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Thursday September 9

New Brookland Tavern

Benjy Davis Project

Ingram Hill

Utopia

Open Mic w Betz Kirby

The White Mule

The Mosier Brothers (founding members of Blueground Undergrass).

Friday September 10

Cafe Strudel

Sound of Voices

New Brookland Tavern

Josh Roberts & the Hinges

The Restoration

Say Brother

Utopia

Flagship Admirals w

the forces of the street

The White Mule

Joal Rush & The Wares CD Release w/ Mike Willis

Saurday September 11

The Art Bar

American Gun, Caleb Caudle and The Bayonets

Cafe Strudel

Uncle Mountain

Utopia

The Dirty Lowdown

New Brookland Tavern

Dignan

Farewell Flight

Versus The Robot

I In The Sky

Soft Spot

High Roses Grow

The White Mule

Loose Shoes w/ Kevin Harrison

Sunday September 12

New Brookland Tavern

Those Lavender Whales

Coma Cinema

Cassangles

Let’s Go, Coyote!

Monday September 13

New Brookland Tavern

Acoustic Open Mic Night w/ Brightford

Tuesday September 14

New Brookland Tavern

Fireworks

The Swellers

Man Overboard

Transit

Wednesday September 15

New Brookland Tavern

Battle Of The Bands

$2000 Grand Prize / $4000 in Total Prizes

Macs on Main

Open Jam

Utopia

Sounds of Suburbia

The White Mule

Dayclean w/ Sarah Blacker, & Kelley Mclachlan

Thursday September 16

New Brookland Tavern

Battle Of The Bands

$2000 Grand Prize / $4000 in Total Prizes

Utopia

Open Mic w The Dubber

Macs on Main

Open Jam

The White Mule

Jay Clifford (of jump little children).

Friday September 17

New Brookland Tavern

Kingslyn

Cherry Case

TBA

Macs on Main

Fatback & Groove Band

Utopia

Darren Woodcliff and Friends

The White Mule

Patrick Davis w/ Cary Ann Hearst (late show).

Saturday September 18

Art Bar

Cooter Scooters, Capital City Playboys, Whiskey Tango Review

New Brookland Tavern

Ludo

There For Tomorrow

The Graduate

Tommy & The High Pilots

Sunday September 19

Macs On Main

Natural Desire

Utopia

Stillhouse

The White Mule

Elonzo w/ Shane Hines & Applesauce

Greetings!!!  Schools back in session, football is in full swing, and the money is still funny.  Hopefully all of you out there are doing well and enjoying the cooler weather.  If not; sorry for you…this summer was crazy hot. Let’s get it!!!!

Rest In Peace Playlist Back in mid 2005, Hurricane Katrina came thru the Gulf Coast like something that was never experienced before in these continental United States.  From dilapidated infrastructures and overwhelming flooding to disarrayed politicians and the unfortunate relocations for many and the even more devastating losses of life of people; Katrina will never be forgotten as a dire time in American History. As a tribute to the 5 year since it came upon shore, we are going to give you 10 of the greatest tribute songs to those who have gone on; there are plenty more out there, but these are some of the best.  May you forever remain in our memories… (In no particular order except #1 my personal favorite)

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth- T.R.O.Y. (The Reminisce Over You- 1992)

Heavy D- Peaceful Journey (1991)

Ice Cube- Dead Homiez (1990)

D.R.S. (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)– Gangsta Lean (1993)

Bone Thugs & Harmony- Tha Crossroads (1995)

UGK (Underground Kingz)- One Day (1996)

Master P- Heaven For A Gangsta (1997)

2 Pac- I Ain’t Mad At You (1996)/Notorious B.I.G.- Miss You (1997)

NAS- Just A Moment

D.I.T.C. (OC, AG, & Lord Finesse)- Tribute…dedicated to Big L (2000)

WORDS OF WISDOM

You never know what day will be your last…Live your life now!!!  Stay Up!!!!

DJ Kingpin-Villain Of Vinyl        kingpinvillianofvinyl@gmail.com

Whatever you need in an alt country band, Raleigh’s American Aquarium has it: greasy licks; a deep well of lyrics; solid hooks; a sound that’s both gritty and rich at once; songs about booze and loss and the occasional bar tramp; packed out, beer-soaked live shows; four solid albums to pull from; you name it. What more could a music fan possibly ask for?

