The Jonathan Scales Fourchestra has hit its stride — as a trio. But the discrepency of the name works itself out in the local steel pan-fusion band’s favor, says Scales. “We’re already a strange collective, so it’s just one more little thing that makes it even stranger.”  He adds that the Fourchestra name is a […]

“I feel like I have a rock ‘n’ roll heart, but it comes out as country,” says Salley Williamson, bassist of local Americana trio Underhill Rose. Songs on the band’s new album, Something Real, are true to the group’s roots music foundation, while also subtly drawing on each of the three musicians’ backgrounds. Vocalist and […]

These days, “punk rock” encompasses a lot. Lending a snarling edge and dense distortion to lithe orchestrations that take cues from classic rock titans like The Who and U2, Toronto’s F—-ed Up has been one of the most visible bands to twist punk in ways that have pissed off more than a few genre devotees […]

Making a living as an artist of any kind requires as much perspiration as it does inspiration — not to mention a sound budget and clear fiscal goals. “One thing that I think artists can massively neglect is the business side,” says Asheville jeweler Joanna Gollberg. Before she and her business partner, Marthe Le Van, […]

Jeremy Rose, the lead singer and guitarist for local indie-rock band Total War (with bassist Ory Petty and drummer Adam Woleslagle), grew up in Raleigh and went to college at Western Carolina University. And even though it's his hometown that makes sense as the locale to start a band, art has a way of happening […]