The Winter Sounds go to Church
If you have been reading SceneSC for awhile then you have probably realized that we sometimes forget that Athens, GA is not in South Carolina. However, when good albums are coming out that need our love who really cares? Church of the Haunted South is the third release from Athens, GA/Chicago, IL Alt Rockers The [...]
The Best, Worst and Most Surprising of the Southeast
For the past two weeks I have been out on the road with my band The Fire Tonight. While we only had one SC date in the whole bunch, David and I agree that Southeastern coverage effects our lovely little music scene here. So, without further delay I present “The Best, Worst and Most Surprising [...]
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 [...]
The Restoration to release new video!
The Restoration is throwing a special video release “humdinger” tomorrow night at Headliners! Is “humdinger” a fancy 1800′s term? Anyone? David helped film this, but he only went because he thought Daniel said “nude video.” Crazy David. Press release: “The Restoration is throwing a video release humdinger at Headliners on Thursday, May 28, 2009 to [...]
Do the Free Times Music Crawl
That was an awful country music pun and I am so sorry. All you bands out there it is time to submit yourselves to the Free Time Music Crawl!! It is taking place on September 12th and you have until June 26th to get your materials in. Entry Form Watermelon Crawl
FOOT and the Bayonets
Members of Band of Horses, King Hippo, Captain Easy and Josh Roberts himself are playing shows as FOOT. Chances are, if you are a fan of one or many of those bands you are planning to be at The Pour House in Charleson on Friday, or Headliners on Saturday. It is an easy sell and [...]
An Interview with Indie On The Move.com!
Before he developed crushes on any brunette that can sing, you may remember David posting something about Zelazowa and Indie on the Move. If not, Zelazowa is a great band with a great name, and Indie on the Move is a website they started that provides a huge national database of venues for bands. It [...]
Show Us Your Twitties
When I ask people about Twitter they usually fall into two camps. The first camp says “Gah Twitter is dumb” and then about two weeks later will join anyway. The other camp talks about how cool it is and how it has made the world a better place. Like most things, neither camp is really [...]
Ghost of FDR’s swan song
Playing in a band presents me the opportunity to hear more local and indie bands than I can even remember. Most of them are good, some of them are really good, and some of them are absolutely horrible. Ghost of FDR fits into none of these categories. They are without a doubt one of the [...]
The Restoration kicks back (it’s like 3 Ninjas but better)
“Constance please don’t let my music die with me” – The Restoration As promised, here is part two of my interview with Daniel Machado about his new project The Restoration! Before getting into this great stuff though, just a word about the show. Come early because Liesl Downey is an amazing artist, The Fossil Record [...]
The Restoration, Daniel Machado’s 19th Century acoustic rock lovechild
By now you have probably heard about Daniel Machado’s new project “The Restoration.” David threw a write up on the site a couple of weeks ago, and the band has performed two low-key shows. However, their show Friday at New Brookland Tavern is being billed as the “big debut” performance featuring a lengthy set and [...]
Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday
Stone cold rock n’ roll. That’s what you’ll experience Tuesday at New Brookland Tavern. Shallow Palace and Leslie are both great live bands, and it never hurts to see touring bands coming through. I haven’t personally experience the Brisbones or the Predecessor, but Greg Slattery (of Shallow Palace) swears they are badass and I believe [...]
New video from Marry A Thief!
Last time we heard from SceneSC.com favorite Marry A Thief they were featured on “Real World” and headed to New York. What have the boys been up to lately? Apparently putting together an amazing new music video for their now famous track Epileptic. Check out the video here!
Hot Lava Monster – Live
Let’s face it, most live albums suck. It’s an inescapable fact of life. Too often what you get are obviously overdubbed, “live” records that contain songs performed exactly like their studio counterparts. Who would want to pay 12 dollars to hear an inferior version of the same song? Not me. So when I heard that [...]
A look in at Treadmill Trackstar’s new record!
As I reread what Treadmill Trackstar lead singer Angelo Gianni wrote to me about the sound of their new record, I realized that it was too good to leave anything out. Either that or I just got in from New York and wanted to get this in before their set at St. Patrick’s Day Fountain [...]
