Max Gowan with Dreamscent, Jupiter 2, and The Stray Lions

Max Gowan Bandcamp / Instagram   Max Gowan has found himself as a centrifugal figure in the burgeoning music scene of central North Carolina. Through his behind-the-scenes work as an audio engineer, recording, mixing, and mastering both for local musicians and musicians around the country, he is a key force of all the invisible parts that go into music production. But with his sixth full length album Glossolalia, Max Gowan is taking a step out from the background, delving into personal and intimate themes for his new full length album. He indicates that this is a noticeable shift thematically – an intentional movement away from the muted or covert storytelling, and a direct effort to be more visible and transparent, even biographical, in his songwriting. The 25-year-old native of Raleigh, North Carolina has a long list to show for his music production accomplishments, and now his attention to detail and audio craftsmanship shines through on an album with production credits all his own. Gowan’s richness in texture and soundscapes will often crown him as your favorite musician’s favorite musician – the talent and dexterity instrumentality and the obvious knowledge of production uplift this project.   Dreamscent Bandcamp / Instagram   Dreamgaze from NC   Jupiter 2 Bandcamp / Instagram   Jupiter 2 is Nicholas Cirone and Ian Campbell.They make starry-eyed psychedelic pop music in Nick’s home studio.   The Stray Lions Bandcamp / Instagram   The Stray Lions are a pop group or musical dance craze from Roanoke Virginia.

Mongo and Drugula with Big Tow

Mongo Bandcamp / Instagram Caveman trio bringing rock music from the Stone Age. Mongo strips rock music to its core and buries you in an avalanche of fast paced, heavy hitting, unrelenting songs and antics. Raw and dumb, like nothing you’ve seen before. Ramones/Spits/Jay Reatard with more fur and bones. Drugula Instagram / Bandcamp Drugula is a four piece reminiscent of Black Sabbath with wailing female vocals and a stoner vampire attitude. They commendeer the stage with brutal chugs and intense sludge/doom influence.    Big Tow Instagram Stoner/Doom from Chapel Hill, NC

Grrrlbands Halloween Showcase

GrrrlBands Halloween Showcase!   GrrrlBands is a community-driven music collective in Carrboro and Wilmington NC areas that provides women and non-binary adults with a space to learn, create, and perform. Inspired by the Riot Grrrl movement, we believe in the power of music as a tool for self-expression, collaboration, and change.

In The Company of Serpents with Scrape and We Follow The Earth

In The Company of Serpents  Bandcamp / Instagram    IN THE COMPANY OF SERPENTS traffic in sonic catharsis. Their music inhabits the strange fringes between sludge metal and sprawling spaghetti western scores, constantly striving for visceral power and raw intensity, contrasted with eerie, spare instrumental passages.   Scrape Bandcamp / Instagram   echoes from subterranean ruins. loud/heavy from Durham, NC    We Follow The Earth Bandcamp / Instagram   Doom/sludge band out of Winston-Salem, NC

Jason Kutchma

Jason Kutchma  Website   Jason Kutchma fronted the NC bands Red Collar and JKutchma & The Five Fifths. He ran for office in Idaho. He currently helps run a small community theater in Oregon. “I always hear him before I see him. Clang clang jangle stomp clang. Even when I’m not expecting him, clang clang clang, and then a solid slap on my back and a big warm “Heeeeyyy!” Always puts a smile on my face. I’ve never asked him why, but I’ve thought about it some, and I’ve decided that J Kutchma wants to be heard before he’s seen.”

Girl of Glass, Thus Spoke Zarathustra & xMercyx

Blind Path Booking Presents: November 12, 2026Girl of Glassw/ Thus Spoke ZarathustraxMercyx+ More TBDDoors 6:00PM  Show 7:00PMLocal 506 All Ages$5 surcharge for under 21 payable at doors.     

Pons with Weird God and Psychic Scream

Pons  Instgram / Bandcamp   WELCOME TO THE NOW.The new PONS album RACECAR is coming out on November 5th, 2026 via Casa Gogol Records, a new label run by Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello. PONS is a speeding bullet to the future. Taking a page straight out of the Get in the Van playbook, PONS lives and dies by the DIY music blade. A torrent of lights, limbs, blood, sweat, and unbridled energy, PONS brings a genuine sense of danger and unpredictability to rock n’ roll that has long been snuffed out by cool guys across the globe. Averaging150 shows a year across North America and Europe, PONS is waging war against the complacent listener. Relentlessly experimental, yet unforgettably catchy, RACECAR is like an alien pop fever dream being beamed to Earth from the great beyond. Taking cues from the anarchic swagger of Iggy Pop, electronic chaos of Suicide, and skewed pop sensibility of Talking Heads, main-brain Jack Parker spits the digital bile of our decaying, internet-saturated world straight in your face. It’s a new noise pop for the modern age. Like a shark that will face certain death if it stops moving, RACECAR is relentless in its pursuit of the new. With their dashing look and salesman’s eye, PONS has supported notable acts such as Gogol Bordello, Angine de Poitrine, Bush Tetras, Lambrini Girls, A Place To Bury Strangers, Laura Jane Grace, Geese, Vundabar, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, and more. BEAR WITNESS TO PONS.   Weird God Instagram / Bandcamp   brothers making musicmarc allen – guitarethan allen – drums   Psychic Scream Instagram / Bandcamp   Hailing from Raleigh, NC; Psychic Scream is a 4-piece psych-punk band of freaks that only serve to melt faces and chew bubblegum… and they’re all out of bubblegum.Tasty riffs and wailing solos over rumbling bass and fast ‘n heavy beats. Connor, Jake, Ryan & Andrew invite you into their psychedelic dimension of doom. No turning back now.