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The Casket Girls releases trailer for upcoming album, “True Love Kills the Fairy Tale”

I love the increasingly lush and eerie sound of The Casket Girls on this new trailer for the upcoming album True Love Kills the Fairy Tale, scheduled for release on Graveface Records on Feb. 11th:

Savannah Stopover discounted early bird passes on sale

Savannah Stopover has early bird 3-day general admission passes on sale here for $60. The regular price for the 3-day general admission pass will be $75. VIP passes ($125) and single day passes ($30) will also go on sale on…

Buffalo Rodeo, Fare the Gap Friday night at Hang Fire

Kind of a late announcement on this one, so you might not see this gig listed in the usual publications around town. Buffalo Rodeo from Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Fare the Gap from Savannah will be performing tonight at Hang…

SMF 2014 lineup includes The Avett Brothers, Taj Mahal, Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn, more

Check out the just-released digital brochure for the 2014 Savannah Music Festival (click here if embed isn’t working): I’ve listed some of the highlights in a post at Savannah Unplugged. Always exciting stuff. Tickets go on sale on Thursday.

Weaver D’s Delicious Fine Foods in Athens closing later this month

Multiple news outlets are reporting that Weaver D’s Delicious Fine Foods is closing. The soul food restaurant inspired the title of R.E.M.’s album Automatic for the People (sorry the embed won’t squeeze into the column . . . ): Post…

Savannah Music Festival announces 2014 season with free performance by Sierra Hull

The Savannah Music Festival brings world-class performers to town for 17 days every spring. The festival focuses on a variety of traditional styles and roots music — from classical to jazz, from bluegrass to zydeco. In recent years, the festival…

Safe // Sound presents Sondra Sun-Odeon at The Sparetime on Tuesday

Safe // Sound has brought some eclectic artists to town over the last couple of years — many would not have stopped in Savannah if not for the promoters’ efforts. Sondra Sun-Odeon will join that interesting list of shows on…

Triathalon announces East Coast tour for December

UPDATE: Click here for the latest on Triathalon’s tour. We posted last week about Triathalon’s Kickstarter campaign to help fund the band’s first tour. Now Triathalon has released the complete details about the tour — and it’s a pretty impressive…

a Wes Anderson Halloween at the Mansion

We’ve already posted about a couple of Halloween shows at The Jinx and at Dollhouse. And the Mansion on Forsyth Park is throwing a Wes Anderson-inspired party. From the Facebook invitation: The already haunted Mansion on Forsyth hosts the first…

Azar Swan headlines Halloween show at Dollhouse

With Halloween on a Thursday, Savannah is set for three solid nights of great live music options around town. (I’m not quite sure why Halloween is such a big deal here, but there you have it.) Larry Jack has already…