The band’s latest album Small Town Hymns is destined to be an underground classic. Rumored to have been written and recorded in just around a month’s time, it supplants the fuller barroom grooves of Dances for the Lonely and The Bible and the Bottle, with a darker, stripped down introspection more rooted in storytelling. Don’t get me wrong, it rocks, but it’s definitely a coming of age album –the morning-after soul searching that follows a night that got out of hand.

This will be a fun, hard-drinking show. New Brookland Tavern at it’s best.

Ponderosa opens. Doors at 8 p.m.

Friday September 3

Cafe Strudel

Dennis Ware

New Brookland Tavern

Aloha Fest II:Day 1

Capital City Playboys

The Soul Mites

The Stellas

Acoustic Sets By: David Adedokun, Ben Walker,

Justin Register, Danny Lyons, TBA

Utopia

Reggae Infinity

Saturday September 4

Art Bar

Evil Empire (Rage Against the Machine Tribute), So Hush Hush (Pixies Tribute), Colour and the Shape, The Lovecrafts, Chase Asmer

Cafe Strudel

Flagship Admirals

House

The Swift Technique

Loose Cockaboose

Evil Empire (Rage Against the Machine Tribute), So Hush Hush (Pixies Tribute), Colour and the Shape, The Lovecrafts, Chase Asmer

New Brookland Tavern

Aloha Fest II: Day 2

Testing Ground

Carolina Chupacabra

Trudge

These Dying Days

TBA

Utopia

Cold Creek

The White Mule

An Evening w/ Shane Perlowin of Ahleuchatistas (early show)

Tom Conlon Don Russo, & Jesse Isley(late show)

Sunday September 5

Art Bar

Isle of Wight Pop Festival Tribute Show

New Brookland Tavern

Harptallica (Metallica Cover Band)

Brass To The Future

Tuesday September 7

New Brookland Tavern

American Aquarium

Ponderosa

TBA

Wednesday September 8

New Brookland Tavern

We Came As Romans

In Fear and Faith

Confide

Upon A Burning Body

From The Heart

Utopia

Luci & Levia

White Mule

Jacob Johnson w Taylor Moore and Paul Brazell

Thursday September 9

New Brookland Tavern

Benjy Davis Project

Ingram Hill

Utopia

Open Mic w Betz Kirby

The White Mule

The Mosier Brothers (founding members of Blueground Undergrass).

Friday September 10

Cafe Strudel

Sound of Voices

New Brookland Tavern

Josh Roberts & the Hinges

The Restoration

Say Brother

Utopia

Flagship Admirals w

the forces of the street

The White Mule

Joal Rush & The Wares CD Release w/ Mike Willis

Saurday September 11

The Art Bar

American Gun, Caleb Caudle and The Bayonets

Cafe Strudel

Uncle Mountain

Utopia

The Dirty Lowdown

New Brookland Tavern

Dignan

Farewell Flight

Versus The Robot

I In The Sky

Soft Spot

High Roses Grow

The White Mule

Loose Shoes w/ Kevin Harrison

Sunday September 12

New Brookland Tavern

Those Lavender Whales

Coma Cinema

Cassangles

Let’s Go, Coyote!

Monday September 13

New Brookland Tavern

Acoustic Open Mic Night w/ Brightford

Tuesday September 14

New Brookland Tavern

Fireworks

The Swellers

Man Overboard

Transit

Believe it or not, there was a time before Geffen and MTV’s “TRL,” a time when the “pop punk” formula didn’t evoke the same sort of knee-jerk repulsion elicited by The Jonas Brothers.

On one end of the spectrum you had the crisp Epitaph/Fat Wreck Chords/So. Cal cabal with granddaddies Bad Religion, Fat Mike sneering up front of NOFX, Pennywise, etc. and Face to Face bringing up the rear. On the other end of the spectrum was the Lookout! Records/Bay Area camp of stinkier romantics like Jawbreaker, Cringer, Sam I Am, Crimpshrine, and, yes, even Green Day in the Gilman Street days (the days prior to dropping to their knees to unzip Satan’s khaki slacks). Even some Revelation bands like the Gorilla Biscuits, Inside Out and Farside were bringing hardcore closer to pop.

New Found Glory is somewhere in the middle of all that: part modern dilettante, part old school purist; part early 90’s reinactors, part legitimate 90’s era pop punk band who hopped the train a millisecond after it left the station. They’re playing a style of music that is suffering a canned “X Games” type of stigma these days, but they’re playing it well and at least they’re playing it on Epitaph and not Nickelodeon.

If you’re into it –and, face it, when you have a few drinks and give yourself up to it, who isn’t?—then head on out and catch them. Hell, you already know exactly what they sound like.

