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                                <title>Dikembe / Padfoot</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 day ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/dikembe-padfoot/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Dikembe formed in December 2010. In 2011, the band embarked on a winter tour with&#160;You Blew It!.&#160; In 2012, they signed to&#160;Tiny Engines&#160;and released their debut studio album titled&#160;Broad Shoulders. Kenny Jewett left the band in 2013 and was replaced with Randy Reddell. The band went on a summer tour in 2013 with Signals Midwest.&#160; They released their second studio album in 2014, titled&#160;Mediumship.&#160;They released their third studio album,&#160;Hail Something, as a 3-piece on their newly formed Death Protector Collective label. In October 2017 Andy Anaya of You Blew It! joined Dikembe on guitar. In 2020 they signed to Skeletal Lightning and released their 4th LP,&#160;Muck, their first with guitarist Andy Anaya]]></description>
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                                <title>Black + Trans Short Film Festival After Party</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/black-trans-short-film-festival-after-party/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Free with festival wristband / $5 without!]]></description>
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                                <title>Anjimile / Dino</title>
                                <eventupdate>4 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/anjimile-dino/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Anjimile (ann-JIM-uh-lee) Chithambo has forged a distinctive musical path characterised by unflinching introspection and deep honesty. Emerging from Boston&#8217;s vibrant indie scene while studying at Northeastern University, Anjimile captivated audiences with earnest songwriting, delicate sonic textures, and performances that felt like prayer and celebration.&#160; Critical acclaim quickly followed; 2020&#8217;s Giver Taker, hailed by Rolling Stone as one of the year's best albums, positioned him as a compelling voice exploring enduring themes of spirituality, identity, and liberation. With The King (2023), Anjimile intensified his examination of Black and trans existence amid personal and societal turbulence, reaffirming his courageous commitment to navigating discomfort as a means of liberation. You&#8217;re Free to Go is a portrait of transformation &#8212; not as a wound, but as an opening. Richly textured, this collection of songs is an honest reflection of life's fluctuations. It holds space for contradiction and finds liberation in tenderness. As Anjimile beautifully articulates, the album embodies "breathing into the question," acknowledging that life&#8217;s most profound moments often come without clear answers, but rather exist in the gentle tension of uncertainty and discovery. In every note, Anjimile provides space for each listener to reflect and uncover their own truths, while gently reminding us that freedom isn&#8217;t the absence of pain, but the courage to love, to ask, to keep beginning again. You&#8217;re Free to Go, picks up where The King left off, but with its hands open wide - a central question being: what happens when you let go and let love in?&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Bellows / Dirty Flowers / Paradise Motel Lounge</title>
                                <eventupdate>6 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/bellows-dirty-flowers-paradise-motel-lounge/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Bellows is the bedroom recording project of songwriter and producer Oliver Kalb. The sound of Bellows is sensory and delicate, subtle and quiet, but erupts with frantic wobbling drums, large orchestral sections and bursts of noise that push the conventions of pop and folk. Started in late 2010 in a bedroom in upstate New York, Bellows has since blossomed from a solo recording experiment into a large-scale rock band, employing the help of friends to bring Kalb's intimate home recordings to life on stage in sweeping, loud, and intense live performances.   Bellows&#8217; sonic palate has developed and grown considerably across six albums released over the last fifteen years. Bob Boilen of NPR&#8217;s All Songs Considered named Bellows&#8217; sophomore album Blue Breath one of his favorite albums of 2014. Two tracks from Bellows&#8217; electronic-inflected third album Fist &#38; Palm were included in Stereogum&#8217;s Best Songs of 2016 list. The Rose Gardener was given a 9.0 review in Paste Magazine and was included in the publication&#8217;s Best Overlooked Albums of 2019 list.&#160;Bellows&#8217; sixth album, the mammoth double-LP &#8220;Que Bello!&#8221;, will be released in June 2026. Locals Dirty Flowers (https://www.instagram.com/dirty__flowers/) and Paradise Motel Lounge (https://www.instagram.com/paradise.motel.lounge/) will support. bellows.bandcamp.cominstagram.com/bellows4l]]></description>
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                                <title>Isabel Essence Birthday Bash</title>
                                <eventupdate>6 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/isabel-essence-birthday-bash/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re celebrating Isabel Essence turning 29 the best way we know how &#8212; with a stacked lineup and a dance floor full of love. &#160; Join us for a birthday function soundtracked by Isabel Essence b2b orokos, Alec Lomami b2b maxsunlove, and DJ Se7en Cutz, bringing together global club sounds, rhythm, and high-energy selections to keep you moving all night long. &#160; As I get ready to close out my 20s, I can&#8217;t think of a better way to do it than in community. Come ready to connect, move, and mark the moment properly. - Isabel Essence &#160; Sonic Essence is a QTBIPOC-led music collective based in Durham, North Carolina. Rooted in community, we curate dance-floor&#8211;driven experiences that center Black and Brown electronic lineages and create space for radical free expression, embodied release, and connection. Founded in 2022, we are known for high-energy, body-forward experiences that cultivate collective joy.]]></description>
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                                <title>Wombo / Shower Curtain</title>
