Category: Current Events
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 [...]
Free Times Music Crawl Releases Monster 2011 Line Up
Friday November 4/Saturday November 5 $8 Free Times Music Crawl is the highlight of the year when it comes to local and regional music and this year looks to be the biggest and best line up yet. Saturday, November 5th the Music Crawl will take over the Vista featuring 35 acts over 6 stages, rocking [...]
R.E.M. – Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage Trailer
We were heartbroken when R.E.M. announced their break up after 31 years together mainly because we wanted one more tour from them. While their albums have been falling off ever so slightly since New Adventures in Hi Fi (some would argue Up), their live performances never faltered. That’s also not to say that there weren’t [...]
Stream Richard Buckner’s Tapp’s Show
Richard Buckner w/ Jeff Kazer LIVE Columbia, SC 10/6/11 by richbucklivecolasc Over the last couple of years Richard Buckner’s Columbia performances have moved from The Whig, to the Columbia Museum of Art and most recently to the Tapp’s Art Center. Each and every time the Merge Records artist has made his way to Columbia The [...]
Listen to The Weekly Monitor
Facebook The Weekly Monitor is a music podcast orchestrated by Woody Jones and Jack Beasley covering the local music scene and regular happenings in Columbia. Woody and Jack do a great job covering weekly shows and featuring relevant artists and are a must listen if you are trying to keep up with what’s going on [...]
New Music: Run Dan Run-Normal
Run Dan Run are releasing their new album Normal today after taking some time off after their last release. Truth is, this is their best record to date and is a must download for you. Normal follows in the footsteps of their previous release Basic Mechanics with darker more intricate melodies and instrumentation. Taking over [...]
CMJ 2011 Preview: Casiokids
So if you’re coming to CMJ with the thought “I want to see some fun Norwegian synthpop” look no further. These guys are here for you. Casiokids have been described as “the best thing to come out of Norway since black metal” and supposedly they have an incredible live show. I’ve heard that their shows [...]
Video: CherryCase- If You Go
Download CherryCase have released a video for their new song “If You Go” featuring Charlie Jackson of Versus the Robot. This song follows in the footsteps of past CherryCase songs with its’ acoustic roots and undeniably catchy chorus. Jake Etheridge is known for teaming up with other local musicians and does it again [...]
CMJ 2011 Preview: Filligar
01-Knock-Yourself-Out.mp3 I hadn’t even heard of these guys until yesterday when they emailed me but they are very very good. Filligar are a band from Chicago consisting of 3 brothers and a lifelong friend who began playing in their early teens. Their lead vocalist and guitarist Johnny Mathias just graduated from college so they’ll be [...]
Video: Hannah Miller “Oh Black River”
O Black River by Hannah Miller In support of her new EP, Hannah Miller has released a beautiful video of the title track of the album Oh Black River. The title track “Oh Black River” is as smooth flowing as any song that Miller has ever recorded. The video is equally as visually pleasing, simply [...]
Show Journal: Mates of State
Oh my goodness, what a show. Mates of State played with Other Lives and Yawn at the Visulite Theatre in Charlotte, NC and it was just unreal. We arrived halfway through Yawn’s set and sat down on the little balcony they had. Now this venue was just incredible. The stage was not gigantic but they [...]
Show Journal: Bonnie Prince Billy
After going to over 300 shows over the last couple of years going to shows in town at the regular venues has moved beyond boring and more towards unbearable. To spark the flame of enjoying shows again I traveled into the mountains of North Carolina Wednesday night for some new scenery and some new faces. [...]
CMJ 2011 Preview: Caged Animals
So I am off to New York next week to cover CMJ, one of the biggest festivals I’ve ever heard of, and this week I’m going to preview some artists who I’m going to be seeing there. There are 1000+ artists playing so I’m literally not even going to scrape the surface but whatever. 03 [...]
Show Journal: Peter Wolf Crier
This show was definitely in the top 3 shows that I have been to in Columbia and I hope that we can get more shows like this. Every single band were absolutely solid and perfect for this type of show and venue. This show took place at El Burrito on the most beautiful of Sunday [...]
Show Journal: Music Midtown
I’ve been trying to write a review of this Atlanta festival for a week and a half now and it’s been very difficult. Not because it wasn’t good or anything, in fact it was amazing, but I’m having troubles. I think it is because I don’t want to write a “regular” review of the show, [...]
