Writing and Photos by: Courtney Breen 5 Seconds of Summer brought their ‘Everyone’s A Star’ World Tour to Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek on August 14 with support from The Band Camino & Haiden Henderson. After closing out 2025 with the release of their sixth studio album, Everyone’s A Star!, 5 Seconds... Continue Reading →
Writing and Photos by: Courtney Breen Death Cab for Cutie brought their ‘I Built You A Tower’ World Tour to Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek in Raleigh, NC on July 22 with support from Japanese Breakfast. With the release of I Built You a Tower, Death Cab for Cutie's eleventh studio album,... Continue Reading →
Umphrey's McGee brought heavy jams and face-melting peaks to Charlotte's TD Amp Ballantyne. Read our review of their explosive set on the moe.mentUM tour.
Photography & Review by Thom Hooper Fifteen years is a long time to wait for a Kittie show in North Carolina. The last time the band came through the state was 2011, with back-to-back dates in Fayetteville and Jacksonville, respectively, during the In The Black era. Since then, the story around Kittie has shifted. What... Continue Reading →
Huge shoutout to Jordan Taylor (@tayloredphotography) and Zenith Music for the photos used in this article.Written by Elizabeth Miranda All the way from Sacramento, California, Dance Gavin Dance has made a massive impact on the modern rock scene with their mind blowing blend of post-hardcore, math rock, and progressive rock. Formed in 2005, the band... Continue Reading →
The String Cheese Incident brought their Just Keep Spinning Tour to Charlotte's TD Amp Ballantyne, delivering a spectacular night of deep grooves, intuitive jamming, and community connection.
Charlotte got a night of pure magic: genre-bending jams, jaw-dropping musicianship, and the kind of weird, wonderful energy that only a legend like Les Claypool can orchestrate. Whether navigating the prog-heavy waters of the Frog Brigade, the psychedelic swirl of the Delirium, or the funk-metal frenzy of Primus, the "Claypool Gold" tour proved to be an absolute masterclass in stage presence and chemistry.
Frasco belongs to a rare lineage of stage madmen—somewhere between John Belushi's "Joliet" Jake Blues and Jimmy Buffett. Yet beneath the rowdy showmanship and stage-diving lies what critics overlook: a devastatingly sharp songwriter, tireless champion of empathy, and a man who pauses his heaviest rock storms to gush about his mom.
Photos and writing by Shanna Rogers It was truly an evening to remember on the final night of April 2026. Kicking off their first tour in over a decade, Major League stopped into Motorco Music Hall in Durham, North Carolina, with co-headliners and pop-punk legends Hit The Lights, supported by Public Works and Rematch. From... Continue Reading →
Photos and review by Courtney Breen Lamb Of God returned to Raleigh, North Carolina at the Red Hat Amphitheater on April 16 with the ‘Into Oblivion’ North American Tour, featuring performances from Sanguisugabogg, Fit For An Autopsy, & Kublai Khan. With the recent release ‘Into Oblivion’, the tenth studio album for Lamb Of God, the... Continue Reading →
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