David Stringer
Hometown-Blue Ridge, SC
Currently Resides in-Columbia, SC
Went to High School in-Rock Hill, SC
Graduated from USC in 2006 with a degree in Public Relations
Favorite band- R.E.M.
Spirit Animal- Moose
Vampire Weekend have had kind of a hard go at it as a band. After bursting onto the hip culture music scene in late 2007 with a tour with The Shins, and praise from Rolling Stone and Spin, Vampire Weekend seemed to be set for an enjoyable career of releasing music. Instead they started to [...]
Over the years Charlotte, NC’s DIY music scene has grown from an underground hotbed to the mainstream thanks in part to Treasure Fest and Recess Fest, both festivals sharing a lot of similarities. Now in its third year, Treasure Fest takes place mostly in the Plaza Midwood area of Charlotte, with 70 + bands spread [...]
DanManor Last week Upstate filmmaker Daniel McCord traveled to Columbia for the Indie Grits Festival to check out some films and do a little Q & A after the screening of his own short “Don’t Kill The Messenger.” McCord made the wise decision upon leaving Greenville of bringing his film equipment in case the opportunity [...]
The first time Atlas Road Crew played 5 Points Pub in Columbia, SC it was a last-minute deal. The popular 5 Points venue had a band coming in that didn’t have a big draw, and they needed an opener that could make it just hours before the show was supposed to start. So the bartender [...]
(Via Press Release) Hopscotch Music Festival—North Carolina’s biggest and most diverse music festival—is proud to announce the lineup for its fourth-annual party in downtown Raleigh, N.C., scheduled for Sept. 5–7, 2013. Nearly 175 bands will fill 15 venues this year, bringing together some of the most noteworthy artists working today in a variety of genres—from [...]
Last week both Mat Cothran projects set the internet abuzz with the much-anticipated release of the first single from the new Coma Cinema album Posthumous Release, and with the release of Holo Pleasures via his full band Elvis Depressedly. While the new Coma Cinema song “Satan Made A Mansion” made its national debut on Spin, [...]
Friday April 19 New Brookland Tavern The Sea Wolf Mutiny/Slow Runner/Heyrocco/Mechanical River Saturday April 20 Furman University Earth Day Music Presented by Awendaw Green and SceneSC 1:00 Simple Syrup / Danielle Howle 2:30 Mechanical River 3:15 The Sea Wolf Mutiny 4:00 Slow Runner 5:00 Heyrocco On February 26, 2013 we released our 4th official sampler [...]
![[Album Review] Iron and Wine-Ghost on Ghost](http://www.scenesc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/xIron-and-Wine-352x198.jpg.pagespeed.ic.DeDXtFWwYq.jpg "[Album Review] Iron and Wine-Ghost on Ghost")
With his last two albums, Kiss Each other Clean and Ghost on Ghost, Chapin, SC native Sam Beam has shed almost all of his singer songwriter stereotype. That’s to say, if you were a fan of The Shepard’s Dog and releases previous to that, and went into a coma in 2007, woke up in 2013 [...]
New Brookland Tavern Thursday, May 2, 2013 – 7:00pm Capital Cities Gold Fields LoveLife Tickets Capital Cities are such a modern day band. The SoCal electro pop duo met on Craigslist, just looking to collaborate on some songs, which turned into recording an EP and a band with a live performance over a year later. [...]
![[Photos] Local Natives and Superhumanoids at The Orange Peel in Asheville](http://www.scenesc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/xIMG_1576-1-352x198.jpg.pagespeed.ic.RrMpkrTB_4.jpg "[Photos] Local Natives and Superhumanoids at The Orange Peel in Asheville")
The annual Indie Grits festival hosted by the Nickelodeon Theatre in Columbia, SC gets kicked off Friday April 12, with an opening party on the 1600 block of Main St. featuring music from Say Brother and The Royal Tinfoil and a DJ previewing sounds of Columbia’s first Hip Hop Family Day. While the 10 day [...]
With Record Store Day on the horizon we’re on the verge of hearing a lot of new music, with tons of special releases planned for April 20. Among those is a collaborative 12 inch single with Manchester Orchestra teaming up with Frightened Rabbit for one song and Grouplove for the another. “We wanted to release [...]
Saturday, April 20, 2013 Tiger Park – 157 Old Greenville Highway, 29631 Facebook Event Free with canned food donation or cash donation South Carolina is lucky to have two great college radio stations in Clemson’s WSBF and USC’s WUSC. Both do a great job of not only playing some of the states local talent, but [...]
4/19/2013 Hunter Gatherer – Columbia, SC Since releasing their début album Wild Fire in January, Columbia’s Burnt Books has only stopped touring enough to take a couple of deep breaths. Stringing together dates up and down the east coast, the band’s been introducing their mathy style of heavy on melodic to growing crowds all over. [...]
Dig South, the southeast’s first and only interactive festival exploring the digital economy, gets kicked off in Charleston, SC this weekend including a loaded music lineup. The sideshow, which includes national touring acts, local talent, DJ’s, comedians, and networking events starts Friday with events at Redux, Charleston Music Hall, and The Alley. Headlining the festival [...]
