Chelsea Wolfe, Hopscotch Music Festival 2015
September wouldn’t be complete without an epic Hopscotch Music Festival ravaging Raleigh. If you’re not following Loud Ballads on Facebook, I posted an album full of photos from the weekend. You’ll find some shots of Chelsea Wolfe, Flock of Dimes, Wing Dam, Lost Trail, Clang Quartet, Charming Youngsters, See Gulls, GHOSTT BLLONDE, and Wild Fur. Until next year, Hopscotch!
Lost Trail
Experimental music and art are alive and well in North Carolina. The second annual Staycation Fest was hosted (and organized) in Burlington by Zachary and Denny Corsa of Lost Trail this past weekend. Two days of bands and artists from across the state (and Virginia) produced a great sampler of cerebral sounds and feels. Although I didn’t get to see every act, here’s what I caught from beginning to end.
Brandon Hurtado with film projections by Jonas Mekas
Animals Like Earthquakes and his many disembodied voices/answering machines
Lost Trail with kitchen projections.
Bryce Eiman, host of 919noise
Tone Burst in the kitchen
Mark Hepp of Joules
Charles Ovett of Joules
Adrian Wilson of The Sound of Square Triangles
Eddie Garcia of 1970s Film Stock
Until next year!
The Monday following Spazz Fest is always sort of a bummer; you go back to wherever you traveled from, you’re exhausted, your body hurts, and you go through show withdrawals. At least there’s that feeling that it was all worth every single second. Cheers to all of the kindred spirits I met (or was reunited with) over the weekend! Thanks especially to Jeff Blinder and way too many other names to list. See you soon.
N. Maxwell, 1/3 of LUM
T. Simpson and S. McLamb of The Love Language; old Greenville vets
Octopus Jones ended on a cover of The Rapture’s “House of Jealous Lovers”
B. Corum of Lonnie Walker
Joules; killer two-piece
Clang Quartet reconciling
an intense hooded Christopher Feltner
Niko Grandé, smooth jams
Heads on Sticks in from Raleigh
DRIPPING conjuring up feels
Post Sun Times circa 4am-ish
Spazz Fest VI Logo by Todd Cook
‘Tis the season for Spazz Fest! Officially kicking off tomorrow night in Greenville, NC, the next four days and nights will be filled with more music than what’s buried in your dead iPod Classic. As always, there will be some surprises in store (did you catch The Emotron last year?).
I’ve teamed up with Spazz Presents to create the official SPAZZ FEST VI SCHEDULE listing all of the main shows so you can plan accordingly. See you in Greenville!
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