Category: Current Events
Moogfest Final Installment
The Antlers After jumping around in the freezing cold it was nice to relax in the warm and ethereal sound The Antlers had to offer. Peter Silberman’s angelic falsetto cautiously lures you closer until you find yourself immersed in the swell of amorphous, yet complimentary sounds radiating from the stage. You get the feeling that [...]
Moogfest Installment 2
Battles I LOVE Battles. It doesn’t hurt that John Stanier (formerly of Helmet) is one of my favorite rock drummers. The experimental rock (dare I say) Supergroup need a drummer of his caliber to keep up with the spastic loops and samples being thrown into the mix. Stand up, walk around, dance, run circles around [...]
Video: Slow Runner- Strange Days
Slow Runner’s new video explores puppets, stop motion and has Frankenstein overtones. Guess where Slow Runner is today? They have a show in Leeds, England with William Fitzsimmons. Their tour will take them all over Europe until their last show overseas on December 20. But before they flew off they left us with this gem [...]
New All Get Out Daytrotter
All Get Out Daytrotter For the longest time Daytrotter seemed like a dream. Thousands of songs to download, beautiful stripped down raw versions from our favorite bands, and somehow they were all free. Recently Daytrotter was straightforward with their fans and changed over to a pay model. What was the rate going to be? Would [...]
Falling For A Square-The Perfect Team
There is a lot of electronic music coming out these days, but not much has an emotional human touch like Jason Sposa’s Falling For A Square has to offer. He’s released a lot of music this year, but The Perfect Team has more to offer as far as lyrics, guitar and drums go. Even comparing [...]
Music Crawl Photo’s and Video
Sweet Vans @ Moda Lounge Photo by Alexis Schwallier Just as advertised the Free Times Music Crawl was full of bold flavors. Quote of the weekend came from Patrick Wall, music editor of the Free Times “if you don’t love #COLUMBIYEAH!, you’re doing it wrong.” It’s true. From The Lumineers, who are on tour from [...]
Show Preview: Mister Heavenly – Charleston, SC
Mister Heavenly w/ Mr. Dream The Tin Roof, Charleston, SC Monday, November 7th This band have a whole lot of good going for them, and they haven’t even started their first headlining tour. They have opened for Passion Pit (having Michael Cera join them on bass), released a brilliant album on Sub Pop Records, [...]
Show Preview: The Wilderness of Manitoba
The Wilderness of Manitoba w/ Rasputina The Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC Friday, November 4 9pm $12 Tickets So The Wilderness of Manitoba are not actually headlining this show, Rasputina are, but I would say that The Wilderness of Manitoba are what this show is all about. They’re a 5-piece band hailing from Toronto, [...]
The Front Bottoms Acoustic Session
It hasn’t been easy to describe The Front Bottoms to people. Over the last month or so I’ve been telling people to come out and see them, handing out copies of their new album to people that might tell their friends how great they are. See, when I got their album in the mail I [...]
Moogfest 2011 – Saturday
This Saturday, I drove up to Asheville, NC to check out the 2nd day of this year’s Moogfest and as expected, it was fantastic. Unfortunately I could only go on the Saturday since I went to see Jay-Z & Kanye West on Sunday (which was also amazing). I arrived there a little late and missed The [...]
Tapp’s Grand Opening
Starting Wednesday, the Tapp’s Arts Center in downtown Columbia will host a series of Grand Opening events after a year of construction. Wednesday’s event will start at 12:30 p.m. and will feature a ribbon cutting by Mayor Steve Benjamin and other City Council Members. Thursday, Tapp’s will continue their first Thursdays on Main series featuring [...]
What Is Your Favorite SC Album of the Year?
Feel free to add suggestions in the comments and we’ll get them added to this list. If you are going to suggest an album, make sure it was released in 2011 and by a South Carolina based artist. These are also full length albums, not EP’s. This is not a contest. This poll does [...]
Show Journal: CMJ 2011
All the pictures in this article were taken by Joshua Rainwater. (http://thatrainwater.com) CMJ 2011 was a 5-day festival held in New York City from Oct 18-22 and featured over 1000 bands. Most of these bands are ones that are “buzzing” at the moment and looking to break into the popularity zone. It also featured bigger bands [...]
Free Download: The Explorer’s Club California Suite
The Explorers Club – Weight of the World (under construction mix) by ObscureSound Building up to their release of their new full length Grand Hotel next year, The Explorers Club have released their first “suite” EP, “The California Suite” for free on Amazon. The California Suite features the Burt Bacharach standard “Walk on By,” along [...]
Interview: Bass Drum of Death-NBT 10/15/11
Band: Bass Drum of Death Hometown: Oxford, Mississippi RIYL: Black Lips, Blood Circus, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Hole On October 15, 2011 Bass Drum of Death brought their bonged out Southern Grunge to New Brookland Tavern opening for Toro Y Moi. Like Toro Y Moi, Bass Drum of Death started as a bedroom project, is from a [...]
