The hardest part to believe about Don’t Sweat it Fest being in its seventh year is that it’s still taking place in The Courtroom, which has become one of the state’s longest running consistent venues and in such an unlikely […]
Festivals
Hopscotch Music Festival Drops First Wave of 2018 Lineup
Back for the ninth year Hopscotch Music Festival based in Raleigh, NC dropped their 2018 lineup this week and while indie music lovers will search and find plenty to be happy about, it didn’t quite have the same bang that […]
Indie Grits Embraces Gritty Southern Culture in 2018
Indie Grits has experienced some growing pains over the years and searched for a consistent identity, but it’s never lacked in the quality of art and entertainment it provided. Having just wrapped up its 12th year, Indie Grits is starting […]
What to Look out for at High Water 2018
Last year we theorized on who Shovels and Rope would pull in to follow-up a wildly popular first year festival that seemed to go off with no issues. Jason Isbell’s name came up, Jeff Tweedy’s did not. Band of Horses […]
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A Look Back at Savannah Stopover 2018
As I’ve been getting my bearings since returning from Savannah Stopover I just scrolled down my timeline to see Caroline Rose Live on Facebook performing at Waterloo Records in Austin, NPR doing a session with Becca Mancari, along with pictures and […]
Savannah Stopover 2018 Preview
Tickets to Savannah Stopover Returning for its 8th year, Savannah Stopover has well established itself as a festival to attend to see great up-and-coming acts, many of them on their way to SXSW. If anything, it’s baffling that it’s not […]
Savannah Stopover Announces First Wave of Lineup
March 8-10 2018 Tickets The thing about Savannah Stopover’s lineup every year is that it always look better in hindsight. Stopover is one of the premiere festivals in the Southeast when it comes to new music discovery, or finding out […]
Fall for Greenville 2017 Local Music Guide
As the city of Greenville has seen tremendous growth over the past years so too has Fall for Greenville. Now taking place over three days and four nights, the festival stretches throughout Greenville’s bustling downtown, with music stages on the […]
Hopscotch 2017
Expanding to four days this year, Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, NC featured a variety of up-and-coming local and national acts along with great headlining acts.
Spaceface Talk Southern Roots and Pysch Revival
“Press your space face close to mine, love. Freak out in a moonage daydream oh yeah!” sings David Bowie in his 1972 “Moonage Daydream.” It’s quite fitting that Memphis based band Spaceface gets their name from this song. Their music has a […]
Secret Stages 2017 Thrives on Variety
Birmingham’s industrial past was present when walking around Secret Stages, a two-day music discovery festival, with a slight outline of the Sloss Furnaces in the distance. The festival took over almost an entire block utilizing the parking lots behind all […]
Secret Stages Preview: Omni
Coming from other Atlanta scene bands Deerhunter and Carnivores, Frankie Broyles and Phillip Frobos began playing together and writing music in their free time. Eventually that became their current project Omni, with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Doug Bleichner. The Atlanta […]
Secret Stages Preview: Western Medication
On Nashville band Western Medication’s latest album The Entertainers Secret, you’re guided through the album by two robotic voices, one male and one female presumably. The album harkens back to 80’s post-punk and indie bands like Joy Division and The Stone […]
Freeway Music Festival, Beyond the Music
For fans of local music, Spring 2017 in Columbia’s offered the chance to see an incredible amount of local music. Between Art Bar Agora two weeks ago, WXRY Music Crawl coming up, and Freeway Music Festival Saturday, over 50 acts […]