It's finally time for round two of Hopscotch Music Festival , coming up this weekend, September 8-10 in downtown Raleigh. Free Electric State perform last year This year offers a special free day party sponsored by Port Merch - College Radio Showcase , presented by WUAG , WKNC , WXYC and WXDU . The four college radio stations are part of UNC-Greensboro , NC State University , UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University , respectively. The stations have collaborated to create an awesome lineup of local [...]
They are delicious and they are going FAST! (only you don't have to pay for them... ) This week at WKNC we have some amazing giveaways we are pretty excited about. We've also got something AMAZING coming next week, so stay tuned (literally). Or become our friend on facebook to find out NOW. 4/6 Black Lips @ Cat's Cradle Bronzed Chorus @ Pinhook 4/7 Destroyer @ Cat's Cradle [...]
Checking in at Skull Alley tomorrow night is the Greensboro, NC band The Bronzed Chorus . They are a two-piece instrumental band that plays a blistering live set complete with tons of WTF-esque moments. Many of those moments come from Adam Joyce's monstrous guitar playing and mastery of one of the biggest pedal boards I've ever seen. Many of those other moments come from Hunter Allen's confounding ability to power out heavy drum beat while having his way with a keyboard and synthesized Atari. The duo's instrumental music is more than just post-rock. It certainly [...]
[Locals Only is a regular feature where the Stranger Dance staff focus on the best and brightest of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. Feel free to hit us up with any information on local bands, musicians, shows, and other music-related events and projects.] This week boasts several unique events: Mark Eitzel performing American Music Club at the Red Devil Lounge, a BYOB rock show at Flux53 in Oakland (presented by our buds over at Kata Rokkar), the Proclaimers (!) at Bottom of [...]
The Bronzed Chorus: Hiding In The Woods from Matt Williams on Vimeo . The Bronzed Chorus continue to pick up steam nationally as well as locally. From Greensboro, NC, they've got that soft sneaky instrumental thing down--think Mogwai--with only a duo set. Their recent release is I'm The Spring from Hello Sir and they're knocking on everyone's door for the next few weeks from the Deep South on. So let The Bronzed Chorus in. [...]
The two best records to come out of North Carolina so far in 2009: Birds Of Avalon (Raleigh, NC) Photo by Justin Lyon I remember catching Birds Of Avalon open for Beach House a couple of years ago and thinking that they would be something special one day. Well, that day seems to have come with the release of their newest record, Uncanny Valley . The album was recorded completely with analog equipment and their [...]
Back in January, we put together a list of Ten Brooklyn Bands You Should Hear Right Now that began with a nepotistic rhetorical question: "is there even any doubt that Brooklyn circa 2009 fosters one of the most vibrant music scenes on this here planet?" The answer to that question, clearly, is that there isn't any doubt, Brooklyn sure does have its share of very fine, if almost entirely immigrant, resident bands. However, so do a lot of other parts of this here planet... Lest you fine folks think that EAR FARM focuses solely on the [...]
I'm back in the ATL now, so after I do a lot of catching up, I should be back to my regular summer blogging schedule soon. I'm going to post a lengthy chronicle of the entire three week experience sometime in the next few days, but until then, here are tracks from two really great bands that This Piano Plays Itself played with over last week that I highly recommend checking out: A Lull : Skinny Fingers A Lull Myspace [...]
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