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all-ages shows with Kyle, XuluProphet, The Anxiety Junkies, Trophy Wives – photos

by bill • January 11, 2015

There were two all-ages shows of note in my neighborhood south of Forsyth Park in Savannah on Saturday night — and they started early. I dropped by both for a while to get a sense of the scene.

Trophy Wives took over the small stage at Graveface Records & Curiosities before 7 p.m. The young punk band snarled through a set of short, profane songs, and then The Anxiety Junkies ripped through a short set of their own. It was my first time seeing both young punk acts, and I’d go hear either again in a heartbeat. (But, kids in the audience, if you want to have a pit, you can’t do it for 30 seconds, force a dozen people to retreat from the small stage, and then quit.) The lighting was so lousy for photography that I resorted to flash, but that mainly lit up the oddly white backdrop. There was a young photographer up front who seemed to have the right equipment for the space, so there are some good pics out there somewhere.

I missed Still War at Graveface so I could get down to the Black Box at SPACE (the city of Savannah’s Cultural Affairs department) on Henry Street for Coastal Rock Productions‘ all-ages show. I’d never caught XuluProphet before, but was really impressed with the slick guitar work, solid percussion, and Xulu’s gravelly voice and charismatic stage presence. Kyle‘s moody instrumental prog rock had the audience enthralled, but I had to leave before headliner Fur Elise.

The lighting and sound at the Black Box were excellent, btw.

The crowd at Graveface seemed to have a lot of young college-aged attendees — I’d say most were 18 to 22 — while the Coastal Rock show had a somewhat older crowd. (Coastal Rock Productions has been reborn after about a decade, a history you can read more about here.) I like the latenight bars of Savannah, but there are a variety of audiences out there for good music that don’t want — or legally can’t enjoy — the bars or the booze. It’s great to see more programming to serve these audiences, although Savannah still needs to undo its asinine alcohol ordinance that prevents the sort of 18+ venues that exist in numerous cities across the state.

Coastal Rock Productions’ next show is at the relatively new Guild Hall and features The Independents, Black Cat Attack, Jeff Two Names and the Born Agains, and The Anxiety Junkies.

A shot of each band that I saw here, with a handful more after the jump:

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Country Weekly debuts new single from American Aquarium’s forthcoming “Wolves”

by bill • January 9, 2015

We’re big fans here of Raleigh-based American Aquarium, who — according to Bandsintown — led the U.S. in 2014 with 206 tour dates.

And we’re especially excited for the forthcoming release of American Aquarium’s new album Wolves on Feb. 3. The record is sure to garner a lot of attention, as evidenced by Country Weekly’s premier of “Man I’m Supposed to Be”:

From Country Weekly:

“This was my first attempt at ever writing a love song, because it was one of the first times I’d ever been moved enough to write a love song,” says leader BJ Barham. “I’ve had plenty of the bad, so it was a bit challenging at first. I’ve made a career off of sad bastard breakup songs, so who am I to write about being happy?

American Aquarium at The Jinx in 2013

Larry Jack’s Magical Music Tour 1/6/15 – 1/14/15

by Larry Jack Sammons • January 8, 2015

Hey guys,
Looking over this list, I am struck by the incredible variety of music you can see in our downtown area. On just Thursday and Friday, you can see funk, reggae, rockabilly, punk, prog-rock, alt-rock, americana, bluegrass, acoustic, blues, and reggae, all within a few steps of each other, and almost all for FREE!!! We live in an incredible music city and I hope that most of you take advantage of it. And, speaking of free, it never hurts to drop a buck or two in the tip bucket, the bands really appreciate it.

Thursday 8th
Morning Fatty (funk/reggae/rock/ska)/ Yamadeo (Tallahassee reggae/rock w/ sax) – Barrelhouse South
Eric Culberson (Savannah blues) – Bayou Cafe

Friday 9th
Letters To Abagail, Accomplices – Rail Pub (7p)
Johnny Octane (Savannah roots rock) – World of Beer
American Mannequin (Athens rock)/ Highlands (Wilmington alt-rock, with a trombone) – Barrelhouse South
Bitchmouth (Richmond punk), Window Liquor (Philly punk), Toxic Shock (Sav’h punk) – Jinx ($5)
Organized Crimes (Kansas City synth-pop), Sink Tapes (NJ alternative), Culture Vulture (Sav’h instrumental progressive rock), Alex Raffray (acoustic set from Forced Entry frontman) – Hang Fire

