By: Michael Jewell
With local music venues like the Jinx on Congress St. and the American Legion just passed Forsyth Park serving up a wild variety of alternative rock, punk, hip-hop and metal from local favorites and out of town guests, and small clubs like Tantra Lounge, Club One and the whole host of venues transforming Congress St. into a weekend dance-a-thon, Savannah knows how to provide the 21-and-up crowd with a thriving music scene. Most students, however, are underage for most of their career at SCAD, and there must be some options for them.
- The Sentient Bean
13 E. Park Ave.
A Savannah institution at the South side of Forsyth Park, this cash-only coffee house offers night-time entertainment with film screenings, poetry, open mics, political activism, community events and live music from old-time folk and bluegrass on Tuesdays, local experimental and alternative, and obscure folk acts from all over the country.
- Desoto Row
2427 De Soto Ave.
The place where local experimenters get their start, this community-run gallery space is often the venue for creative musical acts, from neo-retro rock to the curious death-pop of local Pink Kodiak. It’s a definite hipster hangout, if you’re into that kind of thing.
- Metro Coffee House
402 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
The venue closest to residence halls has frequent open-mics and acoustic shows from students, but every once in a blue moon, local noise/experimental trombone (seriously) artist Werewolf Unit has been known to make an appearance. Lobbying for more shows in this vein is encouraged.
