Category: Current Events
Show Review: The Mountain Goats
On Tuesday night at the Visulite Theatre in Charlotte a large crowd of people were eagerly awaiting a band who are known all over the world. Surprisingly, the crowd consisted of a large number of alternative middle-aged couples. A group that I do not usually see at the concerts I go to. It makes sense [...]
Ben Kweller Album Teaser
It’s an E. That is the chord formation shown on the cover of Ben Kweller’s new album Go Fly a Kite, due out February 7th. For the first time Ben Kweller is doing it all his way. That means more than just in the recording sense. Go Fly a Kite will be coming out on [...]
Show Preview: The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats w/ Nurses Tuesday, Jan 31 Visulite Theatre, Charlotte, NC 8pm $20 The Mountain Goats are a band who have been around for a whole number of years, playing shows all over the world and at a whole number of festivals. They’ve released so many albums on so many record [...]
First Thursday at Tapp’s, From Here to Mississippi
WHEN: Thursday, February 2, from 5 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Tapp’s Arts Center, 1644 Main Street First Thursday at Tapp’s this week will show From Here to Mississippi, a photography exhibition featuring University of South Carolina photography professors Kathleen Robbins and Eliot Dudik. The exhibiting artists also include recent graduates and current student members [...]
National Tour Featuring All Get Out, La Dispute,Balance & Composure, Sainthood Reps
New Brookland Tavern Sunday, April 22 All Get Out will be going on a nationwide tour in late March with La Dispute, Sainthood Reps, and Balance & Composure. This tour will be coming through South Carolina Sunday, April 22 at New Brookland Tavern. Both All Get Out and La Dispute will be touring in support [...]
#TwitterThursday- @ExpClub @BigBoi
We here at Scene SC are avid Twitter junkies. We enjoy coming up with clever, funny, scary, and downright awful things to say on twitter just to get a response from our followers. Yes I do this and yes I want to have some sort of conversation with you. Through the power of Social Media [...]
Kickstart Crowfield
I think everyone is rooting for Crowfield. The past couple of years have been a roller coaster ride for them with highs and lows. After being signed and dropped by a major label, they are rebounding in a big way and that all hinges on the success of this Kickstarter campaign. They have over 30 [...]
Show Review: Concrete Animals/Museum Moth/Young Mumbles/Octopus Jones
Cool Daddy’s Myrtle Beach January 20th 2012 This was an interesting review for me to do mainly because I booked the show and it took place in my home town. But also, because I changed my mind at the last minute to review this show instead of one that took place at Snug Harbor in [...]
7 Q’s with Southwood
01 Nashville Hailing from Charleston, South Carolina, Southwood is a band of many talented hats. Their music is modern, but also undeniably classic and timeless, bringing to mind Hootie and the Blowfish, Sister Hazel, even Johnny Cash at times. Their sound contains the best of these artists but rather than that making them seem like [...]
Kopecky Family Band Surges into 2012
This time last year, nothing felt out of the ordinary for frontman/guitarist Gabe Simon and the rest of the Nashville based Kopecky Family Band. They had released a spectacular tandem of EPs to end 2010, The Disaster and Of Epic Proportions, and were ready to take their act on the road in a big way. [...]
Show Preview: Where’s The Band? Tour
Where’s The Band Tour featuring Chris Conley (Saves The Day), Anthony Raneri (Bayside), Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids), Ace Enders (The Early November), and Evan Weiss (Into It. Over It) New Brookland Tavern, West Columbia, SC Wednesday, Jan 25 6:30pm $13 What a good idea for a tour. Take a bunch of [...]
Song Premiere: Wylie-Foxes and Dogs
1 foxes and dogs We’re now in week three of premiering songs for the band Wylie, loosely based out of Charleston, SC. This weeks song is called “Foxes and Dogs” and can be streamed above. Week 1 Week 2 Via singer/guitarist/Songwriter Keon Masters “Foxes and Dogs“ Came to be after my girlfriend and I had [...]
Savannah Stopover Festival – First Lineup Announcement
Savannah Stopover Festival Savannah, GA March 7-10 So I know that there are a lot of us out there who live in the South and have taken a peek at the SXSW lineup and been brought to tears over it. The fact that the famous festival is so close to us, [...]
New Music: Wylie-”Days of Our Youth”
Days of Our Youth Wylie are currently in the process of releasing one new song a week from their new album. Last week they released a song called “Brave Baby” and this week they’ve released “Days of Our Youth” which has a different more nostalgic feel. This week we got Keon Masters from Wylie to [...]
2012 Indie Grits Schedule and Music
While I was reading through all of the events for this years Indie Grits Festival I had a major breakthrough and it’s something that I just realized. This will hopefully, probably, pretty much definitely, be the last Indie Grits at their current location behind the state house on Main Street. By this time next year [...]
