Category: National News
Meredith’s Top Albums of TwentyTen
1 The Head and the Heart – The Head and the Heart “We can start moving forward.” The Head and the Heart has nowhere to go but forward since the release of their debut album this year. It is full of gorgeous harmonies, heartfelt lyrics, and unpredictable, yet seamless song structures. 2011 holds for them [...]
Sam Quinn and the Intrinsic Sadness
Sam Quinn from Ramseur Records on Vimeo. The new Sam Quinn album, The Fake That Sunk a Thousand Ships, came out yesterday on Ramsuer Records. For fans of The Everybodyfields and Sam Quinn, this day has been a long time coming. If you like your music poppy and depressing like I do, you’ll love the [...]
Sam Quinn Sets Album Release Date
We’ve made it no secret that we have a band crush on The Everybodyfields. And we’ve done our fair share of Jill Andrews solo project promotion, but now it’s Sam Quinn’s turn. We caught Quinn at a sold out show at The Evening muse and meant to ask him who was living in his beard. [...]
Free Music:New Life On Repeat
Pay what you want for the new 4 song EP “As I Grew” from Life on Repeat. This is their first release under the Equal Vision record label that they were recently signed to. They will be touring this December with Sent By Ravens (Florence, SC) who were also recently signed to Tooth and Nail. [...]
R.E.M. to Release Live Album
Before R.E.M. released their last album Accelerate, they took a one week residency at Dublin, Ireland’s historic Olympia Theatre. The new live CD will have 39 songs from these working rehearsals. In addition to the new songs that appear on Accelerate, R.E.M. reached back in their catalog and played 29 songs from their early IRS [...]
Brooks & Done
After 20 years of solid country hits from Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks, the duo are “calling it a day.” In a message via their Web site they said to not believe whatever rumors you hear about their break up, it was just time that has gotten the best of them. Since 1990 Brooks and [...]
New Brand New Song
Brand New have released the first single off their upcoming album “Daisy” on their Myspace today. What do you think about “At the Bottom?” All of their albums so far have been dramatically different than the previous one, but I feel like this song would have fit in fine with the last album. Maybe they [...]
David Bazan US Tour
In support of his new album Curse Your Branches (8/25) David Bazan will ditch the house shows for a little while and take off on a US tour. Bazan is no stranger to Columbia although he isn’t stopping in on this tour. He has come to New Brookland Tavern multiple times over the last 10 [...]
Life On Repeat (Amen, The Animal) Sign to Equal Vision Records
Equal Vision Records announced today that they have signed Life On Repeat. You might remember Life on Repeat as Amen, The Animal, the band that played the Scene SC Kickoff Party last November. Although the band is based out of Maryland, they have close ties to South Carolina through their singer, Patrick Purves, who is [...]
Two New Weezer Songs are Horrible
Weezer debuted two new songs at the Jisan Valley Rock Festival in South Korea last week. The songs are titled “I’m Your Daddy” and “The Girl Got Hot.” They are both terrible terrible songs. Every time I think Weezer can’t write a worse song, they do. It has been all downhill since Matt Sharp left [...]
Monsters of Folk Snub the South
The Monsters of Folk have announced a 16 date Fall tour taking them all the way from Vancouver, B.C to the Netherlands, but skipping right over the Southern United States. This tour will be in support of their new self titled album which is nearing its release. The folk super-group is made up of Bright [...]
Celebrity Brawl at The House of Blues
According to Twitter, Collective Soul and Gavin DeGraw and band got into an epic throwdown at The House of Blues last night. Here is the account according to Gavin Degraw’s Twitter Me and my crew just got in a 20 man brawl with a group of juiced up assholes. I guess they think that just [...]
LFO Interview
I’m pretty sure that this is the last time we will ever write about LFO on this site, but below is the audio from their interview Friday on WUSC. Marcy Bozek and Bakari Lebby had the opportunity to ask them about their name, the music business today compared to 10 years ago, their boy band [...]
New Emery Album
Here is a new interview with Greer native Toby Morrell about the new Emery album. They are working on the site, but the under construction should be fixed soon. Toby, how are you doing today? I’m doing really well, hanging out on the bus with Halo. While Broken Hearts Prevail, your new ep, what can [...]
