Showing posts with label alt-country. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alt-country. Show all posts

Monday, January 7, 2013

Rock n Roll Feedback

"What would rock n roll be without feedback?"

When David Gilmour asked this in 1971, he was of course talking about audio feedback, but sometimes a band also needs – and deserves! – a good write-up. Charleston's music community is teeming with talent of all styles, synergy and cadence, creating a patchwork of sound across our old city. Add to this all of the great bands currently pouring out of sister cities such as Atlanta, Asheville, Savannah and Charlotte, and the potential to catch a good show on any given night is pretty fantastic! The landscape of music in the Southeast is changing, and you can be a part of it, if you know where to look.

This blog seeks to promote those who are working hard on crafting their own original music, so the monthly and nightly show schedules that I post may not appear as full as some of the other sites that list every live set (including cover and party bands) going on around town. If I'm ever missing anyone, please don’t hesitate to send me a note so that new shows can get added! Album reviews are also nice feedback for bands, so feel free to pass along info about upcoming releases.

Bookmark 'Rock n Roll Feedback' to get show recaps, album reviews, tour dates and other news about the artists and organizations whose calloused hands and road weary souls are driving the Southeast music community to be an undeniably integral facet of rock n roll's rebirth.


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Monday, November 26, 2012

Show Calendar ~ December

Tuesday - Nov. 27
The Pour House: "Jimi Hendrix Birthday Tribute" w The Dead 27's and Elise Testone
Doors 9p
FREE
 
Doors 9p
FREE
 
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Tarlatan Duo (of The Tarlatans)
Doors 9p
FREE

Wednesday - Nov. 28
Home Team BBQ (Sullivan's Island): Guilt Ridden Troubadour
Doors 9p
FREE
 
The Southern Bar & Grill: Acoustic Muffin 



Doors ?
?

The Pour House: 54 Bicycles
Doors 9p
FREE
 
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Lowcountry Blues Club
Doors 8p
FREE

Thursday - Nov. 29
The Mill: Flat Foot Floozies
Doors 9:30p
FREE
 
Tin Roof: Mechanical River / Water Liars / ELIM BOLT
Doors 9p
?
 
The Royal American: Jordan Igoe w Mackie Boles / Sans Jose
Doors 9p
$5

The Brick: Acousticmuffin
Doors 9p
?
 
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Gracious Day
Doors 9p
FREE
 
The Pour House: Cosmic Charlie (Athens)
Doors 9p
$10 adv/$12 dos

Friday - Nov. 30
Tin Roof: The Sea Wolf Mutiny (Columbia) / Late Nights / Youngster
Doors 9p
?
 
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Henry's Attic
Doors 10p
$5
 
Home Team BBQ (Sullivan's Island): Bareknuckle Champions (Columbia)
Doors 10p
$5
 
Holy City Brewing Company: The Bluestone Ramblers
4p-8p
FREE

Saturday - Dec. 1
Tin Roof: Southern Femisphere / Boring Portals / Lock Out Tag Out
Doors 9p
?
 
Doors 7p
$10 adv/$12 dos
 
The Pour House: Toubab Krewe (Asheville) / John Brown's Body (Boston)
Doors 8p
$15 adv/$18 dos
 
How Art Thou? Cafe (James Island): Explorer's Club / Mechanical River
Doors 8p
?

Sunday - Dec. 2
Tin Roof: Winter S0unds (New Orleans) / Modern Man
Doors 8p
$5
 
Boone Hall Plantation: "Wine Under the Oaks" w Tyler Boone
Gates 12:30p
$35 adv / $40 dos

Tuesday - Dec. 4
The Royal American: "Eclectic Evenings" w Jacob Jeffries Band / Old You / Crowfield
Doors 7:30p
FREE
 
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Hibachi Heroes
Doors 9p
FREE

Wednesday - Dec. 5
Doors 9p
$5
 
Home Team BBQ (Sullivan's Island): Angela Easterling (Greenville)
Doors 8p
FREE
 
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Lowcountry Blues Club
Doors 8p
FREE

Thursday - Dec. 6
The Mill: Matadero w. Lindsay Holler
Doors 9:30p
FREE

Friday - Dec. 7
Tin Roof: The Lean Few / the Get Wets (Columbia) / Ghost Bikini (Atlanta)
Doors 8p
$5
 
