2014 has already been a weird and wild year for Lazer/Wulf. From touring Europe with Kylesa to finding a dreadlocked Lady Gaga dancing front-row at their SXSW performance (?!?!) to signing with Kylesa’s own Retro Futurist label to, oh, you know,…
Monday truly is the new Thursday in Savannah. Tonight, extend your weekend with an unmissable performance from critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Dave Dondero and the debut of Coy Campbell’s solo project Nightingale News. Named one of the 10 Best Living Songwriters by…
Have you listened to Priests’s Don Giovanni Records debut yet? When they played at Graveface Records & Curiosities in early 2014, it was clear that the band, who had self-released a 7″ and two short cassettes before signing with the New…
SCAD announced its annual New Alumni Concert lineup this morning. It’s a hard-hitter this year with alt-country favorites Lucero, the bombastic, gotta-see-’em-live Mutemath, and singer-songwriter Brett Dennen. As Jinx regulars, Lucero have earned a devoted Savannah following; their January show…
Do y’all remember last January, when Whaleboat released their “Socialist” single at The Jinx? Remember how Cusses played, too? Remember the spitball of energy that was the out-of-towner, self-described Southern-Gothic-Depression-Era-Cheerleader-Metal band Can’t Kids? Yeah. That was fun. Columbia’s Can’t Kids…
The final day of Shaky Knees Fest started with Paper Bird. I discovered the Denver indie-folk band back when MySpace was the best way to find new music, but honestly hadn’t heard much about them since. Turns out they’ve been…
Not a soul dared remark on the weather during Saturday morning’s overcast. A pleasant chill filled the air and held out for most of the day, until the weekend’s heaviest rain arrived in the evening. I really enjoyed the slow…
On The Hold Steady’s debut record Almost Killed Me, Craig Finn marvels, “Certain songs, they get so scratched into our souls.” As attendees withstood the rain throughout Friday and into Saturday’s downpour during Conor Oberst, The Replacements, and Jenny Lewis,…
Tokyo Police Club is one of those bands whose scene debut is consistently described as “explosive.” As their first EP A Lesson in Crime opens and drummer Greg Alsop beats his full kit into oblivion while vocalist/bassist Dave Monks shouts…
I used to go to a lot of Guster shows in my teens and early 20s—a lot of them. They may still be the band I’ve seen the most live. In those early days, the bill typically went: Dude-With-An-Acoustic-Guitar, Guster,…