If you were at the pajama rave at Cat’s Cradle last month and smelled something burning on stage, it wasn’t a short in the expansive lighting setup, one of the lasers overheating or a glitch in the 3D projection mapping rig — it was actually the frying of a particularly tasty meat.
From KNC to XYC, college radio has helped develop a thriving nightlife in the Triangle. On Sep. 10, four area college radio stations will come together in Raleigh for a showcase featuring their picks of local bands that have won over their audience and dominated their programming. It’s a chance to catch up on a growing scene and learn more about student radio.
Placing the steel pans inside a progressive concept album, the latest release from Asheville’s Jonathan Scales has garnered him comparisons to banjo pioneer Béla Fleck. This week, Diversions editor Joseph Chapman asks Scales just how that music degree is working out for him.
Melissa Thomas has been busy. Her day job as a software developer has her commuting to Austin, TX, on Sundays and flying back home to check on her Durham-based record label, 307 Knox, on Thursdays.
Good news for all of you whose friends went home and left you for the summer: Chapel Hill’s fun level might be seasonal, but good local music is perennial. Summer in the Triangle is a great time to see the acts that don’t attract the usual collegiate crowd. Haven’t been to the Cave or Local 506 yet?
9 to 5? Meet 9 to 3 — as in 3 o’clock in the morning. The minds behind The Independent Weekly’s new music festival in downtown Raleigh didn’t know what they were getting themselves into when they started building the 120-band bill from the bottom up. But if they manage to pull Hopscotch off, it stands to leave an indelible impact on the Triangle’s music scene.
A dog chained to a tree or post certainly isn’t an uncommon sight on a summer flit through your typical neighborhood. For Amanda Arrington, executive director of the Coalition to Unchain Dogs, that is precisely the problem.
Made up of three UNC students, Mipso Trio is ready to bare all on its first full-length record, Long, Long Gone.
Mipso Trio recorded several demos in the same studio used by the Avett Brothers, Winston-Salem’s ElectroMagnetic Radiation Recorders.
Taking a break from exams, Mipso Trio jammed with Chancellor Holden Thorp on the steps of Wilson Library last semester.
