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The announcement that KISS will be playing Colonial Life Arena on Feb. 11 as part of its End of the Road Tour raises a couple of questions: Does KISS suck? And if it does, does it matter at th…
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Turns out the March stop on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour won’t be the last time Elton John performs in Columbia. The beloved piano man …
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There are many ways to describe Bask, the Asheville-bred quartet of singer/guitarist Zeb Camp, guitarist Ray Worth, bassist Jesse Van Note and…
Quinn Cicala, Talkin’ to Breathe (Shibby)
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Welcome to the era of Hootie 3.0. It’s complicated.
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Since 1999, Huntsville, Alabama’s Daikaiju has wielded one of the Southeast’s most distinctly energetic blends of metal. Trickling out four si…
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Miranda Lambert has been one of the biggest names in country music for almost 15 years. From 2005’s Kerosene to the 2016 double-album The Weig…
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It's like Christmas on a November Tuesday!
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I remember watching Showtime at the Apollo as a child. Broadcast from the famed Harlem theater, the show focused on the venue’s amateur night,…
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The songs on Lang Owen’s debut album don’t sound like the work of an artist that took a decades-long break from music — or maybe they do.
Pray for Triangle Zero, Ark (Tri City Rec)
Quark Lepton, Beachcop (self-released)
Teiji Mack, Lavenders for Ty (self-released)
Katharine Whalen probably won’t play any songs by her old band, Squirrel Nut Zippers, at her show at Curiosity Coffee Bar on Friday night. Or …
Katie Crutchfield’s last two releases as Waxahatchee make a convincing argument for her as one of modern indie rock’s best writers and perform…
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It’s been 10 months since singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jordan Igoe moved from her lifelong home of Charleston and took up resid…
Fine live music, comedy, karaoke, trivia and more in the club calendar.
Washington, D.C.’s Ex Hex could have rested on the appeal of fantastic players tearing through dirty garage rock that frolics on the dividing …
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Dead Spring, Being Kind on Purpose (self-released)
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After the January release of the stark and impelling Traumaporn EP, Charleston electronic act Diaspoura’s Anjali Naik hit the road in free-flo…
Tim Daisy doesn’t remember much about the first time he performed in Columbia.
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Heartfelt heartland rock ‘n’ roll in the tradition of John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen and Steve Earle has been the recipe for Wi…
MNRVA's Black Sky (self-released)
The Disquiet's Kingdom (self-released)
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Ashley Wright and the Vance Gap Ramblers, too good to be true (self-released)
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When you hear “Indigo Girls,” what pops into your head? It’s very likely an image of two women, namely Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, standing nex…
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It’s been just over a month since Columbia pop-rock quintet Bellavida released its first full-length album into the world. Recorded at locally…
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On Friday, Columbia’s The Restoration releases its long-awaited sophomore LP. The band’s first full-length arrived in 2010.
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It's a solid get for the Dec. 31 downtown shindig, one that reinforces its commitment to diversity, and its savvy embrace of ’90s hip-hop nostalgia.
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Find live music, comedy, djs, karaoke, trivia and more in the club calendar.
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Mario McLean has been a fixture of the Columbia music and arts scene since his first high school band in 2007. Through groups such as Full Col…
After taking more than a month-long break from playing shows, Asheville’s kaleidoscopic folk quartet River Whyless is in the early stages of a…
Milah (8:45 p.m.) and H3RO (11:45 p.m.) play The Aristocrat. Vorov (10:30 p.m.) plays Hunter-Gatherer. GRÜZER (11:30 p.m.) plays Art Bar.
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Les Merry Chevaliers (9:15 p.m.) and Say Brother (1 a.m.) play Art Bar. Grace Joyner (10:15 p.m.) plays the Nickelodeon Theatre. Boo Hag (12:3…
The Witness Marks (8:30 p.m.), Prettier Than Matt (9:30 p.m.), The Runout (10:30 p.m.) and Admiral Radio (11:30 p.m.) play The Pastor’s Study …
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In the collected Journals of Kurt Cobain, published in 2002, the Nirvana frontman offers a succinct definition of what it means to be “punk”:
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