Music
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Rachel Platten Gets Personal at Neighborhood Theatre
While NYC-based singer/songwriter, children’s author and model Rachel Platten has been open with the media about her struggles with mental health, including postpartum depression and anxiety, for her performance at Neighborhood Theatre on Monday night, she brought the audience along for the ride. From motivational pop songs like her 2015…
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Future Islands Keeps It Moving at The Fillmore
Shuffling. Spinning. Jumping. Air punching. Twisting. Crouching. Kicking. Future Islands singer Samuel T. Herring rarely stops moving from the opening notes to the closing salvo of a show. In Charlotte on Thursday night at The Fillmore, Herring was a bundle of energy per usual. Part of it might have been…
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Five Post-Digestion Thoughts on Japanese Breakfast in Charlotte
It’s been three years since Charlotte was last served a helping of Japanese Breakfast. The band, fronted by singer/guitarist Michelle Zauner, has had plenty of time to simmer since their first Queen City appearance at the Neighborhood Theatre in 2018, and their last appearance at The Underground in 2022. Here…
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Tyler Childers Continues Ascension with Largest Charlotte Show Yet
Eight years ago, Tyler Childers was an opening act at the mid-sized Neighborhood Theatre. Two years ago, he sold out two nights at the 5,000-person-capacity Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre. On Thursday, he sold out Charlotte’s largest outdoor music venue, PNC Music Pavilion, with a capacity of 19,500. Perhaps more people…
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Wild Recluse Spreads Message of Self-Love and Exploration Through Multiple Mediums
On a warm April night, Petra’s is packed for “Sam on Someday,” a multi-act, genre-fluid jam launched by Sam Tayloe, founder and frontman of Charlotte folk rock band Time Sawyer. The talent onstage is prodigious — guitarist Justin Clyde Williams, drummer Tim Haney, bassist Kerry Brooks, piano player Jason Atkins…
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Experience Hendrix Rotates Imposing Lineup of Shredders and Slingers at Ovens
For anyone born after September 1970, seeing legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix perform live has been out of the question. However, for the last three decades, fans of the man who took the ’60s by storm have been able to Experience Hendrix. Experience Hendrix is not only the name of the…
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mehro Steals the Spotlight at half alive’s Music Factory Show
Fans of half alive may be upset to read this, and they have every right to argue the point, but mehro stole the show at The Fillmore Charlotte on Tuesday night. Sure, half alive offered a solid performance that had the crowd moving and singing along — thoroughly entertained by…
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Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country Stops in Charlotte for Long Night of Jamming
While it may seem like Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country is a relative newcomer to the jam-band scene, Donato himself has been at it for years. The 29-year-old guitarist started busking in Nashville at age 14, then became motivated to find his own sound and pathway in the music business after…
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PREMIERE: Petrov Unleashes the Vulnerability on New Single ‘Protector’
Above a stately metronomic beat, skirling rock guitars soar while Petrov frontwoman Mary Grace McKusick unleashes a preternaturally powerful and sustained vocal: “Dreams in a different hue/ I know they’re from you…” The differences in “Protector,” the latest single from Charlotte indie-rock powerhouse Petrov, are not confined to the colors…
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Local Songwriters Take Musical Roles in ‘The Righteous Gemstones’
For a song parody to land, the music has to be good. Mike Mitschele and Rick Randall know that, while they can write lyrics as silly as they like, the music always must be on point or the whole thing falls flat. In a varied career, the two Charlotte natives…
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Sam on Someday Showcases Charlotte’s Talented Singer/Songwriters
Seven musicians are packed onto the Evening Muse’s stage, but the band doesn’t seem cramped or crowded. In fact, the vibe among the players is convivial as they sashay through a rocking version of iconoclastic country-rocker Mickey Newbury’s “Why You Been Gone So Long.” Vocalist and guitarist Justin Clyde Williams…
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Nascent Charlotte Metal Bands Rock The Milestone
A handful of Charlotte metal bands and electronic artists gathered under one roof on Saturday, March 15, to showcase music new and old for a packed house at The Milestone. The evening started with January Knife, the one-man-band/solo-project of Queen City percussionist/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Brian Gryder. Perched behind his drumkit and blinded…
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Femme Fest Expands in Second Year at The Milestone
Femme Fest, a homegrown benefit concert showcasing bands or artists that include at least one woman, femme-presenting or LGBTQIA+ member, will return this spring, doubling down for two days of music. After a successful one-day inaugural run in 2024, the event that won Best New Music Festival/Event in Queen City…
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Springadelia Fuses Sound and Vision at Snug Harbor
Snug Harbor is getting a jump on the vernal equinox this year with the return of Springadelia, a three-night festival scheduled for March 6-8 on Gordon Street. Zach Reader, the venerable Plaza Midwood music venue’s talent buyer who launched Springadelia in 2024, describes the multifaceted happening featuring 24 musicians and…
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Michael Marcagi Hits ‘The Other Side’ in NoDa
Singer-songwriter Michael Marcagi was scheduled to perform on the smaller bar-side stage of the Neighborhood Theatre on Sunday, Feb. 23. However, it didn’t take long after tickets went on sale for the show to sell out and the performance to be moved to the larger main room of the NoDa…
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Lauren Mayberry Shocks and Awes at the Music Factory
It’s likely that nobody in attendance at Lauren Mayberry’s Friday night concert at The Underground was looking for a lesson in profanity. However, near the end of the singer’s nearly one-hour set, there it was. After quickly apologizing for uttering the word “shit” in passing, Mayberry digressed into a history…
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