AltWeeklies Wire
Essential Listening at this Weekend's Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festivalnew

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Des Ark, The Tender Fruit, Leyla McCalla, Sidi Toure, Sandbox, Peter Lamb & the Wolves
Navigating Stages at the Eno Festivalnew
As a festival consumer, you need some sort of plan. Or, in the spirit of the festival's fields, several plans, cutting across all three days of the fest. But keep in mind there are more than 100 performers, and we can't mention them all. In other words, yeah, we probably left out your favorite.
Signal Southeast Electronic Music Festival Goes Non-Profitnew
Three years is a milestone for any large-scale event, and organizers say they've learned from immense challenges in the first two years. They feel they now know how to manage a festival and what they want this festival to be.
Howard Fishman Plays 'The Basement Tapes'new
We treat our idols like assholes: Just as wax museums house life-sized recreations of heroes we may never meet, tribute bands give us that thrill of seeing a band master songs by an act that may never pass our way again.
Tags: Howard Fishman, concerts
Duke Performances Presents Dr. Lonnie Smith, Among Othersnew
Aaron Greenwald, director of Duke University's Duke Performances, is talking soul music, and he wants the rest of us to do the same.
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Big Billsnew
In North Carolina's growing Triangle and a financially shrinking music industry, can mid-size rock clubs survive?
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Remembering Alt.country's Big 1996 Showcasenew
Please forgive this recollection, as it comes through the haze formed by many draft beers, a cloud of music-club cigarette smoke and near whiteout snow conditions that swept through North Carolina on Saturday, Feb. 3, 1996, the second day of the first Honky-Tonk-arama.
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There's Troika; Where's 305?new
Troika Music Festival advances without 305 South, the venue that hosted the two biggest shows of last year.
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