A Cuban-American whose parents fled Castro’s Havana with him still in the womb, Walter Salas-Humara was raised bilingual just across the Florida Straits in Fort Lauderdale. College at University of Florida in Gainesville and a residency with the Vulgar Boatmen left him with a lifelong habit of Mudcrutch/Tom Petty-style crunchy guitar riffs. Chasing the punk […]
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They came, they played, they rocked it, we loved it. Seth Walker & Co. gave us an hour or so of Austin-Nashville-New Orleans funk-soul-rock. The crowd was dancin’ and a good time was had by all. We still have copies galore of his new album, Gotta Get Back, in-stock on vinyl & CD! Join the event […]
Read more →Mostly an acoustic collection, Schmilco bears neither the vicious, fuzz-glam guitars of Star Wars, nor the dazzling, baroque-ish arrangements that fans have come to expect from Wilco. But in their place is a spaciousness and chaos that might feel welcome after 20-some years of enjoyed but now-familiar Wilco releases.
Read more →About 20mins away from our humble Stone Ave. abode, there’s a new concert venue that’s been bringing some great bands to town. The Spinning Jenny, on Cannon St. in Greer, has been workin’ it hard! Check out the lineup for the next few months: 9/15: Mipso w/ Brooks Dixon 10/4: Futurebirds w/ The High Divers […]
Read more →What an amazing day we had paying homage to Greenville’s great bluesman JOSH WHITE. Thank you to all who attended, thanks to Mayor Knox White, Councilman Lillian Brock Flemming, State Representative Chandra Dillard, Dolph Ramseur of Ramseur Records and of course to Josh White Jr. AND DON’T FORGET: Ramseur Records’ incredible reissue of “Josh At […]
Read more →Drummer extraordinaire Kevin Korschgen has created a killer jazz concert series called The Wheel Sessions at, you guessed it, The Wheel venue space in the The Village At The West End. He’s already welcomed dazzling alto-sax player (and Greenville Jazz Collective Big Band alum) Tom Wright, and the next installment will feature ace pianist Bill […]
Read more →The Excons brought their A-game to Horizon last Saturday, and Greenville showed up big-time. Horizon Records was buzzing with great music and big fun and a LOT of people. Thanks to all involved, and don’t forget that the Excons new CD, New Life, is in-stock now, alongside their 2014 debut album. Oh yeah! There was a […]
Read more →THE AVETT BROTHERS have returned with an incredible new album called True Sadness, which we have in stock on CD and vinyl LP, of course. And it’s generating some serious buzz. “The Avett Brothers’ catalog is broad enough to encompass jittery punk bluegrass, barren acoustic ballads about heartache and family, and stately folk-pop that borders […]
Read more →Quickly becoming a staple of summer experiences in the Greenville community, GLOW Lyric Theatre (the only professional non-profit opera company in the state of South Carolina) is known for mounting beautiful, artistic productions of operas, operettas and music theatre while creating a conversation about our area’s social and political climate. This year GLOW is […]
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