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FeaturedDecember 6, 2022

Black-Alternative Music Fest: Reclaim Your Space

A talented and energetic young singer-songwriter named Le Anna Eden decided that Charlotte, North Carolina, needed a Black alternative music festival. So she gathered her tribe and made it happen.

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Featured, Music, News & CultureSeptember 14, 2022

North Carolina Hardcore: Paradise Lost

It seemed ironic to me that two of the loudest, most prolific, and most politically vocal bands on North Carolina’s so-called new music scene of the mid-1980s represented a silent minority, shunned as if they were the black sheep of the South’s new musical family.

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