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Parkrr performs at The Tavern in February. (Photo Courtesy of Grace Brauner)

Golden Eagle Spotlight: Student rapper and radio personality elevates local music scene

A’Darius McCormick and A’Darius McCormick | February 28, 2022

This week’s Golden Eagle Spotlight goes to Southern Miss senior Parker McPhail, who raps and hosts the “Tune In” on WUSM 88.5 every week. His radio show “Tune In” promotes musicians and bands...

Fumes dumpster dives into local scene

Fumes dumpster dives into local scene

Seth Daspit and Seth Daspit | January 19, 2022

Photo Courtesy of Flip Poole Hattiesburg’s Fumes is more than just enraged vapor – they’re cohesive and consistent with genuine, fresh innovation to hardcore music in town. Vocalist Ash Smith...

Julian Atehortua performing

Southern Miss student finds creative inspiration post-quarantine

Skye Bortz and Skye Bortz | October 6, 2021

Isolation can often be devastating. According to a Pew Research Center survey, 41% of Americans believed that their isolation during the initial COVID-19 surge was very unpleasant, leaving them unproductive....

Earth Girl connects local acts to local listeners

Earth Girl connects local acts to local listeners

Seth Daspit and Seth Daspit | October 3, 2021

Earth Girl is a music label that helps promote the tight-knit scene of Hattiesburg’s underground.  Between a firm belief in the do-it-yourself ethic and an underworld of musicians and friends,...

A group shot of MSPAINT

MSPAINT will make you stomp the ground and your vocal chords

Seth Daspit and Seth Daspit | September 15, 2021

Local Hattiesburg band MSPAINT released their debut self-titled EP on March 4, 2020, through local label Earth Girl. Across these four tracks, the quartet sonically explode their way across apocalyptic...

Photo by Nya Rai.

Live music vital to Hattiesburg underground music scene

Laurel Thrailkill and Laurel Thrailkill | November 12, 2019
Live music has been an integral part of Hattiesburg’s history from the first traces of rock ‘n roll in the 30s to the perhaps unlikely thriving underground punk scene of Hattiesburg today.
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