Saturday 10th
Trophy Wives (Sav’h punk), Anxiety Junkies (Sav’h melodic punk), Still War (Illinois grunge)- Graveface Records (6:30)
Appetite For Destruction (GnR tribute band) – Jinx ($10)
Fat Cheek Kat (Winston-Salem funk with two saxes) – Barrelhouse South
Hypnotics (Sav’h 60’s garage rock) – Molly MacPherson’s
Trogone Band (Richmond jam band w/ sax and a trumpet) – Congress Street Social Club

Monday 12th
Whaleboat, Doom Salad, Conversations – Rail Pub (10p)

Tuesday 13th
Jeremy Riddle – Foxy Loxy Cafe (7-10p)
Nashville Pussy Unplugged, Crazy Man Crazy Unplugged – Wormhole (9p, $10/15)

Wednesday 14th
Kayo Dot (Brooklyn experimental), Culture Vulture (Sav’h instrumental progressive) – Graveface Records ($5, 7p)
COEDS (Sav’h rawk n’ roll), Sunglow (Sav’h electronica), Jumpcuts (Baltimore synth pop rock) – Hang Fire

Murder By Death releases new single

by joshua peacock • January 8, 2015

I think it’s safe to say that most of hissing lawns’ contributors were packed into the sold out Murder By Death show this past October at The Jinx. Yeah, we’re fans!

As you might know, Murder By Death’s new album hits the public on February 3. (That’s less then a month away!)

Noisey released the second single, “Send Me Home,” off the forthcoming, seventh studio album Big Dark Love, on Wednesday. Accompanying the song was a nice writeup from Dan Ozzi. (Check it out here).

Bloodshot Records out of Chicago put together a nice SoundCloud playlist of the singles today, which is embedded below. This release will be Murder By Death’s second with the 20-year old label.

The single “Strange Eyes” was released via SoundCloud a while back. You can pre-order the album on all formats here: Click me!

MBD premiered a few new tracks during their set back in October. If memory serves me correctly, “Send Me Home” was on the set list. (Read bill’s full write up here for all the details)

If these two tracks are any indication, this entire album is going to be yet another shinning staple of the 15-year career of the Bloomington, Indiana band that recently moved to Louisville, Ky.

hissing lawns will have a full review of the album later this month. Needless to say, we are pretty stoked about it … well, let me not speak for everyone. I know that bill and I are really excited!

Here’s some more pictures from The Jinx show…..

with the new year, lots of festival announcements in the Southeast

by bill • January 8, 2015

We’ve got a couple of big “pre-game” Savannah Stopover gigs coming up fast, plus the announcement of the rest of the 3-day fest’s lineup. We’ve got A-Town Get Down coming soon, and the Savannah Music Festival.

But we’re also in the midst of festival announcements from all over the country.

Here’s a roundup of a few from the Southeast, with links. I can’t possibly include everything, so if there’s a festival you’re excited about, please share in the comments here or comment on the hissing lawns Facebook page.

You probably already know about Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta. Organizers have now come up with a second festival on the following weekend that will be devoted to country acts: Shaky Boots Festival.

It’s an impressive lineup for country fans:

Post by Shaky Boots Festival.

The SweetWater 420 Fest also has a pretty awesome lineup in Atlanta this spring (announcement was in mid-December):

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Wet Socks heads out on tour – interview + photos

by bill • January 5, 2015

It’s the consensus of the team here at hissing lawns that the relatively recent release of Wet Socks‘ album Drips on the Retro Futurist label (founded by core members of Kylesa) was one of the biggest developments for the Savannah scene in 2014.

Andy Berger wrote: “Anyone interested in the West Coast scene — loosely centered around Burger Records — that fuses elements of skate punk, surf rock, garage rock, and psychedelic rock, should know we have a band living that dream in our own backyard. The band is Wet Socks, and these dudes are the Real McCoy. Folks who like their guitars fuzzy and their melodies catchy need to procure Drips. It’s my favorite Savannah album of 2014. Just make sure you — to cite an old Rock & Roll cliché — turn it up to 11.”

