No, it’s not a late April Fool’s joke. Current hit country singer Darius Rucker’s old band Hootie & the Blowfish are the subject of a new ballet in their hometown of Columbia, it’s only running for three shows this weekend. […]
No, it’s not a late April Fool’s joke. Current hit country singer Darius Rucker’s old band Hootie & the Blowfish are the subject of a new ballet in their hometown of Columbia, it’s only running for three shows this weekend. […]
I love people who post entire shows on Youtube, one song clip at a time. Clem Snide fans will want to check out not just this clip below but the other related ones, which are all from a show in […]
Bar None has always been one of my favorite indie labels–they don’t put out much, but what they do release tends to be pretty good quality. I first heard Freedy Johnston on a Bar None CD sampler, for example. Right […]
Loving the sounds coming from the San Francisco Bay area band Or, The Whale. Mining classic alt-country (if there is such a thing) sound textures and fusing them with a harmony-filled indie rock sensibility, Or, The Whale’s Light Poles and […]
Here’s a band many of you will enjoy, though they haven’t made it out of South Carolina much, if at all, yet. Zach Seibert and the backing band he’s dubbed “The Red Wagon” play a loping, rhythmic brand of alt-country […]
So I know St. Pat’s isn’t officially until the 17th, but around here we had a huge gathering of drunks masquerading as a music festival, so I got inspired to look for my all-time favorite bunch of drunken Irish musicians, […]
Singer-songwriter Danny Schmidt plays soul-baring music that belies his status as a cancer survivor and experience gained through a quiet career that has built through an itinerary of folk festival and house concert gigs. Haven’t seen or heard of him […]
The titular query above begs the question of whether or not the gospel and country vocal quartet was ever truly cool in the first place, of course. Growing up with a mainstream country station on my parental unit’s radio station […]
Larry Keel is a monster guitarist who’s comfortable in whatever venue or aggregation he finds himself in, whether it’s playing with Keller Williams in front of thousands or in a small jam-friendly room like the Pour House, on James Island […]
If you missed the revelry in New Orleans, here’s a taste of what the Ninth Ward was like. Nice to see this after all the post-Katrina coverage of devastation and such…plus, at the close to 8-minute mark they break into […]
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