Performers

The COT’s UpClose Chamber Series concludes its 22-23 Season with a new work, a rediscovered work, and crowd favorite featuring not one, but two string quartets. Renowned for its artistic excellence, remarkable versatility of musical styles, and adventurous programming, The COT is a dynamic orchestral ensemble of 40+ musicians hailing […]

Jordy Searcy is a Louisiana born, Nashville sharpened singer/songwriter, known across the country for jaw-dropping lyrics, stunning vocals, and intricate guitar work – all packaged in intimate authenticity and approachable hooks & production. With over 700 shows under his belt, over 1,000 songs written including cuts & co-writes with arena-sized

The opening couplet on Pianos Become The Teeth’s fifth full-length album Drift is as captivating as it is haunting, a statement which can also be said of the album as a whole. “For me, this record feels like one long night,” frontman Kyle Durfey explains. “Out Of Sight” parallels that

Brevity adds up. In less than 3 minutes, in one song, the new OFF! album, Free LSD flashes triple A batteries around an abandoned world to gather up scraps of Chamber Brothers limbs, Albert Ayler marching bands, MB & SPK oscillations, and ghost nods to Kiss goin’ blind. OFF!’s first

Brother Ali is a respected Hip Hop artist, speaker, and community leader. His two-decade resume includes eight critically-acclaimed albums, mentorships with iconic Hip Hop legends Chuck D and Rakim, and performances on late night shows with Jimmy Fallon and Conan O’Brien. His provocative and uplifting brand of Hip Hop has

Guerrilla Warfare is Kentucky’s rap metal power trio that loves to groove. Founded in 2015, while living between ATL and Louisville, Guerrilla Warfare is here to tell you Nu-Metal isn’t a bad word. Shortly following the release of their EP ‘CONSUME’, the band signed with 333wreckords Crew (Jason of Fever333),

Jive Talk is the newest sensation out of Nashville, TN. Praised by Mike Grimes (owner of Basement East & Grimey’s Records) as “retro nerd-core supreme mother f*ckers,” the group is quickly gaining attention and captivating audiences with their powerful performances. The collective infuses raucous indie rock with 80s synth pop,

“Playing heavy music is how I feel alive,” says Crossfaith frontman Kenta Koie. “We want Crossfaith to be the band making music that no one has ever heard before.” After forming in 2006, Crossfaith released their debut album The Artificial Theory For The Dramatic Beauty’ in 2009 followed by The

Donnie Doolittle makes moody, cinematic dark rock. based in north carolina, his eclectic music takes influence from a variety of artists such as Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazlewood, Johnny Paycheck, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Timber Timbre, and John Carpenter. His debut album, DREAMY D, is coming soon. three singles,

For a band who traffic in measured, unhurried riffage, Richmond’s WINDHAND have moved awfully quickly over the last few years. Founded in 2009, the VA quintet have been making waves since the release of their 2010 practice space demo, a two-track CD that garnered the band comparisons to artists like

Recorded under the moniker Buffalo Hunt, Ambitions of Ambiguity, the solo debut by Austin-based singer-songwriter Stephanie Hunt, is the sort of record that’s easy to love on first listen—a modern, seamless blend of psychedelic pop, Laurel Canyon-style songcraft and midcentury honky-tonk touches. But it’s also music to spend time with.

DMV rapper and record producer Oddisee realized early on that purpose and success are self-designated. Born Amir Elkhalifa in Washington D.C. to a Sudanese father and African American mother, and raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland, he bore witness to stark inequity early in life and became as political as

Truth Club’s origins aren’t shrouded in press-release mythology; it’s clear that they’re good friends making music for its own sake. The members are post-grads teetering on the line between millennial and zoomer, but their ethos is more aligned with the indie-rock bands of their birth decade. The band’s energetic, overdriven

Wednesday owes so much to our musical influences. The music we love is a big part of what brought us together. My bandmates Margo and Xandy both had infamous Asheville house show venues, Jake was in like a billion different bands which often played in their muggy basements and Alan

Zac Wilkerson is a SOUL ROCKER from the COUNTRY. Powerful, soulful vocals and a driving guitar style combine with poignant songwriting to deliver a new take on Americana, Soul, Country, and Rock. Wilkerson stumbled into a career in music after being tricked into entering, and eventually winning, The Blue Light

The very first sound you hear is a doubled, drifting vocal calling out the name of early aughts teen movie star, Hayden Panettiere. A garage trio slams in, and from the first minute of Charlotte Rose Benjamin’s debut album, Dreamtina onward, we are on a journey somewhere between desperate and

The young Connecticut band Anxious comes from the hardcore scene, but the band’s music isn’t really hardcore. Instead, Anxious specializes in a sort of revved-up melodic emo that sometimes comes out as full-on pop-punk.

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This California punk quartet had big plans for 2020, with a seemingly endless string of tour dates keeping them on the road in support of their Fat Wreck Chords debut, Keep Them Counting. Crowds were getting bigger. Sing-alongs were getting louder. Spirits were getting higher. The only problem? The band

Where The Bombpops had a Fear of Missing Out on their 2017 debut full-length, their highly anticipated follow up shows what happens when you’re too involved—with booze, bad situations, and behavior that’s unsustainable at best and destructive at worst. This is Death in Venice Beach (Fat Wreck Chords, March 13th),

Even in trying times, “there is no love without electricity.” Electricity is the fourth and most progressive album from Ibibio Sound Machine, and like all good Afrofuturist stories, it begins with an existential crisis. “It’s darker than anything we’ve done previously,” says Eno Williams, the group’s singer. “That’s because it

Where did Nordista Freeze come from? Everyone who saw it happen has a different explanation, but they agree on one thing: a flaming blue orb came flying out of the sky and smashed into the earth, and there, lying sprawled in the crater, was a man wearing only his underwear

Lord Fess, a Durham, NC artist and producer combines intricate detail in lyricism with a sharp delivery and niche cadences over a buffet of smooth, 808-heavy sonic backdrops. Fess attended Durham School of the Arts but dropped out and chose to pursue a street education instead. Fess’ music is full

Born in Fort St. John, British Columbia and currently residing in Victoria, Calum Graham has been building a name for himself across the globe for the last 12 years with his passionate solo acoustic guitar prowess and was named one of the World’s Top 30 Guitarists under 30 by Acoustic