Pedal steels consolidated strings into one neck and added pedals and knee levers, allowing players to change the pitch of individual strings. But for each key that a song required, lap steels required a new neck placed on a table, making them heavy and expensive. Its predecessor, the lap steel guitar, became a familiar sound in musicals, jazz, country, and nascent rock ’n’ roll after the instrument’s invention in Hawaii at the turn of the century. “Neither of us woke up and said, ‘Oh, we should do this.’”Īs the history of guitars goes, pedal steel is a late addition. “One person was like, ‘When I first read pedal steel and drums, I, What are you gonna do with that?’ So I'm like, ‘Let us show you,’” Rowe says. Their approach is inquisitive, pushing past melody into texture and busting through audiences’ expectations of what kinds of sounds two musicians can make. It features Sam Wagster on pedal steel guitar and Skyler Rowe on drums and auxiliary percussion - an unconventional combination - and in the few years they’ve played live in the city and Midwest, they’ve stolen the show from several bands.
The band in question: Mute Duo, whose new record, Lapse in Passage, releases March 20 on local label American Dreams. As soon as they started playing, this writer - who had just played a short set before them - found himself mystified and entranced, poking his head up near the musicians' instruments to see what they were doing and feeling his jaw drop. Ryley Walker, indie guitar maven and Twitter jokester, was celebrating the release of a new record at the Hungry Brain, and a mysterious two-piece band had just taken the stage to warm him up.
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on Saturday, September 7 featuring more than 40 vendors and makers!Ĭheck out the full 2019 lineup for Hopscotch Music Festival.Sam Wagster (pedal steel guitar) and Skyler Rowe (percussion) Photo: Ashleigh Dye Reese McHenry, Zen Mother, Andy Holmes, The VibekillersĪlso check out the Hopscotch 2019 Day Party Market on Fayetteville St. Tony G, Trandle, Gappa Mighty, Ronnie Flash and Special Guests (12:00), Distributed Systems (3:00), Akira Screening with Micah Moses (4:00) – 5 p.m.īeatmaking and Showcase With Raund Haus Records ft. – 4 p.m.ĭead Tongues, John Howie Jr., Chessa Rich, Joseph Terrell Reese McHenry, Pie Face Girls, Stevie, Fruit Snack Irrelevant Music DJs before show and in between acts – 5 p.m.īrian David Corum of Lonnie Walker (12:00) 7 at Crank Arm Brewing: 12 – 5 p.m.įlash Car, JPhono1, Lacy Jags, and The Veldt Kate Rhudy, Jenny Besetzt, No One Mind, and more Saturday Day Party at the WUNC Music stage on Davie & S. ISOLATION 3000 by Smoke Bellow Saturday September 7
Someday Everything Will Be Fine by Spider Bagsįriday, Sept. Spider Bags, Midnite Snaxxx, Gross Ghost, Drag Sounds, The Dirty Little Heaters, Cochonne, and more 6 at Schoolkids Records: 2 p.m – 5 p.m.įriday, Sept. Three Lobed Records + WXDU Present: Annual Ritual of Summoningĭavid Nance Group with Tyler Damon (12:00)įriday, Sept. Karbuncle, Debonzo Brothers, Easter Island, Gray Youngįriday, Sept. *Free Pizza, Videri Chocolate, and Slingshot Coffee while they last. The Page The Pope and The Hanged Man by ZACK MEXICO The Muslims, Cosmic Punk, The Augurs, Fish Dad 5 at Kings & Neptunes: 12:30 to 5:30 p.m.Ĭharly Bliss, Illuminati Hotties, The Messthetics, Ric Wilson, David Nance Band, Truth Club, and more. Here’s a look at some of our Hopscotch Day Party picks: Thursday, September 5 Hopscotch day parties have always been a big part of the festival’s draw, as they offer fans and bands alike an opportunity to check out several local area acts in a wide-array of settings. Charlotte’s Patois Counselors at Hopscotch 2018. Hopscotch is also known nationally for curating a lineup of emerging indie acts and its organizers have a knack for bringing together special performances like the reunion of Little Brother this year on Sunday in City Plaza. Spread across several downtown Raleigh venues, the festival allows you to catch some big-name touring acts like this year’s headliners James Blake, Kurt Vile, Chvrches, Jenny Lewis, and Phantogram, and regional artists like The Nude Party (Boone), Sarah Shook & the Disarmers (Chapel Hill), Kooley High (Raleigh), and Charlotte’s own Dreamville lyricist, Lute. Since 2010, the Raleigh-based Hopscotch music festival has hosted a multitude of musical acts from varying genres.
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