Since it’s “the last summer on Earth”, the Barenaked Ladies will perform a concert on Daniel Island along with some more of the ’90s best Top 40 alt-rock bands. Say what you will, but they have two billboard awards to your zero.
Continuing with in our bluegrass-bands-covering-popular-songs-at-Spoleto video series, here’s Joy Kills Sorrow (who were absolutely PHENOMENAL last night) doing their take on the Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights” at their soundcheck. Suck it, Sam Beam.
Renaud Garcia-Fons explains some of techniques and demonstrates the rich variety he can express on his double bass. He performs as part of Spoleto tonight through Thursday.
Yeah, this is Ketch and Critter from Old Crow Medicine Show (and most of the rest of the band) singing Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” at their soundcheck yesterday. They repeated the performance at their pre-Spoleto show last night during their encore.
Photos (by Josh Curry) of the Shaniqua Brown’s last show. We hardly knew ye.
If you want to see Minus the Bear for free this week, go to a downtown bar — let’s say, the Upper Deck — order a shot of Jack Daniels, and you’ll be given a ticket to the band’s free show at the Music Farm later this week. Or you can sign up on Jack Daniels’ Studio No. 7 website, but our way is more fun.
The more involved the process of making this album became, and the more time it took, it became a major part of my whole life, not just my musical life,” Lee Barbour says of his new album nonfiction. “A couple of these songs were composed eight years ago. The journey they took to sound the way they do is inextricably linked to the different choices I made during those years.”
Video from Mac’n at the Drome, a benefit for local musician Mac Leaphart, who is currently recovering from brain tumor surgery.
