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Vampire Weekend have had kind of a hard go at it as a band. After bursting onto the hip culture music scene in late 2007 with a tour with The Shins, and praise from Rolling Stone and Spin, Vampire Weekend seemed to be set for an enjoyable career of releasing music. Instead they started to [...]
![[Album Review] Iron and Wine-Ghost on Ghost](http://www.scenesc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/xIron-and-Wine-352x198.jpg.pagespeed.ic.DeDXtFWwYq.jpg "[Album Review] Iron and Wine-Ghost on Ghost")
With his last two albums, Kiss Each other Clean and Ghost on Ghost, Chapin, SC native Sam Beam has shed almost all of his singer songwriter stereotype. That’s to say, if you were a fan of The Shepard’s Dog and releases previous to that, and went into a coma in 2007, woke up in 2013 [...]
New Brookland Tavern Thursday, May 2, 2013 – 7:00pm Capital Cities Gold Fields LoveLife Tickets Capital Cities are such a modern day band. The SoCal electro pop duo met on Craigslist, just looking to collaborate on some songs, which turned into recording an EP and a band with a live performance over a year later. [...]
Facebook Event Monday nights are usually reserved for lying around on the couch being a total bum, but Family of the Year and The Mowgli’s might change that next week. Family of the Year is out on tour with their new album Loma Vista gradually growing in popularity with each new tour date. Around here [...]
Biffy Clyro are nothing if not ambitious. The Scottish bands 6th studio release is a double album, both discs featuring 10 new songs. Just as the title implies, the themes and music on both discs in Opposites vibe against each other both lyrically and musically. Before going into the studio for Opposites, Biffy Clyro toured [...]
WXRY Unsigned uploaded 32 live acoustic recordings from their weekly Sunday night broadcast, with some of these releases dating back to 2005. Before their move to the British Bulldog in Irmo, the unsigned show broadcasted from the WXRY studio downtown, where space was at a premium. Bands used to cramp in for interviews, and sometimes [...]
Since I first heard Ramphastos–AKA Will Flourance–almost a year ago, I’ve been anxiously awaiting any and all of his new work. Although the latest single, “King Louie,” has been out for just over a month, I’ve been sitting on it until now. The press release Flourance sent to SceneSC says that his fourth album, Alakazam, [...]
“Ruins” made its debut on the 2013 SceneSC Sampler. “Ruins” is more than the first song released by The Sea Wolf Mutiny since their excellent debut release The Last Season. Much has changed since that time in August, 2011. New members in the band, a wider audience, praise among music critics, and life changes such [...]
Saturday. February 23. 8 pm. Conundrum Music Hall. $8. VALLEY MAKER Amy Godwin Bombadil The prodigal son returns home. This Saturday, Columbia’s beloved songwriter Austin Crane returns to South Carolina, to play a show at Conundrum with support from Amy Godwin and Bombadil. Released in May 2010, Valley Maker was Austin Crane’s 3rd full length release and [...]
The air was so hot the paint was peeling off the walls the day I went to see Kevin Devine in Charleston in the summer of 2010. We had an acoustic session set up, outside, and it was sticky to say the least. When Devine asked us what song he should play, I said play [...]
Oxford, England rockers Foals are set to hit the road in support of their new album Holy Fire due out Tuesday, Feb 11. The tour travels through Europe and North America, before finding it’s way to the Southeast US in April/May/June. They’ll be joined on most dates by Surfer Blood. Listen to the latest single [...]
Flogging Molly 2/8/13 Myrtle Beach, SC House Of Blues Flogging Molly Charlotte Show Review and Photos It wasn’t long ago that we had the pleasure of shooting and reviewing Flogging Molly’s excellent live show in Charlotte, NC. Their live show bursts with Irish energy, blasting through their Irish Folk Punk as the crowd turns [...]
Scrolling through my facebook feed on Tuesday, it felt more like December 25th than January 29th. Three notable SC releases came out earlier this week, including the 3rd full-length from Americana darlings Elonzo, Salt in the Wound. Flesh on the Bone. Also released on Tuesday were albums from two of the Upstate’s best electronic musicians, [...]
“Jingle Bells” might be Mike Mewborne’s least favorite Christmas song, but it didn’t stop him from taking it on, and putting his on twist on the Christmas classic. Mewborne and his band The Lovely Few are no stranger to reconstructing classic Christmas songs, breaking them down and building them back up with carefully constructed bursts [...]
Its that time of the year. The stockings are all hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that sir St. Nick will soon be here. Time for Christmas parties and ugly sweaters. Well, not ugly sweaters here in famously hot Columbia, SC, but that shouldn’t get your spirits down. Egg nog and Christmas-scented candles [...]
