Savannah Stopover 2014 Preview

Ever since Austin’s South-by-Southwest mutated into the megasaurus that it is today, cities across the southeast have been trying to catch bands on their way to or from the...
Savannah Stopover

Savannah Stopover 2014 Preview

Ever since Austin’s South-by-Southwest mutated into the megasaurus that it is today, cities across the southeast have been trying to catch bands on their way to or from the festival, especially ‘indie cities’ with lots of college kids and a blue tinge in their red states.  The best of these is easily Savannah Stopover, which has upped in its fourth year in terms of number of acts and their size.  So stopover in Savannah, Thursday to Saturday, March 6th to 8th:

 

WeekendThursday, March 6

Artist Lounge (21+)
8:30pm – mumbledust
9:30pm – TBA

City Coffee, 125 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd (All Ages)
9:00pm – Spires
10:00pm – Triathalon
11:00pm – Nothing
12:00am – Weekend

Weekend (QRO photos) come to Savannah Stopover behind last year’s Jinx (QRO review), and it’s kind of ‘epic shoegaze’.

Club One, 1 Jefferson St. (21+)
Future Islands10:30pm – Weekender
11:30pm – DEGA
12:30am – Future Islands

Baltimore’s Future Islands (QRO photos) play a darker form of synth-pop.

Congress Street Social Club, 411 West Congress St. (21+)
10:00pm – The Silver Palms
11:00pm – The Black Cadillacs
12:00am – J Roddy Walston & The Business

Roddy Walston brings the rock, both as frontman for J Roddy Walston & The Business (QRO photos outdoors) and solo.

Bear HandsHang Fire Bar, 37 Whitaker St. (21+)
9:00pm – Fare The Gap
10:00pm – Team Spirit
11:00pm – Total Slacker
12:00am – Miniature Tigers

Knights of Columbus, 3 West Liberty St. (All Ages)
7:00pm – Good Graeff
8:00pm – St. Paul & The Broken Bones
9:45pm – Incan Abraham
10:30pm – Bear Hands
11:30pm – Wye Oak

At Savannah Stopover is friend-of-the-Q Bear Hands (QRO spotlight on).  Their alt-punk is more skilled than most in the genre (or the borough – QRO photos in Brooklyn), as seen in 2010’s great full-length debut, Burning Bush Supper Club (QRO review).  Fronted by the engaging Val Lopez & Dylan Rau (QRO interview with both), they play well at festivals (QRO photos at a festival), including U.K.’s Leeds (QRO live review), and outdoors like Prospect Park in Brooklyn (QRO photos in Prospect Park).  Coming to Savannah just after the release of their new Distraction (QRO review), look for the great new material from the band (QRO photos)– even improvised songs (QRO video) – as well as old like “Vietnam” (QRO video) and newer like “Crime Pays” (QRO video) and “Giants” (QRO review).

From Baltimore is the duo of Andy Stack & Jenn Wasner, a.k.a. Wye Oak (QRO live review). While records like debut If Children (QRO review), follow-up The Knot (QRO review), and 2012’s Civilian (QRO review) tackle the sweeter indie-folk side of things, live (QRO live review) the band rocks a lot harder, especially Wasner’s axe (QRO photos at a festival).  They come to Savannah Stopover in the run-up to next month’s release of Shriek.

The Jinx, 127 West Congress St. (21+)
10:00pm – Irata
Wye Oak11:00pm – Darkentries
12:00am – Burnt Books
1:00am – Kylesa

 

 

 

Friday, March 7

Abe’s on Lincoln, 17 Lincoln St. (21+)
4:00pm – Christopher Paul Stelling
5:00pm – TBA

By now Brooklyn’s Christopher Paul Stelling (QRO album review) is a regular at Savannah Stopover (QRO photos at Savannah Stopover ’13), and is playing both Friday & Saturday at the festival (see below).

Congress Street Social Club, 411 West Congress St. (All Ages)
4:00pm – Sauna Heat
Christopher Paul Stelling5:00pm – Triathalon
6:00pm – Cretin Girls
7:00pm – J. Zagers

Hang Fire Bar, 37 Whitaker St. (21+)
4:00pm – Crazy Bag Lady
5:00pm – Tweens
6:00pm – The Teen Age

The Jinx, 127 West Congress St. (21+)
4:00pm – Whiskey Dick
5:00pm – WoolFolk
6:00pm – Juan Wauters

 

 

Artist Lounge (21+)
7:00pm – TBA
8:00pm – TBA

City Coffee, 125 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd (All Ages)
9:30pm – Tennis System
10:30pm – Juan Wauters
11:30pm – Public Service Broadcasting

Not the BBC or PBS, Public Service Broadcasting (QRO live review) use samples from old public information films & propaganda material to, “Teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future.”

