Joe G’s Cover Band Explosion
Joe G’s Cover Band Explosion Come enjoy this special family friendly, Halloween event with music from your favorite local artists paying tribute to their favorite bands!
Emma Jane, Burgundy Red, and Synclare
Join Emma Jane, Burgundy Redd, and Synclare for a Sunday night of live music at the Flat Iron. Three local bands, three different sounds, and a good excuse to hang out.
Azul, Whoop, and Shelby Morgan
Whoop: Whoop’s third album, Time to Talk, finds the genre-fluid North Carolina foursome maturing but still raw, evolving yet remaining hugely relatable. A nuanced, visceral mélange of nineties rock and indie-pop, sunny reggae, and earthy R&B, Time to Talk (Porcelain Records) marries innate talent and youthful joy to experience and eloquence, its rare emotive resonance free of studio gloss.“We definitely tapped into something special with this one,” said effervescent vocalist Fal. “ It felt like we all were ready to experiment with our sound in a way we haven’t before. This record feels like we stopped guessing and started going for it.” In an era of Auto-Tune and AI, Whoop remains defiantly organic and spontaneous. With their Grammy- and Juno-winning guitarist/producer Steve Bigas (Daniel Lanois, Ziggy Marley, Taj Mahal) at the helm, they recorded Time to Talk mostly live, at full volume, onto tape. No headphones or click tracks were used, and only tambourine and backup vocals were overdubbed. The results are refreshingly intimate and honest, with succinct song structures and sometimes stream-of-consciousness lyrics shaping a primal, disarmingly human experience.Shelby Morgan Shelby Morgan is an Annapolis-based pop-rock singer-songwriter blending ’80s-inspired synth-pop, indie-pop, and contemporary rock into emotionally charged songs that feel both nostalgic and refreshingly current. Since launching her project in 2018, she has independently released four EPs and two full-length albums while cultivating a vintage-inspired aesthetic influenced by Miley Cyrus, Stevie Nicks, and Pat Benatar.IG. Linktree AZULAZUL is a singer-songwriter whose greatest strength lies in her ability to create genuine human connection through music. Motivated by the isolation of the pandemic, she released her debut EP, The View From Here, in 2021, offering songs that resonated with listeners searching for hope and community. Her latest release, Death, Love & Disco, continues that mission, celebrating resilience, joy, and the belief that the future can be brighter than the past.Drawing from her Argentinian heritage and shaped by jazz, Broadway, soul, gospel, blues, disco, Latin folk, and Latin rock, AZUL’s music is as vibrant and multifaceted as her background. Performing in English, Spanish, and French, she combines soaring vocals, trumpet, dance, and infectious stage presence into a live experience that’s equal parts emotional, empowering, and playful.
Lowborn, blankstate., ColorMeKrazy, and panes
Vampires vs Aliens Halloween Party with Majoun, Mostly Mesh and Madcap Mallice
The allegations are true—we are throwing a Halloween rager!!! Vampires vs Aliens costume party at the Flat Iron October 29th with music flowing at 9:00. The best costume will win a crispy $100, or maybe 5 twenties, but come early, stay late, do your best or worst, all are welcome, have fun and tip your bartender…here’s a little information about the bands: Majoun is the heroic dose that you didn’t realize you were about to take, suddenly you’re kneading your way through the music into psychedelic dimensions and directions. The heaviness binds molecules in the air alchemically transforming, twisting with the shape of each new song. On the surface, Majoun is four friends exploring the boundaries of the sonic universe, below that we are explorers of the cosmos and cautionary observers of the modern world. Majoun taps into the conscious and subconscious with grins on their faces and a megaphone to your temple. Will it open minds, that’s not for us to say or pretend to claim, but we’re going to keep on riffing. Keywords: Heavy, Psychedelic, Energetic, Punk …… Bass heavy post-punk darkwave out of Greensboro, NC. Lyrics dripping in references to horror, BDSM, queerness, and processing trauma. Macabre love songs drenched in lust, sarcasm, and corn syrup blood. Mostly Mesh invites you to don your black lipstick and make out while a slasher plays in the background. …… Madcap Malice is 3 piece Punk-Rock group from the depths of the world! Robin (guitar/vocals) and Orlando(Drums) rise from the west coast with Al Al (Bass/Vocals) holding down the east coast! Coming together in the piedmont region of North Carolina to blast you with high energy Punk Rock Music! Influenced by the 90s grunge/alternative that will sure to have your heads rocking.
