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Braxton Bateman is making Charlotte’s jazz ecosystem “Mo’ Betta” with The Exchange and A-partmeant
By Cameron Lee June 25, 2025 Charlotte trumpeter and rising bandleader Braxton Bateman grew up in the Queen City attending Northwest School of the Arts for both middle and high school, but his musical lineage and spirit trace back to Philadelphia. His grandfather, Edgar Bateman...
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Metallica — Masters of Puppets and Stadium-Shaking Metal Tours
By Cameron Lee June 1, 2025 Photo: Daniel Coston Uptown Charlotte was cloaked in a sea of black on Saturday night as thrash metal titans Metallica stormed the city with their colossal M72 World Tour — an electrifying traveling spectacle. The weekend brought Metallica-themed events...
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Luke Combs, Hattie Leeper, Dexter Romweber, and David Childers among 2025 North Carolina Music Hall of Fame inductees
By Cameron Lee May 5, 2025 The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame has announced its 2025 inductees, which include three Charlotte-area figures: native Hattie “Chatty Hatty” Leeper, one of the first Black women disc jockeys in the South; beloved Mount Holly folk singer-songwriter David...
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Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s Grand National Tour is a career-spanning collision of musical powerhouses
By Cameron Lee May 4, 2025 Photo: Greg Noire Kendrick Lamar’s journey from his early days as part of the hip-hop collective Black Hippy to becoming one of the most influential artists of his generation has been nothing short of extraordinary. When he performed in...
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Carolina Chocolate Drops reunite for the first time in over a decade at Biscuits & Banjos Festival
By Cameron Lee April 27, 2025 The original members of the Grammy Award-winning, North Carolina-based, genre-blending old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops reunited for the first time in over a decade at the Biscuits & Banjos Festival in Durham over the weekend. Their sound, which...
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Mt. Joy’s Hope We Have Fun Tour delivered a blissful evening of grooves, good vibes, and songs from the new album
By Zach Goins April 26, 2025 Photo: Hailey Burris / Live Nation By the time the 25-second countdown clock flashed onto the screen at Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre Friday night, the sun had already dipped below the Charlotte skyline. A light breeze drifted through, temperatures...
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Dreamville has helped transform a historically complex space into a festival showcasing culture and hometown pride
By Kyesha Jennings April 10, 2025 Photo: Myicha Drakeford / CLTure This past weekend, over 50,000 poured into Dix Park each day for the fifth and final Dreamville Festival. The park, once home to Indigenous communities, later became Spring Hill Plantation, where Black people were...
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Vietnamese-American indie bedroom pop-rock artist briZB crafts songs that feel like adolescent heartache and daydreams
By Cameron Lee April 10, 2025 Photo: Jaelin Hilliard The music of budding 21-year-old bedroom indie rock singer-songwriter Bri Huynh feels like the soundtrack of adolescent heartache and daydreams on an early autumn road trip. The Vietnamese-American songsmith, better known by her stage name briZB,...
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2025 Charlotte Spring Concert Guide
By CLTure March 31, 2025 (updated) An expansive concert guide covering a wide range of genres and all the shows and tours coming to Charlotte’s venues this spring. April 1 – Graham Nash at Knight Theater (Folk Rock) April 1 – MSSV and Thousand Dollar...
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Reuniting in Charlotte for the first time in nearly 25 years for the Lil Weezyana tour, Cash Money’s sound has stood the test of time
By Cameron Lee February 25, 2025 Photo: Myicha Drakeford / CLTure The last time all of the primary artists from Cash Money Records (Lil Wayne, Juvenile, Birdman, Mannie Fresh, B.G., and Turk) performed together in Charlotte was in 2000 for the Ruff Ryders/Cash Money Tour....
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