![[Album Review] Iron and Wine-Ghost on Ghost](http://www.scenesc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/xIron-and-Wine-450x240.jpg.pagespeed.ic.ONMSIFIEhP.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. [...]
![[Photos] Local Natives and Superhumanoids at The Orange Peel in Asheville](http://www.scenesc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/xIMG_1576-1-675x240.jpg.pagespeed.ic.Bax3bejX1R.jpg "[Photos] Local Natives and Superhumanoids at The Orange Peel in Asheville")
This weekend is one loaded baked potato, ya’ll. Sour cream and bacon bits and all of that. If you didn’t get a pass for the Indie Grits festival, aren’t all about a Love, Peace, and Hip Hop Festival, or you even feel like skipping a play directed by Sweet Vans/sandcastles musicboy/local talent Bakari Lebby, jaboi’s [...]
Unconvinced that a simple bowl of Syou ramen would do anything to calm the belligerent hunger sprites in my stomach, I shoveled a fish-paste cake into my mouth. “What did I just eat?” “Kamaboko.” “…?” “A fish-paste cake.” Before I had time to conjure up a facial-expression with which to react to that news, the [...]
The annual Indie Grits festival hosted by the Nickelodeon Theatre in Columbia, SC gets kicked off Friday April 12, with an opening party on the 1600 block of Main St. featuring music from Say Brother and The Royal Tinfoil and a DJ previewing sounds of Columbia’s first Hip Hop Family Day. While the 10 day [...]
Bonobo, aka Simon Green, has been crafting tapestries of organic down tempo beats for over a decade now, with each new release furthering refining his sound. In a way this evolution mirrors that of fellow UK chill/downtempo/whatever you want to call it artist Four Tet. Both artists’ work has begun to resemble more traditional dance [...]
With Record Store Day on the horizon we’re on the verge of hearing a lot of new music, with tons of special releases planned for April 20. Among those is a collaborative 12 inch single with Manchester Orchestra teaming up with Frightened Rabbit for one song and Grouplove for the another. “We wanted to release [...]
Saturday, April 20, 2013 Tiger Park – 157 Old Greenville Highway, 29631 Facebook Event Free with canned food donation or cash donation South Carolina is lucky to have two great college radio stations in Clemson’s WSBF and USC’s WUSC. Both do a great job of not only playing some of the states local talent, but [...]
4/19/2013 Hunter Gatherer – Columbia, SC Since releasing their début album Wild Fire in January, Columbia’s Burnt Books has only stopped touring enough to take a couple of deep breaths. Stringing together dates up and down the east coast, the band’s been introducing their mathy style of heavy on melodic to growing crowds all over. [...]
Dig South, the southeast’s first and only interactive festival exploring the digital economy, gets kicked off in Charleston, SC this weekend including a loaded music lineup. The sideshow, which includes national touring acts, local talent, DJ’s, comedians, and networking events starts Friday with events at Redux, Charleston Music Hall, and The Alley. Headlining the festival [...]
May 11, 2013 11am to 8pm Rosewood Crawfish Festival Over the years I’ve heard a small crowd of folks complain about the music at Rosewood Crawfish Festival, but you won’t get any of that here. Every year we’ve previewed the Crawfish Festival lineup and enjoyed the mix of solid local acts paired with a more [...]
After a seven-and-a-half hour drive from Virginia to Pennsylvania that was only supposed to take six and a marginally good night’s sleep, I woke up in Pittsburgh to see snow falling on my friend Bobby’s deck. Sorry, shorts I foolishly packed. It’s not going to be your week. The snow could’ve gotten us down – [...]
While driving home to Virginia this Friday, I learned I would be leaving the ranks of the unemployed nine days later. In the midst of my excitement, I realized I had the perfect opportunity for one last blowout as a slacker – a weeklong road trip up north to visit friends, eat delicious sandwiches, drink [...]
Facebook Event Harps, the new project from ex Marry a Thief drummer Colin Brown is an interesting all around project. A mix of the songwriting ability of Brown, mixed with the production aspects of Aaron Robertson and the input of a handful of other musicians in the studio, their sound can most easily be described [...]
