Apr 172009
Every so often, I like to turn the tables and ask you, the readers, to tell me your thoughts about the movers and shakers in the local music scene. After all, I’m only one guy, and my knowledge of local music is quite humble. But you — the music lovers of Spartanburg — know all there is to know.
Here’s how it works: Find a website or MySpace where we can listen the the music of a local(ish) band for free. Write up your thoughts on the band, and leave them as a comment. Make sure to include a link to the site, so we can all listen.
That’s it! Easy, huh? I’ll check in later today and put in my two cents as well.
Steve Shanafelt
I’ll throw out a few goodies I gathered from my http://www.myspace.com/SpartanGigs site.
“Big E’s Pusher” is some old friends instrumental project. Intertwining the melodically mellow with the contrasting rock your socks type riffs. They paraphrase their sound as “ELVIS and SID BARRETT Kung-Fu fighting in the Carolina Mud.” Pretty cool jams to listen to while floating around these interwebs, give’em a listen >
http://www.myspace.com/bigespusher
Senile Sanity is one I’d like to give a mention, these guys have been gigging around town for several years now. They have a radio friendly sound and some pretty good studio tracks on their page. I’d suggest “Live On”, “Go Away”, or the mellower “For the Light” as three that I feel captures what they’re about.
http://www.myspace.com/senilesanity
..and this just really makes me smile a mile wide here: Portabella. I think the band, Pregnant Preachers, was reviewed here a good while back, and this has some of the same members, or Jason High at least. Might I suggest “Cheers to the Blackout” and “Pants on Fire” for a mind bending spoonful of subgenius fun.
http://www.myspace.com/portabella1
Big E’s Pusher is good fun. I could see some of those tracks, particularly “Absense in AA,” as being good backing music should anyone ever make a local movie with a night-driving scene. I may do a proper Listening Party on them some day.
Senile Sanity has been on my list of bands to cover for a while. I would have written about them by now, except that I’ve gotten a little fatigued of writing about hard-rock/metal bands. On the plus side, they’ve got a nice twinge of grunge-era sound in there, which is great for a Gen-X listener like me.
Portabella is pretty cool, and I’m definitely adding them to my list of bands to cover. They’re very punk and grunge, and “Cheers to the Blackout” sounds and AWFUL lot like a Pixies song, which is almost unfair, as I’m quite a Pixies fan.
All good finds, chAng. Keep ‘em coming.
Ok, how about a great local one, no words of description can describe, except that it is definitely NOT SAFE FOR WORK* (I wouldn’t feel it appropriate to list any of the song names here, but it’s damn entertaining, it made me literally “lol” anyway, it’s great)
http://www.www.myspace.com/jubbyfuk
This next one is good ol’ straight up blues, a family band, for the most part. I’ve known’em all forever and I guess this site was just recently started up by them, the Mac Hill Project:
http://www.myspace.com/jamminmachillproject
.. and here’s a wild wonder of wonderful weirdness, Bordomworks, a solo project of the same RoboTom that made a cameo in my old chAng webcomic. He put a flux capacitor on my scooter so I could go back through time and learn the history of Spartanburg.
http://www.myspace.com/bordomworks
Have you done Carry Your Own yet?