By CLTure News November 7, 2017 High Water Music Festival brought together a stellar lineup to Riverfront Park in North Charleston earlier this year. The inaugural festival curated by Charleston based indie folk rock duo, Shovels & Rope and AC Entertainment is a celebration of...
By Delaney Clifford October 16, 2017 The Grey Eagle in Asheville was as a particularly fitting choice of venue for the Julien Baker show on Saturday night. It’s small, intimate, and with a barely knee-high stage, it’s just about as up close and personal as...
By Lindsay Kosma September 4, 2017 Back for the eighth year, Hopscotch Music festival will return to Raleigh this Sept. 7-10. The three days are packed with a wide range of activities and music from all over the world. The lineup is so diverse that...
By Mitchell Franklin Photo: @1hoop1 August 1, 2017 Born and raised in Charlotte, Elevator Jay represents his hometown with pride in his latest album, Ain’t Nothin’ Finer. The rapper, producer and singer invites you into his life, literally, on the album’s intro. After showing his...
By Dan Cava July 10, 2017 With a concrete fanbase and an increasingly huge catalog of driving, tightly crafted sing-alongs, the melodic rock band Jimmy Eat World is approaching its twenty-fifth year with no signs of slowing down. 2001’s “The Middle” may be the height...
By Michael Venutolo-Mantovani July 7, 2017 John Moreland speaks in cordial tones, like he’s known me for-almost-ever. His down-home aesthetic is bolstered by the way he approaches conversation with a writer he’s never met before and one who is over a thousand miles away. That...
By Michael Venutolo-Mantovani June 26, 2017 Andrew Bird has been at this a long time. With a record-making career spanning more than twenty years, Bird has released over a dozen albums dating back to 1996. Add in live albums, EPs, guest appearances and collaborations and...
By Nick Bequette June 8, 2017 “What would you like to hear?” Paul Simon asks the crowd shortly into his set Tuesday night in Charlotte. The crowd responds with requests drowning each other out and blending into a marbled roar. After listening intently for a...
By Lane Claffee June 7, 2017 It’s been a busy few years for Junior Astronomers. Recently, they’ve supported acts for big names in indie-rock like Modest Mouse and Manchester Orchestra, signed to Charlotte’s Refresh Records, and announced on the stacked bill for Afropunk in Brooklyn,...
By Lindsay Kosma *Ticket Giveaway* May 31, 2017 If Lake Street Dive were, in fact, the dive bar for which they were named, it would be the kind of place that served a little bit of everything. Whether you’re in the mood for something velvety and...