We’re really excited that Those Darlins are headed back to Savannah for a show at Dollhouse Productions on Friday, 10/3. Brooklyn’s She Keeps Bees and Savannah’s Crazy Bag Lady will open. There’s a $10 cover — so freakin’ cheap! —…
hissing lawns was founded in early September 2013, but the 1st anniversary caught me unawares. So I’m a little too late for a proper celebration. For years I had been telling local writers, college students, and music fans that Savannah…
We love Wet Socks here at hissing lawns, and it’s not just because the band’s name evokes the grunginess of the everyday, the creepiness of the ordinary. We love Wet Socks for the tight, high-energy garage rock that Hunter Jayne…
Here’s Roadkill Ghost Choir‘s “A Blow to the Head” off the new album In Tongues: There are lots of things to appreciate about Roadkill Ghost Choir — including the variations in tempo, the dark poetry of the lyrics, the subtlety…
You might already know that Cedric Burnside — grandson of the great R.L. Burnside — is a fabulous drummer, but the guy can play guitar too, as you can see on the Cedric Burnside Project’s Kickstarter video: The Cedric Burnside…
Before I get to the photos of T. Hardy Morris at Revival Fest on Saturday, let’s listen to some music. Here’s “Share the Needle”, part of Morris’ series of videos filmed at Georgia’s Places in Peril. This one is at…
When a band is as exciting as Athens-based Family and Friends, I say get on the bandwagon early and see where you end up. I was lucky to see Family and Friends at Bragg Jam in Macon over the summer,…
Savannah is a fairly small city at the end of the day, and creative people with diverse interests and talents often end up being involved in diverse endeavors. Sometimes those efforts create all sorts of overlapping circles, and then those…
The 2nd annual Revival Fest certainly lived up to expectations — and my expectations were really high. It was cloudy but cool to start the day (I got to the Georgia State Railroad Museum about 12:30 p.m.), and I’m sure…
I had an interesting discussion last night with a couple of newish Savannah transplants who seemed a little puzzled by the fact that Revival Fest will be held tomorrow (Saturday, 9/20) at the Georgia State Railroad Museum. How do you…