                                <eventupdate>7 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/wombo-shower-curtain/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Wombo&#8217;s third album, Danger in Fives, isn&#8217;t a reintroduction; it&#8217;s a reminder. Throughout Danger in Fives, Wombo &#8212; the Louisville-bred three-piece of Sydney Chadwick (bass/vocals), Cameron Lowe (guitar), and Joel Taylor (drums) &#8212; not only enhance their formula, but routinely perfect it. The 11 tracks on Danger in Fives fine tune Wombo&#8217;s enchanting alchemy while firmly pushing the band into new territory. Maintaining the confidence of Wombo&#8217;s last full-length, 2022&#8217;s Fairy Rust, Danger in Fives reconnects with the intuition that led their wild experiments on the 2020 debut LP Blossomlooksdownuponus. Wombo&#8217;s gauzy take on post-punk &#8212; characterized by a looming darkness which Chadwick jokes is &#8220;inevitable&#8221; in their music &#8212; floats between unexpected riffs and lived-in melodies. To perfect the formula, Wombo first had to tear it apart. Standard practices of writing and workshopping material in their post-war basement rehearsal space were paused, as the band explored alternative writing processes. Even demos that took shape quickly &#8212; Danger in Fives standouts &#8220;S.T. Tilted&#8221; and &#8220;Cloud 36,&#8221; plus its opening title track &#8212; were carefully analyzed and adjusted. &#8220;We really quickly threw a lot of paint down and it was almost the picture, but we still tweaked it for a year,&#8221; Lowe says.The time spent refining ideas allowed Wombo to process and workshop as they lived and toured. Danger in Fives marks the first time the band experimented with writing while on the road, with album standout &#8220;A Dog Says&#8221; assuming its final form in a hotel room. The band&#8217;s desire to change their model was in part to &#8220;get away from a results mindset, where it&#8217;s about producing things for a certain expectation instead of doing it all for the joy of exploring,&#8221; Lowe says. This commitment toward artistic exploration led Lowe to capture as many ideas as possible, resulting in over 30 demos he then brought to Chadwick to help pare down. &#8220;There were a lot of ones where I was like, &#8216;This sounds really cool but it doesn&#8217;t sound like a Wombo song,&#8217;&#8221; Chadwick recalls. From those ideas, the two fleshed out basic sketches before bringing demos to Taylor in the basement. Album centerpiece &#8220;Neon Bog&#8221; emerges from this batch, a free-flowing mosaic of fortunate mistakes driven by the band's intuition and anchored by the recurring strike of a cowbell. Soaring, distorted vocals &#8212; a result of recording Chadwick&#8217;s take to a guitar amp simulator in error &#8212; are collaged with haunting echoes, embracing a studio mistake to end with something uniquely Wombo. The experimentation across Danger in Five's writing process comes paired with subtle shifts in Wombo&#8217;s palette: the welcome addition of digital texture, and drum machine incorporated on a handful of tracks. &#8220;I definitely had to come to terms with it, but it&#8217;s for the sake of the song,&#8221; Taylor says of the digital additions, continuing, &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to get noises like that in the studio.&#8221; Taylor wasn&#8217;t alone in departing instrumentally to achieve Wombo&#8217;s collective vision for Danger in Fives. Standout single &#8220;Neon Bog&#8221; marks the only Wombo song to not feature Chadwick on her cherished Dan Electro bass, instead featuring Lowe on a heavier Peavey Foundation (offering what Chadwick calls a &#8220;fresh, janky quality&#8221;). &#8220;We tried it on the Dan Electro,&#8221; Chadwick clarifies, &#8220;but our quick decision ended up being the one that worked best.&#8221;&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Boilesque: Drag Kings Spring to Life</title>
                                <eventupdate>7 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/boilesque-drag-kings-spring-to-life/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Enter the Garden and join in the puckish romp. Celebrate the season that is in spring with the carnal delight that awaits. BoiLesqu&#233; is an evening of entertainment to inspire and engorge&#160; the hearts and desires of all that enter the doors of the Pinhook.&#160; &#160; April 24th 10pm come join the young puckish sprites. Watch as the play and revel in the hypnotic sounds and expose you to their very delights. &#160; Featuring Drag Gogo and guest performances in a burlesque cabaret. April 24th at the Pinhook 10pm. $8-$15 sliding scale.]]></description>
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                                <title>The Body / BIG|BRAVE</title>
                                <eventupdate>7 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/the-body-bigbrave/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[The Body&#160;is a prolific musical force whose creativity is matched only by the astonishing weight of their sound. Duo&#160;Lee Buford&#160;and&#160;Chip King&#160;have established their own musical language that reimagines how rhythm, dynamics, and sonics can shape or dismantle song structure. Over the course of two decades, the duo has consistently challenged assumptions and defied categorization, redefining what it means to be a heavy band. On their new album, The Body are again pushing limits and testing the boundaries of the studio to explore the extremes and microtonality of distortion to find its maximal impact.&#160;I&#8217;ve Seen All I Need To See&#160;is The Body at their most incisively bleak, a towering monolith of noise. I&#8217;ve Seen All I Need To See&#160;marks both a return and departure for The Body. In contrast to the electronic-centric instrumentation and production-heavy arrangements of previous albums and Buford&#8217;s work in&#160;Sightless Pit, this album is focused on their core live sound: Buford&#8217;s booming, resolute drums paired with King&#8217;s obliterated guitar and howl. Following albums with extensive guest performances and acclaimed collaborations with&#160;Thou, Uniform, Full of Hell, and more,&#160;I&#8217;ve Seen All I Need To See&#160;is almost entirely the core duo. Guests vocalist/pianist&#160;Chrissy Wolpert&#160;and vocalist Ben Eberle are used very sparingly. Course, bristling distortion contorts every instrument, with samples of spoken word, cymbals, toms and King&#8217;s already noxious tone emerging from layers of feedback. The myriad of tonal interplays, captured in detail, has a movement all its own. The Body, together with engineer&#160;Seth Manchester&#160;of&#160;Machines With Magnets, capture the complexities of distorted sound in stunning detail. The clarity and the cacophony exceed anything they&#8217;ve created before, morphing desolate, festering soundscapes into an exhilarating sonic universe. BIG&#124;BRAVE&#8217;s preternatural instincts and depth of skill as musicians are on full display on their most naked and austere record to date,&#160;OST. The trio entered the studio with broader concepts and themes in mind, but no preconceived music. The overarching concept was to make a film score for a film that had yet to be created, to use minimal instrumentation, or more specifically not their standard band instruments, and to improvise within these parameters. &#8220;Although this record could stand on its own, we envisioned it being paired with moving images, which introduced a fresh and exciting way of working,&#8221; notes guitarist&#160;Mathieu Ball. In addition to forgoing their usual instrumentation, they notably built their own. Ball created a stringed instrument using piano strings simply called &#8220;The Instrument&#8221;. This instrument ended up becoming a central figure to the OST&#8217;s sound. Guitarist/vocalist&#160;Robin Wattie&#160;adds: &#8220;The strings Mathieu used for his instrument came from a discarded piano thatch that had been laying around in the hallway of my tattoo studio for ages.&#8221; The Instrument&#8217;s presence is felt throughout the record as a conductive element amplifying the album&#8217;s earthly, grounded nature. OST was fully written and recorded in the studio. The band was free to enter the live room and record a take with whatever instrument was at hand. Once they had a good foundation for a song, Ball, Wattie, drummer&#160;Tasy Hudson&#160;and even engineer/producer&#160;Seth Manchester would each build on it, layering takes, from instrumental improvisations to abstract vocals, until they felt it was a completed piece. Wattie&#8217;s voice seamlessly blends with the instrumental flourishes made from &#8220;The Instrument&#8221;, a Wurlitzer, prepared piano, synths and a very limited amount of electric guitar.&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Sub Empty // Lose/Lose // The Punching Bags</title>
