Experimental Cory Rogers Experimental Cory Rogers

Wasted Wine

Nearly two decades in and still the weirdest popular band in Greenville — violin-shredding, fire-accompanied, and completely uncategorizable in the best possible way.

Wasted Wine are what happens when two men decide that gypsy violin, cabaret rock, and the ghost of Nick Cave all belong in the same room together — the Greenville Journal called it "a bouncy burlesque-style romp" and NPR's Bob Boilen called it "a bastard child of David Lynch and Nick Cave," and both of them are correct and neither of them is entirely right.

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Experimental Cory Rogers Experimental Cory Rogers

Valentine Wolf

Braxton Ballew plays double bass for the Greenville Symphony by day and conjures Victorian ghost music with vocalist Sarah Black by night — the strangest and most essential duo this city has produced.

Sarah Black and Braxton Ballew have been conjuring something genuinely strange in Greenville since 2006 — two people who decided that gothic literature and 18th century opera were not mutually exclusive with playing shows in South Carolina..

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