By Matt Smith “Bones” by Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun This band out of Atlanta leaves quite the impression. Their live act is spectacularly grungy, plenty dance-infused, and features as many guitar pedal / mixing board acrobatics as Radiohead and U2. If you ever get the chance (they play regionally all the time, making [...]
A Rocket to the Moon, Sing It Loud, Sequoyah Prep School & All Get Out May 1st, 2010 Clemson Road Extension Center Columbia, SC MAP TO VENUE By Kathrine Brock Nick Santino started putting together A Rocket to the Moon in Massachusetts back in 2006 as a solo experiment. He eventually added a few band [...]
(Photo Credit David Stringer) By Kyle Petersen On Friday, February 12th at The White Mule a special singer/songwriter in the round performance will feature 4 absolutely amazing alt. country(-ish) singer/songwriters that call South Carolina home. Organized by Todd Mathis of American Gun, the show will also feature Charleston’s Mac Leaphart as well as Columbia’s Zach [...]
By Kyle Petersen Mac Leaphart’s solo record, Line. Rope. Etc., is a songwriting tour-de-force, with tunes that draw from the best of the country-folk tradition (think Kristofferson, John Prine, Gram Parsons), and a few times allows himself to slip into the comfortable sweet spot between Southern rock n’ roll and pure honky-tonk bliss. As a [...]
Chris Knight at the White Mule Sunday January 24th By Todd Mathis I stumbled across Chris Knight’s debut album in 1998 while browsing the new releases at Manifest ages ago. That’s how I used to find out about new music. Well, that and listening to Uncle Gram, DJing at WUSC, reading MOJO and [...]
By: Kyle Petersen American Gun – Devil Showed Me His Hand Review I owe American Gun quite a bit. If it wasn’t for the group, I might not be writing about local music today. As a young college student already fairly arrogant and smug in my musical tastes, I was skeptical to the idea that [...]
By Jared Buchholz Right before placing “What Will We Be” into the stereo of my car, I noticed the rather un detailed art surrounding the paperback case. It looked sort of dreamy eyed boyish at first, but upon a closer look it started to appear remotely along the lines of a malicious nature . I’m [...]
