Archive for August, 2008
Absolute Punk Lovin’ on Some SC Bands Lately
The Valkyrie from Charleston and Sent By Ravens from uhhh… Jacksonville Florida according to Myspace are going out on tour together and are hitting up The Channel in Greenville tomorrow for what should be a great show. I am linking you to the Sent By Ravens Purevolume account because on there they still have Florence, [...]
It’s Labor Day Weekend
Spirit of ’68 Music & Food Festival Art Bar: Sunday, Aug. 31 And that means I’ll be at Art Bar Sunday for the 40th anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival. We attended this last year and it was one of my favorite concerts of the year. The best part about it is that I get [...]
Austin Crane at The Watershed Tonight
The Free Time’s Patrick Wall had a good write up about Austin Crane so I’ll post that for the preview of the show. Tomorrow we will have video and a write up for the show. Check it out. Austin Crane — I daresay Austin Crane is an undersung songwriting talent in this town; his record [...]
Thursday August 28th
There won’t be any posts today. The Gamecocks are playing. Happy Birthday Murdock (the lone Scene SC worker other than me.)
New Sequoyah Prep School on Myspace
Go check out the new Sequoyah Prep School song on myspace. These guys have come a long way since I saw them in Florence 4 years ago. Their songs remind a lot of some of the music that was coming out of South Carolina in the 90′s. A good thing. Sep 18 2008 10:30P Atlantis [...]
Wasted Wine
Kim Reville wrote this article for the latest edition of The Columbia City Paper and did a really good job with it. Wasted Wine will be at Cafe Strudel on September 19th and at Coffee Underground in Greenville on September 5th so go check them out. Wasted Wine do things their own wayNestling in the [...]
Show Review: A Little R in R
Read in Response “Finish Strong” The Channel August 23, 2008 I had the oppurtunity to go check out Read in Response for the first time last Saturday night in Greenville at The Channel and was impressed with this band on multiple levels. I’ve only heard good things about them from my friends at Clemson and [...]
Sad News From Greenville
I hadn’t seen this until today, but Greenville Scene is closing. Over the last year they have had great interviews with everyone from veterans of the SC music scene such as Jay Clifford and Cravin Melon to the new guys such as Corey Crowder who is on Tooth and Nail and Joe Stillwell of Needtobreathe. [...]
Show Review:Marry a Thief and The Decade
Marry a Thief opened up their performance Friday night at New Brookland Tavern performing “Honestly Bored” and “Every Little Star Remix”. Just Aaron and Erich on stage building up the crowd for the full band. These two songs do a great job of showing off Erich’s voice which I consider to be one of the [...]
New Videos
Check out the new videos from Marry a Thief, The Decade, Read in Response, All Get Out and Cats and Cobras. All in the videos section of the website. Sorry about the video quality. They look really good until I compress them to put on Youtube. Tonight I’ll post reviews from Read in Response/Shallow Palace/Marry [...]
All Get Out in the Absolute 100
All Get Out wasn’t in the first 2 installments of this years Absolute 100 but they are sure enough in the third. Check it out. What is the Absolute 100? Here at AbsolutePunk.net, we like to start the waves and then float in them. This is why we are back with our second installment of [...]
American Gun Video
Check out my new American Gun video. The sound quality is good in my opinion. I don’t feel right doing an entire show review because I only saw two songs. Todd your Pixies cover was awesome though. Check it out!
Saturday Night: Guitar Show/Kill Anties (Greenville-Read in Response)
When: Saturday Aug 23, 2008 at 8:00 PM Where: New Brookland Tavern 122 State St West Columbia, SC 29169 United States Description: Daniel Machado & Guitar Show with The Ghost of FDR, Jonathan Ammons & the Electric Ghost, Kill Anties The first five people to buy the new album at the show will only pay [...]
Marry A Thief ON AIR
Marry A Thief has a busy day of radio interviews. I like to think of it as preparation for when they’re famous and this is what they have to do everyday. Here is your schedule for Marry A Thief Day… 3:00 – tune into WUSC 90.5 5:00 – tune into WXRY 99.3 If you aren’t [...]
UPDATE:Chasing August Reunion
From Chasing August-It will happen. Just trying to get a date, and bands to play. Thinking of doing a real cheap show. Or even a benefit show for some organization in need. Looking at possibly early to mid october. Spread the word I don’t know anything yet except for the fact the show is listed [...]
