“I heard that when we wake up tomorrow, it will be Friday.” This was not only an accurate statement by Lucero bassist, John C. Stubblefield, but it was kind of the summation of the sentiment in the room at the Handlebar [...]
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5 Minutes with the Opener: The Fighting Jamesons
Last week, The Fighting Jamesons opened for Lucero at Greenville’s Handlebar. I pulled frontman Michael Powers off to the side for a short 5 minute conversation on the band, opening for Lucero, and what it’s like being an ‘Irish Band’ [...]
Inaugural Hey Look! Music Festival Showcases Upstate Talent
The Upstate music scene has come a long way in the past five years with a growing sense of community in an area filled with talented bands and musicians. The inaugural Hey Look! Music Festival brings 14 of Greenville’s most prominent [...]
Comedian Ben Kronberg hits Columbia and Greenville
Ben Kronberg is a comic from New York City, currently touring the Southeast. This Friday he will be at the Red Door Tavern in West Columbia and this Saturday at CityRange in Greenville Ben has been on John Oliver’s New [...]
Lucero to play Greenville’s Handlebar
This time last year, I awoke from a nap, stumbled down from my hotel room and found myself smack in the middle of Memphis trying to acquire some grub. I ended up with a rib meat sandwich (pretty sure that’s its [...]
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[Interview] Greenville’s Grey Spy Eye Nostalgia with New Single
Friends of Russ Benefit Show March 7 at The Handlebar with EP Releases from Grey Spy/Mountain Homes/Everlasting Earle/Our Western Sky New EP Impossible Sequence out March 7 Early on in the days of SceneSC one of the first Greenville bands [...]
99 Summer Photos of Local Music
This summer, I went to some local shows and took photographs. Check ‘em out. Tweet
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[Show Review] Air Review, Mountain Homes and Alexa Woodward
Dark Room – 9.10.13 Alexa Woodward has a knack for producing a blend of melancholy, yet carefree Americana. She opened the evening to a standing-room-only crowd at Dark Room and was joined by Kevin Mavis and Lauren Stapleton of Mountain [...]
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[New Music] “We Eat Themselves” – The Soap
Since releasing their first album, Shelf Life, a little over a year ago, The Soap have been touring and apparently writing a second album. Here’s the new single from their sophomore effort, Red Thread. We Eat Themselves (Single) by The [...]
7 Q’s with John Fahr, Debut Album ‘Go North’ Out Now
When most people hear home recording they think lofi, or something less than studio quality. Over the last 10 years the gap in quality has nearly disappeared, and with John Fahr’s new album Go North it’s not something you would [...]
Lucero and Justin Townes Earle Headline Fall For Greenville
Downtown Greenville, SC Friday, October 12 5:00 pm – 11:00 pm Saturday, October 13 11:00 am – 9:00 pm Sunday, October 14 Noon – 7:00 pm The music aspect of Fall For Greenville may never outshine the culinary, but this [...]
Archer vs. Gunman Get Back in Stride
Facebook Event Archer vs. Gunman with Our Western Sky Saturday August 11 8:30 PM at The Handlebar Fall of 2011 was a tough time for Archer vs. Gunman. The band that had been an anchor of the Upstate music community [...]
Preview “Breaks” from We Roll Like Madmen’s New Album
Check out “Breaks,” the first track from We Roll Like Madmen’s new CD release, Who is Heady Crystals?. The eight-song album is set to be available later today as a disc and/or download through Nophi Recordings. “Breaks” features Chris Tollack’s [...]
All Get Out Change and Grow
July 7th-The Sparrow (Charleston, SC) July 14th-The Radio Room (Greenville, SC) There have been a lot of questions surrounding All Get Out since their return from the successful nationwide tour with La Dispute, Balance and Composure, and Sainthood Reps. Long [...]
[Show Review] TV Girl w/ We Roll Like Madmen at The Radio Room
When LA’s TV Girl crossed into South Carolina on Wednesday afternoon, it was like they had found the promised land of freely available pyrotechnics and reasonably priced petroleum products. Fireworks or not, TV Girl and We Roll Like Madmen put [...]