                                <eventupdate>8 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/sub-empty-lose-lose-the-punching-bags/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[A night of music featuring Sub Empty hailing from Raleigh NC playing some Alt Rock, Lose/Lose coming from Winston Salem playing some Emo, and Indie Emo group The Punching Bags rounding it out!]]></description>
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                                <title>Tenderqueer / Hit Like a Girl / Between Two Trees</title>
                                <eventupdate>8 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/tenderqueer-hit-like-a-girl-between-two-trees/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Queer heartache is a unique experience, and one that Hit Like a Girl knows well. Drawing influence from pop, emo, indie and even hardcore, the band channels yearning, love and loss into intimate yet catchy music that may resonate with fans of Tigers Jaw, Future Teens, or Indigo De Souza.Hit Like a Girl strives to represent trans and queer artists, and inspire them to follow their creative pursuits. In 2016 Maroulis founded No More Dysphoria, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization created with the goal of helping transgender individuals pay for major aspects of their transition. Maroulis is a masterful and prolific songwriter. In the eight years since Hit Like a Girl&#8217;s inception in 2017, Maroulis has released 4 full length records (You Make Sense (2017), What Makes Love Last (2018), Heart Racer (2021)) and one EP (Becoming (2022)). The band has performed alongside the likes of Mom Jeans, Kississippi, Origami Angel, Pool Kids, and Prince Daddy and the Hyena, and has toured with acts including John-Allison Weiss and The Iron Roses.Hit Like a Girl just released Burning at Both Ends, their most collaborative LP to date on 3/27/26 via Cryptid Records.Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0saOG9dPAQ3PCwLLVNlgvQBandcamp: hitlikeagirl.bandcamp.com]]></description>
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                                <title>Osquinn / FearDorian / Mental / Tropes / Heartstopmiami / Bbyazul</title>
                                <eventupdate>8 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/osquinn-feardorian-mental-tropes-heartstopmiami-bbyazul/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[**Back2Zero Tour** is a 12-stop international showcase highlighting some of the most exciting voices in the emerging underground rap scene. Featuring a lineup of producers and artists pushing the boundaries of modern hip-hop, the tour brings together a diverse group of performers whose sounds range from experimental and sample-driven to high-energy regional styles, creating a rare multi-artist event.**Osquinn (Atlanta, GA)** is a rapper and producer known for blending experimental textures with Southern hip-hop influences. Her breakout single *&#8220;i dont want that many friends in the first place&#8221;* has amassed over 40 million streams on Spotify, and her constantly evolving sound has made her one of the most recognizable voices in the new underground.**Feardorian (Atlanta, GA)** is a rapper and producer whose work combines dense lyricism with sample-driven production. Originally gaining recognition as a sought-after producer, their self-titled debut established them as a standout performer in their own right, solidifying their reputation as both a visionary beatmaker and compelling lyricist.**Mental (Washington)** is a rapper and producer known for an ethereal, atmospheric approach to hip-hop. Their production and songwriting have led to collaborations with artists including Lil Uzi Vert, Ken Carson, 2slimey, and Glokk40Spaz, bringing a polished but unconventional sound to the underground scene.**Tropes (Los Angeles, CA)** is a rapper and producer known for surreal lyricism and sample-heavy production. Their music pairs hard-hitting beats with poetic writing, creating songs that feel cinematic, abstract, and deeply immersive.**Heartstopmiami (Miami, FL)** is a rapper/producer whose music blends Miami and Milwaukee production styles into a fast-paced, high-energy sound. Their honest, conversational lyrics paired with upbeat, regional-influenced beats give their music a loose, fun, and instantly recognizable feel.**Bbyazul (Virginia)** is a rapper and producer who has collage-style production and a genre-blending approach to rap. Pulling from experimental hip-hop, internet rap, and sample-based production, his work ties is a mix of the wide range of styles represented across the tour.Back2Zero is presented as a full-lineup showcase, with all artists and special guest performing in one night.osquinn: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2QpNu8tDPv9n7oY34J1TtNfeardorian: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2VddwtW7ie3dDcW8WKXHdnmental: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7rQMXIWKXSMkd7dK8LQ7a4tropes: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0XvXIfdZ2e5I66BFC4z0AVheartstopmiami: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2CDbXr9gHNcwqx5uRxYU3fbbyazul: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2cFzFwE1iCuc27XDA9c9DW]]></description>
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                                <title>Chris Acker / Creekbed Carter Hogan</title>
                                <eventupdate>12 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/chris-acker-creekbed-carter-hogan/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[In a genre full of tall tales and marketable lies, New Orleans&#8217; Chris Acker crafts candid songs &#8211; weaving his wit and woes into a body of work that exposes the stale plight of the American Songster to the honest, and sometimes hilarious, light of day. In the tradition of Guthrie and Prine, Chris lends a quavering voice to the half-rotten romance of the unremarkable and unrefined. Regardless if you&#8217;re sitting by a backyard fire on a muggy Louisiana night or standing stage-side in some far flung town, when you hear Chris Acker playing, you&#8217;re hearing the end result of countless hours of observing the masters of the craft&#8230;and the end result of repeating their mistakes. From the folk revival through the golden age of country music, deafened by punk shows and brass bands alike, Chris&#8217;s songwriting is a nod to the absurd yet muted brilliance that inhabits the molded corners of the bars he patrons and cratered street he treads, paired with a pained honesty that merits a long second look. Acker released his fourth full-length album, Famous Lunch, on Gar Hole Records in October of 2024. Famous Lunch contains some of his best work yet: laid back, country-rockers like &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t Do For You (Buddy)&#8221; and &#8220;Shit Surprise&#8221; (which Paste Magazine called a &#8220;song of the year contender&#8221; in 2024), a few raucous, bar-ready joints like &#8220;Don&#8217;t You Know (Who I Think I Am)&#8221; and &#8220;Bunn Machine&#8221;, and tender, folky triumphs like &#8220;Stubborn Eyes&#8221; and &#8220;Eyelash&#8221;, all showcasing Chris&#8217; gift of building &#8220;vivid scenes at an impressively low word count&#8221; (No Depression).