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The Drums

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Glove are at the forefront of cutting-edge new aged nostalgia. Funneling the feeling of a seedy nightclub into a well-polished package. Formed in Tampa, FL and made up of Rod Wendt, Justin Burns and Brie Deux. Glove are a fluid unit wherein there is not a singular front person. This aligns with the band’s creative ethos in opposition to being categorized as one fixed configuration, but rather, amorphous, generating intrigue, suspense, and excitement among fans. Glove’s live performances are something like a mosh pit mixed with Studio 54.Website | Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube

Pageant

Pageant is a blues-influenced, glam rock band, based in High Point, NC. With Dylan Dynasty on drums, Dezzy Foxx on guitar, and Roxxi Dirt on bass and vocals, Pageant strives to shine a new light on the classic sounds of 70’s and 80’s style rock n’ roll. Their music is inspired by legends such as Motley Crue, Guns N’ Roses, Aerosmith, and Cinderella. Pageant’s unique sound aspires to contribute to the new generation of rock and create a sound that is unique, yet familiar. They want to provide a live listening experience that’s exciting, raw, and exhilarating. From their flashy clothes to their hand-built stage set, banner, and customized equipment, you will not be disappointed when Roxxi, Dezzy, and Dylan hit the stage. Joined by local Raleigh Rock N’ Roll legends, Stone Whiskey and Stray Volts, this is a night that you won’t want to miss!Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | TikTok

Deerhoof

MIRACLES WANTED!(EVERYTHING IS A MIRACLE EXCEPT WAR AND GASOLINE)PHASE-OUT ALL REMAINING NON-MIRACLES BY 2028(LUCKILY THERE AREN’T THAT MANY ANYWAY)WE NEED ONLY *LOVE* SONGS(YES, THIS WORD GETS USED OFTEN)BUT I MEAN HIGH-LEVELI MEAN MIRACLE LEVELLET’S WASH OUR DIRTY HANDS WITH LOVELET’S LIVELET’S WALK CLOSELY TOGETHERI CAN HOLD AN UMBRELLA FOR YOU FOR A LONG TIMEDeerhoof’s new album, Miracle-Level, was produced, recorded, and mixed by Mike Bradavski at No Fun Studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It’s the band’s 19th album and the first to be produced, recorded and mixed entirely in a recording studio. All of the songs are in Japanese.Website | Bandcamp | Instagram | Twitter

Indigo De Souza

“Everything has to be said.” This is the conviction guiding Indigo De Souza’s sophomore album, Any Shape You Take. This dynamic record successfully creates a container for the full spectrum — pushing through and against every emotion: “I wanted this album to give a feeling of shifting with and embracing change. These songs came from a turbulent time when I was coming to self-love through many existential crises and shifts in perspective.”Faithful to its name, Any Shape You Take changes form to match the tenor of each story it tells. “The album title is a nod to the many shapes I take musically. I don’t feel that I fully embody any particular genre — all of the music just comes from the universe that is my ever-shifting brain/heart/world,” says Indigo. This sonic range is unified by Indigo’s strikingly confessional and effortless approach to songwriting, a signature first introduced in her debut, self-released LP, I Love My Mom. Written in quick succession, Indigo sees these two records as companion pieces, both distinct but in communion with each other: “Many of the songs on these two records came from the same season in my life and a certain version of myself which I feel much further from now.”Throughout Any Shape You Take, Indigo reflects on her relationships as she reckons with a deeper need to redefine how to fully inhabit spaces of love and connection.”It feels so important for me to see people through change. To accept people for the many shapes they take, whether those shapes fit into your life or not. This album is a reflection of that. I have undergone so much change in my life and I am so deeply grateful to the people who have seen me through it without judgment and without attachment to skins I’m shifting out of.”Lead single “Kill Me,” written during the climax of a dysfunctional relationship, opens with the lines “Kill me slowly/ Take me with you.” This powerful plea, that begins within the quiet strum of a single electric guitar, is diffused by Indigo’s ironic apathy — a slacker rock nonchalance that refuses to take itself seriously: “I was really tired and fucked up from this relationship and simultaneously so deeply in love with that person in a special way that felt very vast and more real than anything I’d ever experienced.”Across the table from that irreverence sits the sincerity of the single “Hold U,” a more energized, neo soul-inspired love song that substitutes apathy for a genuine expression of care. “I wrote ‘Hold U’ after I left that heavy season of my life and was learning how to love more simply and functionally. I wanted to write a love song that was painfully simple.”Growing up in a conservative small town in the mountains of North Carolina, Indigo started playing guitar when she was nine years old. “Music was a natural occurrence in my life. My dad is a bossa nova guitarist and singer from Brazil and so I think I just had it in my blood from birth.” It wasn’t until moving to Asheville, NC that Indigo began to move into her current sound, developing a writing practice that feeds from the currents that surround her: “Sometimes it feels like I am soaking up the energies of people around me and making art from a space that is more a collective body than just my own.”Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Spotify | YouTube | TikTok

Son Volt – 28 Years of Son Volt: Songs of Trace and Doug Sahm

Join us for a special evening celebrating 28 years of Son Volt.In 2020, Son Volt planned to celebrate the 25th anniversary of seminal album, Trace, with a tour that played the album from top to bottom. The pandemic had other plans. Flash forward to 2023 and they are on the road with a setlist that features Trace from beginning to end, an homage to Doug Sahm (Sir Douglas Quintet, Texas Tornados) and a celebration of 28 years of Son Volt.Son Volt’s latest record, Day of the Doug, revisits the music of legendary Texas troubadour Doug Sahm. But it’s much more than fond remembrance and colorful tribute. It is a summoning and a celebration of a songwriter and performer whose work forged country, Tex-Mex, rock, rhythm and blues, folk, and psychedelia into an utterly unique American sound.Day of the Doug steps confidently on the trails Sahm blazed. Like any journey to find a grail, Day of the Doug also seeks out all the things that make young artists fall in love with making music in the first place: adventure, youth novelty, and a chance to snatch a bit of immortality.“It’s like reconnecting with a hero,” says Son Volt founder Jay Farrar. “And getting back to the same kind of perspective I had when I was starting out as a younger musician. I think it’s just important to step back from what you normally do. Take stock. Take inspiration. And see where it leads from there.”Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

The Beths

On The Beths’ new album Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they’re also character sketches of relationships and more importantly, their aftermaths. The question that hangs in the air: what do you do with how intimately versed you’ve become in a person, once they’re gone from your life?The third LP from the New Zealand quartet houses 12 jewels of tight, guitar-heavy songs that worm their way into your head, an incandescent collision of power-pop and skuzz. The album’s title track “Expert In A Dying Field” introduces the thesis for the record: “How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field? How do you know it’s over when you can’t let go?” Stokes asks. “Love is learned over time ‘til you’re an expert in a dying field.”‘Expert In A Dying Field’ is out now via Carpark Records and Ivy League Records.Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Spotify | YouTube | Soundcloud | TikTok

NiiTO

Based out of Raleigh-Durham, NC, NiiTO has spent the last few years crafting a unique sound while becoming more in tune with themselves and the people of this world. With heavy influences from a variety of genres, they’ve stumbled upon a sound that blurs the lines between R&B, Rock, Pop, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Blues and more. “The more genres we can absorb… the more people we can spread love to”Website | InstagramDottie InstagramJamal Sutton Instagram

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