In his year-end post, Tom Cartmel asked, “Does anyone get the Savannah crowd moving as much as Wet Socks? Spoiler. The answer is no.”

I’m loving my vinyl copy of Drips (available via Retro Futurist and at Graveface Records & Curiosities) but you can check out the record before buying:

I met up with Hunter Jayne and John Zimmerman of Wet Socks a couple of nights ago on West 35th St. here in Savannah in the apartment Hunter shares with his bandmates in Triathalon.

It’s an old wood frame house across the street from a mechanic’s garage, near a convenience store that sells tiny ziplock bags, and a couple of blocks south of where the city of Savannah has decided to demolish historic workers’ cottages to build a police station.

Hunter had spent much of that afternoon recording Trophy Wives in his bedroom, which is also Wet Socks’ practice space. On my way inside, Trophy Wives’ guitarist Van Tyler Mills, who also fronts The Anxiety Junkies, was stopping by to borrow an amp for a house show that Hunter and John headed out to that show after our interview.

Savannah is best known for its metal and Americana scenes, but right now there is also a thriving scene – fueled by house shows and unselfish collaborations – of young garage rock and punk bands.

Wet Socks has been riding the wave of that burgeoning scene for over two years. The band began as a side project for Hunter, who was originally joined by Triathalon bassist Mike Younker and drummer Chad Chilton. After a few times out, Hunter didn’t plan to keep booking live gigs as Wet Socks, but then he was asked to play a fundraising party in January 2013 at The Sparetime (now Ampersand). John, with whom Hunter worked at the dive-y liquor store Cha del’s (if you live in Savannah, you know it), played drums. I was there, and I think it was obvious to all of us that the duo was on to something. Soon the band was playing wherever and whenever they could — essentially becoming the house band at Hang Fire for months — and released work via Soft Science and Furious Hooves before recording with Retro Futurist.

Wet Socks (John Zimmerman and Hunter Jayne)

Finally, despite all sorts of interruptions – including Triathalon tours and John’s four trips to India to edit a feature film (no joke) – Wet Socks is headed out on tour. Look for some of those empty dates to be filled in while the band is on the road:

Hunter and John answered a few questions about the Wet Socks sound:

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new galleries on our facebook page: Revival Fest, Everymen

by bill • January 5, 2015

We don’t follow any strict schedule with such things, but some of the photo galleries that we publish here eventually end up being posted to the hissing lawns Facebook page.

Since it’s Facebook, we sometimes post some images that we didn’t think quite made the cut for publication here on the blog. Click on through for big galleries of Revival Fest (Oct. 2014) and Everymen in a gig at The Jinx. Click on through to see those, and please take a second to like the page.

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Year End Wrap-Up

by Peterson Worrell • December 31, 2014

As always, I’m a little late to the show, but I’m here to throw in my two cents on 2014. Surprisingly, I’m going to try to avoid list form and just hit the highlights of what really rocked this year. But first, I will say that I tried to come up with a list of my favorite non-local releases of the year to give you a little insight as to how awesome 2014 was for music in general. I was hoping to cobble together a little list of 10 records to give your ears a treat while letting me rave on about how awesome the evolution of the music scene in Savannah was over the past year. I ended up with about 40 records. So, now there’s a little playlist! See it? It’s right there at the top! Go ahead and hit play, I’ll wait. Okay, all set? Then lets talk about Savannah.

After being in Savannah for a little over two years now, I’ve got to say, I really got here at a good time. I’ve been lucky enough to essentially get adopted into the music scene by local artists and others associated with the scene and it’s been a blast. That said, I’m going to start this off by giving a big shout out to my homes away from home, The Jinx and Hang Fire. Big props to other supporters of the local music like Graveface Records, Dollhouse Productions, MusicFile Productions, and the very cool kids rejuvenating the house show scene. All that said, I’m going to echo the sentiments of another hissing lawns writer and say that the truly magical part of the Savannah music scene is the community. There’s way too many people for me to list so I’ll just say that I’m sending you all a lot of thanks and love for making me feel so welcome (some even to the point of flat out revoking my privilege of moving away!).