-Norbet Sykes

Greetings!!!  Schools back in and football season is underway (let’s hope my NY GIANTS can pull one out this season).   Hope all of you are well out there and keeping cool in these last few weeks of summer.  Time is definitely rolling on; who would believe that Labor Day is right around the corner.  Be sure to get your grills cleaned and polished off for the unofficial end of summer. Let’s get it!!!!

REVIEW

Since we are wrapping up one of the most prolific summers (with respect to music releases) of this new millennium; I figured it be best to get you prepared for the upcoming releases this month & the months to come.  Releases are grouped by the month that they are expected to drop (all dates are subject to change)…

AUGUST

Dondria- Dondria vs. Phatffat

Tha Dogg Pound- 100 Wayz

Fantasia- Back To Me

Katy Perry- Teenage Dream

Main Flow- Return Of The Castle

The Pack- Wolfpack Party

Usher- Versus

Big L- 139 & Lenox

Common- Ressurection (Deluxe Edition)

Exile- Radio: AMFM

Gerald Levert- The Best Of…

KRS-ONE & True Master- MetaHistorical

Lyfe Jennings- I Still Believe

Madlib- Medicine

Spectac- Superman for a day; Clark Kent for life

Tela- Gators & Suits

SEPTEMBER

Chingy- Success & Failure

Dorrough- Get Big

Lady Saw- My Way

Nate Dogg- G Funk Mix

Spice 1- Best Of Vol. 2

Young Buck- The Rehab

Bilal- Airtight’s Revenge

Black Milk- Album Of The Year

Pete Rock & CL Smooth- Mecca & The Soul Brother (Deluxe Ed.)

Rah Digga- Classic

Soulive- Rubber Soulive

Trey Songz- Passion, Pain, & Pleasure

8Ball & MJG- From The Bottom 2 The Top

John Legend & The Roots- Wake Up!!

MC Eiht- Best Of

Pastor Troy- Best Of Vol. 1

Tank- Now or Never

Boogie Down Productions- Criminal Minded Deluxe Ed.

Donell Jones- Lyrics

Ron Isley- Mr. I

Young Jeezy- Thug Motivation 103

OCTOBER

Canibus- C of Tranquility

Ciara- Basic Instinct

Faith Evans- Something About Faith

Ice Cube- I Am The West

Jazmine Sullivan- Love Me Back

NeYo- Libra Scale

Pimp C- The Naked Soul of Sweet James Jones

Roscoe Dash- Ready Set Go

Lord Jamar- Known Associates

Snoop Dogg- Greatest Hits

Twista- Perfect Storm

Kanye West- Dark Twisted Fantasy

Lloyd Banks- Hunger For More Volume 2

WORDS OF WISDOM

You never know what day will be your last…Live your life now!!!  Stay Up!!!!

DJ Kingpin-Villain Of Vinyl

kingpinvillianofvinyl@gmail.com

Thursday August 26

Hard Knox Grill

Smile Empty Soul

New Brookland Tavern

Full Color Footage (EP Release)

Marry Me Joanna

Brandon Kean

Nick Sweat

Utopia

Open Mic w Bentz Kirby

The White Mule

Wayne Mills Band

Friday August 27

Hard Knox Grill

Old Skool

Macs on Main

Fatback & the

Groove Band

New Brookland Tavern

Obraskai (CD Release)

Host To Another

Relative Effect

Ma’at

Tattermask

Utopia

Five Steps

The White Mule

Larry Keel & Natural Bridge w/ Adam Klein & Gabriel Mintz

Saturday August 28

Art Bar

Dave Britt Band, New York Disco Villains,The Sea Wolf Mutiny, The Overtones

Hard Knox Grill

Unknown Hinson

with Facedown, Panacea

Macs on Main

The soul patrol

Art Bar

Dave Britt Band, New York Disco Villains, The Sea Wolf Mutiny, The Overtones

The White Mule

Magnetic Flowers w The Kicks

Matt Urmy w/ Leticia Wolfe

Sunday August 29

Hard Knoz Grill

D.B. Bryant and Friends

The White Mule

Coma Cinema, Old Canoe, Billy Wallace, & Joe Fletcher

Monday August 30

New Brookland Tavern

Acoustic Open Mic Night w/ Brightford

Tuesday August 31

New Brookland Tavern

Corpus Christi

A Hero A Fake

We Sail At Dawn

Vindictive Soverign

Kids In Masses

Wednesday September 1

New Brookland Tavern

Thank God

Tunguska

…for science!