&#160; Acker tours solo or with his band The Growing Boys &#8212; Zach Thomas (bass), Nikolai Shveitser (pedal steel), Dave Hammer (guitar, vocals), Sam Gelband (drums, vocals), and occasionally Howe Pearson (piano). &#8220;Aloe Vera&#8221; (Western AF) The music of Creekbed Carter Hogan (he/they) is a quiet act of defiance made at the end of your rope. It is the warm feeling of solidarity coursing through your body as you link arms with strangers. It is a hard-won laugh, brittle but brave, in the face of what hurt you the most. It is finding hope where there is none, asking questions when you&#8217;re told to stay quiet, demanding a future you believe in, and facing a world hellbent on destruction with community, enthusiasm, and joy. https://creekbedcarter.bandcamp.com/]]></description>
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                                <title>LATIN GOTH NIGHT w/ Bocanegra / BLAT / DJ Nätiva</title>
                                <eventupdate>13 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/latin-goth-night-w-bocanegra-blat-dj-n%c3%a4tiva/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Latin Goth Nigth : A Symphony of ShadowsOn May 10th, 2026, the threshold of The Pinhook transforms. We invite the seekers of the nocturnal, the lover of the melancholic, and the architects of the underground to join us for Latin Goth Night-a curated immersion into the soul of a subculture that has long thrived in the shadows of the spanish-speaking world.Goth culture is more than aesthetic; it's a sanctuary for those who find beauty in the bittersweet. By infusing this with "Latinidad', we unlock a specific magic: a fusion of ancestral mysticism, the poetic drama of romanticismo,and the driving , industrial pulse of the modern city. This is a space where the diaspora and the local Durham community meet to celebrate a heritage that is as dark as it is vibrant.THE LINEUP:*N&#196;TIVA (DJ Set): A master of atmosphere, N&#228;tiva weaves a narrative that travels from the foundational sounds of 80's spanish post-punk to contemporary darkwave and industrial techno.*BOCANEGRA: Known for commanding the room with viseral, atmospheric intensity, Bocanegra's sound is an echo of a dark romance-heavy, intentional, and deeply cinematic.It is the sound of the heart beating in a ritual of ash.*BLAT: Bringing the raw, percussive energy that grounds the night. BLAT represents the sharp edge of the evening, utilizing driving rhythms and coldwave textures to ground the ethereal nature of the night in something physical and urgent.At the midnight of a dark romance, our heartbeats are rituals of ash, and melancholy becomes a song.https://www.instagram.com/nativa.dj&#160;https://www.instagram.com/bocanegramusic&#160;https://www.instagram.com/blat_post.punk/&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Love and Rage w/ Rastaa and the Band of Slime / 3am Sound and Kenneth Russell</title>
                                <eventupdate>13 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/love-and-rage-w-rastaa-and-the-band-of-slime-3am-sound-and-kenneth-russell/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[RASTAA&#160;&#38;&#160;The Band Of Slime Link:&#160;https://youtu.be/VcDZdwioyVU?si=LImrRt8GejlHvP8l Co-Headliner: 3amsound Link:&#160;https://youtu.be/4sbCIth5vNg?si=Gqfdd487hAwRuygG Support: Kenneth Russell Link:&#160;https://www.youtube.com/live/kQ6Trn9qRb0?si=r-Tdgi8GbLWUF1FI]]></description>
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                                <title>Styrofoam Winos, Ex Iguana, Anne Malin</title>
                                <eventupdate>15 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/styrofoam-winos-ex-iguana-anne-malin/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[A decade ago, three employees of JJ&#8217;s Market and Cafe became Styrofoam Winos. Lou Turner, Trevor Nikrant, and Joe Kenkel bonded over their mutual adoration for Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, and dollar bin country records. Styrofoam Winos have always gone with the flow, which makes "Any River" an apt title for their new album, the follow-up to 2024's "Real Time." Their playful approach is bolstered by the chops of seasoned musicians who have performed many hundreds of concerts, both together and as touring members of Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band, MJ Lenderman and the Wind, and as solo artists. Each song on "Any River" came out of jam sessions at Turner and Nikrant&#8217;s home studio, and a shared Google doc of lyrics soon followed. They recorded in Louisville&#8212;their first album made outside of Nashville&#8212;with Roadhouse band mate and Equipment Pointed Ankh mastermind Jim Marlowe. Marlowe&#8217;s understated production kept the band&#8217;s unique synergy on full display. Styrofoam Winos manage to strike a perfect balance between reverence and irreverence for the musical traditions they&#8217;re working within. Their knowledge of the canon is scholarly, but such knowledge is always followed by a wink. It&#8217;s the music of experienced shapeshifters, defying easy categorization while remaining instantly recognizable. Listen to "Pearls," the lead single here: https://lnk.to/StyroWinosPearls]]></description>
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                                <title>Dance for Cuba Fundraiser</title>
                                <eventupdate>15 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/dance-for-cuba-fundraiser/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[DSA is sending medical supplies to Cuba, and we need your help! Join us at 7pm for a dance lesson (salsa, bachata, and cumbia). From 7:30 on, it'll be an open dance floor with DJ Sifi! spinning some Latin dance favorites. Sliding scale cover $10-20. Donate to the raffle for a chance to win some cool prizes! Proceeds from the event will be used to purchase the medical supplies and ship them to Cuba.]]></description>
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                                <title>Queer Line Dancing Night</title>
