Here is the line up and times to check out some good local acts at Jake’s tomorrow in 5 Points.

WXRY/JAKE’S STAGE
2010 St. Pat’s in 5 Points
1:00 – 1:35 Brent Lundy
1:40 – 2:20 Capital City Playboys
2:30 – 3:10 Westbank
3:25 – 4:05 New York Disco Villains
4:15 – 4:45 Blastronaut
5:00 – 6:00 Isabelle’s Gift
6:15 – 7:00 Cherry Case
7:15 – 8:00 Postcard Fiction
8:15 – 9:00 The Thirsties
9:15 – 10:00 Mean Wiener
10:15 – 10:55 Pinna

“Talamak” is the newest video from Toro Y Moi’s latest album Causers of This.  Chaz kicks off his tour with Ruby Suns Friday in California, before making his way back to the east coast later this month.  Tour dates below.

(Photo Credit: Brian Manley is awesome)

Thursday night at New Brookland Tavern, we celebrate the release of our first Scene SC Sampler with our good friends and sampler mates All Get Out, The Restoration and Calculator.  We will also have special guests Weatherbox and Twilight Armada performing.

At this point I hope you have learned that at Scene SC we like to cover bands that work hard, are good and try to make a difference.  Those three criteria went in to choosing the 18 bands on the sampler, only one of which is broken up.  But the reason that Erich Skelton and Marry a Thief are on the sampler is because not only is he an phenomenal musician, we know it is only a matter of time before his next project comes out.  For the show Thursday night we have three bands that are going places.

All Get Out is one of the hardest working touring bands that South Carolina has to offer.  These guys literally give everything they have to the road and making new fans and with the release of their first full length coming up soon, it’s safe to say they are rounding second base.  The album will be released on Favorite Gentleman records, which has hopefully found new life with the rise of founding band and owners of the record label Manchester Orchestra and their team of Andy Hull and Jeremiah Edmonds.  We have great faith in these guys that they will not only put out an amazing record, but give it the publicity and work that it needs to receive.

Calculator is one of the gems of the Columbia music scene, producing a type of music unlike any other in the area.  Their secrets to success are not only being unique, but consistently finding ways to top their previous material with songs that push the envelope.  Their live show is at times as sexually awkward as catching your parents having sex, but it seems to work.  If they find a consistent drummer and keep playing quality shows everything should fall in line for these dudes.

The mind of Daniel Machado never ceases to amaze me.  In 2009 he started The Restoration and began telling the story of Constance which will finally come to life April 23 at their album release at Trustus theatre.  From the get go, The Restoration has done everything the right way.  They’ve put together a music video, which if I remember correctly had 7 camera angles.  They play all their shows in full costume, reminiscent of the time period of the story they are telling.  They promote their band like other bands should.  And with the recording of their latest album they didn’t hold back in any area of the process.  And even if they had never done any of this, they would still have some of the best songs and be one of the best bands in Columbia.  It says a lot and everything they do is well respected.

We’ve made it no secret that we have a band crush on The Everybodyfields.  And we’ve done our fair share of Jill Andrews solo project promotion, but now it’s Sam Quinn’s turn.  We caught Quinn at a sold out show at The Evening muse and meant to ask him who was living in his beard.  Never got the chance, but it tis a glorious beard.

Sam Quinn’s first solo album,The Fake That Sunk 1,000 Ships, will come out May 11th on Ramsuer Records and might be his saddest to date.  “This album is so down it’s ridiculous,” he said in a statement. “It’s real stuff I was going through, a real bad year in my life so I just wanted to hash it out and get over it. It’s real—it’s not about hopping trains or coal mining or making liquor.”

It was only seven years ago when Australian rocker’s Jet burst onto the international music scene with their hit song “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” with a little help from an Apple commercial. Seven years and 4 million albums sold later, Jet is still on the world stage touring the States and performing at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Jet will be in town this Saturday headlining a St. Patrick’s day lineup that includes a variety of acts, including Saosin, Robert Earl Keen and Sequoyah Prep School.

We had the opportunity to chat with Jet’s Mark Wilson about the evolution of music over the last ten years, their performance at the Olympics, the fact that advertisers love their songs, their advice for local bands trying to get ahead in their music scene and how they celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Australia.

Jet On Playing at the Olympics

Just two weeks ago, Jet took the world stage performing at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.  “It was kind of crazy because we played right after an event and everyone came running up to the stage when we started.” Jet took the stage for an hour and ten minute set, playing in a one inch puddle from the rain pouring in on them.  Good practice for a St. Patrick’s day that has in recent years, been more renowned for the amount of rain than anything else. Unfortunately for Jet, the Olympics were an in and out event. Hopefully they’ll have time to enjoy a green beer or two in 5 points Saturday. Will Group Therapy have Green Fosters on tap?

