date: Thursday, November 20thdoors open: 8:30 pmwhere: Amos’ Southendprice: $7 for 21+
UNC Charlotte’s favorite rock band BKTF (Brandon Kirkley and the Firecrackers) will be at Amos’ Southend this Thursday to premire their first EP “What We Thought We Knew”. BKTF will headline the show with The Chase, and Stegosaurus will be opening. The [...]
James Taylor will tour North Carolina in support of Barack Obama, giving free concerts in Charlotte, Asheville, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Wilmington.
Schedule is as follows:
Charlotte: Sun, Oct 19Asheville: Sun, Oct 19Chapel Hill: Mon, Oct 20Raleigh: Tue, Oct 21Wilmington: Tue, Oct 21
No more details have been announced so far, including specific times or venues.
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Höm put on an awesome show last Friday with world-famous DJ & producer Kaskade. A few of us from CLT Blog were there, and I got a ton of photos.
In 1791, George Washington called Charlotte, N.C., a “trifling place.” In 1941 an author scoffed that the city had as much use for high-rises “as a hog has for a morning coat.” By 1991, Charlotte was still a minor-league city without major-league sports, a cultural wasteland with a central business district that died every weekday [...]
Starting this fall, Charlotte’s most ambitious entertainment district will begin opening its doors to those in the QC who crave a taste of something far from the often corporate feel of Uptown. While there are many quality options within the city limits for a night out, nothing will revolutionize CLT more than the addition of [...]
Good music comes and goes in Charlotte. The next couple weeks will bring us some excellent hip-hop: Dwele, Talib Kweli, and Snoop Dogg — so we must be doing something right.
Good electronic music, however, is harder to come by in the Queen City. Enter Höm, one of uptown’s newer nightclubs, evangelizing some excellent house music [...]
If you dig the likes of Jill Scott, Musiq Soulchild, and the Roots, you might want to swing by Loft 1523 this Friday night for Infusion.
image credit: Carsten Keßler
Grammy-nominated producer/DJ/singer/songwriter (he’s a Renaissance Man, to be sure!) Vikter Duplaix will be spinning afro-beat, latin, soulful house, hip hop, and rhythmic soul music all night, from [...]
Going.com has been around for a while now, but only in major cities like NYC and San Francisco. They’re a website and social network focused on events, helping people find fun things to do (and perhaps more importantly, good people to do them with).
About two weeks ago, Going launched in a number of new cities [...]
image credit: DayLove
dates: Thursday, May 22 - Saturday, May 24time: 11 am through Midnight
Food Lion will be hosting the fourteenth annual Speed Street uptown, starting on Thursday, May 22. This event is put on to promote Charlotte and its surrounding communities, in addition to celebrating NASCAR as a part of Charlotte’s heritage. It’s always held [...]
This video, produced by the Mint Museum, takes a look at the the projects being built around the new Wachovia tower that collectively make up the Wachovia Cultural Campus: the new Mint Museum, the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, the Knight Theater, and the Afro-American Cultural Center.
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