                                <eventupdate>20 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/queer-line-dancing-night/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[yee haw fuck the law!&#160; Tuesday of every month will be QUEER LINE DANCE NIGHT.&#160; This night will be about all the line dances you know and the two you'll learn tonight! We'll follow the format of line dance instruction at 730 and 830&#160;​and then do line dance sign ups and and do three dances on and one rest song until the night is OVER :) Come sweat it OUT you queermosexuals! Sign up for our email list (at this night or queer country night) to get the dances in advance!&#160; Do you want to teach?&#160; Let us know. Donations please - $5-$10 no one turned away!&#160; &#160; Some dances may include:&#160; Country girl shake3So hot you&#8217;re hurting my feelingsWalk the lineFuegoHigh classBurn it to the groundPieces to the puzzleHigh horseTexas timeAskin questionsThe wolfMy Maria&#160;Rattlesnake kissFour on the floorEasy riderCowgirlsRedneck angelHonky tonk way6s to 9s Copperhead Road&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Pinhook Karaoke!</title>
                                <eventupdate>20 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/pinhook-karaoke-10/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[PINHOOK KARAOKE is the best!&#160; This historic karaoke has been around since4eva and won awards from the INDY / DURHAM MAG and more &#60;3 We're back with our donation based karaoke and here for you to sing your heart out to anything you want.&#160; This is DONATIONS BASED karaoke so give what you can - sing a song and then sign up to sing again afterward.&#160; Can't wait to see you here!&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>GrrrlBands performing music by: The Go-Go&#8217;s, No Doubt, Haim, Japanese Breakfast, Big Thief, and Am</title>
                                <eventupdate>22 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/grrrlbands-performing-music-by-the-go-gos-no-doubt-haim-japanese-breakfast-big-thief-and-am/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[GrrrlBands is a Carrboro-based community music program that brings women and gender-expansive adults together to form bands, build musical skills, and perform live no matter their experience level. Through instructor-led rehearsals and collaborative learning, participants rediscover their creative voices while forming supportive, multigenerational musical communities.Each season culminates in a high-energy showcase where these newly formed bands take the stage and celebrate the artists who inspire them.This show features GrrrlBands performing music by iconic artists including The Go-Go's, No Doubt, Haim, Japanese Breakfast, Big Thief, and Amyl and the Sniffers.Learn more about the program and upcoming shows:https://www.grrrlbands.org]]></description>
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                                <title>DapYP / BrassiousMonk + DJ Wicked</title>
                                <eventupdate>22 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/dapyp-brassiousmonk-dj-wicked/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[DapYP is a Burlington, North Carolina-born artist blending hip-hop, soul, and forward-thinking style into a sound and presence that feels both grounded and global. A world-touring act currently navigating a multi-city run, he continues to build momentum with his latest release, &#8220;Runnin.&#8221; Known for bringing music, fashion, and visual identity into one world, DapYP has also been featured in New York Fashion Week, further cementing his place as an artist whose reach extends beyond the stage.]]></description>
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                                <title>Those Dogs / Peach Rings / The Dead Ringers</title>
                                <eventupdate>22 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/those-dogs-peach-rings-the-dead-ringers/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Celebrating the release of Those Dogs and Peach Rings split record &#8220;Hangout Forever&#8221; released through Three Count Records. Those Dogs is a punk band from North Carolina. Although primarily a punk band they mix elements of ska, emo, and hardcore into their sound. Combined with a DIY ethos, Those Dogs aims to create fun, energetic, and cathartic music that people can dance to. https://www.thosedogsband.com/&#160;&#160;Peach Rings is North Carolina emo power-pop!! With a blend of the fifth wave emo stylings of today and melodic hook driven pop rock of the 90s, peach rings write songs about identity, queer love, and mario 64 speedrunning tricks. https://peachringsnc.bandcamp.com/&#160; &#160; The Dead Ringers&#160;Based out of Durham NC, the dead ringers fuse pop melodies with punk sensibilities to make fun, energetic, and heartfelt music. Hailed as "pretty good" by most of Nora's friends, and "loud and obnoxious" by most old people, the dead ringers are doing their best to not really care what people think. https://thedeadringersband.com/&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>SCIrens: Science-Themed Drag &amp; Burlesque</title>
                                <eventupdate>22 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/scirens-science-themed-drag-burlesque/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[SCIrens: Science-Themed Drag &#38; Burlesque is more than a show, it&#8217;s a high-energy celebration of creativity, inclusivity, and science with a whole lot of rhythm. Get ready for a night where STEM meets sequins, facts meet flair, and nerdy gets downright sexy. &#160; Headliners are: Stormie Daie, D Luca Valentine, Dollyboy, and Harmony Valentine. The Host is Pepper Insult. Featured Performers Myth Congeniality and Nik in Drag!!]]></description>
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                                <title>John-Robert</title>
                                <eventupdate>26 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/john-robert/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[John-Robert has been a notable performer since he was a child, it is simply what he was born to do. At only 13 years old, John-Robert was handpicked to perform on the Ellen show as a musical child prodigy. At 19, he left his hometown Edinburg, VA (pop. 1,070) in 2019 to move to LA and start his music career, bypassing a scholarship to Berklee. He was signed to Nice Life/Warner by Grammy-nominated producer Ricky Reed (Leon Bridges, Lizzo) and released a handful of singles and EPs over a few years, earning him co-signs from artists Alessia Cara and Camilla Cabello. But it was a live fireside performance of his 2023 song &#8220;Come Pick Me Up&#8221; that catapulted John-Robert&#8217;s lilting blend of traditional folk and Appalachian country into the modern pop landscape. He toured extensively in 2023 and 2024 in the US and abroad supporting artists like Madi Diaz, Rayland Baxter, Leon Bridges, and even Liam Gallagher. Virginia, and his family there, has always been a source of inspiration for the singer-songwriter. On making his 2023 EP Garden Snake he says, &#8220;It was like trying to make a Virginia record in LA.&#8221; A move back home to Virginia in early 2025 made perfect sense as he embarked on creating a new body of work. The move was a way to pull himself out of the professional and personal turmoil of LA, and reconnect with the people and places that made him who he is today &#8211; the banks of the North Fork Shenandoah River and rolling hillsides, the home-cooked meals and close-knit community. Newly independent, he released his EP Cross Stitch in 2025. He has spent the last few months on the road with JOSEPH, Ax and the Hatchetmen, Infinity Song and more. And this year, new music is already on the horizon.]]></description>