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Davis Coen
Doors 9p
FREE
 
Home Team BBQ (Sullivan's Island): Josh Roberts + the Hinges
Doors 10p
$5

Saturday - Dec. 8
Tin Roof: The Ferns / Sans Jose
Doors 8p
$5
 
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Fairy Godmuthas
Doors 9p
FREE
 
Windjammer: "Holiday Street Celebration" w Sol Driven Train / Fowler's Mustache /more Doors 3p
FREE

Sunday - Dec. 9
The Pour House: Blair Crimmins + the Hookers / Megan Jean + the KFB
Doors 9p
$8 adv/$10 dos

Tuesday - Dec. 11
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Yellowknife
Doors 9p
FREE

Wednesday - Dec. 12
The Pour House: Intermixture feat. Seth Fankhauser of the Malah + Push/Pull
Doors 9p,
10 adv/$12 dos
 
Home Team BBQ (Sullivan's Island): The Mobros (Camden)
Doors 8p
FREE
 
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Lowcountry Blues Club
Doors 8p
FREE

Thursday - Dec. 13
Tin Roof: Adalya / Estee Gabay
Doors 8p
?
 
The Pour House: Chatham County Line, Holiday Electric Tour (Raleigh) 
Doors 8p
$11 adv/$130 dos
 
The Mill: Freebie local music Thursdays
Doors 9:30p
FREE
 
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): The Mobros (Camden)
Doors 9p
FREE

Friday - Dec. 14
Holy City Brewing Company: The Great Charleston Holiday Market, Food Truck, Music, Art Showcase Bonanza Thing
5p
FREE
 
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Wormsloew (Savannah) 
Doors 9p
FREE
 
Home Team BBQ (Sullivan's Island): Trainwrecks (Savannah) 
Doors 10p
$5

Saturday - Dec. 15
Holy City Brewing Company: The Great Charleston Holiday Market, Food Truck, Music, Art Showcase Bonanza Thing
11a-5p
FREE
 
Home Team BBQ (Sullivan's Island): Packway Handle Band (Athens)
Doors 10p
$5
 
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Trainwrecks (Savannah) 
Doors 9p
$5

Sunday - Dec. 16
The Royal American: ELIM BOLT / People Person 
Doors 9p
$5

Tuesday - Dec. 18
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Gaslight Street
Doors 9p
FREE

Wednesday - Dec. 19
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Lowcountry Blues Club
Doors 8p
FREE

Thursday - Dec. 20
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Matt Mackelcan 
Doors 9p
FREE
 
The Mill: Freebie local music Thursdays
Doors 9:30p
FREE

Friday - Dec. 21
The Pour House: "The Last Day on Earth" w The Dead 27s / Stereo Reform / Jordan Igoe + Mackie Boles
Doors 9p
$7
 
Tin Roof: Sick Tyte Click
Doors 8p
$5

Saturday - Dec. 22
The Royal American: Motormouth Mabel / M-Tank
Doors 9p
$5
 
The Pour House: Reckoning
Doors 9p
$8 adv/$10 dos
 
Tin Roof: Arboles Libres (Miami) / Mechanical River
Doors 8p
$5

Windjammer: Tyler Boone, Wrenwood and more
Doors 8p
FREE

Wednesday - Dec. 26
Windjammer: Fowler's Mustache
Doors 9p
$7
 
Home Team BBQ (West Ashley): Lowcountry Blues Club
Doors 8p
FREE

Thursday - Dec. 27
The Pour House: Echo Movement (Asbury Park) / Sun Dried Vibes / Treehouse (NC)
Doors 9p
$5 adv/$8 dos
 
The Mill: Freebie local music Thursdays
Doors 9:30p
FREE

Friday - Dec. 28
Holy City Brewing Company: The Hungry Monks
Doors 4p
FREE

Saturday - Dec. 29
The Pour House: Dangermuffin / American Aquarium (Raleigh)
Doors 9p
$10 adv/$12 dos
 
Windjammer: The Piedmont Boys (Greenville)
Doors 9
$10

Sunday - Dec. 30
Home Team BBQ (Sullivan's Island): The Royal Tinfoil
Doors 9p
$5

Monday - Dec. 31




Home Team BBQ (Sullivan's Island): The Royal Tinfoil
Doors 9p
$12 adv/$15 dos
 

Tin Roof: Dante's Camaro
Doors 8p
$8 adv/$10 dos
 
The Pour House: Sol Driven Train
Doors 9p
$15 adv/$18 dos
 
 
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Thursday, November 8, 2012

ELIM BOLT's "Nude South" - A sentient trip down Nostalgia Lane

There's a lot of good music happening all around us, and across Charleston in particular, musicians are coming out with some very cunning and intelligent work. And every now and then, an album will leap forth from the woodwork, grab you by the shoulders and rattle your bones.
 
