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Saturday, June 30, 2012
Concert Announcement The Search for the Coldest MC at The Fillmore on Saturday (6/30/2012)
Posted By Caroline Pate on Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 8:48 AM
Charlotte will get a little colder tonight as Ice Cube hosts The Coors Light Search for the Coldest MC semi-final at The Fillmore featuring guest judge Ice Cube and a special performance by Fabolous.
semi-finalists Eddie Blaze of Charlotte and Felony Fame of Maxton will battle it out for a spot in the New York finals, where they will have a chance to win $10,000 in studio time and a track on the SFTC2012 mixtape produced by DJ Drama. Tickets are not available, but you can vote online for your favorite MC to represent to Queen City at the final showdown in the Big Apple.
Concert Announcement P.O.D., Love and Death at Memorial Stadium today (6/30/2012)
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 8:23 AM
City Invasions is bringing the rock of P.O.D. and Love and Death (featuring Brian "Head" Welch of Korn) along with hip-hop by Thi'sil, Flame and The Rep to Memorial Stadium on Saturday, June 30. The free concert starts at 5 p.m. and is the brainchild of Invasion founder Amy Lambert, a recovering drug addict who created the concert series as a way to reach out to people suffering from addiction.
Tickets for the free show can be printed via the event website.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Photos / Live Reviews / setlist Live review: Lost in the Trees, Visulite Theatre, 6/28/2012
Posted By Caroline Pate on Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Lost in the Trees
Visulite Theatre
June 28, 2012
In the right setting, and with the right music and lyrics, a song can literally move someone to tears. It happend at the Visulite Theatre on Tuesday night when Lost in the Trees presented the sparse "This Dead Bird Is Beautiful." The song centered on singer/guitarist Ari Picker offering somber lyrics while multi-instrumentalist Emma Nadeau sang operatic tones behind him. The crowd stood in silent awe of the performance while a lone fan in front wiped tears from her eyes.
Emotions ran high within the venue - not only through the band's music, but due to a regional homecoming of sorts for the six Chapel Hill band members. Lost in the Trees was glad to play the last show of its current tour so close to home, having been on a two-week run to promote its latest album, A Church That Fits Our Needs. The mood was intimate, with a small, but devoted, crowd soaking up the sounds within the Visulite's candlelit setting.
Although at one point Nadeau tried to motivate people to dance, movement in the crowd remained more emotional than physical. The lyrical content is not lighthearted subject matter, and the live setting brought forth the words with even more power.
News / Videos BBC Southern rock doc includes two CL Charlotte voices
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Earlier this spring, the British Broadcasting Corporation began airing what may be the definitive documentary on the golden age of Southern rock. It features extensive interviews with icons ranging from Gregg Allman and Bonnie Bramlett to Mike Mills of R.E.M. and Patterson Hood of the Drive By Truckers. It also includes several music experts on the topic including not one, but two journalists associated with Creative Loafing Charlotte.
Sweet Home Alabama - The Southern Rock Saga, an hour-long film directed by James Maycock, examines bands such as the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and others that blended blues, country and rock 'n' roll into the down-and-dirty concoction that became known as Southern rock. The British music press has long had a fascination with music from the American South, and Southern rock was extremely popular in the U.K. during the 1970s. The music, born at places like Muscle Shoals Sound and bred on the road, took the world by storm during that transitional time, helped send Jimmy Carter to the white house in 1976 and crashed and burned with the downed plane that killed key members of Lynryd Skynyrd the following year. Behind the music and hard partying was the legacy of race issues held over from the segregated South of the pre-1960s, and this documentary also tackles those issues.
The documentary's details largely come from CL editor Mark Kemp's book Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South. Kemp is a former Rolling Stone editor and MTV editorial executive. He and former CL music editor Kandia Crazy Horse, an award-winning journalist and author of Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock N Roll, both appear in the documentary offering comments on how Southern rock changed the social and musical landscape of the 1970s, in the South and beyond.
The documentary, like Dixie Lullaby, begins with the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and then walks the viewer through the social, political and cultural changes that eventually culminated in the birth Southern rock in studios that had been the province of Southern-identified soul singers such as Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin.
Currently, the BBC has no plans to release the documentary in the United States, but you can watch the entire film at this YouTube link:
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Live Reviews Live review: One Direction, Time Warner Cable Arena, 6/27/2012
Posted By Alison Angel on Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:06 AM
One Direction
Time Warner Cable Arena
June 27, 2012
Screams pierced my eardrums as I gazed awestruck at an army of on-the-verge-of-tears tweens crowding Time Warner Cable Arena on Wednesday night. I suddenly felt like I had gone back in time. Surely the cause of such a decibel level nearly rendering me deaf was due to a sighting of Taylor Hanson or Justin Timberlake popping and locking with 'N Sync, right?
Nope. It's 2012 and all this commotion is for the newest boyband to roll off the assembly line - One Direction. Aside from the group members getting younger and younger (and, in this case, British), times really haven't changed.
With what seemed like nearly identical infectious pop melodies, each One Direction song gave the boys a chance to sing a verse and hear the crowd scream their names. But the screams weren't necessarily for the amazing vocals, but more likely for whichever singer the crowd members considered to be the "cute one." Easy to understand, as each song they whipped out was about love: falling in love or crying over love. Pretty compelling stuff, and not changed in the slightest from the golden age.
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