It’s a mouthful of a title, but damned if Columbia’s Stagbriar, aka musical siblings Alex and Emily McCollum, didn’t create something special on this 2013 album.

Indie Grits opening night party covers three venues in Cottontown, SC for a night featuring 10 live bands, food trucks, and beer.

— from the recklessly careening garage rock outfit Dumb Doctors to the pretty but fiery folk-rock band Stagbriar.

This will be Stagbriar’s first release in almost 4 years. Written over 5 years ago, this song finally receives its debut. Don’t grow old just to claw your way out of your own circumstances.

This year, you’ll be able to hear from Justin Townes Earle, The Artisanals, Little Stranger, Stagbriar, + The Dubber.

All this plus a lineup of amazing bands (including On Tap favorite Stagbriar).

Earle gets a couple of well-chosen S.C. folk-rock complements in the form of Charleston’s Eagles-y Artisinals (led by former SUSTO member Johnny Delaware) and Columbia’s recently revived Stagbriar.

To be honest. The only artist I’m following locally are people David & Deborah Adedokun, Niecy Blues, Jade Blocker, Mario McClean, Rob Kershaw of Nepotism, Disapoura, Stagbriar, Flower Shopping and etc.

Stagbriar has always been more than just an indie-folk duo, whether one considers the acoustic or electric version of the band. As they gear up to become an active ensemble once again, the key challenge is figuring out how that balance might shift.

Last night, they played as a duo, but they’ll be back full band Friday November, 23 at Skanksgiving at New Brookland Tavern.

Stagbriar was constantly shifting and pushing its boundaries, going from early singer-songwriter-y efforts to a fierce, muscular sound as new members brought both more punch and atmospherics, leading to the kind of indie folk that feels big enough to headline festivals and fill arenas.

For [Emily] McCollum: Stagbriar has teased coming back from hiatus, the band she coleads with her brother and local musician Alex McCollum.

Joining ET Anderson’s Broken Local Scene Saturday night will be Max Puckett and Marceline Ray of Ugly Chords, Emily McCollum of Stagbriar, Grace Joyner, Thomas Hammond of King Vulture, and Tyler Sowards playing violin on two songs. I vote that this just be a new band all together.

This song from Alex McCollum, who is both half of Stagbriar and guitarist of ET Anderson, deserved some more attention. Close your eyes, throw on some headphones and hit play. Tis the season to combat colds.

“The thing that removed any other consideration was the Stagbriar album he did, which sounded incredible.”

Last year Stagbriar was featured in NPR’s 100 bands to check out at South by Southwest. They recently recorded a new song for the Papa Jazz Sessions, tying the local music scene to the city’s most beloved record store.

The core of the band is the McCollum siblings whose biggest strengths lie in their ability to play off each other with ease, two voices that somehow weave into one, and guitar parts that do the same.

The bluesy stomp-rock surfaces beneath a melancholic folk overlay, and one thing the brother-sister duo has going for them is their unmatched genetically perfect harmonies, which you really just can’t find anywhere else.

I recently read an article about 5 modern bands “reinventing” folk music. Stagbriar instantly popped in my mind as a band rooted deeply in traditional American roots music, but with a forward thinking no-holds-barred attitude to them. As a band, they’re already so much more than their first album, and definitely worlds away from their first EP.