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 [...]
Well, I'm working on doing some serious shopping and I honestly cannot believe how expensive all the things I want are. Why is everything in the world I want so expensive? I finally found a denim shirt that I like and it's 150 dollars. Like Dayum! But you can always save some money by listening to WKNC. This week at 88.1 WKNC Raleigh we've got just a few giveaways, but we've still got some amazing tracks coming your way. We've got: Underoath w/ Times of Grace @ Lincoln Theater [...]
Don't stop now! I know you were out all last weekend at Double Barrel Benefit and the weekend before that at Moving Island but you CANNOT stop now! There will be a record release show for DiggUp Tapes on February 10 and 11 at Kings Barcade in Raleigh. Don't miss the fun and there will be singles and box sets available!! Thursday night lineup: Arbor Myst (Multimedia set with help from Bubbly Mommy Gun from Athens, GA), NAPS (Electronic Set), [...]
I love doing year end roundup coverage and I'm still waiting to put up the bands to watch list, so I thought we'd highlight some of the great bands we discovered over the past year. Some of them made our 2011 bands to watch list, some of them didn't, some of them aren't even NEW [...]
This is going to be a quick one because I'm trying to get on the road to Morehead for the weekend. Planning to see Old Habits at Chef's 105 while I'm down there. Anyway, Thursday was my second time seeing Spider Bags , and I liked them just as much as the first time (earlier this year at the Double Barrel Benefit). Guitarist/vocalist Dan McGee, who let me interview him earlier this week , graciously gave me a copy of the band's album "Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueller World", which I appreciated because I lost a [...]
Friday! Quick-hit thoughts of the week! QUICK-HIT THOUGHTS OF THE WEEK! 1. Whatever Brains - Gross Urge (mp3) ( buy ) BAM! Whatever Brains ( myspace ) is a Raleigh, North Carolina band called WHATEVER BRAINS. That automatically qualifies them to be AWESOME, but this song - along with a lot of the rest of their Trim-Jeans and/or Gross Urge Plus Ten CD-R - qualifies them to be DOUBLE AWESOME. I'm more comfortable thinking of them as traditional lo-fi punk than as [...]
(The Love Language) I've never been one to begrudge a good band making it big. Seriously, why demand that a talented songwriter schlep across the country in a beaten-up van, sleeping on floors and playing only to a few dedicated souls while worrying that his six weeks on the road may mean the end of his part-time barista day job? If someone's good, I have no problem with them making a comfortable living that allows them to create art. I have no problem with them making a boatload of cash as long as they can maintain that creative [...]
If you follow me on twitter , you know that I finally did something I've been planning to do for a while: I tweeted from a show. The show in question was Pink Flag and Whatever Brains at Tir na Nog last Thursday, and the reason is that Pink Flag absolutely rules. Seriously, I hate to gush because that kind of sounds simultaneously insincere and groupie-like, but I just can't think of enough good things to say about this band. First off, they're girls, and of course, I love to see girls [...]
pic: Hansje van Halem via But Does It Float Rat Salad Edits - Dynamite ( alt link ) Rat Salad is the alias of producers Leo Elstob ( A Mountain Of One ) and Rupert Lyddon ( Grand Nationa l). They've [...]
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