AltWeeklies Wire
The Pixies Celebrate Doolittlenew
In 1988, Pixies drummer David Lovering laid the snare drum and tom-tom fills over his bandmate Kim Deal's thumping bass line in the first measures of "Debaser." Back then, he never imagined that two decades later he'd spend three years playing Doolittle in its entirety.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
11-10-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Pixies
Awendaw Green Moves its Signature Festnew
This weekend, the Awendaw Green Homegrown Music Showcase and organizer Eddie White have collaborated with Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum to create a Veterans Day weekend celebration along the Charleston Harbor.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
11-10-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Surfer Blood Moves Forward with a Lively Soundnew
The future is now for Surfer Blood. The band has already collected 10 new songs for its Warner Bros. debut. They open for the Pixies this week.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Parker |
11-10-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Keller Williams Makes a Two-Night, One-Man Standnew
At this week's two-night stint at the Pour House, acclaimed singer/guitarist Keller Williams will play a little bit of everything.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
11-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Everybody Loves Our Town Goes Behind the Grimenew
With all of the buzz surrounding the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's breakthrough album Nevermind and Pearl Jam's chart-topping debut Ten, it's cool to have an additional perspective to balance the story of the two bands' rise. Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, released this fall via Crown/Archetype, provides a hefty companion to those re-releases.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
11-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Wandas Rediscover the Simple Beauty of Great Rocknew
One of the more exciting indie bands to emerge in the last couple years, the Wandas are inspired by British Invasion rock and the catchy power-pop of Big Star.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Parker |
10-31-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Wandas
A look at Flaming Lips rock-doc The Fearless Freaksnew
In the 2005 documentary, The Fearless Freaks, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne gives viewers a tour of his backyard, before setting out into the neighborhood to introduce us to where he grew up and still lives, in a relatively downtrodden area of Oklahoma City.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
10-27-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
TV on the Radio Fine-Tunes the Receptionnew
TV on the Radio's latest, Nine Types of Light, seems to mine deeper into their funky substratum. It feels crisp and direct with a strong backbeat. Kyp Malone, however, doesn't see it like points on a trajectory.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Parker |
10-25-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: TV on the Radio
Gangrene Machine Puts Junk in Their Funknew
Gangrene Machine is a quintet of intellectual punks with the clamor of a Frank Zappa ensemble and the solemnity of a Monty Python skit. It's a parade of unorthodoxy in full costume, an approach that would have many straight-laced spectators asking, "Why?" -- to which they'd respond with a cavalier shrug of "Why not?"
Charleston City Paper |
Abigail Darlington |
10-24-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gangrene Machine
Deer Tick Put a Little Grunge in the Teanew
It's a combination of rootsy, honest songwriting and rock-star swagger that help Deer Tick straddle the line between being a respected Americana act and a street-cred-worthy rowdy stage band.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
10-13-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Deer Tick
Futurebirds Go for Big Country-Rocknew
Athens-based sextet Futurebirds employ traditional country instrumentation of banjo, mandolin, and pedal steel along with loud guitars. Their latest is titled Hampton's Lullaby.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Parker |
10-11-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Futurebirds, Country-Rock
The Felice Brothers are not a Throwbacknew
On stage, the Felice Brothers are a rough-and-tumble bunch of characters. They kick things over. They curse, swill whiskey, and encourage the audience to join them. Christmas Clapton tells their tales.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
10-06-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gringo Star's Nick Furgiuele Cranks the Reverbnew
Atlanta's Gringo Star specializes in a jangly, dreamy cacophony -- a British Invasion-inspired, mod-tinged take on classic power pop.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
10-04-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gringo Star, Nick Furgiuele
Blair Crimmins Won't Play Wallpaper Musicnew
Blair Crimmins and his troupe have stayed busy this year playing around the Southeast in support of a new EP titled State Hotel. The single "Old Man Cabbage" is a steamy number with an exotic melody.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
09-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Don’t Throw Najee Under the Kenny G Busnew
Najee may hesitate to call his music "smooth jazz," but there are few things smoother than when the saxophonist and his bass player trade licks in the opening minutes of his 1986 hit, "For the Love of You." It's probably the slow, heavily reverbed drum fills and electronic snare pop that sentence Najee to inevitable Kenny G comparisons, but that curly haired sax man can't touch his peer when it comes to adding funk and soul into the mix.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
09-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
