Author Archive: David Stringer
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Shuffle Magazine’sTop 25 of the Carolinas
Shuffle Magazine Top 25 (Full List with blurbs) Lament – Mount Moriah by EmergencyBroadcastSongs Y’all know there is absolutely no way I agree with this Top 25, but what I do agree with is that there are a lot of great albums on the list. There are also a couple of albums I haven’t heard [...]
Artistic Mashup at Art Bar
Saturday night at Art Bar the Post-Echo crew will be putting on a show unlike any recent shows in Columbia. While there will be 4 bands performing there will also be 4 visual artists along with several video projections by visual artist Jason Stroud.
Free Download: Those Lavender Whales-Exist
“Exist” is the first single off Those Lavender Whales upcoming album Tomahawk of Praise that will be released January 17, 2012. The album will be released on both CD and LP and is available for preorder now at the Fork and Spoon website. I haven’t been able to stop listening to this song since I [...]
The Next Big Thing is Right Here
It’s the end of the year and everyone is cuddled up by their fireplace and reminiscing on the top albums of 2011. I’ve browsed a couple of top 50 lists so far and they are pretty good. The state of music in general is really good these days even though you hear people bitch about [...]
O’Brother at New Brookland Tavern
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 – 8:00pm O’Brother Mel Washington (of All Get Out) The Lion In Winter Click Here To Purchase Tickets Price: $8 Advance / $10 Day Of Show Genre: Indie / Pop / Rock O’Brother – Machines Part I by obrother I feel like we should roll out the red carpet for O’Brother [...]
Album Review: Grouplove-Never Trust A Happy Song
You know your band has made it these days when you have a song on an Apple commercial. You could say they are pretty good at picking songs that will be stuck in your head for days, so it only seems fitting that their latest iPad commercial features a Grouplove song. Grouplove have been on [...]
Harrison Hudson with Sequoyah at The Channel
Harrison Hudson – Every Girl by favoritegentlemen Saturday night Harrison Hudson will be making his way through Greenville on tour for his latest release American Thunder. On American Thunder Harrison Hudson rambles around the 60′s with his rebel ways, black jeans, white tee, and singing about every girl that’s crossed his path. While sticking to [...]
Dylan Sneed Shows His Guns
Facebook Invite Garden and Gun has impeccable taste for all things good and Southern so it makes perfect sense that they paired Dylan Sneed’s song “No Worse for the Wear” with one of their videos. Lucky for us Sneed will be playing his first show back in Columbia since returning from his tour of the [...]
Album Review: Owen-Ghost Town
Relax, kick back your feet and listen to Owen. Look out a window. Maybe snow is falling outside and you are being kept warm. You’re relaxed, carefree and have no where to be. These are some of the feelings you might feel while listening to Ghost Town, the latest record from Mike Kensella’s solo project [...]
Interview: We Roll Like Madmen-Bey’s Nov 19
Freelance Whales – Hannah (We Roll Like Madmen remix) by We Roll Like Madmen Saturday November 19 Bey’s 9 PM Describe your music for those who aren’t familiar. We Roll Like Madmen is a vocal-centric, cross-genre electronic dance project. We perform original material as well as remixes, combining both live band and DJ techniques. In [...]
Video: Slow Runner- Strange Days
Slow Runner’s new video explores puppets, stop motion and has Frankenstein overtones. Guess where Slow Runner is today? They have a show in Leeds, England with William Fitzsimmons. Their tour will take them all over Europe until their last show overseas on December 20. But before they flew off they left us with this gem [...]
New All Get Out Daytrotter
All Get Out Daytrotter For the longest time Daytrotter seemed like a dream. Thousands of songs to download, beautiful stripped down raw versions from our favorite bands, and somehow they were all free. Recently Daytrotter was straightforward with their fans and changed over to a pay model. What was the rate going to be? Would [...]
Falling For A Square-The Perfect Team
There is a lot of electronic music coming out these days, but not much has an emotional human touch like Jason Sposa’s Falling For A Square has to offer. He’s released a lot of music this year, but The Perfect Team has more to offer as far as lyrics, guitar and drums go. Even comparing [...]
Music Crawl Photo’s and Video
Sweet Vans @ Moda Lounge Photo by Alexis Schwallier Just as advertised the Free Times Music Crawl was full of bold flavors. Quote of the weekend came from Patrick Wall, music editor of the Free Times “if you don’t love #COLUMBIYEAH!, you’re doing it wrong.” It’s true. From The Lumineers, who are on tour from [...]
Album Review: Jacks Mannequin-People and Things
People and Things is the first Jacks Mannequin’s that has had the opportunity to break free from constraints and be itself. Everything in Transit stepped out of the shadow of Something Corporate, carrying with it most of the Something Corporate fan base. While on tour to drum up support for Everything In Transit, Andrew McMahon [...]
