began my musical journey there, and met my wife there. It's a very special place." 

More »

Tags:

Oh Fortuna, Sprit Cat, Total Bummer 3D
Email to Friend
Print Article
RIP

Girls Cover "I Will Always Love You"; Nice Alternative to Jennifer Hudson's Rendition

By Liz Tracy Mon., Feb. 13 2012 at 1:54 PM
Categories: RIP, The Web
Screen shot 2012-02-13 at 1.45.54 PM.jpg
via YouTube

Every creature with warm blood in its veins got choked up watching Jennifer Hudson sing "I Will Always Love You" last night at the Grammys. We saw a dog crying, seriously. Although we here at County Grind would have preferred to hear Mariah, Christina, or even the diva who penned the song, Ms. Parton, belt that baby out, we couldn't hate on Hudson's efforts to interpret such a goddess as Whitney.

To gain a totally different perspective on the tune, watch Christopher Owens of one of our guiltiest pleasures, Girls, perform an equally stirring rendition of the best thing about The Bodyguard (via Stereogum). His version, like Hudson's, isn't as ambitious as Houston's, but it manages to be seriously sad.


More »

Tags:

Girls, I Will Always Love You, Jennifer Hudson, Whitney Houston
Email to Friend
Print Article
The Web

Girls That Look Like Skrillex Blog Features Local Afrobeta Songstress

By Liz Tracy Fri., Feb. 3 2012 at 5:01 PM
Categories: The Web
220px-Skrillex.jpg
​One of the most lovable blogs on the internet is Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians. Don't lie, you love it. It's not nice, but not totally vicious. It's like if a picture of your dad ended up on there, you might be like, "Hm. He does kind of look like an old lesbian in that one." Besides, there's seriously nothing wrong with old lesbians, it's just funny that these guys look like them, and that is funny.

Enter Girls That Look Like Skrillex. When everyone got finished talking about girls who look like Bieber, we were granted with yet another feminine looking music man. Dubstep golden child Skrillex has the appearance of, well, a woman. A gothy old raver lady.

More »

Tags:

Afrobeta, Cuci Amador, Skrillex
Email to Friend
Print Article

Now Trending

VOICE Daily Deals

From the Vault

 

Slideshows»

Entertainment

Events

Clubs

More >>

Links

Music News

South Florida Music News

BPB Blogs

Record Stores

Venues

Miami Blogs

Photographers

Labels

©2013 New Times BPB, LLC, All rights reserved.
Browse Voice Nation
  • Voice Places Broward / Palm Beach

    Voice Places

    Find everything you're looking for in your city

  • Happy Hour App

    Happy Hour App

    Find the best happy hour deals in your city

  • Daily Deals

    Daily Deals

    Get today's exclusive deals at savings of anywhere from 50-90%

  • Best Of

    Best Of...

    Check out the hottest list of places and things to do around your city