Music

The free summer series, cheekily titled “Music Near the Gardens” due to its temporary location change to East Campus, has a special partnership with the Pinhook this year.

A serendipitous, joyful energy coursed through Durham at the inaugural run of the festival, founded by Giddens for the “reclamation of Black music, art, and culture” in her home state. 

An interview with Rhiannon Giddens ahead of Biscuits & Banjos, the landmark festival the Grammy Award-winning North Carolina musician brings to Durham this month.

Mountain Man’s Alex Sauser-Monnig changes things up on their sophomore release, a confident electropop album that contends with a world coming apart at the seams.  

A dispatch from the not-so-final installment of Dreamville, the biggest spectacle in North Carolina music

The Durham native attended NC State, where he studied textiles. But his real education came from haunting local nightclubs—and then running his own legendary Raleigh music venue.

Saxophone legend Marsalis, who lived in Durham from 2002 to 2024, is an artist-in-residence at NCCU. “Belonging” is his 32nd release.

Even if you can’t see J. Cole or Erykah Badu, you should still come out for Raleigh’s biggest weekend of the year.

This year’s festival, which runs March 14-15 in Chapel Hill, honors the memory of beloved local powerhouse Reese McHenry.

The album announcement comes alongside the release of a new single, “All Around You,” a meditation on finding—and embracing—a sense of home.