Tiny City with Jupiter 2, Banff, Red Kanoo
Tiny City Hailing from Charlotte, North Carolina, Tiny City is an indie rock and roll band carving a fresh path for themselves and meandering between post-punk and power pop. Tiny City explores versatile sonic textures, delicate and familiar themes, driving riffs, and danceability to which no one is immune to. Tiny City is influenced by a wide range of music’s modern greats – Spoon, Modest Mouse, and The Strokes – and legends such as Otis Redding, The Clash, and Talking Heads. Who does Tiny City sound like? Well, Tiny City. Although we are influenced by these greats, it is incredibly difficult to put us into a box. Instagram / Facebook / Website Jupiter 2 Jupiter 2 formed in 2018 as the songwriting and recording collaboration of Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based multi-instrumentalists and longtime friends Nicholas Cirone and Ian Campbell. In their immersive live performances and recordings, the two construct hazy, starry-eyed, and hypnotic pop songs with vintage-toned vocal harmonies often set within textured layers of noise and field recordings. The duo self-released their third album “Cursory Glow” – their first new project in three years – on August 4th, 2023. On the album, the two pair effervescent chillwave-inspired synthesizer and drum machine work with washed-out shoegaze guitars, while still maintaining their inclination toward sweet, psychedelic pop melodies. Instagram Banff Instagram Red Kanoo Instagram
Benefit for Triangle Mutual Aid for Helene Relief w/ Evil Weiner, Ancestor Piratas, Cy and I, Uglow, Nannerhead, Phil Venable
723 and Madisinn with Johnny Sunrise
Money Shot with Dad Bod
MONEY SHOT70’s Style Adult Film Music Facebook DAD BOD70’s Classic Rock to Grunge to Indie and Alt RockWebsite
Computer Kill with Exploding The Moments, The Camaraderie
Computer Kill Computer Kill is Darkwave/Shoegaze from Baltimore, MD going on tour this fall to promote their lastest single “Must Have Been A Dream” and their debut self titled E.P. Spotify / Instagram Exploding The Moments Spotify / Instagram The Camaraderie Spotify
WCOM and WNC Benefit Featuring The Old Ceremony and Jeffrey Dean Foster
Omni with Cor De Lux and Ribs
Omni The music of Atlanta trio Omni has always swung fast and hit hard. And Souvenir, their fourth album and second for Sub Pop, packs their biggest punch yet. Inactive during the majority of the pandemic–the longest downtime in their history–they approached this recording with lots of pent-up energy. Guitarist Frankie Broyles, singer/bassist Philip Frobos, and drummer Chris Yonker converted their creative fuel into sharp, driving songs that land immediately, sporting chopping riffs, staccato beats, and wiry melodies. Why does Souvenir sound so sharp? Because each track is a compact unit that stands on its own, reflecting the time and place in which it was created. That’s why Omni called the album Souvenir: it’s a collection of audio objects, a stash of musical miniatures. Think of it as a family photo album, a binder of rare playing cards, a shoebox holding precious gems. Take “Plastic Pyramid,” the first song Omni wrote after coming out of lockdown. Filled with twists and turns, it’s a journey unto itself, charged by clanging chords, spinning rhythm, and Frobos trading lines with Izzy Glaudini of Automatic, with whom Omni toured with last fall. (Glaudini sings on two other Souvenir tracks, the first guest vocalist the band has collaborated with). Or take opener “Exacto,” a slicing web of intertwined guitar and bass. Its razor-fine notes and syncopated beats perfectly match pointillist Frobos lyrics such as “Exacto, de facto, concise, quite right”–a line that could well be an Omni mantra. The precision and clarity of Souvenir comes from some new Omni developments. For one, this is their first album with Yonker as their full-time drummer, and his forceful playing adds exclamation points to every pointed moment on Souvenir. In addition, the trio worked with Atlanta-based engineer Kristofer Sampson for the first time. Sampson pushed the band to a higher degree of power, with Frobos’s vocals more upfront in his pulsing mix and the rest of the music leaping out of the speakers. You might notice that Frobos’ singing is a bit more emotional and even nostalgic this time around. In crafting his vocals, he was inspired by the early college radio rock of formative favorites like REM, the Cure, and Big Audio Dynamite–the kind of bands whose melodies could have been top 40 hits in an alternative universe. The lyrics on Souvenir are also by turns funny, absurd, and even cryptic. A wry humor has always coursed through Omni’s songs, and this time, it comes in shades of both dark and light. In “Granite Kiss,” an “astronomical” love story concludes with the hope that “we can decay together,” while in “PG,” a romantic walk in the park includes a rose-colored mugging. Immediacy rushes throughout every moment of Souvenir, making it the band’s most powerful album to date. Omni has truly crafted a musical keepsake–a set of songs that you’ll want to keep close, an aural memento you’ll cherish for the rest of time.
Charles Latham & the Borrowed Band, Crank Stallion
Charles Latham & The Borrowed Band From Durham, NC, wry lyricist and charismatic frontman Charles Latham leads the dynamic, high-octane Borrowed Band (which includes former members of Ben Folds Five, Shooter Jennings, Six-String Drag and more) on a wild ride from ballads to barnstormers. Their 2020 self-titled release was featured in No Depression and music critic Brian Howe (INDY Week) wrote “Latham habitually animates pastiches of vintage Americana with deftly verbose lyrics, not unlike Django Haskins of The Old Ceremony, which positions him well to pull off the wordplay at the bedrock of country songwriting.” “Reminiscent of the glorious sloppiness of Neil Young & Crazy Horse.” – Folk Radio UK Website / Bandcamp / Instgaram Crank Stallion Website Crank Stallion emerges as an enigmatic trio from Chapel Hill, NC. Offering a genre-blending fusion of avant-garde rock, jazz, funk, and experimental tones. With an instrumentation lineup boasting keyboards, an 8 string Hybrid guitar-bass, and drums, our crafted guitars, textured keys, and thunderous rhythms coalesce into a sound defying categorization. Crank Stallion draws comparisons to a unique blend of Tom Waits, Medeski Martin and Wood, and Ruben Gonzalez. “With a mix of influences that stir together the outsider, avant sounds of Captain Beefheart and Tom Waits with the groovier, rhythmic sounds of jazz organ trios, a Crank Stallion performance sounds entirely from another time without being able to ascertain if that time is the past or the future.” -TheLocalMusicSpot
Monsoon w/ Bluething, Ex-Iguana
The Sleeveens with Future Fix and Hot Brains
The Sleeveens – Dirtnap Records Bandcamp / Website / Instagram Future Fix Instagram Hot Brains Instagram / Bandcamp