I’d never been to high tea and I’d never been to Summerville, SC, so I did not know what to expect when my group finally arrived at Time Well Spent after a wee detour on our way home from a conference. We’d found the place online and made reservations for high tea earlier [...]
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Mustard’s Last Stand
I’ve traveled a lot more over the past year than I probably have in my life combined, and I’ve learned a lot about finding the charming, weird, and awesome in any given place, though many would argue that the charming and weird seek me out just as much as I stumble upon them. [...]
The Whiskey Jar
It’s Thursday night. Loud bluegrass fills the air, liquor is flowing, and people are crammed in, hugging those with familiar faces, laughing, and dancing in between the tables. This is The Whiskey Jar, and it’s Charlottesville, Virginia’s newest addition to the local food scene. I sat down with Will Richey, one of the owners, to [...]
Music Review: Emotional Traffic
Ten albums and tens of millions of record sales in, and suddenly Tim McGraw is going to court. Flashback to early 2011: Curb Records, the label that released every one of McGraw’s albums for the last two decades, claims McGraw’s breaching his contract and trying to skip out early. The album’s coming [...]
Music Review: Radioactive
Gadsden, AL’s Yelawolf can’t be easily mentioned without the phrase “white rapper” following within the same breath, but he’s making his big splash, his name popping up on YouTube channels, his mixtapes surrounded by buzz and such, so that’s what hipped me to Radioactive, his first official album release through Eminem’s record label Shady [...]
Music Review: Set the Dial and Rest
It would be impossible to discuss Southern music without Southern metal. Angry, savage, ass-kicking, and brilliant, whether it’s thick-as-cement stoner riffing or growling doom, you can almost smell the sweat and grease. From icons like Pantera to ongoing powerhouses like Mastodon, some of the finest and heaviest music is being cooked up and spilled out [...]
Music Review: The Way Sound Leaves a Room
I was introduced to Denton,TX’s Sarah Jaffe through a few weird twists of fate; her October 19th CMJ show included her on the same bill as my friend’s boyfriend’s band, my coworker is a huge fan, and on her new EP, The Way Sound Leaves A Room, she kicks off with a spare, [...]
Music Review: Own the Night
Consider: Lady Antebellum’s popularity mirrors that of fellow Nashvillian Taylor Swift. Both totally swept the Grammys, both had singles from their breakout albums splashed constantly across the radio bands, and both soon released follow-up albums that play to the strengths that fuel their respective popularity-rockets. Like Swift’s Speak Now, Lady Antebellum’s Own The Night [...]
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