Darren Jessee w/ Natalie Jane Hill
Though best known as the drummer/harmonizer for beloved piano-rockers Ben Folds Five, Darren Jessee makes more understated, textured singer/songwriter fare both as leader of Hotel Lights and as a solo artist. After releasing three albums with “the Five” in the mid to late ’90s, he made four acclaimed Hotel Lights records between 2004 and 2016 while logging time touring with Sharon Van Etten and Hiss Golden Messenger performing on Hiss’s celebrated album Hallelujah Anyhow. He also contributed to The War on Drugs 2017 Grammy winning album, a period that also saw a fourth LP from a reunited Ben Folds Five (2012’s The Sound of the Life of the Mind, their debut in the U.S. Top Ten). In 2018, Jessee issued the more delicate — and often drums-free — The Jane Room 217, his first official solo album, with which he continued to prove himself an evocative, timeless lyricist. The similarly intimate and expressive Remover and Central Bridge followed in 2020 and 2023. Darren’s anticipated new solo album is expected in the Spring of 2027. Natalie Jane Hill is a Texas native guitarist and singer-songwriter based outside of Asheville, North Carolina. She writes songs that reach for the haunted and comforting corners of the world, dressed in a gently virtuosic and singular approach to finger-style guitar. Her new record, Hopeful Woman, is composed of slender songs, life-sized, in which humans endeavor to reconcile themselves to wildernesses and cities; rearrange their rooms and open windows to be closer to the world outside and its choruses of frogs and crickets; attempt and fail to reach one another across a kitchen table; weather natural disaster. If something we might deign to call self-discovery emerges over the course of these narratives, it owes in no small part to the scale of their scenes, to the modesty of their ambitions, in which tumult and adaptation and growth are metabolized through a body’s gentle actions and reactions, its moments of quietude and observation and reflection
Beggar Weeds + the CADETS
Bigger Weeds “In the 1980s, Beggar Weeds were Jacksonville punks sleeping under trucks, opening for X, recording with Michael Stipe, and skinny-dipping with David Berman. In a new, career-defining reissue, they’re the long-missing link between R.E.M. and Uncle Tupelo.” Casey Epstein-Gross, PaSt€ Magazine “Itchy and intense… the ramshackle attitude of The Replacements with a downhome Creedence-like sense of place” MOJO Magazine In the late 1980s, the whole of the Southern alternative scene knew Beggar Weeds as the up-and-coming speed-folk outfit co-signed by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. fame and destined for an imminent break into the big time. They spent most of their time shredding at the legendary venue Einstein A Go-Go and hightailing it from the near-constant fights in Jacksonville’s “blighted area” as fast as their wingtips could take them. Nearly 40 years after the release of their first and only EP, Sure Pants Alot, Beggar Weeds has somehow found themselves poised to take back the spotlight that so cruelly evaded them by barely an inch the first time around. The CADETS As the Cadets began rumbling away in 1995, Cash Carter built his frenetic, thundering drum style around Chuck Smyth’s fast-twitch searing lead rhythms and melodies fertile with nervous energy. Inside those urgent drums and angular chords came their melodic hooks, catchy and strong, laden with unexpected twists. They released a 7”,The Search for the Edible Man (1997), and their first full-length record, The Cadets (1999). As the century drew to a close, the Cadets took on bassist Chad Matheny (Emperor X), a dynamo of creativity and sonic agitation. Also joining was Isaac Bear, brilliantly color washing in the open spaces with expertly placed keys and guitars. The result was a delicately balanced collage of daydreams and found sounds dangling on the hilt of a steel edge. This lineup toured Japan and all along the US east coast until 2007. The Cadets’ music continues to be delightfully peculiar and full of immediacy, arriving at your ear having skidded briskly across the table yet perfectly upright and nary a drop wasted. Their sonic experiments produce songs that possess a rare energy that conjures the early days of rock & roll, sci-fi adventures, and diary entries never intended for the light of day. Lyrics filter larger themes through a tilted and tinted lens of wide-eyed fantastic reverie. Brainwashed spies, mythical chimera, desperate refugees, and jilted lovers all become protagonists and truth tellers.
Fancy Gap w/ Young Mister
Being Followed, Dai Cheri, and Stepback Jumper
TeleVolt w/ Le Smoking
