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Old Solar is an instrumental post-rock band from Raleigh, NC. Starting as a studio project, Old Solar quickly caught the attention of their peers and publications with their initial release, ‘SPEAK’ in 2016. After adding a full lineup, the band released their critically acclaimed sophomore album, ‘SEE’ in the US via A Thousand Arms Music and in Europe through Dunk!Records. Now in it’s third pressing, the album is considered a classic within the genre.Bandcamp | Instagram | Facebook | SpotifyEartherBandcamp | Instagram | Facebook | SpotifyOld BrierInstagram | Website | Spotify

School of Rock Chapel Hill’s End of Season Showcase

Free Show / $10 Suggested DonationFEATURING:The Best of Parliament-FunkadelicThe Best of Motley Crue vs. Deff LeppardThe Best of Pop-PunkEpic Albums: Radiohead’s “OK Computer”Epic Albums: Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours”Bands From A Land Down UnderWebsite | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

Tupelo Crush

Tupelo Crush – “A Bang & Twang Alt-Country/Rock n Roll Band”Facebook | InstagramThe Bo-Stevens – “Real Honkytonk Music”FacebookCharles Latham & Friends – “Country Rock for Weirdos”Website

Carolina Waves Presents IndieWaves Concert

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Jaguar Sun

Jaguar Sun is a Canadian solo project created by multi instrumentalist Chris Minielly. Weaving together inspiration from bands such as Frightened Rabbit, Youth Lagoon, and Fruit Bats, Minielly creates dreamy, pop centric soundscapes with experimental and folky flair produced entirely in his home. The Ontario based artist allows his instruments to speak equally to his voice urging listeners to get lost in richly layered guitar lines and deep droning synths between soft vocal melodies.Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | TikTok

Wish Queen / MEGABITCH / hollyo

Mystical and moving, Wish Queen takes the intangible feelings of desire and yearning (wishing), and transforms them into poetic melodies, ranging from danceable pop to deliciously introspective bedroom ballads. Blending her rich classic vocals with layered synth-based production styles, Wish Queen Transports her listeners to a myriad of times and places all at once. A hypnotic blend of dream pop, art pop, and indie folk, her debut album, “SATURNALIA,” will be released later this year.Instagram | Twitter | Spotify | TikTok | Soundcloudhollyo is a Brooklyn-based visual artist, musician and filmmaker from North Carolina. Themes ranging from climate change to the art world are featured in her emotive, well humored solo compositions. Blending genres, she adapts classical piano to analog drum machine with sensual vocals. For her 2019 concept album, “The Woman on the Beach”, she created all visual elements including costumes and stage design, music videos, and accompanying art objects.Website | Bandcamp | Instagram | FacebookMEGABITCHBandcamp

Little Image

little image is a Dallas based group that started playing music together for eight years and throughout that near-decade, the band morphed from a group of perpetually online suburban teens who were obsessed with underground indie rock and had no idea what they wanted to be into the tight-knit outfit you see today. While many young artists had their careers derailed in 2020 due to COVID, it actually managed to save little image, which was gearing up to announce itself to the world without realizing the members needed more time for reflection.The Dallas-based alt-pop trio released their debut album SELF TITLED earlier this year via Hollywood Records.  Produced in partnership with Chad Copelin (Sufjan Stevens, 5 Seconds Of Summer), the album featured songs “LUNGS BURN,” “BLUE,” and “OUT OF MY MIND,” the latter garnering millions of streams ahead of the album’s release and broke the Top 20 on Alternative Airplay, was featured in a Hulu add, and secured the group for On The Verge – ALT, iHeart’s premiere breaking artist program. After opening for Panic! At The Disco, Colony House, and more.Instagram | Twitter | Spotify | YouTube | Website

