The Height
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Nuclear Power Pants
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Lonnie Walker
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Category: Local Music
General coverage of local music happenings
Independent Weekly’s Grayson Currin describes Baltimore band Nuclear Power Pants as “heavy psychedelic pop, with thick group vocals piled over sheets of synthesizers and stacks of riveted percussion.” Tonight’s Local Beer Local Band at Tir Na Nog is the second of a three-night gig featuring Nuclear Power Pants with Baltimore neighbors Height and local boys Lonnie Walker.
Local band, I Was Totally Destroying It, has a song featured in a Brazilian cell phone service provider’s advertisement. The band announced on their blog yesterday that the “Come Out, Come Out” off of their latest album “Horro Vacui” was the song featured.
In response to the song featured in the commercial, the band posted, “I have to say, as a musician, it’s a very flattering thing to have a large company believe that a piece of material that you wrote can help them sell their product. Fun stuff!”
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Local Beer Local Band 3/4
This week is again another killer line up at WKNC and Tir Na Nog’s Local Beer Local Band night. If you have yet to attend one of these events, Thursday, March 4 would be a good start. This week’s line up is The Royal Knights, Demon Beat, and The Loners.
The show will be free show as always! This is a great start to an awesome weekend of local music. Hope you make it out!
If you have been rubbing your hands together in eager anticipation of March’s Local Beer Local Band schedule, you can stop. WKNC and Tir Na Nog have pulled together quite a line up.
March 4 – The Loners, The Demon Beat and The Royal Nites
March 11 – I Was Totally Destroying It, Grey Gray Young and today the moon, tomorrow the sun
March 18 – Sunfold (CD release show) and Mount Weather
March 25 – Let Feedback Ring Festival with Free Electric State, The Bronzed Chorus and Veelee
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2/25 LBLB Photos
Photographs by WKNC photographer Katie Hill
Starmount
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The Jackets
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Small Ponds
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Everyone seems to have had their say about the show at the Pour House Music Hall last Friday, which featured Annuals with support from Gray Young and Bright Young Things. I was there and it rocked.
(Seriously, check Cabbage’s review of the show as well as Karen Mann’s always excellent coverage.)
But let’s not forget the 2/11 Local Beer, Local Band show at Tir Na Nog that featured Bright Young Things with support from Luego and Naked Gods (straight outta Boone).
And let’s not forget the three interviews in one hour preceding that show. That’s right, I shuffled all three of these bands in and out of the studio. Better yet, Bright Young Things played a Jayhawks-inspired version of their own “She Left You Dreaming.” Luego followed with Patrick’s solo version of “Run Away” that will be on their album Ocho, to be released later this year.
Check the interview below – the catch is that you have to sift through to my voice to catch the live songs. But they’re worth it! Enjoy.
Bright Young Things, Luego, Naked Gods interview!
(But wait, there’s more! Free Bright Young Things music at Bandcamp!)
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Local Beer Local Band 2/18
This thursday, Febuary 18, is another installment of Tir Na Nog and WKNC’s Local Beer Local Band night. The show is Free and doors open at 10 p.m. Thursday night’s line-up consists of a solo performace from Stuart of The Love Language followed by The Proclivities and finishing off the night will be North Elementary.
As always, Tir Na Nog will have a fine selection of local beers on tap. For more information about this show and future Local Beer Local Band nights, check out www.Tnnirishpub.com.
Hope to see you there!
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Local Beat fan pages
Are you a fan of the Local Beat on 88.1 WKNC? If so, feel free to head on over to the following two websites to show your love:
- The Local Beat ReverbNation page is the home to all live songs aired on the Local Beat. All songs are free to listen to and download and new ones are being added each week. We are currently working on adding live songs from older interviews and new songs are being updated as often as possible! Join the mailing list for special updates and also, feel free to add widgets and playlists to your blog or home page!
- The Local Beat Facebook Fan Page is brand new. Show your support for the show to all of your social networking friends and check out the page for upcoming photos, videos, and blog updates. (Also, while you are on Facebook, feel free to become a fan of the Local Lunch and Eye On The Triangle.)
Tune in Thursday, January 28, to WKNC 88.1 FM for the debut of a brand new Annuals’ single, “Loxtep.” The track comes from their up-coming EP, “Sweet Sister,” due for release March 30 on Banter Records. Also, WKNC will be debuting Gray Young’s up-coming single, “Meridian.”
Tune in for the Local Lunch at noon with Tommyboy on WKNC 88.1 or stream online at wknc.org/listen next Thursday to hear these exclusive tracks. Annuals and Gray Young are releasing these songs to promote their concert on February 19 at The Pour House Music Hall featuring both bands, along with Bright Young Things. Additionally, WKNC will be giving away two pairs of tickets to the show during the broadcast. We are excited to have the opportunity to debut these tracks only to WKNC’s listeners during next Thursday’s Local Lunch.