Distant Future is a new band of misfits, a post-punk four-piece of Greensboro weirdos with love for sci-fi, The Cure and each other. “We very much have become a lil’ band family,” said guitarist and main brain, Ward Picklesimer, ...
LIMN, a new Greensboro electro-post-metal outfit with an art focus will hit the road for a show at Monstercade on Nov. 16. “We’re all multi-instrumentalists, not just musicians,” the group answered collectively, hinting toward the holistic approach ...
1. From Oct. 18-20 in Winston-Salem, celebrate Pride! The Pride Winston-Salem kick-off party is on Friday at the Kimpton ...
*Editor’s note: The band Cold Cream is technically from the Triangle, not Raleigh and FemFest’s date was listed incorrectly at the end of the article. It has been corrected online. FemFest is back again, with heavier tunes and a ...
The Righteous Gemstones, the latest HBO show from the folks who brought Kenny Powers to life, is set around a Charleston mega-church empire, starring John Goodman as the patriarchal pastor, Eli Gemstone, with creator Danny McBride and Adam ...
Dex Romweber isn’t known for his piano playing, necessarily. When prodded on the particular subject, Romweber will describe himself as “a failed classical piano player.” Romweber is a legend of North Carolina music, though, as an energetic frontman revered for ...
Mauve Angeles makes its return with Must Be the Holy Ghost on June 27 at Monstercade. Summer is a time for growth. Appropriately, the bill bolsters a return from hibernation for all acts involved. “We both heard ...
Inspiration can strike at the strangest, most counterintuitive moments. For Tori Elliott, it was a panic episode in the dressing room at the Hanes Mall H&M in Winston-Salem. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say that Elliott, ...
Curse the day, y’all. Night Battles is making their way to Winston-Salem for a show with Basement Life and Space Cadet Orchestra on June 1 at Monstercade. The doomy Raleigh-based foursome are fans of the Triad, especially Monstercade–of which ...
Artists tend to create with the hope of stimulating feeling or heightening sensation. But to simply stir powerful emotions isn’t necessarily meaningful. One can easily incite people, outrage them, titillate them and manipulate their sense of pathos. ...
