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. ...
As spring blooms into summer, the Winston-Salem darkwavers in Spirit System will embark on a mini-tour across North Carolina, spreading their “little black raincloud” to soothe souls and contrast pre-summer vibes. The tide is high for goth ...
1. From April 19-21 in Greensboro, the Community Theatre of Greensboro presents: Jesus Christ Superstar. This play is loosely based ...
1. From March 22-24 in Winston-Salem, Monstercade, located at 204 W. Acadia Ave., is celebrating two years of weird with a weekend full of live music...
Van Goose makes hyperactive, slightly skewed party music. The grooves are a bit twitchy, and the singing veers toward the crazed. The Brooklyn-based quintet is the creative project of Shlomi Lavie, a drummer/multi-instrumentalist songwriter-singer. You may find yourself thinking ...
There is no place like home, as Dorothy famously repeated in the Wizard of Oz. After living in this area for almost two years, I can say the same: there is truly no place like the Triad. ...
