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Woodstock Reboot? This year almost saw the 50th-anniversary revival of the original Woodstock Music Festival, (August 15, 1969), but, unfortunately, it was canceled. A 25th anniversary and 30th-anniversary reboot were also disastrous. All this being said, Woodstock still remains the gold standard for a truly DIY festival. It was a festival so emblematic, that it […]

An Exploration of Country-Crossover Country music is often considered a “love it or hate it” genre, with a very particular sound and cultural context. However, in recent years, there has been more and more cross-over between country and the mainstream. Since today is International Country Music Day, let’s explore instances of country music intersecting with […]

School’s back in session. Having a tough time getting back into the rhythm of things? One surefire way to find your groove is to join the school band. Many musicians find their first love of playing an instrument through their school’s jazz, marching or symphonic band. Did you know you can rent instruments from Freeway […]

Herbie Retrospective On May 28th, 1962, the day Herbie Hancock released his debut album, featuring the track ‘Watermelon Man’–the music world, and watermelons, were changed forever. Considered a hard bop jazz standard, it has been covered over two hundred times, sampled by LL Cool J, and even remixed by Herbie himself (we’ll get to that […]

by Pedro LopezDeVictoria In honor of Uncommon Instrument Day, we’d like to take you through a quick tour of some of the strangest, most beautiful instruments one might come across. Note: Freeway Music is willing to offer you lessons on any of these (though we might have to find them first!) Theramin The king of […]

Listen to the new single “Feel Nuthin” from Keon Masters On the 2018 SceneSC Sampler Brave Baby drummer Wolfgang Zimmerman released his first solo track along with primary singer and guitarist Keon Masters. It marked a sort of hiatus for the band, and the start of new for both of the bands key songwriters. Entering […]

by Pedro Lopez De Victoria Delay–whether you are intimately familiar with it or just curious, it’s hard to get too far as a musician without hearing about this, the king of instrument effects. From Tape, to Analogue, to Digital, the history of delay is closely tied to the evolving sound of guitar-driven music. If you’re […]

Would you be surprised if I told you that tone-deafness is a myth? According to this highly wonderful Ted Talk from famed conductor Benjamin Zander, if you were tone deaf, you wouldn’t be able to change gears in a stick shift car, tell the difference between someone from Texas and Rome, or know who was […]

Listen Cayla Fralick celebrated the release of her new album last weekend with shows with Stagbriar and Grace Joyner in both Charleston and Columbia. Anyway, Here is her true solo debut, featuring ten songs produced by Eric McCoy of Archer Avenue Studio here in Columbia. SceneSC’s covered Fralick since she was in high school here […]

by Pedro Lopez De Victoria Motherhood is an art unto itself–to create life, cultivate it with love, and remember which Capri Sun flavor is preferred, can, in some ways, be seen as an endeavor of superhuman proportions. While we honor all mothers today, it wouldn’t be Freeway if we didn’t throw a spotlight on the […]