- Stratton Lawrence
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"Way back in the days when the grass was still green
and the pond was still wet
and the clouds were still clean,
and the song of the Swomee-Swans rang out in space...
one morning, I came to this glorious place."
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Category Archives: Music
Sound Tribe Sector 9 on New Years Eve
January 11, 2008 – 1:40 pm
I had a rocking four nights in Atlanta for New Year’s last week, and wrote a piece for Jambase.com about the experience. I’m getting some love in the comments section, which is nice when you write about a band a lot of fans get pretty rabid about.
Check it out here.
The Best Ten Concerts in Charleston in 2007
January 4, 2008 – 3:39 pm
In my first full calendar year as a City Paper employee, I saw more live music than any other 365 days in my life. It’s very hard to whittle down the best of the best, but here’s my attempt.
1. Patty Griffin and Scott Miller, Aug. 18, Charleston Music Hall
Scott made a fan out of everyone […]
Shakedown at the Local Dive - photos and wrap-up
December 18, 2007 – 5:38 pm
I put on a music festival last week. For the last few months, I’ve hosted a local music radio show on RadioFreeCharleston.com called the Local Dive. For the Shakedown, at the Pour House, I recruited as many bands who have been on the show, or will be soon, as I could gather. Here’s my thank […]
PaganTube now sounds so much more appealing
December 11, 2007 – 5:11 pm
GodTube.com. No sh*t. Because YouTube is just too secular, what with these pole dancers on the New York subway getting 100,000 hits.
Here’s how my youth minister friend put it after seeing this Christian take on Sir Mix-A-Lot’s classic:
If there ever was an appropriate time to say oohhh eemm ggee..slow your roll..stop..this is it. Help […]
MTV with a message
November 28, 2007 – 5:34 pm
Last spring, Coastal Conservation League Director Dana Beach started writing a song to the tune of “Secret Agent Man” about a superhero of “climate change.” Now it’s a full-on production — a six-minute music video written and directed by local artist David Boatwright, filmed and edited by Justin Nathanson. The results are hilarious. Local yogi […]
Dangermuffin gets Juiced
November 26, 2007 – 1:57 pm
When our blogs went down last week, my full length reviews of Leah Suarez and Dangermuffin fell into the draft bucket and got lost for a week. Now that they’re in print in the Scene (well, Svetlana Minx’s take on Suarez anyways), you won’t see them here.
But I did think this pic of Dangermuffin’s Dan […]
Get Pasted for Cheap
November 8, 2007 – 2:35 pm
Paste, a music magazine out of Atlanta that’s known for its coverage of indie bands, books, films, and art, is responding to Radiohead’s “pay what you want” plan for their new album with a similar scheme of their own.
This week only, you can get a year’s subscription for whatever you deem it worth. Every issue […]
Panic’s Second Skin
November 5, 2007 – 2:39 pm
   Widespread Panic and I have been seeing each other for nearly a decade, and we’re still in love. Not that we haven’t had our rocky points. After five years of passionate weekend rendezvous across the Southeast, she went through some hard family times. Her soul was still spirited, but deflated, and our multi-day trips […]
The new Music Farm looks great
October 31, 2007 – 12:40 pm
When we did our Music Farm cover story last March, previous to the previous owner Yates Dew replied, when asked what the Farm needed, “Some love.”
It got it. Last Sunday’s opening night show, The Avett Brothers, was as all around perfect as could be. The band played a phenomenal set, starting promptly at 9:15 and […]
Skinful Halloween is back on!!!
October 26, 2007 – 4:25 pm
The now infamous party, as reported in the Post and Courier, is back on for Saturday night. It’s been moved out to Johns Island, and shuttle service will begin from Buffalo South on James Island and from the Kerr Drug at River Road and Maybank (on Johns Island) at 9:30 p.m.
It’s $25 bucks, and benefits […]