So, let’s talk about new bands in 2014. It’s been a good year for start up projects and bands like Savannah’s own COEDS and Toxic Shock are prime examples of that. COEDS, comprised of seasoned vets from numerous local bands, certainly gives off the impression that they’ve been at this for a while and are quickly becoming one of my favorite local acts in town. Similarly, Toxic Shock is another group made up of known players in the local music scene Josh Sterno and Daniel Lynch joined on vocals by Greta Odrezin. But the known players aren’t the only people making some noise around town by far. Upstarts like The Anxiety Junkies and Trophy Wives are showing that experience isn’t all that matters when it comes to causing a bit of raucous. The two fairly young bands are already quickly amassing a ton of support from the ever expanding punk scene in Savannah.

COEDS

With all this praise for the newcomers onto the scene, lets not forget about those who’ve been making noise for awhile though. There’s way too many local bands to list here, so I’ll hit some of my personal highlights from the with a few photos.

Crazy Bag Lady

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A whole lot of music: Tom’s 2014

by Tom Cartmel • December 31, 2014

When I started attending Savannah live music shows regularly, I didn’t realize a lot of things. I certainly didn’t think that somehow I would end up writing and taking photos of what has been a lifelong hobby for me and people would actually check it out. I had no clue that I would end up seeing more acts this year than I had any other year of my life (and to say I went to a lot of shows in college would be an understatement). Most surprising, though, is that I didn’t even consider that I would meet so many genuinely interesting people and new friends. Artists, fellow fans, bartenders, musicians, weirdos, and everything in between. The people are my favorite part of the scene now.

I’m happy to see these people performing, receiving well deserved awards, proud of their new art or recording, fall in love, plan new ventures, come together to help friends or do whatever it is that makes them happy. So cool. Unfortunately, there’s another side to it. I truly did not expect to feel so much grief over the loss of someone I knew only through the music scene. I will miss talking to Athon about carpentry, or his motorcycle, or the new recording, or him coming in second in a beard contest, or a weird night in Europe or….whatever. Damn. Someone inherited one hell of a heart.

But mostly 2014 was awesome. I saw a few hundred sets of live music, including some bucket list bands, attended a bunch of festivals, talked to countless people about music, took a several thousand pictures and drank more than a few PBR’s. Here’s some random lists and a bunch of pictures to go with them.

10 Favorite sets of 2014, in no order.

Perfect Pussy at Hangfire: Quickly rising, super hyped, noise punk. Hell yeah.

Lucero at the Jinx: Awesome every time.

Blitzen Trapper at The Jinx: I hadn’t listened to them for a few years, stellar show.

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Larry Jack’s Year End Review – 2014

by Larry Jack Sammons • December 31, 2014

Hey guys,
I guess it is that time of the year again. I am not usually that enamored with the end-of-year hoopla, but I must admit that I am looking forward to starting a new year in 2015, it feels like it is going to be a good year. For any of you guys that don’t know me, I am a pretty rabid live music fan that you may have seen downtown, if you ever make it out to see any of these (or any other) bands around town. I am the old guy with the big smile that you see at ALL of the shows. I have been fortunate enough to write for Bill’s great music scene blog “hissing lawns” for the past year, and really enjoy doing it (feel free to use this time to “like” the site if you haven’t already done that). I wanted to take this time to thank all of you that are kind enough to say you have read my blog or, better yet, that tell me you wouldn’t have known about a particular show if it wasn’t for this blog.

Anyway, as I said, I get to see a lot of shows and last year posted my statistics for the year. It seems that some people enjoyed that, so I will do it again this year. FYI, I consider a show as seen if I saw one complete song, but I saw most of these acts at least 10 minutes. A venue is counted for each act, so three bands in one night the Jinx would count as 3 visits. And here’s the statistics. BTW, feel free to share.

TOTAL SHOWS ATTENDED IN 2014: 748

VENUES

07. Graveface Records (15) – I was glad to see that this venue made the list. I respect what the guys are doing at Graveface, they have created an all-ages venue (the only one on my list) that hosts bands that appeal to that demographic. You can often find a punk bill for $5 at this venue. And I love the surrealness of seeing a band in a record store full of stuffed animals (they also do taxidermy).

06. Warehouse (15) – This is my love-hate venue. They have good acts at times, and music starts early, at 8pm, but the greasy smell can be overpowering.

05. Congress Street Social Club (53) – The Social Club is one of the venues that is always near the top of this list. I like the stage and general set-up of the bar and they get top-quality acts. They have a good sound system and have some of my favorite staff.

