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Dark synth pop band Cold Cave are hitting the road this September on some new tour dates in support of some new singles released in the last year (check out one of those singles, "Oceans With No End," below).
With the 2013 Hopscotch Music Festival just a little more than two months away, the festival has just released the full schedule for the three-day event so music fans can start planning their trek through downtown Raleigh.
A few days before the official release of their highly anticipated third album Ruby Red, The Love Language will be playing a free in-store performance at Schoolkids Records in Raleigh.
Singer-songwriter Langhorne Slim and his band The Law are hitting the road this fall on a big headlining tour in support of his latest album The Way We Move, released last year.
Singer-songwriter Aimee Mann is hitting the road again this fall as a trio in support of her latest album Charmer, released last fall. She'll return to the Triangle in October but this time she'll be stopping a little west of Orange County.
Joshua Tillman, aka Father John Misty, and his band just rolled through the Triangle last month in support of his latest album Fear Fun and he's already planning to come back our way when embarks on a solo tour this fall.
One of 2012's biggest breakout acts Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are riding the huge success of their debut album The Heist and their hit single "Thrift Shop" well into 2013 as they duo are planning a big arena tour this fall.
Up and coming Charlotte alt-folk band Matrimony just released their first major label release on Columbia Records earlier this month, an EP titled Montibello Drive. The band will be on the road this summer in support of the EP and they'll make a stop in the Triangle.
Soulful up and coming rockers Alabama Shakes have had quite a meteoric rise since the release of their debut album Boys & Girls last year. When the band rolled through the Triangle last year they played the Cat's Cradle and sold out the club. Now they've announced new fall dates which will bring the band back to play venue with a capacity more than six times that of the Cradle.
Folk rock mainstays the Eagles have just extended their History of The Eagles tour into the fall and the new dates include a stop in the Triad.
It's that time of year again where local performing arts groups start announcing their plans for the next year. Duke Performances has offered one of the best programs around for quite a while now and this season's lineup includes some ambitious new programs as well as a quite a few familiar faces.
The always touring classic pop rock band Cheap Trick are spending much of 2013 touring North America and Japan. They've just added some new September dates that will bring them to the Triangle this September.
The Mantles are happy where they’re at. The San Francisco band makes music when it wants and how it wants. As such, they waited 4 years to release their sophomore record, Long Enough To Leave.
Singer-songwriter Matthew Houck and his band Phosphorescent are hitting the road this on a big tour this summer and fall in support of his sixth album Muchacho released earlier this year.
Hip-hop superstar Drake will release his third full-length album Nothing Was the Same sometime later this year and he has just announced a big fall with rising star Miguel dubbed Would You Like a Tour?
After saving the day this past weekend by filling in for Mumford and Sons at Bonnaroo, singer-songwriter Jack Johnson has just announced an intimate fall tour in support of his forthcoming album From Here To Now To You where 100% of the profits will go to charity.
Singer-songwriter Ernest Greene, better known as Washed Out, will release his sophomore album on August 13 titled Paracosm and he'll be hitting the road on a tour late in the summer in support of it. |
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King Khan and The Shrines recently signed to Merge Records who will release the band's new album Idle No More on September 3. The band will hit the road on a big fall tour to support it and they'll be making a stop in the Triangle. |
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After announcing their long-awaited third album Ruby Red in April and releasing the first new song from the album, "Calm Down," in May, The Love Language are back with another new song.
Singer-songwriter Neko Case has just announced plans to release the follow-up to her acclaimed 2009 album Middle Cyclone. The new album, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, will be out on September 3 and she'll hit the road to support it.
With Partygoing, Stephin Merritt resurrects his side project Future Bible Heroes 11 years after the release of its last album.
Legendary Creedence Clearwater singer-songwriter and guitarist John Fogerty is hitting the road this fall in support of his brand new album Wrote a Song for Everyone which features a collection of his classic songs performed with folks including Foo Fighters, Dawes and My Morning Jacket.
Icelandic post rock, art pop icons Sigur Rós have just extended their massive 2013 tour in support of their forthcoming album Kveikur, due out next week in the U.S., on June 18, and they'll be coming to the Triangle for a big show.
After leaving their unexpectedly successful electro pop supergroup dormant for about eight years, The Postal Service revived their lone album Give Up for a tenth anniversary reissue and a big reunion tour that rolled into Raleigh on Friday night.
Veteran swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is spending 2013 doing what they always do, touring. They're celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the band's "arrival on the music scene" and will be stopping in the Triangle this fall.
San Francisco indie rockers The Dodos are releasing their fifth full length album on August 27 titled Carrier and they'll be hitting the road on a big fall tour in support of it.
Trent Reznor has announced the release of the new Nine Inch Nails album, Hesitation Marks, which will be released on September 3. He'll take the band on a big North American tour this fall which will make a stop in the Triangle.With the release of The Love Language's third album Ruby Red about a month and a half away (July 23), the band has announced the initial tour dates in support of the album which includes a big hometown show the week it hits shelves.
As we told you last month, local indie icons Superchunk are gearing up for the release of a new album on August 20 titled I Hate Music and now they've released the first new song from the album.
Guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani released his 14th studio album last month titled Unstoppable Momentum and he has embarked on a big world tour in support of it which includes a North American leg in late summer and the fall.
Eleanor Friedberger’s follow up to her 2011 solo debut, Personal Record, bests its predecessor in nearly every way. 
Oklahoma indie rockers Evangelicals are hitting the road on a short summer tour this month which will bring the band to the Triangle.