Showing posts tagged “Midtown Dickens”
Grayson Currin ·
13 Aug 2009, 12:57 PM ·
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The Fall edition of Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival in Silk Hope is set for Oct. 8-11, a little less than two months away. This morning, festival organizers announced the first 27 acts of this season’s celebration. The big names so far are the usual suspects—The Duhks, The Gourds, festival founders Donna the Buffalo. Among the most exciting acts in this initial batch, though, are young locals stretching beyond Shakori’s Hills Americana roots—eclectic hip-hoppers The Beast, melancholy Trekky kids Butterflies, the steamy soul of the Howie Dewitt Band—and national acts like The Belleville Outfit and Casey Driessen & the Colorfools, both of which never met a genre they couldn’t integrate. Also notable: Chatham County Lines, Christabel and the Jons, Midtown Dickens, Mosadi Music and new band Good-Timin’-Campin’ Hackney Farm Family Band Super Groove Ritual Joint.
Live Actions: New Bills Butterflies, Chatham County Line, Midtown Dickens, Mosadi Music, Shakori Hills, The Beast
Grayson Currin ·
2 Jul 2009, 3:14 PM ·
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Midtown Dickens will release its sophomore album, Lanterns, on Friday, August 28, with a show at Duke Coffeehouse. The band—now a quintet—recorded the album in Monroe, N.C., with Scott Solter (The Mountain Goats, Pattern is Movement, John Vanderslice), who also mixed. Dave Harris at Charlotte’s Studio B mastered. The band will self-release Lanterns with a one-purchase, three-format approach: The vinyl, CD and digital download will be sold together, as with last year’s Lost in the Trees album, All Alone in an Empty House. Hit the jump for the tracklist. Continue reading »
In the Studio, Live Actions: New Bills Duke Coffeehouse, Midtown Dickens
Grayson Currin ·
24 Apr 2009, 10:44 AM ·
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If you’re hoping to see a band tonight in these parts, your choices are pretty, well, choice: Aside from traveling acts playing the usual suspects (Mogwai and The Twilight Sad @ Cat’s Cradle; Napalm Death @ Volume 11; Starfucker and DJs @ Local 506), five strong local bills put the tunes in unusual places: Continue reading »
Live Actions: New Bills, News flashes, You Should Do This Annuals, Big Fat Gap, George Higgs, John Dee Holeman, Lonnie Walker, Lost in the Trees, Midtown Dickens, The Rosebuds
