Author: Tom Cartmel

Cray Bags – “Sexy Bully” video premiere

For months we’d heard rumors and whispers in the back rooms of seedy rock venues, caught blips on the internet, overheard fleeting comments that maybe, just maybe, Cray Bags (née Crazy Bag Lady) had created a music video so powerful,…

Mothership and Gunpowder Gray at The Jinx – photos

Text by Joshua Peacock, photos by Tom Cartmel If you are endeared to double-stack power, head banging, solo-blistering, loud-ass anthem rock, Mothership, out of Dallas, Texas, is your joint. It’s mine for sure. So I was up and front for…

Tom’s 2016 – tl;dr

You know those publications/people who put out their “best of the year” lists in freaking October? Yeah, I don’t like them much. I’m now sure that nothing else in 2016 will blow my mind, as it is currently 2017. Anyway,…

premiere: The Lipschitz “Country Boy”

Regulars in the Savannah music scene have watched The Lipschitz grow from a duo with big potential to a touring act with an ever growing catalog of speedy, reverbed out blasts of indie punk goodness. Daniel Brady Lynch’s(Cray Bags, Sunglow,…

Jinx-o-ween cover band night two – photos

Another entry in the “this is much too late, but the show was really fun, so you’re getting it anyway” parade of blog posts… Actual Halloween fell on a Monday this year, which is not ideal, but The Jinx forged…

Creepoid, Darsombra, and blood wrestling at The Jinx – photos

A few days after Thanksgiving seems like the perfect time to post pictures from a show that was a couple days before Halloween, no? Well, no, actually, but that sure is what I’m serving up here. Our friends in Creepoid…

A.M. Rodriguez releases debut e.p. – check out the title track

A.M. Rodriguez sends his debut e.p. into the world Saturday, releasing the Dead Dogs and Dried-Up Dreams cassette at a Jinx show with Megan Jean and the KFB, Dead Oak and Brandon Nelson McCoy. Both Connect Savannah and Do Savannah…

Shellac and Shannon Wright at The Mammal Gallery – photos

If Shellac isn’t my favorite current live act, they’re certainly pretty damn close to it. The problem is that they rarely tour, prefer weird venues, and almost never hit the South. Over the past 10 years, I’ve traveled to Chicago…

Skeletonwitch, Iron Reagan, Oathbreaker and Gatecreeper at The Jinx – photos

Hey, sometimes life, work, family, vacations, or a giant freaking storm get in the way of writing and posting to the blog. I’ve been to a bunch of great shows in the past month or two that deserve some attention,…

Die Choking, Negative Graves, and Basaran at The Foundery – photos

You know, some Sundays you just feel like going to really cool coffee shop, drinking some tasty cold brew, and watching some heavy duty metal bands in the back room. Right? Well, at least I do. The Foundery‘s back room…