“We don’t want your money, we just want you to listen” is the mission statement of homegrown Upstate South Carolina’s digital record label, Lovelorn Records. With a roster of local performers at the helm (Daw Jones, Breakadawn, Hilary Keane, Walter Kronkite, Lindsay Keane, The LoneGunmen, and co-founder of the ...

If you don’t know the song She Blinded Me with Science from the 80’s, then I’d like to know beneath which rock you have crawled from. The man behind that “one hit wonder” is London born Thomas Dolby; the mad scientist turned steampunk elder statesmen who performed at Greenville, SC’s ...

CD Review: Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks: Heartsick Lonesome Wyatt is more "widely known" as one half of the underground Wisconsin outfit Those Poor Bastards, who achieved status when Hank Williams III covered their ode to narcotics, "Pills I Took." Full of black humor and sickly grooves, Those Poor Bastards ...

In the stories of musicians, poets, painters, and all artists alike there has always been an intricate web of characters, contacts and other artists who have made what we call in today’s vernacular “the scene.” As ingrained as this concept is in the modern artistic psyche, it can be rather ...

I knew going into this reviewing process that I would have a somewhat biased view of the newest Darkthrone release, as I am an admittedly huge fan of their entire body of work and anything the self-proclaimed dictator of  Darkthrone, Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell, puts his hands in. For those that don’t know, ...