
While the Grammy-nominated soul unit, The Foreign Exchange finishes the last leg of their Authenticity Tour , Foreign Exchange Music has just released the Shibuya Session EP—a collaborative project between The Foreign Exchange producer, Nicolay and the Raleigh, jazz virtuoso outfit, The Hot at Nights , whose guitarist, Chris Boerner, also plays with TFE. In 2006, TFE producer, Nicolay visited Tokyo and three years later he released the evenly sheened, City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya as a testament to some of the sights and experiences from [...]

Here in the Triangle, family values are dictated by which ACC basketball team—Duke, UNC, or NC State—you'd die for in a bar fight. This means that at this very moment (and for eternity), somewhere in this 30-mile radius people are arguing about who was the best ACC basketball player of all time, Duke's Christian Laettner, UNC's Michael Jordan, or NC State's David Thompson. Now, the symbiotic nature between hip-hop and basketball is the force behind Raleigh's long-time, hip-hop sextet, Kooley High , naming their new album after, David [...]

Here in North Carolina's Triangle-area (Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill) the post-summer-music-festival woes were eased by Raleigh's 2nd annual Hopscotch Music Festival headlined by rock veterans The Flaming Lips—whose headlining show included the infamous crowd-surfing space bubble, balloons the size of exercise balls, and a shower of Post-It Note-sized confetti. It had all of the pilings of a block-party rave even if the music wasn't as fitting. However, from September 29th - October 1st, the Southeastern Electronic Music Festival, otherwise known as Signal , rolls back into town [...]