Saturday night at Hang Fire was a who’s who of local punk/metal/heavy rock featuring the classic hardcore of Forced Entry, the jams of Blackrune, the instrumental rock of Hot Plate and the unhinged punk that is Crazy Bag Lady. I…
Wednesday night, a.k.a. a school night, can be a tough night for a show, but judging from the Facebook “Attending” numbers I was hopeful there would be a good turnout at the Dollhouse for the “Fuck The Neighbors Mini Metal…
Kylesa’s new record label, Retro Futurist, held their first ever showcase on opening night of the Savannah Stopover, featuring Darkentries, Burnt Books, Irata, and, of course, Kylesa themselves. I missed Darkentries, but hope to catch them soon, and Burnt Books,…
I’m not going to lie, I’m pretty sure I confused “Spirit Animal” with “Team Spirit” when I left Bleeding Rainbow (who were great, thanks for asking) to scoot around the corner to The Jinx on the final night of Savannah…
I’m pretty sure that most of the crowd that packed into The Jinx Saturday night for one of the final shows of Savannah Stopover had no idea what they were about to walk into the frenetic mess that is Peelander-Z.…
Atlanta’s Norma Jean played a blistering set of metallic hardcore in the space above Sweet Melissa’s Thursday night to a very energetic and very dedicated all ages crowd. The band was, and I quote, “totally fucking sick”. Well, that may…
The Jinx hosted some pretty great rock and roll Friday night, as they are wont to do. All of the bands have roots in punk rock, but the music Friday was a more mature take on it. First up was…
If you drew a Venn diagram of punk, noise rock, post punk and hardcore, Big Ups would reside in that sliver of overlap between them all (also, I would accuse you of having waaay too much time on your hands).…
So, I was reading Elle the other day and…..errrr, wait, I mean, I was reading some super obscure music blog the other day (actually it was Stereogum) and ran across a link to an article in Elle featuring Meredith Graves,…
The Savannah music scene is known nationally for heavy metal, but neither band at the well attended show Friday night fits neatly into any of the seemingly endless metal genres. It was the first time I was seeing Forced Entry…