By Shirley Griffith June 11, 2018 On Saturday, Japanese Breakfast sold out the Neighborhood Theatre with support from local bands, Faye and Dollhands. Japanese Breakfast is the brainchild of Michelle Zauner, who gained traction as the vocalist/guitarist in Philadelphia indie band, Little Big League. Japanese...
By Jason Henry June 8, 2018 The bleary-eyed Kentucky poet / outlaw country artist Tyler Childers rolled into Charlotte on Wednesday night right off the heels of a guest spot on Austin City Limits with the legendary singer-songwriter John Prine the night before. Childers is...
By Jacob Heyerly Photo: Dan Russel-Pinson June 4, 2018 The Mineral Girls are a Charlotte-based emo quartet whose lyrics and sounds have captivated the Charlotte music scene for five years. The band is made up of Vince D’ambrosio on the drums, Dylan Fleming on the...
By Mitchell Franklin June 4, 2018 Thumbing through a stack of records, someone coming across the cover of Hectorina’s Muck for the first time may mistake it for a metal album. The black background with heavily stylized text, on top of the album name itself,...
By Shirley Griffith June 2, 2018 In 2016, Rolling Stone magazine declared Sunflower Bean “NYC’s Coolest Young Band” before the release of their debut, Human Ceremony. Lo-fi recordings and bedroom pop seemed to dominate the three-piece’s Brooklyn home scene which allowed Sunflower Bean’s spacey, psychedelic...
By Mitchell Franklin May 18, 2018 The break-up album has become something of a cliché in the music world. An artist goes through a difficult separation, immerses themself into their work, and comes out with some of the darkest, most honest and often most heralded...
By CLTure News May 15, 2018 Hopscotch Music Festival announced the lineup for their ninth year in downtown Raleigh, N.C. Known in the Southeast as one of the top indie music festivals, Hopscotch curates a bill with a wide-range of acts from a multitude of...
By Delaney Clifford May 12, 2018 Another Shaky Knees has come and gone. With each passing year, the festival continues to reach greater heights, and 2018’s edition was assuredly one for the books. This year featured one of the most prominent lineups in the festival’s...
By Jared Allen May 12, 2018 You can usually get an idea of how epic a show will by the way the band’s introduction toys with your emotions. That’s just the case with Odesza. An array of vibrant white strobes scan and pierce the audience...
By Patrick O’ Boyle May 11, 2018 Three shimmering walls frame the stage at Ovens Auditorium. Up close, you would see these are thousands of ordinary metal chains strung from the rafters. As the show begins, they are backlit, forming a band of white light...