The Evolution of Music in the 2000’s

“I think we were the first ones to do the IPod commercial and now it has become an almost sacred spot. Bands die to get on that you know.”

The evolution of music and the way it is promoted has changed more in the last ten years more than it ever has. As a band, Jet has grown up and changed with the times of music promotion and made the most of it. “When we started there was no such thing as Youtube, Myspace, Twitter and Itunes…I guess Itunes was where we started.” Mark discussed in a kind of nostalgic way how no one really understood how these things were relevant at first. “It was weird to have none of that, then have your managers telling you, you need to be online more.” We basically went from an era where rock stars seemed untouchable and inaccessible, to an era where they are forced to be more “in touch” with their fans.

This led us into the discussion about the fact that advertisers seem to be drawn towards their songs. In the last couple of months their songs have been used by Bud Light, Victoria’s Secret and they set the bar being featured on the IPod commercial in 2003. “I think we were the first ones to do the IPod commercial and now it has become an almost sacred spot. Bands die to get on that you know.”

Jet on getting started as a band

“Before you start something, you want to make sure it’s fucking awesome before you do it”

From there we brought the conversation back down to our level and discussed how local bands should work to try and get ahead and what they did to get their music career started.”When we were starting out, instead of trying to just book shows every weekend in our local area, we would rehearse a lot and really work on recording ourselves, just on four tracks really cheaply. Just make sure your songs are really good before you go out. There’s not many things you would go out there and do a shit job of. Before you start something, you want to make sure it’s fucking awesome before you do it”

This is really some of the best advice you could give a band.  Bands often rush the fact of playing shows, before they have a quality product to push.  Before Jet signed to Elektra their Dirty Sweet EP was good enough to get their music in front of the right people.

Do you celebrate St. Patrick’s day in Australia?

“America has this thing where you’ll celebrate being Irish if you weren’t born there…”

“I’m sure we do a little, but you guys kind of get right into ya know.  There’s not that many Irish people in Australia.  America has this thing where you’ll celebrate being Irish if you weren’t born there, but Australia you wouldn’t really do that.  I guess we really do celebrate it in Australia, but it’s really just the Irish people I guess.”  I don’t think it could have been said better.

Come out Saturday to the St. Patrick’s day festival in 5 Points and drink some Green beer with 1,000’s of people that aren’t Irish and sing along with your favorite Jet songs.

Friday March 12, 2019
- Santee Avenue – 5 Points -
5:30 – 5:45 Patchwork Medic
6:05 – 6:20 Mercy Mercy Me
6:40 – 6:55 kemp ridley.
7:15 – 7:30 Concrete Jumpsuit
7:50 – 8:05 Zach Fowler & The Essentials
8:25 – 8:40 Obraskai
8:50‐ Judging
9:35‐ Winner Announced

There’s nothing we love more than seeing 6 local bands battle it out against each other vying for a slot playing on the main stage at the St. Patrick’s day festival.  I look at it this way.  If kemp ridley. wins, they will be the best band to play on Saturday.

The winner of the Battle of the Bands will play on the Free Times stage at noon on Saturday the 13th.  The winner will also recieve a recording session from the Jam Room that will air on Time Warner Cable’s Local On‐ Demand.  Channel 1234 I believe.

For the past three months at Scene SC we have been working hard behind the scenes on our new “Fuel The Scene” project.  The shirts, sampler, stickers, practically everything we’re doing is part of a grand idea where we give back to the music scene and somehow make it better.

So as we release the sampler today and put our T-Shirts and stickers for sale tomorrow, I’ll let you know a little bit more about the Fuel The Scene project.

We are all about being green, so we also decided to recycle our money.  After we recoup our costs with each item of merchandise, we will give a percentage of the profits back to touring bands and bands in need of money.  It might not be huge amounts at first, but it will be something and hopefully it will grow into something huge.

Examples of where the profits might go would be maybe a donation to a SC bands Kickstarter campaign, or a prepaid credit card, gas card or just a small care package given to bands on tour from around the nation.

Thankfully we’ve had help getting everything done as inexpensively as possible so that we can get the money back into bands pockets faster.

So help out the music scene by purchasing a sampler, a shirt or a sticker.  We’ll have more stuff coming soon, so keep your eyes peeled.

