Les Merry Chevaliers, Punque Vivant  (self-released)

Thursday 12

It’s fitting that The Post-Timey String Band doesn’t reveal that its new album, Landmine, is a concept album until the end of our interview. 

The Charleston-born neo-grunge trio Heyrocco loves its hometown. And it loves playing gigs there. But in 2017, the band — guitarist/vocalist N…

Bruised Fruit, the sprawling debut from Columbia indie rock quartet Hold Fire, feels at times like a distillation of millennial indie rock as it brims with the eager melody and bursting dynamics of perennial favorites, without sacrificing the idiosyncrasies that mint cult-favorites. 

Is it still retro rock when some of the musicians involved have been playing around Columbia in various bands almost since it was new wave? In the ears of the listener, at least, the sounds on Lost In Time certainly place The Transonics squarely in the early-’80s college radio era. Chiming guitars, martial beats, gutsy female vocalist — it’s all there for your next Brat Pack or Valley Girl theme night. 

On Axattack’s new EP, Feasting on Violence, the instrumentals are firing on all cylinders throughout. The trio, singer/guitarist Alec Edelson, bassist Anthony Oliver and drummer Chris Crass, are an absolutely lethal unit on the four songs, playing with power, precision, volume and velocity.

Thursday 5

Friday 29

The band may not play on, but that doesn’t mean the party has to end. 

E.Z. Shakes, Summer Cut (Pow Pow Sound)

Thursday 21

When pianist Kenny Barron walks onstage at University of South Carolina’s Johnson Performance Hall with members of the South Carolina Jazz Mas…

The man known among the kids as the white Iverson and to the older public as Post Malone is many things, but the most important thing to know …

There are divas, and then there is Diana Ross. The singer, actress and cultural icon ruled the ’60s and ’70s with a slew of classic hits, both…

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: Do…

Thursday 14

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) 

Welcome to the era of Hootie 3.0. It’s complicated.

Since 1999, Huntsville, Alabama’s Daikaiju has wielded one of the Southeast’s most distinctly energetic blends of metal. Trickling out four si…

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…

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.

Thursday 31

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 …

Thursday 24

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…

It’s been 10 months since singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jordan Igoe moved from her lifelong home of Charleston and took up resid…

The Whig Stage

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 …

Dead Spring, Being Kind on Purpose (self-released)

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.

Heartfelt heartland rock ‘n’ roll in the tradition of John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen and Steve Earle has been the recipe for Wi…

Thursday 17