With Ambitious Youth-led Music Festival, Local History Repeats Itself In the Best Way
The volunteer-run Big Pop Show, which sprawls throughout the Triangle March 20-23, is grounded in timeless music festival principles: DIY, RIYL, and IRL.
The Carrboro Django Reinhardt Festival Returns for Fifth Year
The festival, which celebrates the Belgian jazz guitarist and the communal spirit of his genre, runs March 20-22.
BOOM Club Is a Home For Electronic Music Nerds and Novices Alike
BOOM Club, a music space for “freaky, semi-disreputable but open-hearted” people, will open at 600 Foster Street on March 6.
North Carolina Bands Lead Exit of Wasserman Agency over Founder’s Epstein Ties
Wednesday and Sylvan Esso have both announced that they are cutting ties with the talent agency.
Lynn Blakey, Angelic Tres Chicas Vocalist and “Everybody’s Cool Older Sister,” Dead at 63
A musician in numerous local bands and the inspiration for The Replacements’ 1985 anthem “Left of the Dial,” Blakey passed on February 6 from complications of metastatic cancer.
‘What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Propagander’: A Pittsboro Musician’s Song Meets the Moment
Mipso guitarist Joseph Terrell’s new folk song is a biting indictment of ICE and the killing of Renée Good. It’s quickly gone viral.
How Local Music Lovers Keep Music Discovery Fresh
A New Year’s resolution to cancel a Spotify subscription and rekindle greater musical curiosity, featuring ideas from local artists and curators.
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Ten Local Songs We Loved in 2025 (And One for the New Year)
A non-comprehensive list of songs that stuck with us this year, with releases from Triangle artists like Reese McHenry, Jooselord, Tre. Charles, Joseph Decosimo, and more.
“A Singing Voice that Could Nail You to the Wall”: How Alice Gerrard and Hazel Dickens Became a Legendary Bluegrass Duo
Alice Gerrard and Hazel Dickens first bonded at Baltimore house parties in the early 1960s. The pair would go on to form a bluegrass collaboration that has influenced generations of musicians.
Katharine Whalen Flexes Verve and Versatility On Two New Records
Out this fall, a pair of brand-new records from Whalen’s Jazz Squad and Certain Seas showcase the ways that the Efland musician is stretching her stylistic wings.
Talking With Tyshawn Sorey About Max Roach, Spontaneous Composition, and North Carolina’s Musical History
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist will play in Durham on November 21 as part of Duke Arts’ “Max Roach at 100” program.
Durham Duo Viv & Riley’s New Collaboration Has “Sleepover Energy”
Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno join collaborator Rachel Baiman as kissing other ppl for a new experimental album of folk covers and October 5 show at The Pinhook.
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