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Crown Town Showdown - Week 2

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Last night was the second Crowntown Showdown at the Evening Muse.

Another solid group of performers showed up and made the judging difficult again — but that’s not a bad problem to have.

The winner was Austin Hill, who also plays with Humans, who showed off some great songwriting and funky fingerpicking.

Runners-up were Nathan Taylor, who did some finger picking of his own, and Matt Gilmore who showed an incredible amount of talent that exists in the youth of today.

Honorable mention to Federal Falls which consists of two of last month’s contestants — Case Federal and Nikki Falls. The duo offered up two great songs and fell just shy of being in the top three — on my scorecard, at least.

The humor of Will Delacroix and Doug Williams was also a highlight of the night.

Check out the next round — June 2 at The Evening Muse.

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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

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NIN release new album…for free

Monday, May 5th, 2008

NIN, taking the Radiohead model a step further, has released their new album online…for free!

Head on over to nin.com and you can get a link to download The Slip as a mp3, mp4, flac or other format.

Live Review: Kid Rock

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Kid Rock
May 3, 2008
Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

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The Deal: Detroit’s Kid Rock gets Queen City rockin’ for nearly three hours. (more…)

NASCAR rocks on May 17

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

It’s been announced that Three Doors Down will perform a 75-minute concert prior to the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race on May 17 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. The concert will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the infield.

Admission to the concert is free with the purchase of a ticket to the race.

The band is set to release their new album on May 20.

Live Review: Lou Reed

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Lou Reed
Carolina Theatre, Durham
April 28, 2008

By Grant Britt

Lou Reed at 7:30? The concept boggles the mind. Reed’s music is for the wee hours, set in some smoky, dangerous dive. But the early evening show at Durham’s Carolina Theater Monday night showed Reed in his guise of a hard rock thunderer who could fill an arena with his power-chorded, jammy anthems.

He looked the same as ever, a curly-haired, street-wise waif. Clad in a leather t shirt and jeans and chewing gum, Reed appeared as jaded and world-weary as his song catalogue. (more…)

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