The band started in Auburn, an otherwise conservative college town where bizarre-ness was often met with intense gratitude from students hungry for quirky diversions.
The Jinx
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Woggles rock but they don’t fall down
‘We’ve learned we get a lot more out of SXSW when we spend the whole week in Austin playing shows, as opposed to just playing a few gigs.’
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Stopover spotlight: Speedy Ortiz
‘I’ve always just been more interested in bands that focus more on wordplay, or not being 100 percent straightforward.’
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Stopover Shorts, Part Deux
Mini-profiles of Caitlin Rose, Raccoon Fighter, Kylesa, Born Cages, the Weeks and the Black Cadillacs.
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Stopover spotlight: Peelander-Z
The four Japanese musicians clown and cavort amongst giant squids and lizards.
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Lucero returns to the Jinx Jan. 27
“Since we started, there were kind of too many rules at the punk rock shows,” Nichols says. “If it didn’t sound like this then it wasn’t cool. If you weren’t dressed like this it wasn’t cool.”
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Perfect Pussy, Beach Weather, Sins of Godless Men: It’s a banda-palooza!
Hang Fire, Graveface, and The Jinx bring some great bands to heat up your January.
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Oi! It’s Micky Fitz and the Business
It’s anthemic, soccer-match punk, and its association with angry violence (not to mention that many of the early Oi! fans were card-carrying skinheads who lived by the far right) led some in the tarty U.K. music press to tag it “punk’s idiot half-brother.”
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Back to the Futurebirds
The Nov. 21 Jinx show is also the announcement party for the 2014 Savannah Stopover.
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The Jinx: 10 years and counting
It’s also Cigar Box Guitar Weekend, at Dub’s Pub.
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Time to give it up for Niche
The band is raw and riff-based, with swirls of psychedelia, swamp blues and even prog. There’s a definite and very welcome ’70s feel.
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Can I have some more Sweet Tease?
“Many people don’t realize that back in the day, there was a lot of comedy in burlesque,” Wendy Denney says. “And our show is a mixture of a throwback to old-school stuff, and maybe neo-burlesque.”