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                                <title>Azul / Matty Frank + Special Guests!</title>
                                <eventupdate>27 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/azul-matty-frank-special-guests/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Argentinian-American AZUL is a Raleigh-based, genre-defying artist who has been weaving jazz, soul, disco, pop, and Latin funk into a tapestry of danceable sound since her debut 2021 EP, The View From Here. A rotational national anthem singer for the NCFC &#38; NC Courage, AZUL recently wrapped a Northeastern tour, released her newest EP, Death, Love &#38; Disco, and continues to command the stage with powerful vocals and infectious energy.Performing in a mix of Spanish, English, and French, AZUL creates an immersive musical experience that transcends cultural and musical boundaries for listeners across the world.From Broadway to Latin folk, AZUL&#8217;s music serves as a reflection of her rich heritage and diverse array of creative influences. Above all, her music embodies emotion and empowerment, with a strong commitment to creating opportunities for femme, queer, and POC individuals both in her band and on and off stage through her artistry. To hear more from AZUL or to follow her upcoming tour dates, visit her official website: azulzapata.com Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Matty Frank creates naturalist art pop for modern druids, infusing every thought with an intangible sparkliness unseen or heard anywhere else. As a lyricist praised for both haunting specificity and relatability, he aims to tap into community and global consciousness to converse with those who daydream of a more fantastic and shiny world, real or otherwise, through music and visuals.&#160;Matty Frank sprinkles delectable pop melodic shapes onto fantastical and whimsical video game and cinema inspired sound palettes, making for one of a kind listening and performance experiences.]]></description>
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                                <title>The Sonder Bombs / Gay Meat</title>
                                <eventupdate>27 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/the-sonder-bombs-gay-meat/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Like moonlight bouncing through the leaves of an old oak, the newest piece in The Sonder Bombs ever transforming portfolio shimmers through the fog to reveal a new era for the band. In making peace with mortality, &#8220;The Star&#8221; reflects and embraces the power of losing control.&#160; &#160; Through navigating an industry built to suppress and exploit artists, songwriter/vocalist Willow Hawks croons the question, &#8220;will you see me for who I am? Not for what you bought.&#8221; Mixed by Sarah Tudzin (of Illuminati Hotties) &#8220;The Star&#8221; highlights everything we already cherish about TSB while gifting us so much more to obsess over. Self-funded &#38; self-released, The Sonder Bombs are only interested in carving their own way through the woods, straight to center stage.]]></description>
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                                <title>Trippers &amp; Askers / Joseph Decosimo</title>
                                <eventupdate>27 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/trippers-askers-joseph-decosimo/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Trippers &#38; Askers is the songwriting and recording project of musician / researcher Jay Hammond. This rare full band show will be the album release party for the project's second full length LP "Tried To Do's." The album has been called "an exquisite meditation on mourning, family and finding home."]]></description>
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                                <title>FIRESTARTER FEST: A Celebration of Queer/Trans Black &amp; Brown Alternative Aesthetics</title>
                                <eventupdate>28 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/firestarter-fest-a-celebration-of-queer-trans-black-brown-alternative-aesthetics/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[A CELEBRATION OF QUEER/TRANS BLACK &#38; BROWN ALTERNATIVE AESTHETICS w/ sets from:&#160; Ver&#160; Ebony Red&#160; Miss B Haven ~b2b~ Country Boi&#160; Rap from: KHX05&#160; Dear Lucy &#38; Friends&#160; AND DRAG FROM:&#160; Alex the Rabbit&#160; Tesoro&#160; Missy V Sour&#160; Fete De Ville&#160; Kali Fuchis ~duet~ Onyx Qween&#160; Allda Smoke&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>No Quarter! Brass Band w/Boom Unit Brass Band</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/no-quarter-brass-band-w-boom-unit-brass-band/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[For 10 years, Boom Unit Brass Band has paraded their powerful sound throughout the Triangle and all across North Carolina. Their 10-piece line-up of Trumpets, Trombones, Saxophones, a Sousaphone, and Drums draws inspiration from traditional New Orleans Second Line Brass Bands as well as modern Brass, Funk, and Hip-Hop. Boom Unit Brass Band plans to head into the studio this summer to record their debut LP. Get up outta your seat and move your feet to the big sound of Boom Unit Brass Band!https://linktr.ee/boomunitbrassWe are the No Quarter! Brass Band out of Greenville, NC. You can&#8217;t go wrong with this young, hot, and contagiously energetic 9-piece brass band playing your favorite hits from the past couple decades! https://linktr.ee/noquarterbrassband]]></description>
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                                <title>A Wu-Tang Experience: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/a-wu-tang-experience-live-at-red-rocks-amphitheater/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Join Skin and Bones Theater and 3 Chambers in watching this doc! &#160; 7pm DJS AND DOORS!&#160; 8pm Screening!&#160;&#160; Get here early!&#160; &#160; On August 13, 2021, the Wu-Tang Clan, backed by the 60-piece Colorado Symphony Orchestra, performed at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison. Roughly 10,000 fans witnessed one of the most extraordinary concerts in hip-hop history. &#160; Trailer Here &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Fading Signal / Get Wise / Guard Dog / Circle Five / No Reason Why</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/fading-signal-get-wise-guard-dog-circle-five-no-reason-why/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Fading Signal&#160; Guard Dog Get Wise&#160; Circle Five&#160; No Reason Why]]></description>
