If you saw Ethan Stallings Group last year, you probably walked away blown out by how different it sounded—and how good those guys are. This past week, you might’ve caught yourself asking who the new guy was. No bassist, Beaver on lead vocals, keys covering the low end—and the bigger shift is the set list. Songs people already know, choruses that hit without a runway, reactions that happen right away. It’s the same core of players with a key swap up front—and it chan

I used to get hired to shoot bar crawls on Broad Street in Augusta. They’d advertise them like a badge of honor—ten stops, twelve stops, as many bars as they could stack into one night. What they didn’t tell you was how much of that night you’d spend getting between them. You’d start down at Joe’s Underground, end up somewhere near Sky City, and in between… you walked. Not casually. Not conveniently. You covered ground. Long stretches where the music dropped off,