Article and Photos by: Jason Robey   Charlotte, NC -- Friday night in the NoDa district of Charlotte was hopping with the sights and sounds of ska punk, as heroes of the '90s ska revival brought their Life Sucks...So Let's Dance tour to town. The venue was getting packed before the first

Article By: Amanda Leonard // Photos By: Melanie Leonard   Greensboro, NC --  The line was already snaked out into the parking lot and down the sidewalk before the doors even opened.  No one seemed to notice the frigid temperatures as they excitedly waited to gain entrance into The Blind Tiger. Two decades

Article By: Amanda Leonard // Photos By: Melanie Leonard   Durham, NC -- After the release of their latest album So What?, While She Sleeps launched their very first headline tour in the United States.  A long way from their United Kingdom home, the band picked up He is Legend and Savage

Article by Emily Wheeler // Photos by Andrew Kopanski   Boston, MA -- Lyrical brilliance was a theme of the evening. Each of Theo Katzman’s songs are adored with lyrics so singable and so needed in our current climate, both emotional and political. Katzman, who has a multitude of heartbreak hits, writes

Article by: Emily Wheeler // Photos by: Andrew Kopanski   Salisbury, MA -- Though just yards from the frigid waters of the Atlantic ocean, those inside Blue Ocean Music Hall this past Friday would have sworn they'd spent a night in the warmth of the South. As The Allman Betts Band took

Article By: Amanda Leonard // Photos By: Melanie Leonard   Greensboro, NC -- During a pre-show chat with the band, I asked The Southern Gothic what would be one of the biggest compliments they could receive from a fan.  “When they walk up to us and say that they don’t normally listen