Music Features
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True Lilith Builds an Art Rock Sanctuary
With Chloe James’ snaking ’60s spy movie guitars and Anna Spurrier’s clambering new wave synths, True Lilith kicks off its…
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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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Elevator Jay Shows Growth with First Project in Four Years
When I met James Blackmon, better known around Charlotte as Elevator Jay, at Lancaster’s BBQ on Beatties Ford Road in…
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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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Jameilyara Prepares Breakthrough Debut After Years Performing
Your first true love is the dream you never wanted to let go of. It gave you a reason to…
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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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Hope Nicholls and It’s Snakes Prepare New Album, Look to the Future
There’s a moment on an as-yet-unreleased It’s Snakes track called “Cup Full of Coins” in which drummer, vocalist and songwriter…
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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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