Angel Olsen announces 2016 spring tour

Singer-songwriter Angel Olsen has announced a short run of Southern tour dates in the spring, including a return to the Triangle.

Olsen will play the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw on Sunday, April 3. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, November 13, via Ticketfly for $17.

Check out the music video for the song "Window" from the deluxe edition of Olsen's latest album Burn Your Fire for No Witness below.

Iron & Wine announces summer tour, coming to Raleigh

Photo by Craig Kief

South Carolina born singer-songwriter Sam Beam, better known as Iron and Wine, released his fifth full-length album last year titled Ghost on Ghost, and he has just announced some new summer tour dates that will bring him to the Triangle.

Iron and Wine will play the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh on Saturday, June 28. Angel Olsen will open. Tickets are on sale now via Etix for $27 (general admission) or $35 (reserved).

Watch Beam performing a solo set for KEXP last fall below.

Album Review: Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness

Angel Olsen’s third album, Burn Your Fire For No Witness, is a thoughtful examination of the struggle between co-dependency and self-efficacy. While complex emotionally, it’s still affecting and beautiful.

Olsen sings the root cause of the album’s conflict in the first line of the first track, “Unfucktheworld”: “I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you.” Throughout the album, she illustrates how two people can lose themselves in each other through extended compromise.

The couple in the songs can’t overcome the loss of self and blame each other.

Angel Olsen announces 'Burn Your Fire for No Witness' tour

Singer-songwriter Angel Olsen blew folks away at last year's Hopscotch Music Festival (check out a write-up and photos of her set HERE) and now she's gearing up for the release of a new album on February 18 titled Burn Your Fire for No Witness. As is the custom, a tour will follow the release and it will include a return to the Triangle.

Olsen will play the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro on Friday, May 16. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, February 7 via Ticketfly for $12.

Check out Olsen's new music video for "Hi-Five" from Burn Your Fire for No Witness below.

Hopscotch 2013 Night 1: Nathan Bowles, Angel Olsen

Photos by Kevin Norris

In the quiet confines of the Fletcher Opera House, Nathan Bowles kicked off 2013’s Hopscotch festival with solo banjo pieces both original and classic. Bowles welcoming nature, his intricate music, and the venue itself made for an intimate performance that felt more like somebody’s living room than a music festival.

It’s the kind of set that feels like it could only happen at Hopscotch. Bowles represented both the roots of regions music with well-known songs like “Liza Jane,” but his original music pushes bluegrass and folk to its boundaries. Bowed banjo, multiple tunings, and hand percussion were just a few of the techniques Bowles employed to turn a single banjo into trance-inducing music.