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.

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

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. 

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

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…

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.

Thursday 27

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…

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…

As is the case with most good things, the members of the Columbia folk-pop outfit Say Femme didn’t force things when it came to starting their…

Thursday 13

The first words you hear on Todd Mathis’ new album are “If you’re gonna hit me / Hit my right side, please.” That’s the jarring opening couple…

Marcum Core (aka MIDIMarc), the ne plus ultra of Columbia’s beatmakers, is pushing 40. So it’s tempting to view Thirty Seven, which Core named…

Love, Peace and Hip-Hop, the Columbia organization that strives to engage communities through hip-hop culture, has announced the headliner for…

Thursday 6

Typically, when someone’s name is out in front of a band’s name, they’re the focal point. Think of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers or Bob Se…

On “Falling,” the opener to the second album from Charleston’s 2 Slices, leader Danny Martin delivers a verse that crystallizes the theme of t…

Experimental instrumental act Modalcoda has always been a bit of an enigma, referencing anything from Can to Black Sabbath, Miles Davis to the…

Aldean performed his song “Drowns the Whiskey” (the brown liquor references were mounting) and between the staff constantly coming to mop up spilled beers and a guy collapsing because he was completely hammered, this scene had to nearing its end.

You don’t get more bro-country generic than Jason Aldean.

St. Pat’s in Five Points, the annual vaguely Irish celebration that turns Five Points into the site of one of the region’s biggest music festi…

Galaxy Chief, Dreadnoughtus (self-released)