Phantogram pair tours with new album: Three Welcoming Phantogram and opener The Range, Fillmore Charlotte found itself with what had to be a near sell out crowd this night. Many in attendance came out ready to celebrate in costume the official/unofficial Halloween night since this show fell on the Saturday before October 31. Show opener […]
Does Maynard James Keenan really think of Tool fans as a bunch of “misunderstood punky rocky gothy woe-is-me types” who hang in “a mound of black leather and army surplus jackets and boots and spiky egg white hairdos and mohawks and second generation and exploited and Minor Threat and Sex Pistols patches and stuff?” [As […]
By: Cynthia Haithcock //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js I grew up to be a big Tool and A Perfect Circle fan. If someone had me told years ago that I would one day be standing ringside during a luchador match with my camera in hand, waiting for Maynard James Keenan to take the stage, I would have never believed […]
More Than Just Hum, Anything but Failure By: Cynthia Haithcock and Josh Gooch The unimaginable happened in Charlotte at the Neighborhood Theatre in NoDA as bands Failure and Hum took the stage. For fans of both bands getting to catch them live was a tall task as album-releases and performances have been all but absent […]
Music Farm Columbia Presents The Return of Pure Hard Rock with 10 Years & Nonpoint By: Amanda Caines //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js For the band 10 Years, 2015 marks the tenth anniversary of their breakout album The Autumn Effect, and with that anniversary, the band is “minus the machine,” as one might say, and releasing its second album […]
Primus Dazzles While Iron and Wine Quench Thirsts A week of fun at the Fillmore is a-coming. First on Monday, July 20, we will be treated to the sounds of bass player and vocalist Les Claypool of Cali-born Primus. The normal stage show of the band is a mesmerising light-spectacle and just sincere rock and […]
By: Daniel Gardner I was turned onto post-rock many seasons ago. So many that I now feel like a withered and gray old man when I think about it. It had been quite sometime since I had seen it done right live and for once, when I arrived at The Fillmore it wasn’t pouring rain. […]
You won’t catch any argument from me that sitting around and taking bong rips while watching YouTube videos is a great way to kill a Thursday evening, but there are better ways to use that high to your advantage. Head on over to Tremont Music Hall on October the 25th for plenty of soul crushing […]
The Teenie Weenie event held in Charlotte at The Fillmore on September 15th was a perfect prelude to kick start 106.5 The End’s annual Weenie Roast. The venue hosted three bands of strikingly different tastes. The opening band, Fusebox Poet, runner up of 106.5’s Battle for Weenie back in August, set the stage for A […]
Rock and metal bands gathered for the Queen City Eruption, at The Chop Shop venue in Charlotte, NC. This show was prepared to give loyal fans a high energy performance that lasted well over three hours. To kick off the show a personal favorite of the night, Foe Hammer, took the floor. It was in […]
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