What’s New This Week

for the week of August 21, 2015

Photo by Dianna Augustine

From local traditions, to up-and-coming customs, it’s no secret to those who are familiar with the Charlotte music scene that diversity is an understatement. If you’re new to the area or new to the music scene itself, this is a perfect framework of exposure to immerse yourself in the Queen City and all her creative culture.

With that being said, there’s still a lot of familiarity this week for those of us who’ve been around long enough. For instance, the epic cover bands that come through every so often, one of which will be at Amos’ Southend Friday night, August 21. Whitesnake tribute crew, Still of the Night, will be there to take us down a rock ‘n’ roll memory lane, so be sure to show up and prepare to throw back. Also on Friday night, the blues-inspired Rob Ickes teams up with country roots inspired Trey Hensley at The Evening Muse followed up by NoDa’s latest dance party, Dance Box Sessions, featuring the best classic and Top 40 music. Tremont Music Hall hosts some good old rock ‘n’ roll including Triton, Red Eyed Romance, Meliora, Mon Abyss, Fifty Flies and musical landscape traveler Jimmy Thackery graces us with his presence at Double Door Inn.

Photo of The Dirty Guv’nahs  by Dianna Augustine

Check out Patois Counselors along with Ballroom and YARBS at The Milestone Friday evening, while Amanda X is accompanied by Late Bloomer, The Spirit of the Beehive and Faye at Snug Harbor, or come out and help us say goodbye to Charlotte rock ‘n’ roll crew The Dirty Guv’nahs as they bid us farewell at Neighborhood Theatre for their farewell tour including Electric Darling. Also, in case you missed them in Charlotte earlier in the week, you get another chance to check out Breaking Benjamin in Raleigh at The Ritz Raleigh along with Young Guns and Starset Friday night.

Photo of Michael Tracy by Arvind Bhandari  

While we say goodbye to some this weekend, we celebrate the arrival of other music Saturday night, August 22, including female singer/songwriter duo Henry River Honey’s EP-release show at Double Door Inn featuring the bluegrass of Coddle Creek, and Prism Supply vs. Dice Magazine at Snug Harbor for a release party including Loose Lugnuts and David Childers. The Southern Slaughter Death Match Tournament takes over Tremont Music Hall Saturday evening, songwriter and guitarist Griffin House precedes acoustic-rock duo Evergone and genre-crossing group Animals at The Evening Muse, and Michael Tracy takes on York County’s The Sylvia Theatre along with Darby Adkins. Also on Saturday, punk rock and indie lineup featuring Thenkerz, Sink Tapes, Chalkies and The Kneads can be found at The Milestone, while Amos’ hosts the two-night event, The Burning August Music Fest, featuring a lineup on Saturday night including Arms of Mercy, Bloodstream, Fault Union, Home For the Day, Kairos, Never I, October, Pill, Redefind, Relentless Flood, Searching for Serenity, Selfless Sunday, The Culturist, The Top Shelf Collective, Verse Vica, Voodoo Drifters, Without a Hobby and Written in Gray.

The Burning August Music Fest continues at Amos’ Sunday, August 23, featuring on Night Two Animals, Carving the Architect, Cherbough Way, Comfortably Nuts, Copestoned, Crow Hollar, David Reavis Band, Dilarian, Ethereal, Jynzo, One Final Hope, The Art of War and The Moon Unit. Griffin House returns for another night at The Evening Muse Sunday evening, while Bone Snugs-N-Harmony returns for another Sunday night of karaoke at Snug Harbor, Tremont introduces Special Sunday Sessions featuring the End of Summer Bash with DJ Beloved, Gary and Marcius, and Jazzy Bee and The Ritz Raleigh hosts the lovely Camila.

Photo of  Banda Suki by Josh Gooch

Knocturnal delivers another night of various hip hop at Snug Harbor Monday night, August 24, while The Monday Night Allstars deliver another night of blended talent at Double Door Inn and The Evening Muse’s Find Your Muse Open Mic Night features this week Charlotte singer/songwriter Nick Wells. On Tuesday, August 25, Heaters, Ranch Ghost and Banda Suki take on Snug Harbor, progressive metal crews Damien Deadson, Forsake the Fallen, Sentenced To a Bullet and Among Fallen Kings collect at Tremont, Bill Hanna Jazz Jam gives us another enlightening evening of jazz at Double Door Inn and the self-declared “future folk” artist Red Jesse joins MC and producer Sulfur, Kiddead, Smokee B and DJ Taco Supreme at The Milestone.

Snug Harbor’s August residency, StereoLoud, returns for another week on Wednesday, August 26, along with JI, BlacKostume, Weirdo and Rapper Shane, while The Milestone hosts Rothschild, The Atlicic Prelate and singer/songwriter duo Leisure Cruise make a stop at Tremont. Also on Wednesday night, Long Island artist Melanie Martinez, known for a provocatively stunning demeanor and cheeky lyricism, can be found at Amos’ along with the interesting blend of acoustic soundscapes and r&b percussion of Handsome Ghost and folk/bluegrass siblings Lauren and Lane team up with singer/songwriter Alex Christie at The Evening Muse.

Rounding out the week Thursday, August 27, you can check out Tamia at The Fillmore, bluegrass crew Jon Stickley Trio at Double Door Inn, Social Distortion with Drag the River and Nikki Lane at The Ritz Raleigh, or local musical kaleidoscope Dr. Cirkustein at The Milestone along with groove rockers Hooka Hey, Run Engine and Sun and Flesh. Don’t forget the weekly party SHIPROCKED! at Snug Harbor, as well as NoDa Drinks & Thinks happening at The Evening Muse, and an Afton Concerts presentation at Amos’ including Guardian Angel Dinosaur, Gabriel Jules, Take the Fall, Jay’e R, Dilarian and more,

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As always, let us know what you think about what’s going on this week, or give us a heads-up to upcoming events you’d like to see here in the future. Leave us a comment here, tag us on social media with #Shutter16, or email us at info@shutter16.com using the subject line “What’s New This Week.” Don’t forget to #TWITFROMTHEPIT while you’re out so we can share your experiences with everyone else!