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                                <title>Dori Freeman / Ric Robertson</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/dori-freeman-ric-robertson/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Dori Freeman has sharpened her vision of Appalachian Americana over five studio albums.From the country traditionalism of her self-titled debut to the amplified folk of Ten ThousandRoses, it's a sound that nods to her mountain-town roots even as it reaches beyond them.Freeman continues creating her own musical geography with Do You Recall, the songwriter'smost eclectic &#8212; and electric &#8212; record yet. &#160; https://dorifreeman1.bandcamp.com/album/the-first-ten-years-2&#160; &#160; Ric Robertson crafts songs that are as colorful and unpredictable as life itself, the kind of music that doesn&#8217;t ask for your attention &#8212; it quietly earns it. One note, one image, one breath at a time. He&#8217;s a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist &#8212; but mostly, he&#8217;s just trying to make sense of the absurd beauty in being alive. &#160;These days, Robertson is mostly out on the road solo, carving out his own odd little orbit, hauling a real upright piano from town to town &#8212; a heavy, creaky companion that makes every show a little less predictable and a lot more alive. It&#8217;s an old-school, seat-of-the-pants kind of operation: no playback, no safety net, just songs, stories, and a whole-hearted belief that the good stuff doesn&#8217;t need a middleman. https://ricrobertson.bandcamp.com/album/carolina-child&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Gracie and Rachel</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/gracie-and-rachel/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[f We Could, Would We is the latest effort from Brooklyn-based duo Gracie and Rachel (Gracie Coates and Rachel Ruggles), who have become known for their innovative brand of elevated indie-pop, complete with baroque string work and piercingly spare song structures. After releasing their self-titled debut to critical acclaim in 2017, Gracie and Rachel have been seen on stages opening for Ani DiFranco, Tori Amos, Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and others. They have performed two NPR Tiny Desk Concerts and been praised by the outlet to &#8220;mix pop and classical in stark, infectious ways and make unforgettable, surprising music.&#8221; Their 2025 single &#8220;WTF&#8221; earned praise from The Line of Best Fit who raved, &#8220;Gracie and Rachel Deliver Folk-Pop for the Future on &#8220;WTF,&#8221;&#8217;&#8221; and Rolling Stone which named it a &#8220;Song You Need To Know.&#8221; The most personal and daring album of their career thus far, If We Could, Would We asks important questions about potential regret and openness, ultimately concluding that the only way out is through. It also finds Gracie and Rachel sharing space again after coming to a crossroads in their personal and professional lives. After the release of their 2023 EP Nowhere Now Here, Gracie spent part of the next year working on solo material, a journey that eventually led her back to Rachel, who was working through the end of a long-term relationship. Even as their paths diverged, Gracie and Rachel always found their way back to each other. Once reunited, they pushed themselves to keep growing. Sonically, If We Could, Would We expands their instrumentation, with Rachel incorporating the guitar on record for the first time and adding in a diverse array of other instruments and textures across tracks. Meanwhile, as a piece of art, If We Could, Would We symbolizes the duo&#8217;s ebbs and poses the existential question many ponder; If they could go back and do it all over again, knowing what they do now, would they? Rachel says, &#8220;We may never know, but here we are. I still have hope and belief. I just want to keep telling the story.&#8221;]]></description>
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                                <title>Cheerleader Roadkill / Awannabe  / Moon Rules Apply</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/cheerleader-roadkill-awannabe-moon-rules-apply/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Cheerleader Roadkill is a pop-punk band from the western Chicago suburbs, founded in 2022. Classmates Noel Kovac (guitar, vocals) and Jack Metz (bass), inspired by the sound of 90s pop punk bands like blink-182, Simple Plan, and Sum 41, they began writing songs in Kovac&#8217;s garage in July of 2022 and soon turned their attention to finding a drummer. After 6 months of rotating through a handful of drummers, fellow classmate Jesse Ortega (drums) was brought into the fold and solidified the current lineup.The band released their first EP, Cowboy divorce birthday party, in April of 2023, followed by a single, &#8220;Get Up,&#8221; in June of 2023, and another, &#8220;Suburbia,&#8221; in January of this year. The band is currently halfway through writing and recording their first full length album, which is expected out in the summer of this year. - WUSO.org]]></description>
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                                <title>Mikaela Davis</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/mikaela-davis/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Every universe begins with a singular point, a quiet corner where instinct speaks loudest, where existential imagination can stretch its limbs. For acclaimed harpist and songwriter Mikaela Davis&#8217; new album, Graceland Way (due TK via Kill Rock Stars), that singularity was a hillside home in Chevy Chase Canyon, a spot nestled in Los Angeles County where time slowed, the world fell away, and Davis could create from a sense of warmth and deep attentiveness. The &#8220;canyon country&#8221; epic born of that care ties a neo-western future back to the lineage of Laurel Canyon, the mythos of Elvis&#8217;s Graceland, and Paul Simon&#8217;s restless reinvention&#8212;a place where Davis can explore the fragile balance of light and dark, grace and struggle, rose and thorn, as well as the mystical power found at their nexus.&#160; The record&#8217;s musical big bang originated at the nexus of UHF Studio, where Davis and noted guitarist John Lee Shannon, co-wrote the record and co-produced alongside longtime collaborator Dan Horne. As the album&#8217;s story of an unnamed antihero navigating life in a failing world, her harp, his guitar, and their joint melodies weave a mystic depth. That&#8217;s immediately evident from the opening track &#8220;(Looking Through) Rose Colored Glasses&#8221;, a harp glissando burst functioning like a blissful wormhole to a new universe where dark Western tones come aided by Kurt G. Johnson&#8217;s pedal steel guitar and transformative harmonies from guest vocalists Madison Cunningham and Tim Heidecker. But even in this pained origin story, Davis&#8217; glittering, opalescent voice and evocative harp find a depth of beauty. That duality is then immediately challenged in &#8220;Nothin&#8217;s On The Radio&#8221;, where the antihero arrives in a city devoid of meaning, the dystopia of modern homogenized radio writ large. &#8220;It already feels dystopic living in a world today where radio stations are all owned by a handful of corporations, all playing the same artists. Gone are the days when the radio was a way to bring people together, to amplify the voices of freaks and weirdos from all corners of the world,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I was fortunate to grow up in the last years of the golden age of FM radio, and being able to tune into this magical world far beyond my own was a transformative experience. Hearing artists like Sheryl Crow and Vanessa Carlton coming through the car stereo is what made me want to write songs and play music in the first place.&#8221; As the album progresses and the story continues, Davis and her compatriots explore magic and mysticism on &#8220;11:11&#8221; and the haunting darkness of &#8220;Mizmoon&#8221;. Cass McCombs wrote the latter, rattling percussion and Davis&#8217; harp low end giving way to slippery shadows of violin. &#8220;When Cass first sent over the track, it was the coolest thing I'd ever heard,&#8221; Davis says. &#8220;The music and lyrics create such an ominous mood and I could imagine how the harp would carry the song right away.&#8221; Elsewhere, Wednesday vocalist Karly Hartzman contributes to &#8220;Junk Love&#8221;, an exploration of knowingly filling an empty space with meaningless physicality. Across Graceland Way&#8217;s, Davis&#8217; harp masterfully powers the wide variety of soundscapes, taking on an ecstatic range of emotional color. &#8220;At the end of the journey, the place you were destined for all along isn&#8217;t even a place, it&#8217;s a state of mind: Graceland Way,&#8221; Davis says. &#8220;It&#8217;s all interconnected and the universe balances itself. You need the dark to see the light, and the most beauty usually happens where the two meet.&#8221;]]></description>
