Archive for June, 2009
The Reinvention of Band of Horses
The past four years have been filled with change for the crew from the Carolinas. In this article from the Charleston City Paper they discuss the adjustments that go along with lineup changes, their brushes with greatness, and their bright future. The guys in Band of Horses are currently spread out between Asheville, Columbia and [...]
Camping out at The Music Camp
The Music Camp music festival just north of Spartanburg will take their festival up another notch this year into a two day event with some of the best bands in North America. Members of the Belleville Outfit (Austin, TX) hosted a much smaller version of this event for the past four summers, but this year [...]
Show Preview:The Brisbones/Alien Carnival/The Friendly Confines
There are a handful of shows this Saturday, so whatever your musical taste Columbia has something offer. Here is your demographic breakdown for Saturday night. Ages 14-20 will probably be at New Brookland Tavern for This Machine is Me, O’Verona and The Decade. The family crowd will go to Finlay Park for some beach music [...]
The Bob Dylan Show in Simpsonville
The Bob Dylan Show featuring fellow troubadours Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp will be in Simpsonville Wednesday July 29th. This will mark only the second time in 30 years that these three will share the stage. The concert which was originally scheduled to be in Sevierville, was moved to Heritage Park Amphitheater, the upstates newest [...]
Want Your Music on the Radio?
You would think it would be common sense for local/regional bands to send their music in to every radio station that plays unsigned music, but it doesn’t seem to be. All three Columbia rock radio stations play unsigned music every week and they all have a problem with bands and artists sending in their new [...]
Angela Easterling in Oxford American
In my high school years Oxford American “The Southern Magazine of Good Writing” was a staple in magazine racks of our house. I was happy to see this morning that they included Angela Easterling in their Editor’s picks for Music. Angela is a native of upstate South Carolina and had her CD Release Party for [...]
Allison Weiss @ Mellow Mushroom
Thursday, June 18th Mellow Mushroom Greenville, SC Just days after her return from the West Coast Allison Weiss will make the short drive to Greenville to perform at Mellow Mushroom. If you have been following her journeys on Twitter she has covered every corner of the USA in the last month playing shows from Athens [...]
Show Preview:Twilight Armada/Junior Astronomers/Shallow Palace/Calculator
8pm Doors $5 Over 21 / $8 Under 21 All Ages Indie / Rock / Post Punk Twilight Armada headline New Brookland Tavern this Friday night with a strong supporting cast that are all different enough to keep your attention, but to not too different where you have to walk down to House Coffee and [...]
Finlay Park Summer Concert Series
Saturday June 20th Marry a Thief Second Nature We wrote a post a month or so back about how bands should apply to play at this summer concert series. Since then we have gotten hundreds of Google Search Engine hits from people searching for the summer the line up. This Saturday June 20th will feature [...]
Scene SC on WXRY Tonight
WXRY Unsigned 8-9 PM I am going on 99.3 WXRY Unsigned tonight from 8-9 to talk about Scene’s First Birthday Bash going down July 9th at New Brookland Tavern. I really hope this goes better than my real first birthday where I am pretty sure I crapped my Huggies and cried in front of all [...]
The 5 After 5 Backup Plan
or lack thereof. The tricky part about having an outdoor festival is having to worry about the weather. It is pretty much an event planner’s worst nightmare, because of the fact that is completely out of their control. In recent years, The 5 Points Association hasn’t exactly had the best luck with weather. The St. [...]
Summer of 2009
You know you are desperate when you title a post after a Bryan Adams song. There is some level of difficulty in writing a music blog in a college town during the summer. While there are some good shows this weekend, many of them are very niche type shows. For that reason, I encourage you [...]
MTVU Hearts Bakari Lebby
Scene SC’s own Bakari Lebby was on the front page of MTVU today with his partner in crime Will Flourance. You know you are doing something right when there is a post about Butch Walker, Kanye West and then Bakari Lebby. MTVU’s Dean List Top 10 includes 10 videos from a different College student and [...]
This Machine Is the Hot Topic
This Machine is Me has made it a habit to be one of the best promoting bands in Columbia. In the last year they have been featured on Scene SC, in The Free Times, The State paper, The Daily Gamecock and Garnet and Black magazine. They have been on WXRY a couple of times, WUSC [...]
Official Video from The Restoration
The Restoration – Drowning Mr. & Mrs. Palmer – Live Studio Performance from The Restoration on Vimeo. The Humdinger Video Release party for The Restoration might have been last week, but the video “Drowning Mr. and Mrs. Palmer” has made its online debut today. The Restoration perform “Drowning Mr. & Mrs. Palmer” live at Jam [...]
