Don’t let’em tell you Greenville ain’t a music town. The concert schedule over the next month or so for places like GOTTROCKS, THE SPINNING JENNY, RADIO ROOM are full of great bands spreading some serious genre-spanning goodness. Take a look at the (partial) schedule below!
SATURDAY, DEC. 3rd: SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS @ GOTTROCKS, w/ Wooly Bushmen and Shufflebutton
Everyone’s favorite surf-billy trio returns to the Upstate one more time, led by Rick Miller’s chopped-and-channeled guitar pyrotechnics and grounded by some booty-shakin’ country funk.
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THE BLACK LILLIES @ THE SPINNING JENNY, w/ Forlorn Strangers
Singer/songwriter Cruz Contreras has created a gritty classic-country/roots-rock hybrid for the Black Lillies, fusing the twangy heartbreak of the former and the gritty stomp of the latter. It’s a fresh, vital sound that makes something new from the familiar.
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FRIDAY, DEC. 9th: DEAD 27’s @ GOTTROCKS, w/ Maradeen
The new album by the Dead 27s, Ghosts are Calling Out, starts off with a string of strutting, gritty rockers, moving from the Zeppelin-style swagger of “What a Waste” to a bouncing, late-’60s garage-rock nugget called “Queen.” Then suddenly, they start to mix in soul, funk, and gospel. anchored by a molasses-thick rhythm section that would make Al Green and his producer Willie Mitchell proud.
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THURSDAY, DEC. 15th: WASTED WINE @ RADIO ROOM, w/ Gold Light & Pinkerton & The Brinks
The music of Wasted Wine reels and careens through various styles and moods, taking in Eastern European folk, melodramatic cabaret, and straight-ahead indie rock, sometimes within the same song. Over this chaotic, kaleidoscopic maelstrom of sound, vocalists and multi-instrumentalists Robert Gowan and Adam Murphy wail, bellow, growl, and moan, diving in and out of different characters’ heads and adding to the general feeling of unease the music creates.
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