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There’s a saying in the music business that a band has its entire life to make its debut album, and about six months to make the second. It’s a generalization, obviously, but the landscape is …
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“It’s kind of happy sad,” says Chatham County Line guitarist and singer Dave Wilson, looking back on a tumultuous year for the Raleigh-based A…
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In appraising Rising Appalachia’s headlining turn at the 10th annual River Rocks Music Festival on April 18, I feel caught between the two chi…
Jordan Lawrence
Managing Editor for Free Times
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A year is a long time. A decade is even longer. As such, the Free Times music staff decided it was too tall an order to assemble any kind of d…
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Many folks on Twitter seemed puzzled Tuesday night. Salt-N-Pepa, the headlining rap duo at Columbia’s annual Famously Hot New Year block party…
Jordan Lawrence
Managing Editor for Free Times
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Music critics don’t spend much time contemplating Jimmy Buffett. Though some might say that whether his tequila-lulled strummers are placid or…
Jordan Lawrence
Managing Editor for Free Times
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Free Times writers are not immune to the disappointment that comes when one of our favorite albums gets left out of the year’s Best of South C…
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When Slingshot Dakota, aka singer/keyboardist Carly Comando and drummer Tom Patterson, play in West Columbia this week, it’ll probably be hard…
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I’m encouraged by the results of this year’s Best of South Carolina Music poll.
“Water is the life force, it’s rebirth and renewal, it’s real spiritual. And water also takes the form that it needs to take in order to do wh…
Jordan Lawrence
Managing Editor for Free Times
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One of the best things about editing Free Times’ music coverage is watching our writers’ incredibly varied tastes. And, as it typically does w…
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During the 33 years since they scored their first hit with “Push It,” the Queens, New York, rap duo Salt-N-Pepa have sold more than 15 million…
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It’s interesting to think about how many kids have learned about great music through cartoons. How many of us found out about classical music …
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It’s beyond cliché to say that a life-changing medical emergency can change a person’s perspective. But that’s exactly what happened to Rev. M…
There are just enough authentic touches to give it a human heartbeat underneath the programming.
Les Merry Chevaliers, Punque Vivant (self-released)
Milah slots easily into the en vogue rapper-singer model. (Noname’s not a band touchstone; Lauryn Hill isn’t, either. Maybe Young M.A. via Missy Elliott? Sure.)
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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.
Jordan Lawrence
Managing Editor for Free Times
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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.
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The band may not play on, but that doesn’t mean the party has to end.
E.Z. Shakes, Summer Cut (Pow Pow Sound)
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When pianist Kenny Barron walks onstage at University of South Carolina’s Johnson Performance Hall with members of the South Carolina Jazz Mas…
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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 …
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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…
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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: Do…
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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 …
Jordan Lawrence
Managing Editor for Free Times
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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.
