Maple Stave is a three piece band based in Durham, NC that came together in 2003. Friends Andy Hull (baritone guitar), Evan Rowe (drums) and Chris Williams (baritone guitar, vocals) reportedly set forth with an aesthetic...

In August of 2015, Asheville North Carolina artist BIMINI ROAD released the Corinthian Arches EP, the today’s featured track Lovesong Stickup leading off the excellent six-track effort. Mark Boyd is the force behind...

Greensboro North Carolina ska band CORPORATE FANDANGO issued their third official release, The Proof is in the Pizza EP on Feb 13 of last year. Our feature here from that EP is the extraordinarily creative song Blow Up the...

Stella StageCoach was initially formed by two brothers influenced by their travels abroad – namely Matthew and Tim Morgan from Hogansville, Georgia. Originally, the music consisted of purely instrumental pieces to be...

H.S.K.T. is a new song from the debut 2014 album by Durham, North Carolina’s SYLVAN ESSO, a duo comprised of vocalist Amelia Meath and electronic artist Nick Sanborn who you may recognize from their other projects...

Durham, North Carolina’s Spaceship Days are on the verge of releasing their new EP “Saving the Universe” in just a few short days on July 1st and it should hit pretty hard, if today’s featured track...

Another excellent instrumental is in the cards today as we wanted to continue with you in a similar vein by featuring a joint offering that came together over the course of a couple of years, Brundlefly & the Swede. ...

Baobab is the solo project of Phil Torres, a writer and former philosophy / neuroscience graduate student based out of Durham, North Carolina. The debut album Baobab was written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Torres in his...

The Mad Writer is L’Orange’s new LP which made its debut this past Nov. 20th. The track Alone is the first single and features the smooth vocals of Blu conjoined with a mellow beat layered over with at least one...

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...

Poppy Brothers are James and Mathew, from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They are very young as a band, but the self-released 3 song e.p. Debut will certainly help them to...

On the eve of Memorial Day here in the States I wanted to bring two groups to your attention that helped supply the soundtrack for a newspaper digging odyssey into my southern ancestry over the past few days. From Civil War...

The Clearing is the third album by the Bowerbirds, and as is often the case for bands that have found steady success, they had more time and better resources to make it. This is a bigger record, then, with bolder sounds and...

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...

From their fifth album Loud Planes Fly Low. The Rosebuds are husband and wife duo Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp, from Raleigh, North Carolina. Loud Planes Fly Low is out now on Merge...

Named after a vintage Gretsch bass drum pedal, Floating Action is the pseudonym of Black Mountain, North Carolina-based musician, songwriter, and producer Seth Kauffman. Following the 2007 homemade gem Research (released...

In honor of Christmas and the pilgrimage to the  yearly flickering lights of the little North Carolina town of McAdenville (aka Christmas Town USA), The Winter Sounds are back on the dose today.  Today we take a listen to...

On the eve of Hallowe’en we bring you some dark humour from North Carolina North Carolina’s own Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands are gearing up to release their first full length album, which was ...

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...

A little more than a week away from his second album release on April 20th – Chapel Hill based bartender by night and songwriter by day, WESLEY WOLFE has apparently been writing great songs you’ve never heard.....

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...

The year is obviously 2008, not 2005 as the evil announcer at the show header describes. Yes, as you will quickly notice, there is some sort of robotic, computer, and videogame nerdery meshed together unseamlessly in this...

Bringing us a great blend of American rock ala The Replacements, Raleigh North Carolina based, Patty Hurst Shifter released this song, “Life is Mostly Waiting” on their Fugitive Glue EP in 2007. Its supposedly...

So you are done with Side A, no? If not, you’ve stumbled across the second side of our mixtape set tipping a hat toward the Siren Music Festival presented annually at Coney Island, NY by the Village Voice. The image...

Roosting in North Carolina, the trio of Bowerbirds recently signed to their favorite US record label Dead Oceans, home to bands such as Dirty Projectors, White Hinterland, Evangelicals, Citay, Phosphorescent, and Bishop...