30 Is Dead, Girl Scout Riot, and Wash Away
Lowborn, Galloway, and Blankstate.
LOWBORN: Emo-Pop trio from Greensboro, NC. GALLOWAY: alternative indie pop band based out of Raleigh, NC that combines aspects of pop, rock, indie, and alternative music, striving to deliver songs that are rife with memorable, well-crafted instrumentals, smooth and vibrant vocals, and lyrics about love and the queer experience. BLANKSTATE.: Indie Emo trio from Charlotte, NC
Folkknot Friendsgiving with special guest Laura Maine
Hobex with special guests Tom Mackell and Farewell Friend (solo)
A special holiday show with Hobex and special guests, Tom Mackell band and Farewell Friend (solo)
House Of Fools + Fancy Gap wsg: Larry Wayne Slaton
Del Ward + Bedroom Division
Mellow Swells + Bedrumor
Mellow Swells is a band from Durham, NC that blends atmospheric soundscapes with soulful melodies and airtight grooves. Known for their captivating live performances, the group fuses elements of indie, r&b, electronic, rock and ambient music. Mellow Swells aims to bring depth and serenity to every listeners musical journey. “Mellow Swells’ music wildly unfurls into dance-ready rhythms, distorted guitars, and passionate vocals.” – CLTure Magazine bedrumor is a Greensboro based band led by Lazuli Ortiz and Ryan Mole. Their music could be described broadly as indie rock, but with inspirations from jazz. In order to convey their music in a live setting, they bring in other musicians to help perform and arrange their music. Currently the group has Tyler Monroe (drums) and Nick Vanbuskirk (saxophone). They take inspiration from artists like Herbie Hancock, King Krule, Duster, Ichiko Aoba and Hiatus Koyote. Lazuli is the main producer of all of bedrumor’s music, which is recorded in her bedroom (hence the name). With a large online following from doing mostly covers, bedrumor continues to write, record, and perform original music regularly with plans to release an EP in the near future.
IRATA, JPHONO1, and LIMN
Wednesday (solo) + Cryogeyser (solo)
A Wednesday song is a quilt. A short story collection, a half-memory, a patchwork of portraits of the American south, disparate moments that somehow make sense as a whole. Karly Hartzman, the songwriter/vocalist/guitarist at the helm of the project, is a story collector as much as she is a storyteller: a scholar of people and one-liners. Rat Saw God, the Asheville band’s acclaimed record, is ekphrastic but autobiographical and above all, deeply empathetic. Across the album’s ten tracks Hartzman builds a shrine to minutiae. Half-funny, half-tragic dispatches from North Carolina unfurling somewhere between the wailing skuzz of Nineties shoegaze and classic country twang, that distorted lap steel and Hartzman’s voice slicing through the din.The songs on Rat Saw God don’t recount epics, just the everyday. They’re true, they’re real life, blurry and chaotic and strange – which is in-line with Hartzman’s own ethos: “Everyone’s story is worthy,” she says, plainly. “Literally every life story is worth writing down, because people are so fascinating.”But the thing about Rat Saw God – and about any Wednesday song, really – is you don’t necessarily even need all the references to get it, the weirdly specific elation of a song that really hits. Yeah, it’s all in the details – how fucked up you got or get, how you break a heart, how you fall in love, how you make yourself and others feel seen – but it’s mostly the way those tiny moments add up into a song or album or a person.
Fifth Floor, Blankstate, Monsoon, and SLOTHH
