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Jack the Songman, Eric Lee Hardt, and Chris Chism

Jack the Songman   Jack The Songman is a new artist from North Carolina determined to show you a good time straight from the heart. The man behind the song, Jack Carmichael, has been making music in the Triangle for more than a decade. Under the “Songman” moniker, he writes songs with a funky, classic pop sound that feels familiar but sincere. Love, togetherness, and celebration of the mundane are central motifs baked into the entire Songman catalog. Born into a family of musicians, Carmichael has been a member of various musical ensembles since childhood—however, it wasn’t until his mid-twenties that he stepped into the dual role of frontman and songwriter as Jack The Songman. With the support of lifelong friends and collaborators (known collectively as The Songman Band), Carmichael has forged a genre-melding, piano-driven sonic identity that weaves together elements of yacht rock, funk, and power pop while calling to mind musical forces such as Michael McDonald and Ben Folds. Since stepping onto the scene, the Songman has made a name for himself playing high-energy shows throughout the Triangle. Carmichael’s songwriting craft has made an impression on his hometown, generating a commission to write and record the signature jingle for Chapel Hill’s radio station, 97.9 The Hill WCHL. The debut album “Love Songs and Other Songs” comes on the heels of Carmichael’s marriage to his high school sweetheart. The tracklist navigates different stages and flavors of a romantic relationship, from the high-energy, horn-forward bop “No Plans” to the heartening ballad “Get By”. As groovy as it is heartfelt, Jack The Songman’s first album is an exposition on joy, warmth, and endearment.   Chris Chism   Chris Chism is a North Carolina-based musician, originally from Indiana, whose work blends traditional folk with modern indie and alternative influences. Playing guitar and banjo, Chris creates music that is both deeply personal and open to interpretation.His songs carry a melancholic tone, but offer glimpses of hope for those willing to look closer. Through a unique mix of heartfelt storytelling and diverse musical elements, Chris’s work invites listeners to connect with the beauty and complexity of life’s quieter moments.   Eric Lee Hardt A captivating songwriter and expressive performer. Eric Lee Hardt is a recent transplant to the Carrboro music scene you won’t want to miss. With a broad span of influence and experience, his music radiates the countless hours and miles that have crafted his unique sound.  With lyric forward songs and guitar technique shaped by years of composition and real world experience gained through performance on the road.  He delivers a musical experience you won’t soon forget

Living in Y2K Early 2000s Dance Party

LIVING IN Y2K: EARLY 2000s DANCE PARTY!   The best Y2K Party in the USA comes to Chapel Hill for the first time!!! • Nothing but the best throwback hits and remixes spinning all night long • A Costume Contest with $100 Cash Prize • Free Y2K Gifts & Candy, and much more!!!    Follow @Living.in.Y2K on Instagram+TikTok for more info!

Kamru and Lord Velvet with Broadslab

Kamru  Website / Bandcamp / Instagram Occult Doom Rock from Denver, CO    Lord Velvet Website / Bandcamp / Instagram   Explorers to the gates of the astral plane, Lord Velvet awoke upon the Denver scene with cosmic riffs bearing the weight of the Rockies with every celestial beat, drawing upon the influences of the awakened before us to send humanity into the next age of electric religion.   Taylor Webb (Vocals), Bobby Scott (Guitar), Jason Kleim (Bass), and Mike Barnes (Drums) formed Lord Velvet in 2022. They are guided by bobby’s love of 70’s rock and roll like Atomic Rooster, Mountain, Sir Lord Baltimore, Leaf Hound, and Deep Purple along with Jason’s heavy psych influences, Taylor’s soaring vocals inspired by Arthur Brown and Pagan Altar and Mike’s punk and doom background to deliver a crushing and energetic experience.  The first single “Night Terrors” was released in February of 2023 and the debut album “Astral Lady” came out September 1st 2023.   Broadslab Website / Instagram / Bandcamp   Broadslab combines the sounds of soulful and psychedelic rock with todays dark themes and southern fried heavy metal sounds  

Lennon KC with Frog Machine and Katzin

Lennon KC    Instagram / Spotify   Lennon KC is a DIY alternative rock artist from Durham, North Carolina, currently playing as a duo. His sound flows between soft introspective moments and punk-inspired intensity, drawing comparisons to artists like Dominic Fike, The White Stripes, and Twenty One Pilots. His stage presence amplifies these contrasts, creating an experience that is both energized and intimate. Releasing his debut album in 2025, Lennon KC’s ‘Manic Pixie Dream Boy’ navigates selfhood with a soundscape featuring 90’s grunge, indie rock, hip-hop, and bedroom pop.    Frog Machine Instagram    amphibious rock from NC   Katzin   Born in Alexandria, Virginia, Zion Battle spent his early childhood in Pasadena before moving to North Carolina for elementary school and then Manhattan in fifth grade. His debut album as Katzin, Buckaroo, weaves a lifetime of varied influences into a charged portrait of the transition between adolescence and adulthood. The record draws upon symbols of the mythologized American West – cowboys, horses, vast deserts, rolling plains, ancient rock formations – to trace that leap from childhood in all its unsteady shine.

Neptune and PIPE with Jil Christensen / Mike Geary Duo

Neptune    IG / Facebok / Bandcamp   After twelve years of relative quiet, experimental rock band Neptune returns with Play Some Music, their ninth full length album and a return to form from a project spanning over three decades. Play Some Music reunites the band’s most recognizable and widest traveling lineup of Jason Sidney Sanford, Mark William Pearson, and Daniel Paul Boucher, whose 2008 LP Gong Lake (Table of the Elements) and 2006 LP Patterns (Les Potagers Natures) serve as defining releases among the band’s catalog of over thirty recordings. Wielding their distinctive homemade instruments – a melding of hardware store and landfill – Play Some Music features microtonal and macrotonal wire-framed steel guitars as well as amplified drums, amplified circular saw blade percussion, electronics, and feedback organ to produce a suite of songs, improvised and composed, that explore classical mythology and the nebulous realm of memory. Always expanding their sound world, Neptune’s signature frenetic guitars and drums are joined by new gamelan-like amplified percussion and phantasmagoric electronic textures hovering over its ether.   PIPE Bandcamp  In the ‘90s, Pipe burned bright before it burned out. After releasing a sizable catalog (an EP, four singles and three LPs, plus assorted compilation cuts) and touring with the likes of Archers of Loaf and New Bomb Turks, injuries and road fatigue ended the band in 1999, after only seven years. Then, after a 10-year quiet, Pipe’s original lineup—singer Ron Liberti, guitarist Mike Kenlan, drummer Chuck Garrison and bassist Dave Alworth—reunited in advance of Merge Records’ 20th anniversary festival. And they just keep playing!

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