'Hymns and Spirituals' jazzed up

What happens when you introduce traditional hymns and spirituals into the jazz idiom? You get the Mark Sterbank Group's annual mix of the sacred with swing. Read More

Universal Music donates vintage recordings to Library of Congress

LOS ANGELES -- There's good news, more good news and some nebulous news for anyone interested in the nation's musical heritage in the announcement that Universal Music Group is donating a cache of some 200,000 vintage master recordings to the Library of Congress for preservation and digitizing. Read More

Special symphony, special singer

Tonight will be a chance to see System of a Down's Serj Tankian in a way you may never have before. Read More

Stereo Reform talks about its 'Evolution'

Funk-Rock trio Stereo Reform formed right here in Charleston back in 2006. Neil Turner played with a few musicians he met through Craigslist who introduced him to drummer Cre Moore and guitarist Will Evans, and the three have been producing their signature sound of rock and roll dance tunes. After a year of playing in the Charleston area, the band moved out to Los Angeles to record their album, "Robots of Evolution." After their album was finished, they spent the next year and a half playing over 150 shows in 33 different cities across 15 states. Read More

Music Events

Local quartet The Specs is one of those bands that makes you shake your head at radio charts and music award shows with disbelief and sheer disappointment that this band, and bands like The Specs, aren't there. There's a sense of the talented, fleshy underdog up against an army of manufactured machines at play when listening to The Specs. Read More

Zwolle, Charleston eye jazz musicians exchange

Some of you know that I was involved in a book project released last year by the Evening Post Publishing Company. I am contributing editor for "Whisky & Jazz" by Hans Offringa, a Dutch whisky expert and hard-core jazz fan who also writes a column for the Charleston Mercury with his American wife, Becky, as the Whisky Couple. Read More

Hip-hop legend remains Rugged with latest release

Every once in awhile we're able to score a "Listen To This" with an underground legend. Notorious B.I.G. was quoted as saying, "I thought I was the illest," when referring to today's guest, R.A. The Rugged Man. His latest release,"Legendary Classics Vol. 1" is a collection of some of R.A.'s most notorious songs. Read More

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Henry Rollins

Punk rock, spoken word and a lifetime of experience descend on the Music Farm

This March is definitely coming in like a lion. Former Black Flag front man and spoken-word icon Henry Rollins takes the stage at the Music Farm on Friday. Read More

'Kings & Heroes' takes over Gaillard

A hero, according to Ralph Waldo Emerson, is no more courageous than an ordinary man. He is just braver five minutes longer. Read More

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Local Music Events

There's a lot one can learn from a man like T-Model Ford. For one thing, that age is merely a number. Read More

Jimbo's dream comes true

Former Music Farm manager owns Rock Lounge, gets support from locals

If you are in a working band in or around Charleston, then chances are you know Jimbo Webb. Read More

50 years later, Jamerson still huge Part II

In this the 51st year of Motown records and that legendary Sound of Young America, let us not forget who, by all accounts, is one of the architects of that paragon of popular music, Charleston master bassist James Jamerson. Read More

Blues triple play rocks Music Hall

There was a huge blues hit last year by Mel Waiters called "The Smaller the Club the Bigger the Party." Read More