Last weekend’s inaugural High Water Festival in North Charleston, SC saw a lineup stacked with 24 bands that are a who’s who of the Americana, Folk, Roots and indie Country scene (The Avett’s, Dawes, Deer Tick and Margo Price to…
Asking me to pick the top 50 songs in any year is a hand wringing, completely over-analyzed, self-inflicted, joyous hell. I have no idea how many songs/albums I listen to in the course of a year. A zillion. But it’s almost…
“That MSG tastes good to me I disagree with all your warnings It can’t be true that they use glue to Keep the noodles stuck together” So sings Courtney Barnett about her love affair with Mi Goreng instant soup in…
If you haven’t stood by the side of the stage with a cold beer in your hand listening to some blistering southern rock or blues at Grant’s Lounge in Macon, you’ve missed one of the great music spots in all…
photo by Anthony Saint James I was walking down Broughton Street last Friday afternoon when I heard Laurie Goose Garner calling my name. I ducked my head into Savannah Bee Company where Garner serves as Mead Bar Manager to hear her…
From Kayne Lanahan- Founder, Savannah Stopover Music Festival: When the Savannah Music Festival announced their list of pop/rock shows in February, you might have heard me let out a little gasp when the last band, My Brightest Diamond, was announced.…
Below are my picks for the 20 Best Songs of 2015 from below the Mason-Dixon line; the South being defined as D.C. down to Florida, over to Texas and up to Kentucky. I know that’s wildly up for debate but…
“Shakes his little feet and he rubs his little hands slides you a CD of his new little band” – from “The Fly” by Lace Curtains Michael Coomers (formerly of Brooklyn band Harlem) sent me a song and video from…
Your Heart Is A Drum and Other Musical Musings: new Music from Beck, The War on Drugs, Future Islands, Black Lips and many, many more… “Your heart is a drum/keeping time with everyone” Beck gorgeously delivers this simple concept on…
The Grammys are tonight. Yes, it’s music’s big night, one I generally I don’t place too much stock in and haven’t for quite some time (though it you had told me Daft Punk would be contending for Album and Record…