New local music releases
The pandemic hasn't slowed music creativity. [...]
rock
The Caroliners debut EP
Relatively new band delivers solid debut EP that mixes up 70s rock and classic country on memorable songs. [...]
The Year in Local Music 2018
2018 was a rough year but plenty of great music came our way. [...]
New music from The Male Men
New band gets new name to go with dynamic, catchy sound [...]
Family band Rock n Roll Hi Fives to play ILM again
Family is making memories playing fun rock and roll and setting a great example [...]
The Year in Local Albums – 2015
One year, fifty two albums, new singles from local bands and performers. [...]
Pet Names offers up “White Noise Machine”
On third album Pet Names marries pop punk and indie rock with great songwriting [...]
Recovery RockFest offers alternative concert experience
Recovery RockFest Celebrates Rock, Folk and Recovery [...]
album review – Holland Revival’s Chemistry
Rock band takes listeners on a 70s flavored album that likes to explore [...]
album review – RC and the Moonpie Band’s Individually Wrapped
Playful, soulful debut from local blues band [...]
Live review – If Birds Could Fly
Fiery set from a fantastic band and stellar singer. Find 'em [...]
San Diego’s B-Side Players add to weekend music and arts festival
California Roots 2nd Annual Carolina Sessions Music & Arts Festival features a lot of live music and art [...]
Q & A with D&D Sluggers
D&D Sluggers answered a few questions about "Hot Banana" [...]
album review – D&D Sluggers’ Hot Banana
D&D Sluggers takes different directions [...]
Drunken Prayer and new album “House of Morgan”
Morgan Christopher Geer's Drunken Prayer returns to Wilmington with a new album [...]
Turchi plays special show at Lagerhead’s
Drummer Cameron Weeks plays one last show before leaving Wilmington [...]
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" [...]
Giles Corey talks on-the-job training for Lubriphonic
Chicago band's sound is a high energy mix of funk, rock, and soul. [...]
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 [...]
American Aquarium’s singer-songwriter BJ Barham
BJ Barham talks about building a working band and recording new album with Jason Isbell [...]
album review – David Dondero’s “A Pre-existing Condition”
Dondero's latest features an interesting mix of covers [...]
album review – Skullbuckle
band comprised on musicians from various NC bands deliver scorching debut [...]
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 [...]
Rong – Creating their Own Local Legend
By Brian Tucker (originally published in Bootleg magazine, January 2008) The world is either small or just made of many small circles always leading to something new. On a [...]
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