New Brookland Tavern

Great staff. Fair drink prices.  Great home for what's growing in Columbia's underground music scene.

Nowadays it seems more of a punk & emo haven, but back in the day I saw the Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, Macha & other late 90s/early 00s Elephant 6 psych rock Gods descend from on high (aka nearby Athens, GA). WUSC (the University of South Carolina's radio station) would sponsor a lot of shows at the NBT. A couple of WUSC kids wound up buying the place about a year after I moved out of town, & I'm not sure what became of it, but I know it's still open & I know of at least one friend I went to school with who still has a hand in it.