Mercy Mercy Me-Cayce Blues After playing their dirty brew soaked rock in the dives of Columbia and Charleston for the last year, Mercy Mercy Me has released their first 7 inch single, Another Place, Another Time, on Fork and Spoon Records. The two song single captures their live sound in a ballsy lofi way that [...]
The Dead Weather: Sea of Cowards I’ve sat down to write this review at least half a dozen times over the past few weeks and found myself absolutely stymied as to how to express my feelings regarding Sea of Cowards, the second offering from Jack White’s (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs) latest project The Dead [...]
By Jared Buchholz If there’s one thing for certain about I.R.M (M.R.I backwards. The album a concept based upon Charlotte Gainsbourg’s hospital visit two years ago for cerebral hemorrhaging), Beck produced it. From the lyrics, co-written, to at least an instrument per song, with his backup vocals all throughout, it‘s all Beck. And it sounds [...]
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 [...]
Here are our top 11 favorite albums of the last 10 years. They differ from all of the other lists you’ve probably seen. I guess we’re not as indie as they are. It was hard choosing which one of The Everybodyfields albums to go in the top ten. On one hand my favorite song is [...]
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: Rob Lindsey Kenley Young – Standard Candle 4.5/5 Polish and precision are two words that don’t often come to mind when you listen to local releases. The rush of a new band to get a product on the street or maybe the constraints of cost are most often to blame. That’s not the situation [...]
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 [...]
By Kyle Petersen Austin Crane is one of many acoustic guitar-toting singer/songwriters hanging around college campuses across America, but the music he makes is anything but ordinary. Instead of the simple, often cliche-ridden songs about love and heartache that are standard fare of the twentysomething crowd, Crane tends towards weighty meditations on faith, doubt, God [...]
Bob Dylan, Christmas in the Heart (Sony, 2009) By Logan K. Young While it’s probably a little too soon to bandy about the “d” word – “dementia,” that is – Bob Dylan’s bizarre behavior persists. Even a cursory look at the headlines will show that he’s been on quite the tear lately: leering at Victoria’s [...]
Treadmill Trackstar releases its comeback album I Belong to Me to the public today. To some that may not mean much, but for those of us who were paying attention to the Columbia music scene in the late-90′s it means a lot.
Switchfoot returns to Asheville and Charlotte with a brand new album and DVD.
Toro y Moi – My Touch Genre: Electronic RIYL: Discovery by Daft Punk, Justice, Funk samples Picks: Lesson #223, Existance Music, Deep Routes, Effective Worthless, Take This Toro y Moi is the solo project of Chaz Bundick, lead singer of The Heist and the Accomplice. The first time I heard a few of the cuts [...]
Continuing our our top ten of the 2000′s of local band members, today we present the Top 10 of Tyler Morris of Calculator. If you dig his top 10 check out his band. They are one of the hottest new bands in South Carolina and haven’t even released the Classic Acid EP yet. That will [...]
For our first installment, and after reading probably our most accurate installment of the Top 25 albums of the decade, Josh McDowell of The Dirty White weighs in on his top albums. With a new album and video in the works, we will be hearing a lot from the Florence natives in the coming months. [...]