On Tuesday, one album did just that, when local record label Hearts & Plugs released "Nude South", the freshman release from Charleston's own trippy croon-rockers, ELIM BOLT.
 
Opening with the track "Only You", ELIM BOLT's lush sound is brimming with love, longing and missed (or misdirected) opportunities. Singer Johnnie Matthews makes his debut as a true frontman, having previously played with the bands Sequoyah Prep School and Company, and his melancholy baritone carries all the edge of David Byrne, backed with the richness of Roy Orbison. Tempered with a shivering vibrato, Matthews' voice offers a dreamlike quality that immediately gives "Nude South" a nostalgic air of familiarity.
 
"Field" is a jangling ode to the lonesome youth of South Carolina, while "Farm Kid", the first single from the album, is an apologetic love song with lyrics that moan, "All I want to do / is truly love you / But all I seem to do / is deeply hurt you." With a soaring guitar line laced throughout, "Farm Kid" is easily the album's selling point, but every song on this 7-track record deserves the listener's attention and should be played several times to allow your ears the opportunity to wade through all of the alt-Parsons orchestration. The layers of guitar and the clockwork drumming (the duties of which alternate from one track to the next between Michael McCrea and Ryan Zimmerman), create a vast, swaying field over which dance the delicate harmonies of Matthews and his solid backing vocalist, Amber Joyner.
 
"Myers Farm" is, upon first listen, a lovely and traditional country tune - but as you sift your way through the lyrics ("My self destructive ways / have thrown my joy away / But on the brightest days of the year / I shine like a chandelier"), it is evident that the beauty and breadth of ELIM BOLT goes much deeper than its cosmic alt-country veneer. In "Alright", the shortest track on the album, the vocals of Matthews and Joyner swell together in the doomy, coercive chorus, while "Batshit Crazy" is an upbeat, drum pounding song about - you guessed it - batshit crazy love.
 
"Blue Jays", the last track on the album, is at once a dusty torch song and a lamenting lullaby. The most rueful of all of the songs, "Blue Jays"' despondency clings to your soul the way that a thin cotton sheet will stick to warm skin. And this is, perhaps, the timber of ELIM BOLT - naked emotion, haphazardly draped with all the sentience and stoicism of a much older soul.
 
Or maybe I'm just a sucker for sad songs and reverb...
 
 
 
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Monday, November 5, 2012

King City Records 1st Annual Showcase - Recap

Charleston-based indie label King City Records made its grand entrance onto the local scene this weekend with its First Annual Showcase, at Tin Roof in West Ashley. Featuring three of its currently signed bands, the evening ran the gamut from a kazoo solo to guitar shredding, with a “Baba O’Riley” cover thrown in for good measure.

First on the bill was the duo Wrenwood, consisting of Dallas Corbett (lead vox + rhythm guitar) and Dan Rainey (lead guitar + backing vox). Opening with “The Moon and the Tide”, the band sprang to life with an Allman Brothers-meets-The Ventures speed-walking guitar line, cementing the notion that Rainey is one hell of a guitar player. Marking the time with a foot pedal-operated tambourine, Wrenwood worked their way through several songs, engaging the crowd with their bright sound and deep, bluesy grooves. Corbett’s voice is a searing flame on tunes like “Cheap Shots” (“He said ‘Come back darlin’, I haven’t said all I could’/He only gets this way when he drinks more than he should”), and a soft campfire ash in tunes such as the harmonious and sanguine “Bluebird”.
In their most adventurous song of the set, “Apples and Oranges”, Rainey again led with a swift, slick guitar intro, but this time with a distinctly swaggering hipster vibe. “Whiskey and water, bourbon and Coke. I bring the laughter, you bring the jokes,” Corbett sang, her jazzy vibrato reminiscent of a 1930s lounge act siren. Rounding out the set with their new tune “The Wayside”, Wrenwood is a talented and fun duo that I hope to hear more from in the months leading up to their new album release early next year.

Next up: Loners Society


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