Club One, 1 Jefferson St. (21+)
10:00pm – Leverage Models
11:00pm – Black Taxi
12:00am – Brothertiger

Public Service BroadcastingCongress Street Social Club, 411 West Congress St. (21+)
10:00pm – New Madrid
11:00pm – T. Hardy Morris
12:00am – Thomas Wynn & The Believers

Hang Fire Bar, 37 Whitaker St. (21+)
10:30pm – Starlight Girls
11:30pm – Ski Lodge
12:30am – TEEN

Knights of Columbus, 3 West Liberty St. (All Ages)
9:30pm – July Talk
10:30pm – The Belle Game
11:30pm – Matrimony
12:30am – Those Darlins

Tennessee Appalachian trio Those Darlins (QRO photos at a festival) have managed to get serious attention in the indiesphere, thanks to connections like producer Jeff Curtin (QRO interview – of Small Black, see below, and also producer of Vampire Weekend – QRO live review), or ukulele-ist Nikki Darlin failed engagement to Deer Tick singer/guitarist John McCauley (he even popped the question while Darlin was guest-spotting on stage with Deer Tick – QRO photos).  But the lovely ladies’ (QRO photos) backwoods sound can more than hold its own, like on last year’s Blur the Line.

Moon River Beer Garden, 21 West Bay St. (All Ages)
6:00pm – The Accomplices
Those Darlins7:00pm – this mountain
8:00pm – River Whyless
9:00pm – Caitlin Rose

The Jinx, 127 West Congress St. (21+)
9:00pm – Bear Fight!
10:00pm – Pile
11:00pm – Big Ups
12:00am – Speedy Ortiz

 

 

 

Saturday, March 8

Congress Street Social Club, 411 West Congress St. (All Ages)
2:00pm – mumbledust
J Roddy Walston & The Business3:00pm – Anteo
4:00pm – Blackrune
5:00pm – Bedroom
6:00pm – Hallucinex

Ellis Square, Barnard St. & Congress St. (All Ages)
5:30pm – Missionary Blues
6:30pm – Los Colognes
7:30pm – Clear Plastic Masks
8:30pm – The Weeks

Hang Fire Bar, 37 Whitaker St. (21+)
3:00pm – Curtin
Wild Child4:00pm – Connections
5:00pm – ARP

Knights of Columbus, 3 West Liberty St. (All Ages)
2:30pm – COEDS
3:30pm – Coke Weed
4:30pm – Raccoon Fighter

The Jinx, 127 West Congress St. (21+)
4:00pm – Have Gun Will Travel
5:00pm – The Whiskey Gentry
6:00pm – Damon & The Shitkickers

Sean Nicholas SavageMoon River Beer Garden, 21 West Bay St. (All Ages)
3:00pm – Velvet Caravan
4:00pm – City Hotel
5:00pm – Wild Child
6:00pm – Hurray for the Riff Raff

 

 

Small BlackAbe’s on Lincoln, 17 Lincoln St. (21+)
10:00pm – TBA
11:00pm – TBA

Artist Lounge (21+)
8:00pm – Christopher Paul Stelling
9:00pm – TBA

By now Brooklyn’s Christopher Paul Stelling (QRO album review) is a regular at Savannah Stopover (QRO photos at Savannah Stopover ’13), and is playing both Friday & Saturday at the festival (see above).

City Coffee, 125 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd (All Ages)
9:00pm – Each Other
The Mary Onettes10:00pm – Sean Nicholas Savage
11:00pm – TORRES

Club One, 1 Jefferson St. (21+)
10:00pm – TEEN
11:00pm – Wild Party
12:00am – Sun Club

Congress Street Social Club, 411 West Congress St. (21+)
10:00pm – Heavenly Beat
11:00pm – Milagres
12:00am – The Mary Onettes

Savannah Stopover gets some sweet Swedish dream-pop in Jönköping’s accomplished The Mary Onettes (QRO album review), who come to Georgia just after the U.S. release of their new Portico.

Hang Fire Bar, 37 Whitaker St. (21+)
9:00pm – Sauna Heat
Oberhofer10:00pm – Cretin Girls
11:00pm – Bleeding Rainbow
12:00am – Ex Hex

Knights of Columbus, 3 West Liberty St. (All Ages)
10:00pm – Fever The Ghost
12:00am – Oberhofer
1:00am – Small Black

Brad Oberhofer founded his namesake band (QRO photos at a festival) to perform live shows, but it’s turned into a regular gig as things have gotten bigger & bigger for the band (QRO photos outdoors) since releasing debut Time Capsules II in 2012, not to mention last year’s Notalgia EP (QRO review).

Brooklyn’s more impressive chillwave act Small Black (QRO photos in Brooklyn) come to Savannah (QRO photos at a festival) behind last year’s exquisite Limits of Desire (QRO review).

Peelander-ZThe Jinx, 127 West Congress St. (21+)
9:30pm – Ambrose
10:30pm – PitchBlak Brass Band
11:30pm – Spirit Animal
12:30am – Peelander-Z

From the Z area of Planet Peelander comes the Japanese Action Comic Punk band Peelander-Z (QRO photos at a festival)!  Think a cross between The Ramones and The Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers.

 

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