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The Lonely Teardrops to play at Orton’s
Katie Teardrop and Crash LaResh talk about their raucous sound. [...]
David Dondero and “This Guitar”
"An Oregon winter can send you into yourself pretty deep, I suppose." [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 – 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 [...]
Q and A with Chicago’s darling
(originally published in Bootleg magazine, September 2008) By Josh Spilker Darling is a modern rock trio from Chicago and also run a record label, Cardboard Sangria. Their [...]
Live review – Hammer No More The Fingers
By Brian Tucker (originally published in Performer magazine) April 12, 2008 – Reggie’s 42nd Street Tavern – Wilmington, N.C. Here’s what it feels like at [...]
Hammer No More the Fingers
by Josh Spilker Last December Durham showed Wilmington a thing or two about live shows by way of the band Hammer No More The Fingers (HNMTF). Three playful, and by all [...]
Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade warm up Juggling Gypsy
(originally published in Bootleg Magazine March 2008) By Jenica Jones Imagine the sultry jazz halls of the 1930s and 1940s, people listening to the mysterious voice spilling [...]
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