Music in the Midlands, Aug. 27-Sept. 2
Atlas Road Crew and special guests Major and the Monbacks
Bluesy rock band Atlas Road Crew will play the final Five After Five concert of the summer in Five Points on Thursday, Aug. 27.
Named for the road in front of their original practice space in Columbia, Atlas Road Crew started out playing cover songs at Pavlov’s in Five Points as students at the University of South Carolina. The band, which now calls Charleston home, likes to refer to itself not as Southern rock but “Southeastern rock.” It’s an appropriate designation, given the ever-widening touring area that the group crisscrosses. Atlas Road Crew will play more than 200 shows this year promoting its first full-length studio effort, “Halfway to Hopkins.”
Major and the Monbacks, an eight-piece retro rock ’n’ roll ensemble from Norfolk, Va., will open.
6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27 at the Five Points Fountain. Free; www.fivepointscolumbia.com.
Others Around the Midlands
Seryn: This six-piece band from Denton, Texas, layers guitars, ukulele, accordion, bass, violin, banjo, percussion and harmonies for an indie folk-pop sound.
Seryn is Nathan James Allen, Trenton Wheeler, Aaron David Stoner and Jordan Rochefort. NPR once featured Seryn on an “All Songs Considered” show dedicated to “Bands That Should Be Bigger.” The group is still gunning for a big break and has relocated to Nashville, Tenn., in pursuit of it.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2 at New Brookland Tavern, 122 State St., West Columbia. www.newbrooklandtavern.com.
Piano rock outfit The Fire Tonight, neo-psychedelic pop musician Marshall Brown and country rocker Danny Joe Machado play at Conundrum in advance of their new full-length albums.
8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29 at Conundrum, 626 Meeting St., West Columbia. $10 in advance, $12 at the door; www.conundrum.us
The Wes Cook Band is a Tennessee-based country and Southern rock band.
10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28 at Tin Roof Columbia, 1022 Senate St.; www.tinroofcolumbia.com.
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This story was originally published August 25, 2015 at 5:24 PM with the headline "Music in the Midlands, Aug. 27-Sept. 2."