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Gibson and Amped Guitar offering three months of Audio Augmented Reality guitar learning app for free
By CLTure News April 5, 2020 Since stay-in-place orders have been in effect due to the current COVID-19 crisis, several music and technology companies have made available apps and services, for free. Moog and Korg started the trend by offering their portable synthesizers Minimoog Model...
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Ari Lennox, Phantogram, Tom Misch, Smino, and many more will perform Fader Fort digital music festival
By CLTure News March 31, 2020 Last week, New York-based music, style and culture publication, The Fader announced plans to take their popular annual Fader Fort, an event normally taking place at SXSW in Austin, TX, to a fully digital platform. With overwhelming response from...
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Charlotte Symphony has launched an online program with some stellar home performances
By CLTure News March 29, 2020 Charlotte Symphony has gone online and interactive. During the moratorium on live events, they’ve set up their website with streaming audio of past Charlotte Symphony Orchestra performances, home shows, word searches, educational materials, and a musical coloring book. Like...
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Charlotte label Four Finger Records release impressive “Quarantine Sessions” compilation EP
By Cameron Lee Photo: Jeremy Smith (L) Leo Solis (R) by Blue Amber March 28, 2020 Those working in creative industries are suffering just like many others during the nationwide shelter-in-place orders. It seems like weeks ago– the thought of cancelled concerts and major events...
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Several musicians are covering Joe Exotic’s country songs from ‘Tiger King’
By CLTure News March 26, 2020 By now, you’ve probably heard about Tiger King, the Netflix crime docu-series centered around the life of Joseph Maldonado-Passage (aka Joe Exotic), an eccentric tiger keeper and former operator of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma. The...
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Austin City Limits will stream large portion of past three seasons for free
By CLTure News March 25, 2020 Austin City Limits, the Peabody and National Medal of Arts award-winning PBS live music program launched in 1973, will make all episodes from the past two seasons available free amid the national live music moratorium. The pioneering music series...
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9th Wonder’s live-stream Instagram party is for the real hip-hop heads
By Cameron Lee March 23, 2020 Patrick Douthit (aka 9th Wonder), the North Carolina native, producer, lecturer, record executive and Jamla Records founder has a lot of commas next to his name. In addition to his long list of impressive titles, he’s responsible for lifting...
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Lute and Dreamville release new ‘Gold Mouf Chronicles’ mini-series
By CLTure News March 23, 2020 Fresh off his Hornets halftime performance earlier this month, Dreamville rapper and Charlotte native Lute has released a new mini-series titled the Gold Mouf Chronicles. The first episode “The Joy of Painting with Golf Mouf,” is a Bob Ross-themed...
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The Wormholes release genre-bending new track “Temporary Vessel”
By Cameron Lee March 22, 2020 Charlotte indie psychedelic synth-rock duo The Wormholes released their debut album Cosmic Propaganda in 2018. The project is a mind-bending musical journey of experimental sounds and luring hooks that fully showcased the group’s ingenuity. With a revived sound after...
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Anthony Hamilton, Lamont McCain, and Shago Elizondo will host Instagram Live concert
By CLTure News March 22, 2020 Live-streaming concerts is now a very real thing. The global Covid-19 pandemic may have slowed down many human social activities, but it doesn’t seem to be able to halt the power of music. Last week, D-Nice, the legendary DJ...
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