The Love Language, Bombadil & more to play Groove in the Garden

Later this summer a group of performers from around the Triangle will gather in Raleigh for an outdoor concert organized by the Pour House and Young Brother Productions dubbed Groove in the Garden.

The event will take place in the rose garden at the Raleigh Little Theater on Saturday, August 22. The lineup includes The Love Language, Bombadil, 6 String Drag, Laura Reed, Jack the Radio, Nuclear Honey, The Midatlantic and First Person Plural. Tickets are on sale now for just $10 via Ticketfly.

Phil Cook, Jack the Radio & Big Fat Gap to play free Indy show in Durham

To celebrate the annual The Independent's Best of the Triangle winners for 2012, the publication is throwing a free party in downtown Durham on Saturday, June 9.

The event will be at the American Tobacco Campus and will feature performances by Phil Cook and His Feet, Jack the Radio and Big Fat Gap. There will be food and other items for sale from local businesses who are Best of the Triangle finalists.

Things will get started at 4 p.m and run until 11 p.m.

Crooked Fingers, Annuals, Tres Chicas & more playing free Raleigh concert series

A new free concert series is coming to downtown Raleigh every other Thursday this summer. The series is called OC7 and will feature three bands performing in City Plaza starting on May 31 with Tres Chicas, Antique Firearms and Saints Apollo.

Headliners for the rest of the shows are Katharine Whalen and Her Fascinators, I Was Totally Destroying It, Annuals, Hobex and Big Daddy Love. Check out the full lineup below, which still has a few missing acts, including the headliner on July 12. We'll let you know once the lineup has been updated to fill those holes.

[UPDATE: Crooked Fingers, Once and Future Kings and The Dune Dogs have been added to the lineup, filling all of the TBA spots.]

Check out more information about Oak City 7, including stage schedules, HERE.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: Jack the Radio & The Ethnographers

This week's free Local Band Local Beer show at Tir Na Nog at 10 p.m. on Thursday, September 22 will feature a pair of North Carolina bands.

First on the bill is Raleigh band Jack the Radio, who have been hitting the clubs hard lately, even playing a set recently during the Hopscotch Music Festival. Stream some songs from the band via the widget below.

Starting the evening will be the young Greenville band The Ethnographers. Download a bunch of free songs from the band via their Facebook page.

Benefit for tornado victims at Tir Na Nog Tuesday night

Ten local acts are banding together to help victims of the devastating tornadoes that ripped through North Carolina a few weeks ago. The event is being held at Tir Na Nog in downtown Raleigh from 5 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26.

The event is free, but donations of whatever you can give will go to help two families who lost four children due to the tornadoes. The names of the families are being withheld so they can maintain some privacy. Tir Na Nog will also be giving away burgers during the events, so there's even more reason to be generous.

Check out the full schedule of bands performing below. Stop by and support a worthy cause.

May line-up for Local Beer Local Band at Tir Na Nog

For those who are don't know, WKNC and downtown Raleigh venue Tir Na Nog put on great free shows every Thursday night in a series called Local Beer Local Band.

Check out the line-up for May below, which will get started on Thursday, May 6 with a great show featuring Birds and Arrows and Schooner. The music gets started around 10 p.m. every Thursday.