The guys from Velvet Caravan hardly need an introduction for anyone living in Savannah, as their brand of ‘gypsy jazz’ has proved to be one-of-a-kind in this town & region. The band pulled off a two night stint with the…
Last Friday saw legendary Japanese trio, Shonen Knife, make their debut in Savannah down at The Dollhouse. Their sequined dresses and songs about cats, green tea ice cream, and ramen noodles were just the tip of the iceberg as they…
Ultra eccentric super cult punk pop band (their words, not mine) Shonen Knife played a great, high energy set of Buzzcocks/Ramones indebted rock to a good crowd of music fans at the Dollhouse Friday night. It was impossible not to…
I’m the guy people call when they want to go to a concert and need someone to go with them. So off I went to Columbia Wednesday night to see Jack White. Not The White Stripes, not The Dead Weather,…
On what felt like a true Fall evening I drove up to Athens, Georgia to catch The Accomplices as they rounded out their most recent tour. This two week jaunt took them across the Southeast, with most notably a stop…
Here’s Roadkill Ghost Choir‘s “A Blow to the Head” off the new album In Tongues: There are lots of things to appreciate about Roadkill Ghost Choir — including the variations in tempo, the dark poetry of the lyrics, the subtlety…
You might already know that Cedric Burnside — grandson of the great R.L. Burnside — is a fabulous drummer, but the guy can play guitar too, as you can see on the Cedric Burnside Project’s Kickstarter video: The Cedric Burnside…
Before I get to the photos of T. Hardy Morris at Revival Fest on Saturday, let’s listen to some music. Here’s “Share the Needle”, part of Morris’ series of videos filmed at Georgia’s Places in Peril. This one is at…
When a band is as exciting as Athens-based Family and Friends, I say get on the bandwagon early and see where you end up. I was lucky to see Family and Friends at Bragg Jam in Macon over the summer,…
Savannah is a fairly small city at the end of the day, and creative people with diverse interests and talents often end up being involved in diverse endeavors. Sometimes those efforts create all sorts of overlapping circles, and then those…