Author: bill

punk legends The Dickies at The Wormhole in Savannah tonight

We don’t throw the word “legends” around casually here. Here’s The Dickies from 1979: The Dickies headline The Wormhole tonight (Wednesday, 8/12). Click here for Facebook event. Jeff Two-Names and the Born Agains will open, apparently after-9-ish. So what are…

new video of an old song from Wet Socks

Wet Socks — the Savannah-based garage rock duo whose first album Drips was released on the Retro Futurist label — has just released a new video (though filmed “a while ago”) for “New Crush Part 1”. And while we’re on…

Weedeater + Kings Destroy at The Jinx – photos

Weedeater returned to The Jinx last week — the band’s pure power demands to be seen and felt. Kings Destroy from NYC proved a great opener in their first Savannah gig. Thanks to Dave Spangenburg Photography and Wicked Ways Photography…

Monday night No Control party at Hang Fire with TOW3RS, Curbdogs, Sara Curtin

Every show at Hang Fire is going to be a little out of control this month — click here for our post about the club’s expiring lease — including tonight’s (Monday) No Control party with TOW3RS, Curbdogs (Savannah-based rock band),…

Hang Fire is leaving Whitaker Street. Now what?

Hang Fire tshirts. The bar will leave Whitaker Street at end of August but still looking for new location. A photo posted by hissing lawns (@hissinglawns) on Aug 6, 2015 at 12:17pm PDT If you’re a live music fan in…

Campfest brings Cold War Kids, Hey Rosetta!, Family and Friends, Hardy & The Hardknocks, lots more to the Georgia mountains 9/18-9/20

Update: On 9/4, Campfest’s Facebook page announced the cancellation of this year’s event because of circumstances beyond their control. I’m impressed with the Campfest lineup for Sept. 18-20 at Camp Blue Ridge: Cold War Kids, Hey Rosetta!, Langhorne Slim, Family…

Missionary Blues at Stopover in The Yard – photos

So there was another Stopover in The Yard on Saturday — third in a series of collaborations between Savannah Stopover/MusicFile Productions and The Grey. Missionary Blues brought their wonderful “juke joint style” to the not-unbearably-hot lunchtime show in The Yard…

Waits & Co. releases self-titled EP

Regular hissing lawns contributor Jon Waits wears a number of hats around town. He works as a freelance photographer and as a singer-songwriter he fronts Waits & Co., which has just released the band’s first EP. Check it out below…

T. Hardy Morris & The Hardknocks bring songs from new album to Bragg Jam – review + photos

Somewhere in the middle of Hardy & The Hardknocks’ set last Saturday at Bragg Jam in Macon, I suddenly felt like I was in some kid’s basement 30 years ago; he and his friends have just realized that there really…

Kylesa releases first song from album coming out on Oct. 2

Great news yesterday from Kylesa: the new album Exhausting Fire will be released on Oct. 2 on Season of Mist. Check out “Lost and Confused”, which seems at first like it could be dipping into some sort of dream pop…