“Remember, the best way to support live music is to actually go see live music.” – Larry Jack Sammons There is a massive hole in the Savannah music community, one that will never properly be filled. Long-time contributor and our…
Author: joshua peacock
New Music Monday – 7/26/21
DOMESTIC PUNK, POST-PUNK SECTION Brainiac | Dayton, Ohio From Dayton, Ohio Supremely weird, supernaturally talented and criminally underrated, Brainiac was considered by many to be “the next big thing” when their story was cut short with the tragic death of…
New Music Monday – 7/19/21
T. Hardy Morris | Athens, Ga. Shopping Center Sunsets (New West Records) “Nature sees my need to believe/And sends me shopping center sunsets/Electronic cigarettes/Car title cash regrets/Shopping center sunsets” T. Hardy Morris has emerged from the pandemic with the brilliant…
Super Awesome Pop-Punk Show W/ a Jeff Two-Names reunion , debut of the Manarovs, Sins of Godless Men and one Cloudsoup
What’s great about pop-punk is it’s over quick and you don’t have to know music theory to write it. Wednesday night’s El-Rocko show started as a two-band pop-punk show celebrating the reunion of Jeff Two-Names—a reunion no one asked for—after…
El-Rocko 5th Anniversary Party with Basically Nancy, Sporrs, Rev. Bro Diddley, Upchuck, 4th Ward Afro Klezmer, West End Motel
There’s this great story about the Atlanta band Mastodon. Standing on the red carpet for the 2015 Grammy Awards, dressed in a full L.A. Dodgers uniform, guitarist Brent Hinds was trolling reporters by telling them he had just came from…
Nordista Freeze, Reverend Bro Diddley and the Hips, Fauvely at Victory North
[Photos By Dylan Kennedy] You gotta find your legs, your stamina, again. Gotta push through the malaise of staying up past 10:30 p.m. on a weekend. 7 p.m. shows will help. After a year of essentially no live music—there have…
Forest Evil, Dead Register, Toke at The Jinx
“You ever listen to stoner metal?” “You ever listen to stoner metal, HIGH?!” – Guy at The Jinx. Rock ‘n’ roll is standing on a pentagram with a shot of Jägermeister in one hand the New Testament in the other.…
A REVIEW OF: The Graveface Museum ‘Beyond Human’ compilation
Ryan Graveface (not his real name) has carved out his own little esoteric empire in Savannah by basically just doing whatever he wants for the last eight years with his own creepy aesthetic blending sometimes harmoniously with Savannah’s weird vibe.…
Kitchen Conversations: Beth Head, Hestia Resident Artist
Last week, the bed and breakfast I manage, Diamond Oaks Treehouse, became part of a nomadic artist residency pilot program, called Hestia. The program has three artists in town for a 10-day immersive residency, which you can read about in…
Review: 2018 AURA Festival was a high-kicking good time
The 12th iteration of Coastal Rock Productions’ All Underground Rock All Day Festival (AURA Fest) was arguably its most successful. Yeah, it was a time-traveling journey for sure with Evergreen Terrace, Darkest Hour and Bury Your Dead headlining. But, no…