For reasons I didn't fully understand Thursday night, I kept thinking about The Village. Which is a strange thing to think about while listening to Puddle of Mudd in downtown Aiken. When The Village came out in 2004, I hated it. Not because it was a bad movie. I was mad because I thought I was getting a horror movie. The trailers promised monsters in the woods. Creepy creatures. A village trapped by fear. Instead, I got something entirely different. We'll come back to that. S

Last year, the Kenny George Band got squeezed into a corner downstairs at Electric Eats after weather forced Amp indoors. Looking back at the photos now, it’s honestly impressive they fit everybody in there at all, let alone Randy Borawski, who looked like the winner of the Powerball splurged on a stuffed grizzly bear for the corner of his 800 square foot studio apartment… after responsibly paying off his 2012 Prius first, of course. Kenny joked Thursday night they may hav