Author Archive: 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
Oh What’s Up Chris Andrews
Check out the new Karate Kid themed revenge video from Evergreen Terrace’s song “Sending Signals” off their latest release “Almost Home.” This video is currently featured on AbsolutePunk.Net so go check it out there. My favorite part is where the kid is doing High Knees at dusk on the beach. Oh yeah and the double [...]
New American Gun Out on ITunes
The new American Gun CD isn’t officially being released until December 1st, but if you can’t wait to have it you can find it here on ITunes now. The Devil Showed Me His Hand is American Gun’s follow up to their 2008 release The Means and The Machine. I’m one listen through and I’m thinking [...]
The Columbia Vitals
In the 11th installment of their weekly podcast, XXXX XXXXXX and guest Logan Young talk about upcoming shows, midgets and sex offenders. And since I know everyone is wondering about how midget wrestling went at Savannah’s, Logan took one for the team and attended. It sounded more like a fiesta than a midget wrestling match. [...]
Scene SC Endorsed:Sequoyah Prep School @ The Handlebar
(Photo Credit Clayton Bozard) The Handlebar $11 8:30 PM Greenville, SC Sequoyah Prep School featuring The Chase, Death On Two Wheels and The Four Kicks Genre: Pop Swamp Rock Nothing makes us more proud than to see a South Carolina band out on the road busting their asses to get their music out there. Since [...]
Free Download: O’ Brother The Death of Day
Sign up for O’ Brother’s mailing list and receive a free download of their new album “The Death of Day” and a previously unreleased song. They will be coming to The Watershed Nov 11th with The Working Title for a rare Wednesday night show. O’Brother will be taking All Get Out’s place on the back [...]
Lo-Fi Country Gothic: Charleston’s Shovels & Rope
By Kyle Petersen One of the most noted up-and-comers in South Carolina’s music scene over the past few years, singer/songwriter Cary Ann Hearst boasts one of the most powerful country/soul/punk voices you are ever likely to hear, with top-notch songwriting chops to boot. Her debut record Dust & Bones sounds like an alt. country classic [...]
Rocktober in Awendaw
Kicking off this Friday afternoon, Rocktoberfest at Awendaw Green will feature over 75 of South Carolina’s premier artist on three stages for four days straight. Proceeds from the concert will be used to buy instruments for the Charleston Band Instrument Fund. Four day passes are $40 dollars and one day will run about $15, but [...]
The Father, The Child and Alcohol
Album Review David Bazan-Curse Your Branches 3.5/5 Having read a number of reviews of this album everyone seems to be focused on the “Christianity” aspect of this album. That does after all seem to be his central theme here. When talking about writing this album lyrically, Bazan said that he mainly writes the songs and [...]
Happy Two Year Anniversary to Music That Matters
For the last two years Kevin Oliver has examined many aspects of music on his blog Music That Matters. Music That Matters is full of previews of local bands, insights into the marketing side of the music industry and general music musings that didn’t make it into one of the many publications Kevin freelances for. [...]
Show Preview: Andy Zipf
The Watershed Andy Zipf & Mel Washington 8:30PM $5 Who is Andy Zipf? Andy Zipf is a singer songwriter from the greater Washington D.C. area, although for the last couple of years the road has been his home. He has been playing everywhere from coffee shops to venues and house shows winning over fans with [...]
Fall at Flat Rock
The perfect way to celebrate the first weekend of fall would be a trip to the Flat Rock Music Festival to hear some great SC artists. Hannah Miller is participating in the Emerging Singer Songwriter competition from 10AM-12AM and will then play an in the round set later that night. If we had anything to [...]
Show Preview: Matt Butcher at Greenville Presents
Matt Butcher Performing at Greenville Presents Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 9:00pm $5 donation 2309 Old Buncombe Road Greenville, SC 29609 When it comes to alt country music I have always defined it in three ways in my head. A) We have the North Carolina alt country defined by Whiskeytown. B) We have the Georgia [...]
What We Will Be Talking About When We Talk About Columbia’s Music Scene
By Kyle Petersen The Magnetic Flowers, who have to be near the top of nearly anyone’s list of best bands in Columbia, recently released their excellent second full-length, and in doing so raised the bar pretty damn high for the rest of this year’s releases. The band plays a kinetic brand of literate indie pop [...]
Aviary Fire Version 2.0
After a couple of line up changes, Aviary Fire has settled in and has plans to make big waves with their new music. In their new song Where Ever We End Up Charlie Jackson and company hit on instant nostalgia in the most specific ways. The song will hit close to home with youth in [...]
Baumer and The Beautiful Life
I can’t exactly say I’m excited about the season premiere of the new CW show The Beautiful Life, but if they are cool enough to play “Take What’s Mine” by Baumer in the commercial, the show has to be good. In addition to that Ashton is the producer and Beauty and the Geek is top [...]
