There was a lot to keep track of at PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte on Wednesday — starting with, understandably, anxiety about the forecast. Heading into the night’s Creed-3 Doors … Click ...
Four dates into Sammy Hagar’s “Best of Both Worlds Tour” — which also features former Van Halen bandmate Michael Anthony, guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani, and second-generation rock drummer ...
Seventeen-year-old Gastonia country singer Bailey Griggs has certainly seen some unexpected benefits after being expelled from her high school this month, for failing to meet its “expected stan...
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Two concerts country music star Morgan Wallen was scheduled to play at Bank of America Stadium — on back-to-back nights next Thursday and Friday — have been postponed. “I hate … Click to ...
It started with a wardrobe malfunction that, in some respects, wasn’t entirely surprising. It ended sooner (and perhaps more abruptly) than fans might have expected. And for the two hours … C...
When Carowinds announced back in March that the amusement park was launching a hugely ambitious multi-weekend summer music festival, it would have been easy to greet the news with at … Click to...
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A month after rocking the stage at Lovin’ Life Music Festival in uptown Charlotte, Post Malone is set to return to the Queen City on his latest tour. His new … Click to Continue »
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Country-music legend Willie Nelson, who turned 91 in April, will not perform in Charlotte this weekend after all due to an unspecified illness. Live Nation Carolina posted on X Friday … Click t...
UltimaNota formed in 2009 with members from Venezuela, Mexico, El Salvador and Dominican Republic. The band is known for its blend of tropical rhythms with a modern twist. They recently played al...
A decade-long odyssey that began with a Charlotte native’s idea for a musical inspired by an old Avett Brothers album culminated Friday night with the Concord band announcing that their … Cli...
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Traditionally — at least from the outside — heavy metal is associated with aggressiveness, dark, demonic imagery and serious subject matters (or a serious approach to even fantastical topics)...
When you go to a rock concert headlined by a couple of septuagenarian sisters, and you’ve never seen them perform before, and their biggest hits came in the 1970s and … Click to Continue »
If you’re a Foo Fighters fan who wasn’t able to be at PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte on Thursday night for Dave Grohl’s band’s “Everything or Nothing at All Tour” … Click to Contin...
There was a moment on Saturday night, shortly after Stevie Nicks took the stage at the Lovin’ Life Music Fest in uptown Charlotte, when I suddenly thought to myself, STEVIE, … Click to Contin...
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If you were to ask me what my first impression was about Charlotte’s inaugural Lovin’ Life Music Fest — my very first impression, upon arriving Friday afternoon — I’d have … Click to ...
In some ways, this week seems like a bad time to try to get excited about a major music festival in Charlotte, given what the city is reeling from right … Click to Continue »
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Charlotte officials say they’re prepared for anything as tens of thousands come to uptown for the inaugural Lovin’ Life Music Festival, including traffic, inclement weather and, potentially T...
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It was hard to determine whether the typically humble Irish-born music star known as Hozier had just a liiiiittle bit of actual swagger in his step when he arrived in … Click to Continue »
The countdown is on to what organizers hope will be Charlotte’s “biggest, boldest music festival”: Lovin Life’ Music Fest with over 40 artists performing in uptown this spring. Though the...
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Has someone ever told you goodbye before, driven off and then circled back to say it one more time? That’s what the Eagles — one of the legendary rock bands … Click to Continue »
At 8:15 on Friday night, the giant video screen looming over the stage inside Spectrum Center started projecting the image of a set of lighted purple candles molded into the … Click to Continue...
Pop-punk band Alkaline Trio’s curiously titled 10th album — “Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs” — has that curious title for a simple reason. “It’s a term (co-lead vocalist and guitarist) M...
If you were to get the chance to ask Lauren Daigle to pick a favorite moment or song in the show she’s put together for her Kaleidoscope Tour — which … Click to Continue »
Sixty years ago this month, a boy named Gary Astridge knew nothing about The Beatles. The 7-year-old was celebrating his grandmom’s birthday with his family in Buffalo, New York, when … Click...
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When Malcolm Graham was a freshman at Johnson C. Smith University in 1981, there was one place and one place only that he and his buddies all went to — … Click to Continue »
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The Excelsior Club, a two-story white home on 921 Beatties Ford Road in west Charlotte, became the city’s first exclusive Black nightclub in the mid-1940s. Through the years, Excelsior evolved ...
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A Charlotte native and former NFL player with connections to the Carolina Panthers plans to take his talents from the turf to the stage in the upcoming season premiere of … Click to Continue »...
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If you were to start poking around the website for Summerfest — the annual Milwaukee, Wisconsin extravaganza billed as the “world’s largest music festival” — you might stumble upon a �...
One of the most ambitious music festivals ever planned for Charlotte — the inaugural Lovin’ Life Music Fest, which has been slowly but steadily unveiling its May 3-5 lineup — … Click to C...
Oscar winner Kevin Spacey has chosen Concord to emerge publicly for the first time after years of controversy. Spacey will appear all three days at the Mad Monster Party 2024 … Click to Continu...
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