Hard rockers DerPot show songwriting chops, releasing two albums in one day
(WorldNews Music)

Don`t let the Hofner that Jordan Miller, DerPot`s bassist/frontman, holds in publicity photos fool you into thinking he wants to be the next Paul McCartney. His ambitions are slightly louder and darker than that, and his increasingly popular Charleston-based band is probably more akin to Black Sabbath than the Beatles. `My main influences were Geezer Butler, Jack Bruce, Geddy Lee, and Les Claypool,` Miller tells the City Paper. `I play the Hofner because its hollow body allows for more resonance, and its short scale neck allows me to attack it with more precision.` Coming of age in this area, Miller was not the least bit interested in...