Interview: Viceroy- Playing @ Space 2: The Sound Table August 17th!

A name you won’t quickly forget, Viceroy and his “summertime, all the time” motto seep deep into both his original and remix catalog leaving a lush, tropical disco-house sound that is paralleled by no one. It’s this distinctive sound that has found Viceroy with features in VICE Magazine, The Huffington Post, MTV, Nylon Magazine, Fresh […]

What’s Up Wednesday? August 14th

Happy Hump Day! It’s an awesome Hump Day too! You want to know why? Just look at this lineup! Too many great shows going on tonight. We wish we could be in multiple places at once! Let us know what show you decide to attend! Hiatus Kaiyote @ Vinyl The music of Hiatus Kaiyote strikes […]

Interview: American Aquarium- Playing @ Center Stage August 17th!

American Aquarium’s six years as a band have been a fast-moving blur of rubber on road, touring coast to coast through the states and Europe. Most nights of the year are spent far from their Raleigh homes, squinting out from bright stages at a growing legion of passionate fans who’ve followed them through the release […]

Interview: The Whiskey Gentry- Playing @ Center Stage August 17th!

Interview: The Whiskey Gentry- Playing @ Center Stage August 17th!

Paste Magazine was dead-on when they called The Whiskey Gentry a “toe-tapping, steamrolling kind of band, its fingers picking deep into fields of bluegrass, feet stomping in line with a punk-inspired kick drum.” Formed in 2009 by husband and wife duo Lauren Staley and Jason Morrow, The Whiskey Gentry is a group of seasoned veterans—to […]

Interview: Father Figures- Playing @ 529 August 17th!

Father Figures (members of Man Man, Matthew Dear, Antibalas & Empress Of) the band that just will not die, has been a band for four years, starting from the humble rumblings improvising in a Brooklyn basement. The quintet recently released their EP Bad Bad Birds and are heading out on tour to share their new […]

Interview: Hunx and His Punx- Playing @ The Drunken Unicorn August 16th!

HUNX AND HIS PUNX have returned with Street Punk—a new album filled with the catchiest and most hateful punk songs heard in eons. Street Punk is an unrelenting tour de force, echoing early 80s hardcore, 90s grrl sounds, Darby Crash on helium, and the female answer to The Misfits. After members dropping like flies and […]

Interview: Daughn Gibson- Playing @ The Earl August 12th!

You most likely have already heard of Daughn Gibson. In the short time since the release of his debut album All Hell, the handsome balladeer hailing from Carlisle, PA is capturing serious attention by tastemakers and music fans interested in new takes on country and blues. You might hear subtle nods to Robert Johnson or […]

Interview: Jimmy Eat World- Playing @ Center Stage August 14th!

How could we forget that catchy song, “The Middle” that made us sing in the shower or scream it out while sitting in a traffic jam coming home from work? Well the band behind that hit and many others, Jimmy Eat World, is coming up on their 20th anniversary and not to mention, they just […]

Interview: Erin McCarley- Playing @ Eddie’s Attic August 11th!

Although based in Nashville, singer/songwriter Erin McCarley cut her teeth on the San Diego circuit, where she sang in a country cover band and spent her free time writing songs. She later partnered with producer/composer Jamie Kenney and relocated to Nashville, which brought her closer to her native Texas. Combining uplifting pop/rock hooks with McCarley’s […]

Interview: Tony Lucca- Playing @ Eddie’s Attic August 9th!

By Lindsey Borders You may remember Tony Lucca when he got his start on The Mickey Mouse Club, with fellow mouseketeers and equally successful in their own right, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, and Keri Russell, among others. Shortly after his appearances on the show, he began to further his acting career, being cast […]

Interview: Whirr- Playing @ Drunken Unicorn August 8th!

                                With their steady ebb and flow of warm, effects-laden sounds, northern California’s Whirr (Formerly Whirl) give the sounds of 90s shoegaze a widescreen update for the post-millennial era. The young sextet’s walls of lush guitars, breathy vocals, dreamy synth […]

Interview: Ghosts Along the Brazos- Playing @ Eddie’s Attic August 7th

By Al Kaufman It is a human trait to attempt to make order amongst chaos, hence our need to label. A band used to be known as a rock band. That same band today could be Americana, hard rock, thrash, pop, Southern rock, blues . . . the list does not end. Most bands today, […]

Interview: Icona Pop- Playing @ The Masquerade August 14th!

We’re all guilty of blasting Icona Pop‘s hit, “I Love It” as we’re driving down the interstate probably going a bit too fast or when we’re in the shower pretending we actually know how to sing. Let’s face it, the Swedish duo have made it big and we’re not complaining one bit! With a killer […]

Interview: St. Paul and the Broken Bones- Playing @ The Earl August 3rd!

Paul Janeway, of St. Paul and the Broken Bones, is a young man who began wailing straight out of the womb, and most folks would agree that he hasn’t stopped since. He began singing in church, stretching those vocal cords with an eye toward becoming a man of the cloth. As it turns out, however, […]

Interview: Bobby Long- Playing @ Eddie’s Attic August 2nd!

By Lindsey Borders New York transplant singer and songwriter, Bobby Long, grew up near Wigan, England which helped shape his roots in folk music primarily. With his 10-song collection titled Dirty Pond Songs, Long quickly rose to fame with legions of fans scrambling to see him perform after his noted association with Robert Pattinson who […]