The non-profit Bragg Jam — which was founded in honor of Brax and Tate Bragg as a Macon community event and fundraiser for the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail — has grown dramatically in recent years. The 2015 concert crawl on Saturday…
Niche threw a release party for their new record Heading East on the Retro Futurist label on Friday night at The Jinx. The new material is trippier and more psychedelic than the band’s last album, and takes other risks made…
I love the way Savannah is used as a backdrop in this new video for “Time of Grace” from Savannah’s Basik Lee, whose new album Crazy Shit will be released on August 11 on the Dope Sandwich Records & Tapes.…
I’ve posted a lot about last weekend’s Forecastle Festival in Louisville, but this is the last separate gallery I’m editing. The rest of the photos will soon be in an album on the hissing lawns Facebook page. Diarrhea Planet‘s performance…
Noah Gunderson is based in Seattle and obviously has a big following somewhere. He’s got over 50,000 likes on Facebook, but not a single one of those people is among my 3,400+ friends, a group that includes plenty of musicians,…
If you live anywhere near Savannah and love rock and roll, you should think about getting yourself to The Jinx tonight (Friday, 7/24) for Niche‘s release of Heading East on the Retro Futurist label. Check out the event details. $10…
I had heard enough of The Revivalists from New Orleans to know that I wanted to see the 7-piece soul/rock band at Forecastle Festival last weekend, but I wasn’t prepared for the sheer energy of the afternoon set. This video…
Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds is a big soul and funk band from Brooklyn, but as I watched them on the WFPK Port Stage last week at Forecastle Festival in Louisville, I assumed they were based in the deep…
Every year regular attendees rave about the Savannah Music Festival‘s Stringband Spectacular — it’s a culmination of the festival’s Acoustic Music Seminar — but the show still hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves. The problems might be that the performers…
This Parker Millsap KEXP session is a year old, but I’m sharing it here because it begins with the delightfully perverse “Quite Contrary”, which was one of the highlights of Millsap & co.’s set on the opening day of Forecastle…