http://www.yesweekly.com/articles.sec-240-1-tunes.html The marching band %uFFFD complete with baton twirlers, flag wavers, flag runners and acrobatic drum majors %uFFFD formed an impressive phalanx on the practice field as dusk descended around 5 p.m. on a recent Wednesday. ]]> Linford Detweiler slips out the side door of Dana Auditorium after being excused from the sound check. Piano player and part of the songwriting and musical core of Over the Rhine with wife Karin Bergquist, Detweiler owns a lanky frame like Abraham Lincoln, heavyframed glasses and an overgrown mop-top reminiscent of the Surrealistic Pillow-era. ]]> Ken Mickey%uFFFDs chardonnay glass rests on the piano cover, the instrument itself balanced on a four-wheeled dolly in the living room of Jack Gorham%uFFFDs house on the outskirts of High Point%uFFFDs tony Emerywood section. Used paint trays and rollers stack on the porch, and strips of blue tape line the inside window frames. ]]> Rhiannon Giddens, one-third of the world-famous African-American string band known as the Carolina Chocolate Drops, is wrapping up a rare solo set at the Green Burro in Greensboro on a recent Thursday. ]]> The bandstand is a corner of the bar in strip mall near the Revolutionary War battleground in the upper reaches of Greensboro. ]]> On Oct. 25, Plum Krazy%uFFFDs in Greensboro will host one of the Triad%uFFFDs biggest music events of the year %uFFFD Roctoberfest. The event features 10 bands, lots of cool people and great food and drink specials. ]]> Kemp Stroble stood in the center of the floor at the Blind Tiger on a recent Saturday in the midst of a sea of smiling hipsters during Pinche Gringo%uFFFDs set. ]]> They have broken down after their show at the Cave in Chapel Hill and gotten a motel room somewhere off the interstate around Burlington. The hike to Winston-Salem has been short enough to allow the two young men who fashion the Nashville band Gunslinger to get in some relaxation time at the hipster HQ known as Krankies Coffee. ]]> In the music business, back in the Golden Era, there existed a working business model: Release a record and tour incessantly to promote it; get on festival bills; get opening slots on big tours; pick up gigs on days off, anything it takes. Just work your ass off and promote the music you love enough to put on wax.]]> Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen's website is like a time capsule: a Flash Version bathed in electric blue with lightning flashing, a soundtrack meshing primordial blues and classical-music fury, a weird animated diorama with computer monitors and a... ]]> %uFFFDJessie%uFFFDs Girl%uFFFD was a huge hit for Rick Springfield in 1981. It also won him a grammy. Springfield had been in the music business for 12 years by this time. He had already enjoyed success in his homeland of Australia as a member of the band Zoot, and had visited the coveted Top 40 charts in the USA with the No. ]]> The curved and gleaming eminence of the Wachovia Building looms through the tree line from the sloping backyard where a respectable little bonfire is steeping the neighborhood in wood smoke and the party is getting underway. Out on the street Jeremy Jessup unloads his drums from his Honda sedan. ]]> The sound, brash guitars, careering bass and drums, soaring vocal harmonies, cascades out the open door of the Blind Tiger onto Greensboro’s misty Walker Avenue, but the foot traffic is light and the committed revelers seem to be anchored to their stools across the street at Walker’s and Wahoo’s. ]]> Scott Morgan is a rough-hewn Carolina Piedmont literary man who tosses off novels at the rate some people turn out custom houses. He also writes damn fine songs that evoke the gritty milieu of those novels, set to a roadhouse soundtrack replete with greasy, high-octane twang, tender Muscle Shoals soul and Stonesy raunch rock. ]]> The sublime vastness of a rugged land unfurled under a panoramic sky may be etched across the moniker for husband and wife duet Jonathan and Jennifer Adams, but they actually claim Lawrenceville, a small city about 30 miles outside of Atlanta, as base of operations; they met at nearby University of Georgia in Athens. ]]> The three guys from Asheville are about to make their move. Bassist Dan Pederson and guitarist Luke Wood confer at the bar with fan Lindsay Harris while drummer Billy Owens runs over some details with the sound technician. The trio does business under the moniker Makia Groove, and it’s their first time in town. ]]> The musicians and female backup singers have taken positions onstage in statuesque postures as the crowd jostles at the Greene Street club on a recent Thursday morning, just after midnight. The comedian assigned to emcee the show is going a little long. ]]> This summer flower is wilting, says Kelly Cranford, showing just the slightest hint of a pout as she cradles her instrument in the back corner of one of the corrugated metal boxes that comprise at Secure Care Self Storage on Greensboro’s West Wendover Avenue. ]]> Ailyne takes the stage at Greene Street dressed in headbands, skimpy, Day-Glo athletic shorts and tank tops. Their backs to the audience, the band members take shadowy forms as blinding lights beam into the audience and a recording of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” blares from the speakers. ]]> It stood shoulder to shoulder with anything out of New York — or Manchester, England, for that matter — and spawned a focus on local scenes. First Athens. Then Minneapolis, Seattle and Chapel Hill. ]]>