Category: Concert Previews
Weaving the Fate and Casual Kings @ Township Auditorium
August 20, 2011 – Doors: 6:00pm Show: 7:00pm Ticket Info: All tickets are $12.50 Orchestra (General Admission NO SEATS) First & Second Balconies & Gallery – Reserved Seating On Saturday August 20 The Township Auditorium will be hosting a back to school show featuring three Columbia bands including Weaving the Fate (fka Villanova), Casual Kings [...]
Parachute Musical at New Brookland Tavern
Parachute Musical will be making their way back to New Brookland Tavern Thursday night with Ocean is Theory, Wylie and The Lion in Winter. Parachute Musical is gearing up to release their new album Kill It Cut It Down and will be playing songs from the upcoming album. They’ve offered up two of the [...]
CherryCase Farewell Columbia Show
Saturday July 16 New Brookland Tavern There has been sort of a mass exodus from Columbia to Nashville in recent years and the trend continues with CherryCase and Frontier Sons who will be playing together this Saturday as a farewell to Columbia of sorts. CherryCase has been a Columbia staple for as long as Scene [...]
Show Preview: Angela Easterling in Spartanburg 7/16
Since I joined the Scene SC team in early May, David has slotted me as his go to writer for female singer/songwriters, a job that I won’t complain about one bit. Having covered a good deal of said artists and having played in a band with one for two years (Columbia’s Cayla Fralick), I possess [...]
Show Preview: Stepdad at New Brookland Tavern
Stepdad w/ One Two Skidoo, Nathan K, and Toucans Thursday, July 7 $5 over/$8 under New Brookland Tavern Doors at 8pm This is the one show coming to Columbia that in a few months, you’re going to regret not going to. Stepdad come from Grand Rapids, Michigan where they have been making a huge [...]
Littlest Sounds Tour at One Unit
One Unit (Right Behind Zesto’s in West Columbia, Look for the Ice Cream Cone) 1217 C Avenue, West Columbia, SC 29169 7:30 PM $5 Amory Sivertson Big White Clouds Commerce Ghosts of the Kodiak Every once and a while you connect with someone in a music community that you know has the best of intentions. [...]
Arthur Alligood Highway Robbery Tour
Monday, June 6th New Brookland Tavern FREE I Have Not Seen the Wind by Arthur Alligood Facebook Event Arthur Alligood is currently out on his Highway Robbery Tour toughing out the gas prices and will be rolling through Columbia tonight headlining our weekly Acoustic Showcase series. Alligood is a songwriter out of Nashville that [...]
Show Preview: Nathan Hussey, Sleepy Vikings at One Unit Art Space
The six sleazy Tampanians (a real word according to UrbanDictionary.com) of Sleepy Vikings have braved an infernal Florida sun to write the weird songs about stalkers, dead kings, summer, presidents and teenage loitering that make up the debut album, ‘They Will Find You Here’ out May 10th on the New Granada record label. They’re hitting [...]
Show Preview: Okkervil River
This band is absolutely amazing. Go and see them, you will experience no disappointment. If you haven’t heard of Okkervil River you are a very unfortunate being. They have 6 albums, the most recent I Am Very Far came out a few weeks ago and hit #32 on the Billboard, which is their highest charting [...]
Show Preview: Valley Maker at Immaculate Consumption
Coffee houses tend to get a bad rap when it comes to music. They’re stereotyped as playing host to open-mic nights where droves of terrible to mediocre singer/songwriters showcase their average-ness to the general dismay of anyone who came into the shop looking for a quiet and peaceful coffee drinking experience. If you identify yourself [...]
Show Preview: Matt & Kim at Cat’s Cradle
Matt & Kim w/ The Hood Internet – Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC Thursday, June 2 $25 All Ages Doors: 8pm Show: 9pm First off, if you have not listened to their music, go do that before reading this. Here’s a link to their awesome video for Cameras, so check that out. [...]
New O’Brother Video, at Jillian’s Friday
O’Brother will be in town this Friday at Jillian’s supporting Manchester Orchestra and Cage the Elephant. The song in the video, tentatively titled “Machines Part 1″ will be on their upcoming record Garden Window. O’Brother has quickly been on the rise nationwide touring with bands such as Thrice, Circa Survive and now Cage the Elephant [...]
Show Preview: Here We Go Magic in Carrboro
Here We Go Magic at Local 506 Carrboro, NC 9:30pm $10 What more do I have to say? These guys are amazing. Read my review of their latest EP. Like I said in there, Thom Yorke said they were the best performers at Glastonbury Festival and A LOT of bands were there. They have toured [...]
Show Preview: Sleigh Bells in Asheville, NC
Sleigh Bells are playing Wednesday, May 4th At The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC These guys are going to be huge. Well, actually, they’re already getting there. Sleigh Bells are a dancey noise-pop duo from Brooklyn, NY and they are hitting the big time. Their debut album Treats has already sold 500,000 copies worldwide and [...]
Concert Preview: The Restoration at New Brookland Tavern
Tonight’s show at the New Brookland tavern featuring The Restoration, The Lovely Few, and Efren may as well be a miniature niche-folk festival. You might find yourself wondering, “what the hell is niche-folk?” Technically, it’s nothing – it’s just a term I coined to describe the lineup. It would probably be defined like this: niche-folk [...]
