Meet Chasing Opal
Duo discuss how their different sounds took time to gel [...]
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Live review – Drunken Prayer
Asheville based band delivers a summer-worthy show [...]
Charleston, S.C. band Old You at The Whiskey
Great band with a varied, sultry sound returns to ILM on September 2nd [...]
Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers perform at Brooklyn Arts Center
Kellogg recounts building a band, the kind of songs they write, and "passing on words onto my own legacy" [...]
D&D Sluggers album release show at Soapbox
D&D Sluggers merge a variety and sounds with chip music for fun, catchy music. [...]
Giles Corey talks on-the-job training for Lubriphonic
Chicago band's sound is a high energy mix of funk, rock, and soul. [...]
Jack’s Mannequin preps new album release, plays Greenfield Lake
Andrew McMahon readies a third album for band Jack's Mannequin and talks about the road there and some friends who helped along the way [...]
Minus The Bear at Soapbox this weekend w/Skysaw, The Constellations
Minus the Bear take on mini-tour in support of new album "Omni" [...]
Mike Blair and The Stonewalls release “The Print”
Blair's second release is a five song EP [...]
album review – Koot Hoomi Presents: The Dark Side of Hall and Oates
Former Wilmington Musician Robert Lurie has creative fun with Hall & Oates [...]
Album review – SWTHRT – “Compact Disc”
Southport, N.C. duo release dreamy confection of caustic pop and open hearted lyricism [...]
Punk duo Blacks releases “Demos”
Punk rock duo approaches music in diffrent way [...]
American Aquarium’s singer-songwriter BJ Barham
BJ Barham talks about building a working band and recording new album with Jason Isbell [...]
The Del McCoury Band and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band
The N.C. music legend covers a lot - his family, joining Bill Monroe's band, Jerry Garcia, and making music with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band [...]
EP review – Bella Vita’s “Flight Patterns”
folk / indie band shines on uplifting EP release [...]
album review – David Dondero’s “A Pre-existing Condition”
Dondero's latest features an interesting mix of covers [...]
Beta Radio Live at WHQR
Beta Radio puts on a (nearly) full band show as part of local radio station's live music series [...]
Bibis Ellison releases “Demo”
Singer-songwriter takes a different approach on songs [...]
Glow in the Darks Scars Tribute Album
ILM musician's catalog of work gets a massive tribute album [...]
album review – Skullbuckle
band comprised on musicians from various NC bands deliver scorching debut [...]
Album review – Unholy Tongues – “Jackal in a World of Reassurance”
New instrumental delivers effective, engaging, high energy instrumental album [...]
Unholy Tongues – Live at Satellite Bar & Lounge
New instrumental band features members of established ILM bands has album release show [...]
Gray Young at Satellite Bar & Lounge on Saturday
A moving, sonic experience returns to Wilmington. Raleigh's Gray Young plays from new album "staysail" with ILM band Unholy Tongues [...]
I Was Totally Destroying It to release “Horror Vacui”
Chapel Hill indie rock/powerpop band's new album lays it all bare. [...]
Live review – ALO
The band was a hit with their music and interesting covers
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Live review – The Diamond Center
By Brian Tucker (originally published in Performer magazine) January 7, 2010 – The Soapbox – Wilmington, N.C. Brandi Price wore a clasp of silver bells around the [...]
Live review – Ben Sollee
By Brian Tucker (originally published in Performer magazine) December 4, 2009 – The Soapbox – Wilmington, N.C. On a nearly bare stage Ben Sollee sat with a cello, [...]
Live review – White Tiger and the Bed of Roses
By Brian Tucker (originally published in Performer magazine) October 8, 2009 – Reggie’s 42nd Street Tavern – Wilmington, NC There’s a fine anomaly to [...]
A handful of questions with The Dead Letters
by Josh Spilker The Dead Letters is a young and gritty band out of Kendal, Lake District in the northern part of the United Kingdom. Their EP, Sampler, is soaked with [...]
Interview with Spoonfork’s Oscar Lundin
(originally published in Bootleg Magazine, October 2008) By Josh Spilker The Swedish rock duo’s album is like turkey dinner at your grandma’s house gone horribly wrong. [...]
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