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…
My buddy Chris recently visited Savannah for several days, and after doing as much of the tourist thing as we could tolerate, and after somehow finding ourselves at two performances of a Christmas burlesque show in which a young lady…
I scrambled to make it to Hang Fire just in time to catch Wet Socks‘ set at their album release “party”. Let’s be honest though, every time Wet Socks plays (especially Hang Fire) it’s a party. High-spirited, surf-infused, insanely catchy…
We love Wet Socks here at hissing lawns, and it’s not just because the band’s name evokes the grunginess of the everyday, the creepiness of the ordinary. We love Wet Socks for the tight, high-energy garage rock that Hunter Jayne…
I walked back and forth between The Jinx and Hang Fire six times Friday night and caught five great sets of cranked up rock. Here’s some super quick thoughts: Hotplate is quickly turning into one of my favorite local bands.…
First things first: Modrag is pronounced “mod-drag” according to the band’s Facebook page — not “moe-drag”. Modrag is a young foursome out of Austin — a little garage, a little pop, some psychedelia. They were excellent in front of a…
Sometimes midsummer weeknights release a little punk and garage rock fury in downtown Savannah. At Hang Fire tonight: Downtown Boys, the punk band with sax and a political edge from Providence that got a big writeup in Do this week:…
We already had many reasons for loving Wet Socks, and now we have another. Here’s the video for “New Crush Pt. 2”: Wet Socks- “New Crush Pt. 2” from Soft Science on Vimeo. Wet Socks is the garage rock duo…
Last Monday was a great night for music in Savannah by far. If you missed out on catching Lucero at The Jinx, you really did yourself a disservice if you missed the stacked show that rocked Dollhouse Productions, one of…
Turbo Fruits, a thrilling band from Nashville, will be headlining on 1/27 at Dollhouse Productions. Savannah Stopover thinks so highly of Turbo Fruits that they’ve brought the band to town twice before. There’s a bluesy edge to the group’s high-energy…