Nice! I love kayaking in the creeks around here. Always lots of dolphins to be seen and reminds me what’s nice about living here. There are just endless creeks to explore in the entire Charleston area and you could spend a lifetime discovering more and more natural beauty. Whether on a kayak, a boat, or even on foot. It’s probably the best thing about Charleston, for me.
I fully agree with this sentiment especially in regards to the recent beef in the Charleston music scene where Tyrie caught heat for an old collaboration with Anfernee. I strongly disagreed with the hater’s take on that one.
Our music scene is way too small to be pissed off that one artist collaborated with another.
Jtrawwww – “Somebody Else” ft. CrucialBGR & 803 Gee
Mister Morning – “Mean”
CARLS – “Sweet Tipsy Winkle”
Single Sparrow – “Tiny Shovels”
Godwin Falcon – “Bro Big or Bro Home”
Cannon Rogers – “Abel’s Blues”
Space Armadillo – “Dr. Gabel”
Little Stranger – “God at a Festival” with Andy Frasco
A.O. Wilder – “On The Run”
S’Way and the Apostrophe – “Wear It Out”
P!lot – “Or Lack Thereof”
Conor Donohue – “Feel That Hit”
Long Money Phil – “A Black King”
Nimo Bluus – “German Motors in Paris”
Tom Mackell – “Shitbag”
Spencer Thomas – “The Joke of Life”
Futurebirds – “Bloom”
Orebolo – “Rockdale”
Phish – “Evolve”
I think we are going to change this playlist up soon. It will no longer be “New Music Radar” only. Because I don’t agree with the push to always be putting out new stuff anymore. Let’s slow it down. Let’s make something really good and focus on that for a while, and give it the life it deserves. Not saying don’t keep making new stuff, but this small playlist will take the pressure off. Your music isn’t ever “too old” for our playlist.
If you participate in the community, and you share music, we will add it to the playlist. Offer is good until the community gets too busy to stick with that plan. Which will happen because… I don’t give up.
I’ll still put new music on this playlist. But it’s going to become something like the “Community Playlist” and it will be sourced from things posted in this forum. I’ll figure it out by the time I make the next update.
I’m working on an article about Phish Festivals in anticipation of Mondegreen this summer and I came across this amazing “Bathtub Gin” from the Great Went. Just wow.
This is shaping up to be one of the coolest articles I’ve written to date. Hopefully Big Hassle PR will agree and give me a media pass to Mondegreen so I can write an epic story about my experience and make my personal contribution to Phish lore.
“Hey everyone, it’s with a bittersweet heart that we want to let you all know that the time has come for us to move on from the festival baby we helped bring into the world 7 years ago @highwaterfest …We will no longer be serving as partners and curators going forward but we do so with endless gratitude and love for all the time we spent out on the waterfront with you. It has been a true honor to play a part in bringing some of our favorite bands and people together in our beautiful home town. This isn’t the forum to get into the gory details of music festival economics, but trust us when we say that it’s tough out there, and the moves that almost all festivals have made in recent years to make those economics work have also pulled the event in a direction that is out of reach of what our vision for High Water was and hoped it could remain. To be clear, this a loving break-up. The individuals who have been working on High Water from the very beginning are some of the best people in the music business and have worked tirelessly each year to bring this event to life. We want to publicly thank them for all their hard work, and to our friends and family who did SO much behind the scenes, you know who you are and we love you for it. High Water will live on, and we hope people continue to have fun and hear great music by the water each year. Thank you for all the joy and beautiful moments!”
My Thoughts on this
Well, we’re probably screwed now. To me, this announcement means that Live Nation is going to double down on the corporate greed for next year’s event, and we will very likely end up with even more BS. I would love to be proven wrong but I strongly doubt that High Water will take any steps towards enriching Charleston’s community now that Shovels & Rope are no longer involved.
The divide between the cool independent entities and the evil corporate overlords in the music industry continues to grow. This trend is likely to continue until either all the independent people give up (not happening in my lifetime) or Live Nation goes under (or bends the knee).
Here’s the “SeaStar” video since it hasn’t been posted in here yet
And “One Stop Shop”, another one
I love how they make videos for so many of their songs. And it’s a lot of DIY collabs with other creatives, self-directed, coming up with their own ideas. Band is good.
I’m going, obviously. I’m planning to get there pretty early but I may take you up on a ride home if I enjoy myself a couple of Crispy Lofi Mexican Lagers
