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Glass Animals played an intimate show in Charlotte ahead of their world tour, offering fans a first listen of new songs
By Cameron Lee August 5, 2024 Photo: Wendy Hernandez Coming off an enormously successful 2020 album, Dreamland, Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley found himself in an existential crisis. The album was released during the height of the pandemic and, while it was hardly their first...
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Jazz pianist Sean Mason is a prodigious talent that was molded by Charlotte’s music community
By Cameron Lee July 16, 2024 When jazz pianist and composer Sean Mason is not in his Lower East Side abode or trekking across the world playing gigs, he’s at home in Charlotte. For the Phillip O’ Berry Academy of Technology grad, home is not...
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Biking with Francis, a UNC Charlotte alternative hip-hop group, have released three impressive EPs
By Cameron Lee July 9, 2024 Photo: Jade Ivy In a little over a year’s time, Biking with Francis, the talented Charlotte-based trio consisting of multi-instrumentalists and producers Max Leonard and Garrett Sparrow, along with lyricist Joshua “Raw” Warren, have released three outstanding projects. Their...
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Charlotte musicians perform with SWV for NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk Concert’
By CLTure July 2, 2024 R&B group SWV, best known for their ’90s hits “Weak,” “Right Here,” “Rain,” and “I’m So into You,” made their NPR Tiny Desk Concert debut with the release of their performance on June 28. Some of the band members accompanying...
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T-Pain brought all of the hits to Charlotte for what felt like a big outdoor party at Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre
By Cameron Lee June 27, 2024 It’s been 15 years since Jay-Z released his song “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)” and, while he has said that it wasn’t a direct shot at T-Pain, who popularized its use in the early aughts, the track has affected the...
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Charlotte Summer Concert Guide
Sponsored by Infinity’s End By CLTure June 20, 2024 (updated weekly) A complete guide to all of the best summer concerts coming to Charlotte in 2024 sponsored by Infinity’s End. June 20 – Wilderado at The Underground (Alternative/Folk) June 21 – JMSN and 2oo7 at...
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Faye Webster’s tranquil style of genre-bending musical artistry continues to bloom
By Hunter Bailey June 14, 2024 Photo: Wendy Hernandez If you felt underdressed for Faye Webster’s sold-out show at The Fillmore on Wednesday night, you probably fit right in. Webster’s fifth studio album, Underdressed at the Symphony, was inspired by her fixation to immerse herself...
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Petey Pablo, Merge Records, and Clarence Avant will be inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame
By Cameron Lee June 5, 2024 The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame has announced six new inductees in 2024 including Greenville native rapper Petey Pablo; fabled music executive and Greensboro native, Clarence Avant; storied Durham indie rock label, Merge Records, founded by Mac McCaughan...
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Rapsody reflects on her journey with ‘Please Don’t Cry,’ finding love for Marlanna Evans on her fourth studio album
By Jamel Smith June 1, 2024 Rapsody has been going through some things, and the only way out of it is in. For the past five years, Marlanna Evans, aka Rapsody, traversed difficult emotions and hard feelings to satisfy the question, “Do you know who...
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‘How to Save a Milestone,’ the documentary about historic Charlotte music venue, The Milestone, will premiere in August
By Cameron Lee May 28, 2024 When North Carolina filmmaker Jason Arthurs and journalist Liz McLaughlin, first came up with the idea to produce a documentary about The Milestone in 2019, they had no idea how it would end. Arthurs and McLaughlin presumed that, like...
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