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How to Promote as a Local Band
Having played in a local bands for almost 10 years now I’ve learned the best ways to promote through trial and error and from watching experienced bands do it. I’ve told some bands that sometimes you don’t really learn how to do it until it’s too late and your band is ready to break up. [...]
Sounds of Spring Volume One
Dawes-My Girl To Me Dawes has always been on my radar, but I didn’t give them a proper chance until recently. They’ll be in Asheville May 15, and I have all intentions of going. “My Girl to Me” is my favorite song on the North Hills album. Completely confident and so true in a lot [...]
SXSW Day 4 Recap
we made it! with a gnarly wristband tan to boot. we started our day early with lots of press, free brazilian meat and shiner bock. after i finished giving geography lessons to a few bands (south carolina is near west virgina …right?) we took over a fancy dining room and filmed a few acoustic sessions [...]
SXSW Day 3 Recap
my feet still hurt. started the day off filming a few songs with keegan dewitt keegan and jeremy were great and we ventured out on the landing to record two songs for your ears and eyes caught a few bands at the ATL yeah! showcase, including death on two wheels they might be one of [...]
Indie Grits Festival Passes On Sale
Indie Grits Festival passes and film passes for Indie Grits are now available through the Nickelodeon website. The passes are well worth the cost if you plan on being involved with the festival. It’s hard to beat the Fork and Spoon showcase, Valley Maker, Mermaids and the man the myth the legend Toro Y Moi. [...]
SXSW Day 2 Recap
My feet are blistered so yours don’t have to be. We did a lot of press yesterday and then holed up at the favorite gentlemen showcase for the rest of the night. Here are a few pretty pictures for your eyeballs. neon hitch @ the pure volume house family of the year @ the CNN [...]
Album Review: Dropkick Murphys – Going Out in Style
Always In Style There is a familiar expression, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The Dropkick Murphys very much adhere to this old adage on their seventh studio album, Going Out In Style, a follow-up to 2007’s The Meanest of Times. The Massachusetts septet delivers their usual brand of raucous celtic-fried rock n roll [...]
SXSW Recap Day 1
We hit the ground running. Literally. I ran off the plane. Landed on Wednesday in Austin at 12.30 and we were downtown at a show by 2. We saw 10+ bands in 10 hours, and here’s a quick visual representation of some of them. We’re out today gathering acoustic sessions and interviews. Come say hey [...]
Show Preview: Larkin Poe
Larkin Poe A Fragile Tomorrow Jade Blocker Price: $10 Advance / $12 Day Of Show Genre: Folk / Folk Rock / Acoustic Listen to Larkin Poe Larkin Poe will be playing at New Brookland Tavern this Friday March 18, two days before Spring is officially here. Why does this mean anything? In 2010 the Lovell [...]
A Conversation with John Mark McMillan
Charlotte native John Mark McMillan is heading off on his first legitimate headlining tour this Spring accompanied by friends and band mates All The Bright Lights. We caught up and talked to him about balancing family and touring, his latest release The Medicine and what he would like to change about the music industry. DS: [...]
Album Review: Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
Lykke Li-Get Some Oh, Lykke Li. Let me list the reasons I love you. You’re pretty. Your last record was a jam. Multiple dope remixes were released from those tracks. You appeared on N.A.S.A.’s record, The Spirit of Apollo, and killed it. Tyler, the Creator did a sick remix of “I Follow Rivers”. You asked [...]
It’s Still Winter? Jams
I know it has seemed like Spring for about a month now, but it won’t be here until March 20 so we have to sulk in the last week or so of Winter. Rocky Votolato-What Waited For Me Rocky Votolato will bring his rainy day Northwestern folk to New Brookland Tavern this Friday March 11 [...]
Monster Charleston Record Expo
On Saturday March 26th Monter Music and Movies in Charleston will be hosting the first record convention to be held in Charleston in many years. Vendors from all over the Southeast will be setting up tables selling everything from vinyl to music memorabilia to comic books. Prices will range from the inexpensive dollar records to [...]
Free Download:Harps-Trouble Is a Friend
Photo by Pat Wright Photograph (Right Click, Save Link As) Harps-Trouble is a Friend (Lenka Cover) Harps is the new solo/collaboration project from former Marry a Thief drummer Colin Brown featuring former Marry a Thief keyboardist and remix master Aaron Robertson. Brown has been playing drums mostly as a “hired gun” lately in search of [...]
Free Download: Emily Lynch-Amy’s Song
(Right Click, Save Link As) Emily Lynch-Amy’s Song A couple of weeks ago we were lucky to catch Emily Lynch’s set opening for Jill Andrews at The White Mule. The next night we made it up to the show in Charlotte while she was playing to a sold out crowd. We didn’t make it into [...]
