North Carolina based indie retail store and label, Schoolkids Records recently signed Chapel Hill NC trio Happy Abandon and announced the Pledge Music/pre-order campaign for the debut album from the band titled...

Inspired by emotional turmoil, rebirth, and Stephen King’s “Dark Tower”, I Was Totally Destroying It return with a brand new album! Immediately following the release of Preludes in April 2011, IWTDI...

John Booker, of Chapel Hill’s I Was Totally Destroying It, had about 35 songs and, much like any working musician, not much time to do anything with them. The story of Preludes begins here, before its time – six years...

90s indie noise rock band POLVO is back after a farewell tour in 1998, having re-signed to Merge Records and released a new album ‘In Prism’ on 9/8/09. Here are some comments from the Merge site that sum it up...

The last time we heard from Chapel Hill’s I WAS TOTALLY DESTROYING IT, they had finished an EP and were working on their debut full length.  Well, that time has finally arrived – and we have managed to grab the...

Lost in the Trees is a folk orchestra from Chapel Hill NC, led by composer/songwriter Ari Picker. Picker began writing songs in his bedroom at age 15 and quickly went on to front several indie pop bands during his teenage...

On The Beach are a four-piece indie rock band from Durham and Chapel Hill NC in the hallowed vein of post-hardcore band Fugazi. Nagendra and John were in a band called Strunken White from 1996-2001 while John, Rachel and...

Today’s episode starts off with a little CB chatter from a cat in New Jersey talking to his homeboy Juice in Northern California – then launches into a standout intro track by the funk and soul powerhouse, T Bird...

I WAS TOTALLY DESTROYING IT was born in the early months of 2007 in Durham/Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Booker and drummer James Hepler both come from over a decade of experience in the local scene( Hepler from the Saddle...