It’s never been said that five is the most popular number out there. Sure you can count easy when counting by five and of course fifth anniversaries can be fun but in todays crazy music world where more is good and even more is the ultimate in excess more often than not, five is [...]
Now I’ll be the first to admit that lately I’ve been a bit slack as far as getting out to see local shows and no one has to tell me how much worse I’ve been at kicking out show reviews. My fingers are telling me well enough by the awkwardness due to lack of keyboard [...]
The Jeremy Graham Band - JGB EP
With a history that dates back to 1992 as part of the highly successful regional touring Augusta act Shiloh, the Jeremy Graham Band is a fine-tuned, tried and true six-piece country band peppered with straight up rock & roll. With all that the members have accomplished over the [...]
This recently offered DVD featuring Augusta blues band Electric Voodoo is a well put-together spotlight presentation that appears to possibly be the debut/pilot episode for a visual media show simply titled “The Show”. Hosted, produced and filmed by Brian D. Matthews for BDMatthews Films, the program is listed a “a behind-the-scenes look at Augusta’s Arts [...]
For over a decade Atlanta’s Mad Margritt have been keeping the flame of eighties hard rock alive, all the while showing where the music of the “spandex generation” may have ended up had it not been for those gloomy flannel wearing gen x-ers wielding guitars (and a severe shoe gazing fetish) in [...]
For the uniformed outsider it may seem as if the grand pop tunes of the band S just dropped out of the sky. Quite the contrary, while S is relatively new by band standard, their rock and roll roots run deep along the timeline of local Augusta music history.
The brainchild of Billy S, an [...]
Shotgun Opera is not your typical Augusta band. Sure you may be asking yourself “what exactly IS a typical Augusta band?” Fair enough but whatever the answer may be, it certainly isn’t Shotgun Opera.
Imagine three very vocal men who look like they would be more comfortable in a steel cage wrestling match than on a [...]
The Yayhoos play good ol’ fashioned red blooded American rock & roll! Not surprising when you consider the Yayhoos are an American quartet made of mostly southern bred rockers. So how come it is then, an American band that most of American has never heard of, tours and performs for a rabid following in places [...]
One part classic rock, one part modern rock, several parts energy and passion, TAILORED is an Augusta band that bridges the power of rock and the emotion of Christianity. One listen to their self-titled debut release is enough to make anyone realize that fact.
Songs like “The Light” praise the almighty with a modern rock sacrifice [...]