04. Barrelhouse South (56) – Barrelhouse South is a newcomer to the list. This is at the site of the former Mercury Lounge/Retro. They made several improvements, including getting rid of the Sinatra painting and elevating the stage. They are kind of a hot/cold bar, sometimes they have good acts, and sometimes they have electronica.

03. Molly MacPherson’s (78) – This is my Jekyll/Hyde bar. It is one of my favorite bars at times, other times, I find it to be uncomfortable. I think I enjoy this place more when it is not as crowded. It has one of my favorite bar staffs downtown.

02. Hang Fire (88) – One of my favorite “young people’s bars”. You have to be close to the stage, or you won’t be seeing the band. Stay away from the Scorpion Tea, it only seems like it is a good idea.

01. The Jinx (138) – Wow, I guess the Jinx is on track to be the runaway winner every year. This is one of, if not the, best live venues downtown. Creepy decor, intimidating bartenders, excellent stage, great bands, what more could you want from a bar?

BANDS

09. Crazy Bag Lady (14) – Crazy Bag Lady plays quite often around town, and I try to see them every chance I can. They are pure 70’s punk, I can’t understand a word that lead singer Josh Sterno says, and I love it. Josh is one of the most fascinating lead singers on this list, he really commands the audience’s attention while on stage.

08. TimeCop vs DangerSnake (15) – This band consists of two members of the Accomplices, Matt Eckstine& Zach Smith, playing mostly covers. I enjoyed going to see on their regular Thursday gig at Molly MacPherson’s, but, alas, Molly’s is not featuring music on Thursdays anymore.

07. City Hotel (16) – This is a timeless band. I really believe they sound like their sound would fit in in the 40’s, but somehow they make it sound current. Lead singer Aaron Zimmer’s voice is amazing.

06. Waits & Co (16) – Americana from the soul. Everytime I see this band, I leave feeling uplifted. It’s a little like church. Jon Waits has one of my favorite singing voices in town.

05. Eric Culberson Band (17) – Eric is a true Savannah treasure. I think Eric has been playing in Savannah since General Oglethorpe landed. You won’t find a better blues guitar player in town, and his current band is one of my favorites.

04. Jubal Kane (17) – Jukebox blues played by a crazy Swedish harmonica player backed by one of the best guitarists in town. This is one of the few local bands that have crowds clapping after instumental solos. If you go see these guys, you are gonna come away sweaty.

03. Hypnotics (18) – These guys are practically the house band at Molly MacPherson’s and they are another of my personal favorites. I think they are one of the best party bands in town. You should think about them for wedding receptions, they are one of the few bands that will ALWAYS have a giant crowd on the dance floor. hey play old garage rock, even if you don’t know what that is, you like it (and if you don’t know, look it up).

02. Train Wrecks (20) – These guys are always at the top of my year-end lists. Anytime you go to see them, you are assured of a good show, and most often you are going to see a great one. Some of my favorite all-time shows are from these guys.

01. Accomplices (21) – This is one of the best bands in Savannah and I’m not surprised to see them (narrowly) on the top of this list. The folks in this group really seem like they have a bright future ahead of them. They are able to fill every size stage I have seen them play on. They sing four part harmonies and have a very pleasant sound that appeals to all ages of music lovers. And on top of that, they are all really great people.

Kayne’s Best Songs Of 2014

by kaynel • December 30, 2014

“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 his current band Lace Curtains this fall. The track was called “The Fly”. I probably get 1000 of these submissions a year and I really do listen to all of them. And every once in a while, I’ll hit play and instantly fall in love. A song about a fly just looking for some sugah on a hot summer day? I was intrigued. The song had three things that instantly drew me in: a crunchy Mac Demarco-esque guitar intro, dead pan witty lyrics that recalled the hallowed Silver Jews and a wacky early 70’s soulful undertone that was like Foxygen’s ode to Shuggie Otis and yet… it was like nothing I had ever heard. I think I played the song 5 times in a row.

So what is it about a track that just draws us in and speaks to us, worming its way into our psyche and then into heavy rotation? For me, the tracks all have a unique ‘voice’ and not just in the literal sense. Generally, there’s something that initially catches me based on past musical references and preferences, aka my comfort zone, but then hooks me with something that sounds like no one else. Of those 1000 or so tracks we get every year, a whole lot of them start to sound like everybody else and while that approach can lead to hits by today’s standards, it hardly ever leaves me with something memorable. I’m forever drawn to artists who I can instantly identify within the first 30 seconds of a song.

