Greenville may not have its own version of The Orange Peel or the Fillmore yet (+ no updates on The Firmament yet), but that doesn’t mean we don’t have dozens of Greenville bands recording + performing in the Upstate, thanks to our recording studios and smaller venues (and a community of local musicians working to keep the culture alive and well).
A few musicians you’ll often find performing in GVL: My Girl, My Whiskey & Me (currently touring the country after spending the past 3 years creating + performing here), Kylie Odetta (a pop/soul singer who’s written over 200 songs and opened for Gavin DeGraw), and Vilai Harrington (an Americana folk singer performing at Tipsy Music Pub tonight).
Here’s where the local artists are laying down the tracks you’ll be downloading soon:
- Sit-n-Spin Recording Studios has been producing everything from full albums to demos (including Darius Rucker’s) for the past 10 years on Augusta St.
Then there’s Future Chord, which manages and promotes acts, hosts music events in Greenville, and puts on Future Chord Fest, a yearly indie music festival. And Pablo Generation, a collective of young artists establishing their own creative community based around the Clemson venue Pablo.
Bookmark the Facebook pages + websites of these venues so you don’t miss a chance to see Greenville’s artists in action: The Radio Room, The Spinning Jenny, Smiley’s Acoustic Cafe, Chicora Alley, Blues Boulevard, Tipsy Music Pub + Gottrocks. Get down to everything from jazz to punk – we don’t judge.
If you want to know which bands to look for on the venue lineups, here are a few artists to start with (click below for more, and let us know who we missed):
The Marcus King Band, who has been playing with Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead), Chris Robinson (Black Crowes), Warren Haynes and Gov’t Mule, and will be opening a tour this summer for the Tedeschi Trucks Band.
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Independent music magazine SceneSC ranked South Carolina’s best music of 2017 + has tons of live videos of Greenville bands to explore. If you want to get even deeper into the music scene, binge-listen to Root Doctor Media’s Hoodoo Music Podcast, which interviews local musicians + is a great way to discover your next fave underground band.
Indie pop/rock
Blues/folk/country
Rap/hip-hop