Murder Media

Thursday September 2

Cafe Strudel

The Design

Friday September 3

New Brookland Tavern

Aloha Fest II:Day 1

Capital City Playboys

The Soul Mites

The Stellas

Acoustic Sets By: David Adedokun, Ben Walker,

Justin Register, Danny Lyons, TBA

Saturday September 4

Art Bar

Evil Empire (Rage Against the Machine Tribute), So Hush Hush (Pixies Tribute), Colour and the Shape, The Lovecrafts, Chase Asmer

Cafe Strudel

Flagship Admirals

New Brookland Tavern

Aloha Fest II: Day 2

Testing Ground

Carolina Chupacabra

Trudge

These Dying Days

TBA

Sunday September 5

Art Bar

Isle of Wight Pop Festival Tribute Show

New Brookland Tavern

Harptallica (Metallica Cover Band)

Brass To The Future

ROAD TRIP

08/27/10 : Friday

Walter Parks Sentient Bean Savannah, GA

Elmwood Wild Wing Cafe Savannah, GA

Serious Clark Infusions Lounge Asheville, NC

Brother Joscephus and the Love Revival Revolution Orchestra Mo Daddy’s Asheville, NC

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe Pisgah Brewing Black Mountain, NC

Junior League Band Double Door Inn Charlotte, NC

Tears For Fears The Fillmore Charlotte, NC

Brad Paisley

Darius Rucker

Easton Corbin

Josh Thompson

Justin Moore

Steel Magnolia Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte, NC

Indecision Visulite Theatre Charlotte, NC Simplified MJ’s Bar and Grill Mooresville, NC

Temple Veil The Upper Room Statesville, NC

Weigh Station Johnson’s Pub Charleston, SC

DJ Icey The Music Farm Charleston, SC

Leslie

Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit The Pour House Charleston, SC

Chronicles of the Landsquid The Silver Dollar Charleston, SC

Machine Funk The House (Formerly the Elbow Room) Columbia, SC

The White Panda University of South Carolina Columbia, SC

Almost Kings

Rehab Lazy B Fairfax, SC

Josh Roberts and the Hinges Downtown Alive Greenville, SC

New Found Glory The Handlebar Greenville, SC

The Lost Highway Acme Cantina Isle of Palms, SC

Curtis Peoples

The Benjy Davis Project

Todd Carey

Josh Hoge

Tony Lucca

Ernie Halter

Joe Firstman

Matt Duke The Windjammer Isle of Palms, SC

Stephanie Briggs Fresh Brewed Coffee Myrtle Beach, SC

Nas

Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley House of Blues N. Myrtle Beach, SC

08/28/10 : Saturday

Bunny Carlos Rye Bar Athens, GA

Stephanie Briggs Terrapin Brewery Athens, GA

Turbine The Farm 255 Athens, GA

Deftones

Baroness Jessye Norman Amphitheater at the Riverwalk Augusta, GA

The Train Wrecks Rocks on the Roof Savannah, GA

Lingo Buffalos Statesboro, GA

Tanglespeak Grapefull Sisters Vineyard Tabor City, NC

Yancy Biltmore Baptist Church Arden, NC

Now You See Them Biltmore Park Town Square Asheville, NC

Shannon Whitworth Grey Eagle Asheville, NC

Mad Tea Party Common Market Charlotte, NC

Chris Duarte Group

Guitar Shorty Double Door Inn Charlotte, NC

The Thermatones Neighborhood Theatre Charlotte, NC

Five Gallon Groove Smokey Joe’s Cafe Charlotte, NC

KISS

The Academy Is

The Envy Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte, NC

The Small Ponds Visulite Theatre Charlotte, NC

Big Daddy Love Tanglewood Park Clemmons, NC

Crosstown Iron Thunder Saloon Concord, NC

Pyromatic The Doghouse Fayetteville, NC

The Plaztik Pony Band Momma Sarah’s Morganton, NC

ANA SIA

Eliot Lipp

MiM0SA

Charlie P

PERICLES

Nostalgia (Live PA)

