•  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...

  •  By Michael Venutolo-Mantovani May 8, 2018 Buzz Osborne is grateful. And he wants you to know as much. He’s not angry, mad, sad, perturbed, disillusioned, or over it. After over three-plus decades of fronting his stalwart band Melvins, the fact that Osborne still has an enthusiastic...

  • By CLTure News May 8, 2018 Charlotte, North Carolina indie rock band Late Bloomer consisting of Neil Mauney, Josh Robbins, and Scott Wishart announced a date for their long-awaited album (Waiting 6/29 via 6131 Records) and released a new single “Heaven” via StereoGum today. Almost four...

  • By CLTure News  April 27, 2018 Fayetteville, North Carolina-raised and Grammy nominated rap artist J. Cole has announced a new one-day music festival experience on Saturday, September 15 at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dreamville Festival will aim to provide a thoughtfully-curated, multi-stage...

  •  By Sean Titone Photo: Cora Wagoner   April 26, 2018 Along the banks of the Cooper River in North Charleston, South Carolina, Riverfront Park was the setting last weekend for another sold-out High Water Festival. Charleston-based Shovels & Rope, the longtime married musical duo of...

  •  By Mitchell Franklin April 26, 2018 You can tell how much work went into creating Erick Lottary’s latest project. His EP, You Can Tell, which was released on April 20, shows how adept the rapper is at building great songs out of some colossal beats....

  • By Jose Mujica April 21,2018 Last night, Charlotteans packed The Fillmore in anticipation of one of the most legendary duos in hip hop history, Eric B and Rakim, in their latest stop of their Don’t Sweat The Technique Tour Not many acts, especially in a...