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
Cigarettes At Sunset, Bedroom Division, and Scoby
Cigarettes @ Sunset is a band that hails from the mountains of North Carolina consisting of Garrett Dellinger, Sarah Vann, Ryland Bagbey, Wells Whitman, and Ethan Moore. Forming in 2021, the band calls Boone home. Since 2021, they’ve been touring regularly through the east coast with such acts as Dexter & The Moonrocks and others. The band’s music juxtaposes driving guitar riffs, drums that swerve out of country and punk, with swelling violin, and Dellinger’s semi-autobiographical lyrics anchor the band in both time and place. Their live shows turn any venue into an intimate and energized space, amalgamating shoegaze, old time, and indie rock into a whirlwind of sound. Mellow, woozy and romantic indie/alt-pop from Greensboro, NC. Bedroom Division is the recording project from songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dylan Wishon. Fusing mellow, jangly guitar with 80s inspired synths. Creating soundscapes inspired by well known artists such as Mac DeMarco, boy pablo, Rex Orange County, and The Strokes. SCOBY is an indie-rock outfit from Winston-Salem, NC. Consisting entirely of Wake Forest students and alums, SCOBY recorded their first EP in their drummer Doug’s basement on campus. The band functions as a true community project, often opening their space to lone student musicians and being reciprocally lifted by a cult student fanbase. Their EP, “That Will Be The End”, couples a DIY indie ethic with candidly sentimental subject matter, exploring themes of grief, growth, and coming into identity. The project soars through a quirky, reflective diary of college age, featuring jittery hooks and composition that is “uninhibited and confidently playful” (CLTure Magazine). As they round out the recording of their upcoming full-length LP, SCOBY hopes to continue down a path of authentic songwriting and reverence to the local talent that supports them.
