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Snug Harbor Celebrates 16 Years in Plaza Midwood
Plaza Midwood was a different place in 2007. Funky diner The Penguin’s iconic sign marked the arts district’s epicenter and…
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PREMIERE: Rasmus Leon Explores What’s Lost in ’22’
In Will Davis’ video for his sweeping dreamlike tune “22,” a synthesizer oscillates like a hovering UFO as the camera…
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PREMIERE: Pleasure House Drops ‘Stoner Song’ on 4/20
When it comes to first-time videos, a lot of local bands play the party card; we see shots of dancers…
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NC Brewers & Music Festival Returns to Huntersville
On May 12, the North Carolina Brewers & Music Festival returns to Historic Rural Hill nature preserve in Huntersville. The…
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Welcome to the Family Fest Founders Turn To Booking Shows Year-Round
For Jake Woodard and Dylan Harley, 2016 kicked off a tumultuous and satisfying journey — a seven-year span in which…
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Featherpocket Is a Little Less Country, a Lot More Rock ‘N’ Roll
Jason Cline came up with the name of his current country rock band, Featherpocket, while living in Portland, Oregon. Cline…
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Paint Fumes Unleash Cache of Catchy Love Songs on ‘Real Romancer’
Back in January 2011, the riotous and raunchy punk band Paint Fumes played its first show, unleashed from the dank,…
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Loto Café Opens in Former EastSide Local Space at Eastway Crossing
The cool yet cozy café is dead; long live the (new) cool yet cozy café! Visitors to VisArt Video or…
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Diverse Sounds Make Oh! You Pretty Things Sparkle
“You can choose your friends, but you sho can’t choose your family,” Jem tells prim Aunt Alexandra in the pages…
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The Eyes Have It in janee raxanna’s Progressive R&B
Pulsing squelchy beats radiate like a warning beacon as Janee Caulton seems to struggle to exhale, her feathered jazzy vocal…
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Cosmic Collective Blasts off for New Frontiers
Tyler Enslow’s pliable bass crab-walks through a dense thicket of stuttering percussion, gritty wheels of static, UFO sound effects and…
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‘Murder & Moonbeams’ Musical Transitions to the Silver Screen
Inspector Pierro is having a very weird night, and it’s only going to get stranger. The gruesome murder of singer…
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Groovy Melodic Power Duo Flame Tides Dances Into the Fire
A wave of sound grabs you, an almighty bottom-heavy guitar riff, carried along and anchored by nimble, emphatic drums. That…
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Donnie Doolittle’s Lush, Dark Pop Delves Into a Shared Dreamscape
“A man got to do what a man got to do,” says ex-preacher Jim Casey in John Steinbeck’s magisterial 1939…
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Chris Rigo Goes From Rock to Vintage Comics — And Back
It’s a rare Saturday off for Chris Rigo, but he’s planning to wake up the next day at 3 a.m.,…
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Falling Through April Forges Connection on the Road
In Falling Through April’s 2021 single “Paralyzed,” Mikaela Salazar’s impassioned vocals depict a tipping point, the moment you realize that…
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