Cover Painting, Julianne in Vain, by Scott Avett. Oil On Canvas 2009 North Carolina’s favorite sons The Avett Brothers are offering a free download of their new single and title track to their new album “I and Love and You” at Spinner.com. The albums official release date isn’t until September 29th, but the band will [...]
Photos Courtesy of SKobos Downtown Columbia took a big step forward Saturday night with the official addition of The White Mule. Tucked underground across the street from the Columbia Museum of Art and beside the Free Times headquarters, The White Mule has an ambiance unlike any other venue in Columbia. The White Mule still has [...]
WEEK 2 We are ending week number two. And we’re all ready for a day off. But, this tour has been incredibly rewarding. We parted ways with O’Brother for two days as they went to be with our good friends, Dignan, in McAllen and San Antonio, TX for their album release. This past week we’ve [...]
After releasing one of the best albums to come out of South Carolina this year, The Dirt and The Flood are taking a break. They aren’t ready to call it a break up, but a pause to pursue other opportunities in life. This is still a big break in direction from their previous plans of [...]
Summer Tour ’09: Wrightsville Beach Visit from The Fire Tonight on Vimeo. The Fire Tonight are currently playing the last 2 dates of their summer tour, but out on the road they found time to record us some hot, steamy, sexy videos. For the week in racy news, this video fits right up there with [...]
Continuing with the Athen’s theme of the day, I came across this interview with Aquarium Drunkard blogger Justin Gage this morning in Flagpole. If you aren’t familiar with Aquarium Drunkard they are based out of Los Angeles and host a Sirius/XM radio show. The blog tends to focus on southern bands and artist introducing them [...]
AthFest kicked off in Athens last night with the Flagpole Music Awards. The 3 day festival has become more comparable to SXSW every year with additions of stages sponsored by record labels, blogs such as the Aquarium Drunkard and promoters. In addition to the 173 bands that are playing, this year’s Athfest will feature films, [...]
Your Free Times Music Crawl Applications are due in 26 hours! Apply now. Come by The Copy Shop and I will help you with your press kit if you need it. I really want you to apply to play. Let’s make this the best one ever, so I can go and bask in the awesomeness [...]
By now we have all heard about Mark Sanford’s exotic love affair in Argentina. Our Appalachian mix-tape just doesn’t hold up anymore, so we have a new one for our hopeless romantic cheating Governor. Kicking off the Mix-tape The Oak Ridge Boys-Tryin to Love Two Women “One has got my money, the other has got [...]
Just as Steven Fiore supported Ghosts of the Great Highway on their CD release, Phil Windsor will supported Steven Fiore on his EP release this Friday. House shows across America are becoming more and more popular. CDBaby’s DIY podcast dedicated an entire episode to it. Dave Bazan has taken it to another level, selling out [...]
UPDATE Sanford was off traveling in Argentina, with a motorcycle and a diary. Just for the record we think this entire situation got blown way out of proportion. What it really did was give all of South Carolina’s politcal bloggers something to talk about…spew their crap about. Before that they were making up stories about [...]
Magnetic Flowers at NBT from pxsoul on Vimeo. I’ll tell ya where we’ll go. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. And beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talkin’ bout a little place called…The Elbow Room. Enticed by good music and a $2 cover I made my first [...]
Aviary Fire will release their newest EP “The Ships Set Sail” this Wednesday night at New Brookland Tavern with support from Carry Your Own (Greenville, SC) and My Losing Season (Columbia, SC). Just weeks after being featured as one of SC’s up and coming young songwriters at Rhythm on the River, Charlie Jackson and his [...]
The past few days of our lives have been reminders of how amazingly blessed we are as a group of people to do what we do. We’ve welcomed back Sean Pritchard as our tour manager. Great to have him back with us on the road. We’ve also been honored to have our buddy, Creigh, on [...]
Starting today we are kicking off a new series of posts called “On The Road.” The series will consist of pictures and tour journals of South Carolina bands that are out on tour living the dream. Right now there are not many SC bands hitting the road, but hopefully in the future that number [...]