The 25 tracks below all fit that criteria with some remarks about the top ten. These are the songs that really spoke to me in 2014; sometimes punching me in the gut with their lyrics, others lifting me up onto the dance floor and a few that are just pure musical ear candy. I’d also like to thank all the people who turned me on to great new music this year because in the end it’s all about word of mouth and there’s nothing I love more than getting a text at 10pm from a friend telling me I gotta check out a new band so big thanks to Ryan McCardle, Tandy and Randy Fleming, Peter Robaudo, Hank Close and others for always throwing great stuff my way.

For purposes of dividing up our blogging focus here at hissing lawns, this list focuses on bands that do not call our fair city of Savannah home, although there were some fantastic local shows and releases in 2014 (check out the year-end posts from Andy, Tom, Larry Jack, and Petee).

The entries marked with an ** also represent my Top 10 Albums of 2014.

Taking it from the top:

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30 great live acts of 2014

by bill • December 29, 2014

OK, a few disclaimers: all lists are subjective, there’s something artificial in all the year-end “Best of” rankings, no one can see every show, some genres are inevitably neglected because of personal taste and happenstance, yada yada yada.

But when I read Paste Magazine’s 25 Best Live Acts of 2014, I realized that I’d seen a dozen of the picks in the last year or so. And it got me thinking about the best live performers that I saw in 2014 — and I saw a lot of of shows (although not as many as Larry Jack).

A number of my choices here overlap with Paste’s, including Those Darlins, Charles Bradley, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, The Replacements, Future Islands, and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings. (I hope to see Paste’s #1 pick — Diarrhea Planet — at the 2015 Savannah Stopover.)

This list is just what it says: 30 great live acts of 2014. Most of them played Savannah (and some are from Savannah), although there were a few that I saw in Louisville at Forecastle Festival or at Headliners Music Hall. I caught a few of these bands in Macon at Bragg Jam too.

The photos here were previously published at hissing lawns; I took many of them, but there are also some by my fellow bloggers Tom Cartmel, Jon Waits, and Petee Worrell. Click for bigger versions. We have full galleries of nearly all these bands — you can find them by using the search box over in the right sidebar (and please take that split second to like hissing lawns on Facebook or follow us on Twitter).

I should note that I missed a lot of big shows in Savannah in 2014 — I’ve been out of town a combined three months this year.

Anyway, enough rationalizing and qualifying, and on with this idiosyncratic list, in more less alphabetical order, of 30 great live acts in 2014:

The Accomplices

Like so many other bands that play Savannah venues regularly, The Accomplices are easy to take for granted. But I loved their new album A Truck, a Train, an Old Dump Pile and their live album recorded at Isis Music Hall. The Accomplices toured, played big shows in Savannah like the tribute to The Band and the Homegrown Holiday Hoedown, and lit up local venues throughout 2014.

Agalloch

Well there wasn’t even close to a full house at The Jinx on a weeknight for Agalloch — a dark metal band from Portland — but they put on one of the best shows that I saw in 2014. If I were ranking these entries, that gig would probably be in my top 5. A few nights after Agalloch played Savannah, they packed up a big venue in NYC and got a great review in the NYT.

Against Me!

Against Me!’s afternoon set on a surprisingly chilly day in July at Forecastle Festival in Louisville was another of the very top performances that I saw in 2014. The back story of lead singer Laura Jane Grace’s transition wouldn’t even be worth mentioning but her experience is at the center of the fabulous album Transgender Dysphoria Blues, which made “best of” lists at Rolling Stone, Noise, and other publications. Against Me! isn’t coming to Savannah anytime soon but will be bouncing around the Southeast in February — definitely worth a road trip.

The Black Cadillacs

The Black Cadillacs played a stellar set at Savannah Stopover, but I stupidly missed their return gig in Savannah, which was also booked by Stopover parent company MusicFile Productions. But I did see the band in the unbelievably hot and sweaty Hummingbird in Macon at Bragg Jam. So good. It seems only a matter of time before The Black Cadillacs’ fan base explodes.

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