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Freak ACtivity

Greenville punk. Fast, loud.

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freakactivity/

Bandcamp: https://meltedmind.bandcamp.com/album/monster-feelings

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Cody Gentry

Americana artist rooted in the Upstate.

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Instagram: @codygentrymusic

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/29YaQFKU1KS61ecsjOYfGn

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Calypso

Greenville-based classical project — delicate and understated.


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Bandcamp: https://calypso21.bandcamp.com/album/3-forgotten-waltzes

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Androyd Skin

Self described as dark wave, drone, synth.

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Instagram: @androyd_skin

Bandcamp: https://androydskin.bandcamp.com/

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A Colossal Hand

Solo project from John Woodruff. One album on Bandcamp, The Last Good Days — sparse and introspective.

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Instagram: @acolossalhand
Bandcamp: https://acolossalhand.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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Blindstrike

Greenville grunge with a live presence that earns it

Blindstrike are a grunge band from Greenville, and they are in the early, hungry part of it. Playing Swanson's Warehouse and the Radio Room, opening bills alongside bands like The Indoor Kids and Razorgrave. The name fits the music and the moment: a band that arrived without much warning and intends to make some noise about it. The Upstate grunge scene is not a crowded place, but can not wait to see what this band can bring to the scene

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Benny Hagerty

Benny Hagerty plays folk, blues, and bluegrass like a man who has no interest in being anything other than exactly himself.

Benny Hagerty picked up a guitar at thirteen and never really put it back down. The Greenville singer-songwriter plays Appalachian folk and blues — intimate and acoustic. He spent years playing local restaurants and private events before going full-time in 2024. Debut single "Quittin’ Time" in March of that year. "Gamblin’ Blues" two months later.

Benny Hagerty — vocals, guitar

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Darby Wilcox and the Peep Show

Ten years deep in the Upstate scene with a debut album that sounds like a decade's worth of living distilled into something raw and unhurried — Darby Wilcox is the real thing.

Darby Wilcox has been doing this for a decade in Greenville, and she has earned every bit of the praise she gets. The singer-songwriter and self-proclaimed Mayor of Babetown — a community she founded on the radically simple premise of babes supporting babes — plays that Americana which pulls directly from the Joss Stone and Janis Joplin end of the dial: soulful, direct, tender. Usually found with The Peep Show backing her up the way a good band should, dynamically flowing as one. HerDebut album 11:11 in 2018. EP It's OK in 2023. Fall for Greenville. The Brooks Center. The Radio Room. A decade of showing up and meaning it, and she's still just getting started.

Members: Darby Wilcox (vocals, guitar) with The Peep Show

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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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Brass Tongue

DIY to the bone and Upstate Music Award winners before most people knew their name

Brass Tongue formed in Greenville in early 2022 and their debut EP, Dangerous World Demo, won the Upstate Music Award and made them a staple before most people could spell their name right. They are, by all accounts, a band that sets the tone.

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Your Spirit Dies

Five people from small Southern towns who were never supposed to leave — Your Spirit Dies made it to MNRK Heavy and a national touring circuit anyway, and the music sounds exactly like that feels.

Your Spirit Dies came out of South Carolina carrying the weight of every small town that ever told someone to stay put and die quiet, and they have been refusing that directive loudly ever since. "We're five people who were born in small towns in the South," said vocalist Brandon Byars. "We were never supposed to leave these places; we were 'supposed' to live and die here. For us, the simple fact we're doing this is huge." Two EPs deep into the Greenville scene before signing to MNRK Heavy for their full-length debut, My Gnawing Pains Will Never Rest.

Members: Brandon Byars (vocals), Tyler Dorman (guitars), Holden Hall (guitars), Keagan McChesney (bass), Brannon Crumpton (drums)

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Reviler

High-energy, relentless, and built from scratch in a group chat — Reviler arrived in 2022 and became the heartbeat of Greenville's hardcore resurgence almost immediately

Reviler crawled out of Greenville, South Carolina in late 2022 with nothing but a group chat, some scrapped demos, and an agreement that the music would be relentless or it would be nothing. They've been making good on that promise ever since — playing two-plus shows a month, booking their own tours from the Carolinas down to Jacksonville and all the way to Puerto Rico, pressing cassettes by hand, drawing their own logos.

Members: Will Belue (vocals), Randall Rainey (guitar), Tyler Watson (bass), Brett Wilbanks (drums)

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Reedy River String Band

Three writers, three singers, three-part harmony — playing boot-stomping Appalachian roots music from Greenville

Three writers, three singers, three-part harmony — Reedy River String Band play the kind of boot-stomping Appalachian music that makes you feel like you've been missing something your whole life, which you have, and they've been making that case around the world.

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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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WVRM

They call it "grinding self-hatred" and mean every word — WVRM are Greenville's working class made loud, four men on Prosthetic Records who sound like the city's prettified downtown skyline collapsing

They call it "grinding self-hatred" and mean every word — WVRM are Greenville's working class made loud, four men on Prosthetic Records who sound like the city's prettified downtown skyline collapsing.

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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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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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