Music

Raleigh Wide Open’s debut festival, held downtown October 3-4, will feature 35 free shows across six stages. 

Community, crafts, and music drew a crowd of 6,000 to Rock Quarry Park for Durham’s lively annual celebration of African and African American history.

With songs like “King Trump” and “Misinformation Disinformation,” Duncan Christy says he hopes to draw attention to events unfolding at the White House and beyond.

The charismatic co-proprietor of Weatherman Jewelers had plenty of punk-rock cred, as the mother of Corrosion of Conformity guitarist Woody Weatherman. But her umbrella of care extended to many.

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 Grammy Award-winning North Carolina musician Rhiannon Giddens about roots music, her new album, and looking to the past to understand the present.

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.