I Donât Want to Say Goodbye – Will Hardcore Become The New Grunge?
I came here to brag on the new Haywire release, I Donât Want to Say Goodbye, and got completely sidetracked… And I know why. As I write this, the timing feels appropriate. Turnstile just took the Saturday Night Live stage, bringing their particular brand of shoegazey hardcore into the mainstream. I remember watching something similar happen in real time with Nirvana and Green Dayâwatching an obscure, unknown, non-household-riffraff genre suddenly get shoved into the living
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The Mural Man – Kyle Mosher – SouthPark Cover Shoot
Kyle Mosher, the talented Charlotte mural artist behind some of SouthPark’s most recognizable art, lands the cover of SouthPark Magazine’s August issue.
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PenĂ©lope Paul – a ‘Classic Custom’
This would be PenĂ©lope Paulâthe guitar, not the cat. I stumbled across this somewhat overlooked and relatively limited-run model a few months ago. Built around 2012, this isn’t a Gibson Custom Shop instrument, but rather one of Gibson USA’s Les Paul Classic Custom models. At first glance, most players would be hard-pressed to spot the difference. Visually, it checks nearly all the same boxes as a traditional Les Paul Custom: multi-ply binding, ebony-style aesthetics, block
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Tremont Music Hall – Staff & Family Reunion
I paid my rock ânâ roll dues in that building. Trying to write about Tremont Music Hall is somewhat of a daunting task for me. The stories and memories are literally endless, and I could go on for hours. I believe thatâs largely due to the fact I spent 20 years of my life in those hallowed halls, much of it during my adolescent, formative years. I paid my rock ânâ roll dues in that
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No Snow Days in Hardcore: Inside YAMALOKAâs Blizzard-Born Studio Sessions
âThere are NO snow days in hardcore music.â –Â I wholeheartedly meant it when I typed it in the group chat on day three of tracking our debut EP, Sermons Of The Damned. At that point, it wasnât just a statementâit was the reality we were living in. Snow was dumping outside, roads were getting worse by the hour, and somehow, that only made us push harder. I play guitar in YAMALOKA, a five-piece, no-frills hardcore
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Sala, a cocktail bar – Brought to you by Moffett Restaurant Group
There was little fanfare in September when Charlotte chef and restaurateur Bruce Moffett quietly opened Sala, a European-style cocktail lounge next to his stalwart Italian restaurant, Stagioni. The opening was, however, an homage to Blanche Morgan Reynolds-Gourmajenko, the Charlotte socialite and legendary hostess who built the Tuscan-style villa in the 1920s at the spot where Stagioni and Sala now reside. Sala is the newest addition to Moffett Restaurant Groupâs portfolio, which also includes Barringtonâs, Good Food on Montford, and
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