AthFest kicked off in Athens last night with the Flagpole Music Awards. The 3 day festival has become more comparable to SXSW every year with additions of stages sponsored by record labels, blogs such as the Aquarium Drunkard and promoters. In addition to the 173 bands that are playing, this year’s Athfest will feature films, [...]
Your Free Times Music Crawl Applications are due in 26 hours! Apply now. Come by The Copy Shop and I will help you with your press kit if you need it. I really want you to apply to play. Let’s make this the best one ever, so I can go and bask in the awesomeness [...]
By now we have all heard about Mark Sanford’s exotic love affair in Argentina. Our Appalachian mix-tape just doesn’t hold up anymore, so we have a new one for our hopeless romantic cheating Governor. Kicking off the Mix-tape The Oak Ridge Boys-Tryin to Love Two Women “One has got my money, the other has got [...]
Just as Steven Fiore supported Ghosts of the Great Highway on their CD release, Phil Windsor will supported Steven Fiore on his EP release this Friday. House shows across America are becoming more and more popular. CDBaby’s DIY podcast dedicated an entire episode to it. Dave Bazan has taken it to another level, selling out [...]
UPDATE Sanford was off traveling in Argentina, with a motorcycle and a diary. Just for the record we think this entire situation got blown way out of proportion. What it really did was give all of South Carolina’s politcal bloggers something to talk about…spew their crap about. Before that they were making up stories about [...]
Magnetic Flowers at NBT from pxsoul on Vimeo. I’ll tell ya where we’ll go. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. And beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talkin’ bout a little place called…The Elbow Room. Enticed by good music and a $2 cover I made my first [...]
Aviary Fire will release their newest EP “The Ships Set Sail” this Wednesday night at New Brookland Tavern with support from Carry Your Own (Greenville, SC) and My Losing Season (Columbia, SC). Just weeks after being featured as one of SC’s up and coming young songwriters at Rhythm on the River, Charlie Jackson and his [...]
The past few days of our lives have been reminders of how amazingly blessed we are as a group of people to do what we do. We’ve welcomed back Sean Pritchard as our tour manager. Great to have him back with us on the road. We’ve also been honored to have our buddy, Creigh, on [...]
The past four years have been filled with change for the crew from the Carolinas. In this article from the Charleston City Paper they discuss the adjustments that go along with lineup changes, their brushes with greatness, and their bright future. The guys in Band of Horses are currently spread out between Asheville, Columbia and [...]
The Music Camp music festival just north of Spartanburg will take their festival up another notch this year into a two day event with some of the best bands in North America. Members of the Belleville Outfit (Austin, TX) hosted a much smaller version of this event for the past four summers, but this year [...]
There are a handful of shows this Saturday, so whatever your musical taste Columbia has something offer. Here is your demographic breakdown for Saturday night. Ages 14-20 will probably be at New Brookland Tavern for This Machine is Me, O’Verona and The Decade. The family crowd will go to Finlay Park for some beach music [...]
The Bob Dylan Show featuring fellow troubadours Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp will be in Simpsonville Wednesday July 29th. This will mark only the second time in 30 years that these three will share the stage. The concert which was originally scheduled to be in Sevierville, was moved to Heritage Park Amphitheater, the upstates newest [...]
You would think it would be common sense for local/regional bands to send their music in to every radio station that plays unsigned music, but it doesn’t seem to be. All three Columbia rock radio stations play unsigned music every week and they all have a problem with bands and artists sending in their new [...]
In my high school years Oxford American “The Southern Magazine of Good Writing” was a staple in magazine racks of our house. I was happy to see this morning that they included Angela Easterling in their Editor’s picks for Music. Angela is a native of upstate South Carolina and had her CD Release Party for [...]
