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NC Release Radar: Our favorite recent music releases from North Carolina artists
By Grant Golden April 20, 2021 With the promise of live shows in our near future, music is starting to sound a little different. The screech of a distorted guitar, the resonance of bass, those few seconds when a drummer connects in the pocket– they...
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Charlotte’s Your Neighborhood Orchestra bridges contemporary classical music with multiple genres for unique showcase
By Charlie Leonard April 18, 2021 Charlotte New Music’s Your Neighborhood Orchestra returns starting April 18 at 1 p.m. Produced in collaboration with local songwriters, composers, and choreographers, the festival strives to support local artists by producing “high-quality and visually engaging virtual performances” featuring music...
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DJ E. Sudd is North Carolina’s A&R for the streets
By Cameron Lee April 15, 2021 Photo: @areyoushell Today, music is highly accessible. An artist can upload a song or album instantly to all of the major streaming platforms and be heard all across the world. But it wasn’t long ago when radio ruled the...
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Mavi is balancing the personal with political on his latest EP ‘End of the Earth’
By Grant Golden April 8, 2021 Photo: Khalid Riley In November 2019, 20-year-old Omavi Minder dropped his career-affirming debut album, Let The Sun Talk. Let The Sun Talk poised “Mavi” for stardom, garnering high praise from national outlets like NPR and Pitchfork. As the young...
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Rage Against the Machine and Run the Jewels will play Raleigh’s PNC Arena on July 31, 2022
By CLTure News April 8, 2021 After originally announcing a highly-anticipated reunion tour back in February of 2020 with Run The Jewels, Rage Against the Machine has released rescheduled dates for their “Public Service Announcement Tour.” The tour will kick of on March 31, 2022...
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OG Spliff teams up with Sonny Miles and LesTheGenius on new track and music video, “Still”
By Grant Golden April 1, 2021 Despite the tumult of 2020, Winston-Salem’s OG Spliff is coming off his most successful year, racking up a couple hundred thousand streams and earning features on Spotify’s “Fresh Finds” playlist, among others. Spliff kicks off 2021 in an equally...
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Benny the Butcher coming to Charlotte in October!
By CLTure News March 31, 2021 It’s been a long time since we’ve made a concert announcement, but it looks like many shows and festival dates will be coming in hot as the U.S. is slowly moving past the pandemic that has shut down many...
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Bonnaroo will return in September, here’s what’s new for 2021
By Zach Goins March 31, 2021 It’s been nearly two years since the masses last descended upon Manchester, Tennessee for a weekend full of camping, camaraderie and, of course, incredible live music. But soon the crowds will return when Bonnaroo kicks off its 20th Anniversary...
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New course at Johnson C. Smith connects Rapsody’s album ‘Eve’ with important Black literature and history
By Cameron Lee March 29, 2021 The bridge between hip-hop and academia has grown sturdier over the years. The 2004 publication That’s the Joint!: The Hip Hop Studies Reader is often referenced as the moment the study of hip-hop was more clearly defined. Edited by...
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NC Release Radar: Our favorite recent music releases from North Carolina artists
By Grant Golden March 17, 2021 For the first time in nearly 12 months, it feels like there’s a light at the end of our collective tunnel. The sun started shining a little longer, vaccine rollouts are making our world a little safer every day,...
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