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Sawyer Norman

Give’s me a little midwest emo with its own Upstate vibe

“Introspective and earnest, Sawyer Norman has an old head on his shoulders and likes to ruminate on faith, growing up, and love lost and found. He’s not one to wag his acumen in your face, though. His understated jams are handled with tenderness and even a dash of humor. He’s folk-rock's humblest sweetheart, and he’s glad you’ve decided to stop by” - as described by by Jackson Lyda

Instagram: @poopycowboy

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wsUTWCLIUiW0qwVdzk7y7

Bandcamp: https://sawyernorman.bandcamp.com/

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Splitwave

Four-piece alt-rock from Greenville that arrived in 2023 fully independent and already winning over crowds.

Splitwave crashed into the Greenville scene in the fall of 2023. The four-piece indie alt-rock band built their first year entirely in-house: shows, music videos, artwork, all of it independent. They debuted their single "Silver Lines" in March 2024, "Waterfall" came in the new year after that. In November 2024, they won the Crowd Favorite vote at WSBF's Battle of the Bands in Clemson without a major release to their name. Frontman and visual artist Stephen Sholty describes the whole enterprise as a reckoning with existential dread that somehow also finds room for wonder. That's a hard thing to pull off. They're pulling it off.

Members: Stephen Sholty (vocals), David Fowler (drums), Jacob Bradford (guitar), Kyle Phillips (guitar)

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Sunhouse

Formed in 2022 and already sounding fully formed — Sunhouse are the indie rock band Greenville didn't know it needed until the Radio Room sold out for their debut album release.

Sunhouse started in the summer of 2022 in Greenville with six songs and a sound that arrived, in the words of Vincent Harris of the Greenville Journal's Upstate Beat, "fully formed." Four people pulling from indie rock, '80s pop, folk, and grunge and somehow landing somewhere that sounds like none of those things exactly and all of them at once. Their debut album, No One's Home, took more than a year to create, a labor of love that Rice called an achievement just to finish. And when they finally played the release show at the Radio Room in November 2024, it felt less like a local band milestone and more like a quiet arrival. Swanson's Warehouse. The Radio Room. Athens. Charleston. The rooms keep getting a little bigger, and the songs keep holding up.

Members: Sawyer Rice (vocals, guitar), Charlotte Rice (vocals, guitar), Evan Tate (bass), Brandon Sewell (drums)

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Slow Funeral

Slow Funeral is Greenville's most quietly devastating rock act, and she's just getting started.

Slow Funeral is what happens when a woman from the South Carolina Piedmont decides, against the advice of everyone sensible, to make the album she's been carrying around in her chest since she was sixteen.

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