Colony House

The music of Colony House—an indie rock band made up of brothers Will and Caleb Chapman, as well as Scott Mills and Parke Cottrell—is playfully self-described as “landlocked surf rock.” Their personal genre designation is as much inspired by their hometown of Franklin, Tenn., as their new album The Cannonballers is: within 11 tracks, the band delves into where they come from and how a place, and its memories, have made them.The Cannonballers signifies the carefree times of childhood past, with its beautiful naivete, while simultaneously encapsulating an alter ego—a character speeding down the open road, racing the clock in their rearview. The band is often caught in the duality of the reckless and the innocent. The album is an apt addition to the band’s catalog, staying true to what Colony House does best and expanding on what their fans have gravitated to for the past decade: hope and light in the midst of it all. No frills, no gimmicks. Just heart-level rock and roll music.Their three previous studio collections take listeners on a journey through stories of loss, grief, and heartbreak while welcoming them into the hope that comes on the other side. Their song “Silhouettes” was the #1 most-played track on Sirius XM’s Alt Nation for four months straight, and the surf-rock hit “You Know It” went viral on Tik Tok, amassing 100 million streams across all platforms to date after being featured as the soundtrack to Samsung Mobile’s nationwide ad campaign.Their full-length feature film, “Everybody’s Looking For Some Light,” was an official selection at the Nashville and Knoxville Film Festival. The project debuted at a two-day drive-in event where 2,000 people (in over 600 cars) showed up to watch the film and see Colony House perform.The band has performed their songs for worldwide audiences with two appearances on both Late Night with Seth Meyers and CONAN, as well as The Today Show, VH1’s “Morning Buzz,” and MTV Live. They have also been part of several festival lineups, including Shaky Knees, Austin City Limits, Firefly, WonderBus, and Lollapalooza.Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Spotify | YouTube | TikTok

Mapache

On their dynamic and ambitious fifth album of cosmic-folk, Swinging Stars, Sam Blasucci and Clay Finch decided to take a trip and hunker down somewhere particularly special. Located in Stinson Beach in Marin County, California, the Panoramic House has recently hosted acts like My Morning Jacket, the War on Drugs, and Cate Le Bon, and was the ideal combination of scenic beauty and self-imposed confinement to allow Mapache to settle in for their most cohesive album yet. “That environment yields itself to a higher level of focus because everybody’s together for a week,” says Finch, explaining that the band stayed there during the process, sharing every bit of their time and energy on a shared vision. “We were all captive. No one could escape,” he laughs. Swinging Stars, an album of calm, second-nature swagger, is the natural result of a band that’s existed in one form or another for its founders’ entire adult lives. Finch and Blasucci first met as students at La Cañada High School, just north of Los Angeles, where they both had a guitar class: “There wasn’t much supervision or anything,” remembers Blasucci. “It was really nice. And we got to just play guitars together.” Many of the songs on Swinging Stars are the result of a significant amount of group work on the road, sharpening and refining them, getting them just so before hitting the studio with their trusted collaborator Horne, who produced the set. Swinging Stars is also notable for its introduction of drummer Steve Didelot as a formal member of the band, with him playing on every track, and contributing an original song as well—“Reflecting Everything,” a cowboy-chord ballad sparkling with Finch and Blasucci’s guitars, and with Horne’s impeccable slide guitar. There are also two special features: one from the Allah-Lahs’ Spencer Dunham, who plays bass on “French Kiss,” and another from David Rawlings, who graciously took the call to play acoustic guitar on the album’s finale, “Where’d You Go,” recording his part remotely. “He’s someone who Sam and I look up to in a pretty serious way,” Finch says. “So it was cool to have him.” Mapache is so easygoing that their vibe belies their prolificness at times. Swinging Stars is their fourth album in as many years, and they show no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Blasucci chalks it up partly to the fact that, when you have two principal songwriters in a band, “the songs come in quickly and they stack up quickly.” It helps, too, that they’re just in the right place to be making music. “We’re just trying to make hay while the sun shines,” as Finch puts it. “None of us have any babies or anything and we’re all pretty committed to playing as much music as we can. And really focused on making something beautiful.” Website | Instagram

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