VJ Soup The Music Farm Charleston, SC

Tea Leaf Green

Hill Country Revue The Pour House Charleston, SC

The Papa String Band The Utopia Grill Columbia, SC

Natalie Stovall Francis Marion University Florence, SC

Elmwood Wild Wing Cafe Hilton Head Island, SC

The Benjy Davis Project

Todd Carey

Josh Hoge

Joe Firstman

Matt Duke

Roy Jay The Windjammer Isle of Palms, SC

Debutaunts Bimini’s Oyster Bar & Cafe Myrtle Beach, SC

Dailey & Vincent Ocean Lakes Family Campground Myrtle Beach, SC

Michael Franti & Spearhead

Michael Franti House of Blues N. Myrtle Beach, SC

It’s kind of like their first show, but not really, because Columbia’s Death in Paris has been playing intimate acoustic- based shows scattered across town this summer like Joe Wilson has been slinging hot wieners across the state in his high profile race for congress. They’ve been warming up the Soda City at places like The House of Softcore, The Whig, and the USC Russell House but Friday at The New Brookland Tavern they’re officially debuting the band whose core includes members of the now defunct This Machine is Me. They’ll be supported by Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun, The Private Life of David Reed and an after show dance party featuring a DJ battle between Alejandro and Bakari. Above: Death in Paris members Jayna Doyle and Blake Arambula goof around at the Whig during the summer. Below: Alejandro at The New Brookland Tavern in August of last year. Lauren Gibson of Today the Moon… rocks the Blue Lady Lounge inside the Art Bar in June.    -Sean Rayford

Chris Barron, lead singer of the Spin Doctors, brings songs from his new project The Time Bandits, as well as solo gems, to the White Mule next week. Fans of the Grammy-nominated Spin Doctors –best known for their hits “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” and “Two Princes”—can expect less funk than what they’re used to from Barron, but will be thoroughly engrossed by the deeper well of traditional rock from which he is currently drawing.

“You tend to write yourself into the places you want to play,” Barron admits. “There was a time when I was writing bedside songs for the walls of my room, but these days I am writing what I like to call ‘bar music for big theaters’—stripped down, honest rock and roll like The Last Waltz meets Exile on Main Street.”

Barron lost his voice for a few years, quite literally, due to vocal chord paralysis, a diagnosis that broke up his band and left him wondering if he would ever talk again, let alone sing. Trying everything from steroids, to acupuncture, to voice training, he eventually regained his voice. Throughout it all, he continued to write songs.

As his voice returned, he tweaked his new batch of songs in the East Village during the birth of the Anti Folk scene. “I used to go down to the Sidewalk Café to try out new songs, and I met Adam Green and Kimya Dawson of the Moldy Peaches. I sang on some of their early albums and played guitar with them,” he says, before he eventually met the members of what would become The Time Bandits.

These days, Barron and his band are touring when time allows, just returned from a trip to Iraq to perform for the troops, and are psyched on their latest EP “Songs From the Summer of Sangria.”

It’s safe to assume that anything goes with Barron’s acoustic show. So the White Mule can probably expect to hear songs from across the spectrum of his long, storied career.

-Norbet Sykes

Jason Isbell is nothing, if not an enigma. As a young guitar player and songwriter plucked from Alabama, he found himself thrust into the spotlight of sold-out shows with the Drive-By Truckers, one of the most important Southern bands in decades, during a pivotal point in their evolution. And not only did he rise to that challenge, he blew the roof off every stage they set foot on. If that wasn’t enough, he’s known for penning some of the more classic DBT songs and laying down studio sessions that are probably the envy of seasoned rock vets twice his age: “Outfit,” “Decoration Day,” “The Day John Henry Died,” “Never Gonna Change,” “Danko/Manuel,” and “Goddamn Lonely Love.”

And then he simply walked away from it all.

Even now, years after he left the band, Isbell’s songs define that era for DBT. Take it from those of us who were travelling to the 40 Watt from the beginning of it. It was rock n’ roll magic. DBT’s live shows just aren’t the same to this day.

Leaving DBT, he almost immediately hit the road with his phenomenal solo release, “Sirens of the Ditch.” Many of the cuts on Sirens –power-driven, atmospheric and dark—harkened back to his alma mater. The other songs on the album, though, hinted at the new direction toward which Isbell was heading. Fast forward a couple of years and hundreds of miles on the road to what appears to be that destination: the self-titled album from Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit. The latest batch of songs are his most complex and layered to date. His lyrics –perhaps his most potent weapon—are as rich and poignant as ever. I can’t say Isbell has matured as a songwriter since he’s already known for writing songs well beyond his years; his newer songs just seem more “aged,” like a good whiskey.

Expect to be hit with a little bit of everything this coming Wednesday, from poetic bar ballads to straight up guitar rock. Whatever the guys throw our way, trust that it will be the real McCoy. This is not a show to miss. The best thing going down music wise in Columbia all week, if not all month.

-Todd Morehead