…a brand new festival experience comes to Charleston…
PITSTOP ROSter
FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS
A psych band on steroids. Fuzzed out leads, freaky synths, heavy and motorik, and my favorite thing to say about them - deceptively a right hand band - as in their secret weapon is their funk and the power in their rhythms. They know how to put a crowd in a blender.
SNOOPER
A blistering fast punk band. Feral live shows. And a deeper world that the band has built with video compositions, puppets, and dystopian lyrics. The combination of theatre, punk, dance beats, and their frenetic pace gives lead singer Blair Tramel all the space to command a pit yet bring lightness to a crumbling world with grace. Lose yourself to Snooper.
GOOD FLYING BIRDS
They’ve been key players in stoking a flame for scrappy guitar music that seems to grow by the day. The influence of jangly lo-fi/DIY heavyweights who came before like - Guided By Voices, the Feelings, etc - is prevalent, but they carry a unique charm all their own. Their debut record is an infectious, charming, light hearted affair filled yet filled with grit and so so many licks. Guitar players (specifically of the Fender variety): prepare to fall in love.
ART STAR
It’s all a bit dystopian these days. Look around. And the sound of the apocalypse? Art Star’s enormous and dissonant music sounds like mountains falling, like an earthquake. Singer Mia Mendez presides over the tracks like a maniacal preacher who warned of this fate - intense and assured. Charlestonians love life in their beautiful bubble - Art Star aims to pop it to reveal what’s really going on.
Jalen Reyes
JR and the band create a lush country and soul portrait of life using their home of Savannah as their main muse. Their record, Magic Stew, is filled with sax, string arrangements, church bells, and Bible verses that sounds equal parts Bill Withers and The Band. This band and voice is destined for greatness.
ART STAR
It’s all a bit dystopian these days. Look around. And the sound of the apocalypse? Art Star’s enormous and dissonant music sounds like mountains falling, like an earthquake. Singer Mia Mendez presides over the tracks like a maniacal preacher who warned of this fate - intense and assured. Charlestonians love life in their beautiful bubble - Art Star aims to pop it to reveal what’s really going on.