It’s fascinating how the elements of ‘80s music that once seemed so cheesy — space-age synths, overripe sax solos, robotic programmed drums — …

Dan Cook has worn a lot of hats over the years, and many of them placed him near the center of the music scene in Columbia.

What is a dead swell — the place where a perfect wave goes to die? Surf City submerged in the Sargasso Sea? Whatever the answer, Dead Swells i…

Record Store Day has become a necessary shot of life for indie shops.

Jay Matheson has been waiting to make Dick Circus for a couple of decades now.

Back in February, I wrote a review of Fat Rat da Czar’s ambitious, sprawling, and possibly career-defining double album Tribe. It was a unifor…

Three years after its self-titled debut, multi-instrumentalist Austin Larrimore’s sludgy math-rock outfit Ort returns, now as a duo with guita…

Over a long enough timeline, everyone changes. Our likes, our dislikes, our dreams, our desires, our political opinions, the ways in which we …

On the surface, everything about I Was Bored, the new seven-song release by Columbia singer and songwriter Ahomari, seems designed to lower ex…

Cooking is an art of chemistry and patience. Understanding not only how combinations of ingredients will interact, but also how the effects of…

In some ways, whether or not a college radio station has live, on-air DJs chattering between songs might not seem that important. Especially w…

As with many things these days, the organizers of Stick Tight Fest were unsure if they could make it happen this year.

As the singer/guitarist for Dear Blanca, Dylan Dickerson has proven himself to be a skilled musician. His Columbia indie rock band has produce…

Major events and crises have a way of spurring artists to create responses. The current pandemic is no different, even on a local level.

When singer/songwriter/guitarist Stevie Harris was a teenager, his family staged an intervention for him. But it wasn’t to get him off drugs o…

Like the dark forces it often evokes, goth-rock’s names are legion — cold wave, dark wave, death rock and witch house, to name a few. Even pos…

The March release of Pears 4 Bears’ debut record was going to be a bittersweet moment even before the coronavirus swept the nation and cancele…

There’s always a danger in waiting too long between records. Artists can change, or become plagued with self-consciousness, self-doubt, or mer…

For an artist, picking a genre to market yourself goes a long way in telling potential listeners what to expect. And there’s a lot to choose f…

Boo Hag, Burial Ground (self-released)

A keen sense of nostalgia has long defined the songwriting of Mount Pleasant’s Band of Horses. Indeed, the group’s 2007 sophomore album Cease …

[Editor's Note: Many of this week's events are getting canceled or postponed due to fear of the spreading COVID-19 coronavirus, and Free Times…

[Editor's Note: Many of this week's events are getting canceled or postponed due to fear of the spreading COVID-19 coronavirus, and Free Times…

Erykah Badu and Snoop Dogg might not seem at first to have the most in common when it comes to music, and they might seem an odd pair to perform together on Mother’s Day in Columbia. But they’ll do just that on May 10 at Colonial Life Arena.

One thing you notice after spending a few years writing about music scenes on the ground level is the disparity between an artist’s local iden…

Columbia’s Godis Tanesha mutates through sonic elements that range from folk to R&B to EDM to hip-hop with a powerful voice and potent melodies. 

Give Eight Track Parade credit for ambition. With its second album, Babylon Gold, the Columbia octet transcends its ’70s smooth-rock and soul-…

When the concept of Girls Block, a women-celebrating festival that incorporated musicians, vendors and visual artists, was introduced early la…

The date is a stop on the band’s springtime Rock Invasion 2 Tour — a sequel, of sorts (and one some 27 years in the making), to the Pumpkins’ 1993 Rock Invasion tour, the 14-month worldwide tour in support of its breakthrough LP, Siamese Dream.

Tommy Stinson played bass for two of the most influential bands of the ’80s: The Replacements and Guns N’ Roses. Admittedly, he didn’t actuall…

Thursday 27

Post Malone’s music is seemingly always with us, gurgling in the background. 

Girls Rock Columbia is shaking up its leadership structure.

Thursday 20

The indelible image of Mardi Gras Columbia will forever be its talisman figure Tom Hall, clad in overalls at the helm of a tractor, triumphant…