19 Bands, Four Stages, All for $15 or $11 advanced purchase – less than the cost of admission at most live music venues with only one act performing. Get your advanced tickets now!

Bud Light | Rock 93.5 Stage

12:10 1:10 2:20 3:30 4:45

Shallow Palace Deepfield Villanova Saosin Jet

Direct Auto | Free Times Stage

Noon 12:40 1:30 2:20 4:45

Battles of the Bands Winner Sequoyah Prep School John Satterfield Josh Roberts and the Hinges Robert Earl Keen

Five Points Stage

12:10 1:10 2:20 3:30 4:45

The Skelligs Foxy Shazam Ballyoo The Movement Perpetual Groove

Fountain Stage

12:40 1:50 3:00 4:15

Celtic Blue Long Miles Dangermuffin Justin Smith and Folk Hop Band

On March 6th the House of Hardcore brings Former Thieves with Into It. Over It. and Dire Wolf.

Dire Wolf is a hardcore band from Michigan.  They sound a little like Converge, but more so like Integrity.  They have that heavy doom sound with faster parts intertwined.  They are coming off the release of their most recent EP-Gloom (self-released).  You can find both their EPs (Gloom and self-titled) free on their myspace.

Into It. Over It. seems a little out of the place for this show, considering he is a singer/songwriter but don’t jump to conclusions, Into It. Over It. Is good stuff.  Into It. Into It. Over It. Is a solo project of Evan Weiss (The Progress, It’s A King Thing, Up Up Down Down), and 52 weeks was born from his goal to write one song a week for 52 weeks starting on his 23rd birthday.  Some of his vocals remind me of Minus the Bear without the technicalities but other times it is similar to Bright Eyes or Death Cab for Cutie.

http://intoitoverit.com/

Former Thieves – Control and Illusion (LIVE) from Tim Dodd on Vimeo.

Former Thieves is a heavy punk band from Iowa.  This band is one of the more intense up and coming band.  They blend a heavy technical sound with bursts of energy, reminiscent of Brain Worms, Pianos Become The Teeth, or Touche Amore.  Former Thieves is touring on their 12” The Great and The Alleged Great (Mayfly Records).  This 5 song LP is full of energy and dark lyrics, and one would expect their live performance to be complementary.

http://www.myspace.com/formerthieves
http://www.mayflyrecords.net/?page_id=3

Show Information:
http://www.myspace.com/carolinacorebookingamppromotions
http://schardcore.blogspot.com/
http://houseofhardcoresc.blogspot.com

(Photo Courtesy of Kathrine Brock)

Everyone out there is announcing that Band of Horses is releasing their highly anticipated third album Infinite Arms May 18th and that’s great news and all.  I’ve been looking forward to it for a long time.  But the cool thing about the new album is the tour that goes along with it.  And the cool thing about the tour that goes with it, is that they are bring two great SC bands along with them for some of the shows.

Columbia’s own Josh Roberts and the Hinges will join BoH on their Florida tour dates and Charleston’s Co. will kick off the tour with them in Colorado and join them at SXSW.

Oh yeah, some of these dates are with some bands I’ve never heard of called He and Shem,Widespread Panik, Pavement and Broken Social Scene.

03-15 Boulder, CO – Fox Theater
03-16 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
03-18 Austin, TX – Stubbs BBQ
03-19 Austin, TX – Central Presbyterian Church
04-08 Paris, France – La Fleche D’or
04-09 Brussels, Belgium – Orangerie
04-10 Rotterdam, Netherlands – Motel Mozaique
04-12 London, England – Koko
04-14 Cologne, Germany – Kulturkirche
04-16 Oslo, Norway – Rockefeller
04-17 Gothenburg, Sweden – Tradgarn
04-18 Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega
04-23 Raleigh, NC – Walnut Creek Amphitheater *
04-24 Raleigh, NC – Walnut Creek Amphitheater *
04-27 Gainesville, FL – University of Florida’s Rion Ballroom
04-28 Miami, FL – The Fillmore
04-29 Orlando, FL – House of Blues
05-01 New Orleans, LA – Jazzfest
05-30 Bend, OR – Les Schwab Amphitheater #
05-31 George, WA – Sasquatch
06-05 Bangor, Ireland – Ward Park !
06-09 London, England – Roundhouse
06-12 Glasgow, Scotland – Bellahouston Park !
06-19 Toronto, Ontario – Olympic Island $
09-25 Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre

* with Widespread Panic
# with She & Him
! with Snow Patrol
$ with Pavement, Broken Social Scene

More photos from Band of Horses at the Music Farm in Charleston.