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                                <title>Mint Field / Big Mistake</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/mint-field-big-mistake/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Mexico City based band Mint Field is one of these bands that make it shine. Guided by Estrella del Sol and Sebastian Neyra. Mint Field creates a unique blend of avant dream pop and shoegaze with some touches of trip hop that explores the nostalgia and melancholy of daily life with strong guitars and voices that are like sighs. Intrumentation and atmospheres are accompanied by delicate, harmonious and ethereal voices that are fundamental part of the sound. With releases such as their debut album Pasar de las Luces (2018), Sentimiento Mundial (2020) and their most recent album Aprender a Ser (2023) and Aprender a Ser : Extended (2024). Their sound has evolved over the course of these years of touring all over the world. In 2020 the band started fleshing out their latest album Aprender a Ser the follow-up to 2020&#8217;s minimalist psych/shoegaze album, Sentimiento Mundial. They wrote, recorded, produced, and mixed the album in isolation. They had time to slow things down and think more obsessively about the sound, environment, and vibe they wanted to create. Aprender a Ser became a really intimate album, every single detail was meticulously worked on. Fast forward to January 2023. During this period, the band recorded approximately twenty-five more songs and trimmed it down to ten, cohesive tracks that fit conceptually while at the same time trying to evolve their sound. During the recording process, they naturally came back to the roots of the Mint Field sound by doing a lot of layering, utilizing different types of reverb, and exploring more ethereal, ambient, dream pop, trip-hop, and shoegaze sounds. In August 2024 the band released the extended version of their album Aprender a Ser. Mint Field has also their own curated festival in Mexico City named after their own song &#8216;Sue&#241;o Despierto&#8217;. The first edition being in 2023 and second one in 2024 they had the band accompanied by Mabe Fratti, Valgur, Diles que no me maten, among others. https://mintfield.bandcamp.com/music&#160; &#160; big mistake is a Raleigh based indie noise pop band. They were formed in 2025 by Elijah Hall and Michael Utt after working on the project My Sister Maura. Their debut single &#8220;party pickup&#8221; released independently in July of 2025. https://bigmistakemusic.bandcamp.com/]]></description>
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                                <title>Bug Hunter / The Narcissist Cookbook</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/bug-hunter-the-narcissist-cookbook/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[** Come early (5:00 PM) to the venue to listen to both artists play a couple extra songs + audience Q&#38;A, pre-show access to merch (skip the line after the show!) and take a photo with Bug Hunter and The Narcissist Cookbook. THIS TICKET INCLUDES GA ACCESS TO THE SHOW!** &#160; Bug Hunter and The Narcissist Cookbook are bringing their show back on the road in 2026, playing their solo material as well a selection of songs from their hit songwriting podcast, Jam Mechanics. &#160; Bug HunterBug has the very unique skill of being able to put a lifetime of experiences in a single song. There is also a very rare quality where even the most painful lyrics manage to have a silver lining or hope within their theme. Every song has a story, and every story has something profound to pull from it. Every single album and song is an entire rush of words that manage to perfectly capture so many specific emotions and moments in time. There is such a rare quality in the writing, and I&#8217;ve yet to find another artist that I can fully compare to Bug Hunter.&#8221; &#160; The Narcissist Cookbook Mudslinger/songwrecker The Narcissist Cookbook uses five-rounds-rapid storytelling and powerful songwriting as a siege weapon trained on the barker between the stage and the audience. An irreverent, unpredictable and inimitable voice in modern spoken word.]]></description>
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                                <title>Computer Kill / TORTURETWINN</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/computer-kill-torturetwinn/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Computer Kill is a Baltimore-based project blending post-punk urgency with brooding electronic soundscapes. Formed in 2022 and spearheaded by songwriter and producer Noah Schippers, he quickly carved out a space in underground scenes both in real life and on the internet. Known for intense, cathartic live shows for having a distinct sonic mood, Computer Kill continues to push the boundaries of darkwave and synth-driven pop. &#160; https://computerkillband.bandcamp.com/ &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Lip Critic / Flatwounds / Bejalvin</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/lip-critic-flatwounds-bejalvin/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Theft World is an album about stealing.&#160; &#160; After seven shows on tour we were at O&#8217;Briens in Boston. The show was an especially feral and violent one and when we finished our set I ran over to the merch booth. A kid in the line caught my eye, a tall lanky white kid wearing a surgical mask and a Five Nights At Freddy&#8217;s zip hoodie with the hood on. When he finally got up to the table I asked if he knew what he wanted. I could tell by his eyes he was smiling underneath the zip-up. After a brief pause he recited my social security number to me. As much as it shook me, seeing him there in front of me felt harmless, like a little kid playing a prank on you, unable to contain their excitement and watch you realize what&#8217;s happened. I asked him if he&#8217;d talk to me alone and he instantly agreed. As soon as we got outside he excitedly admitted to stealing my information. He exclaimed that he &#8220;couldn&#8217;t believe the prize&#8221; he&#8217;d won. When I pressed him about why he had targeted me, he said because I had told him to. &#8220;You hid it well,&#8221; he kept saying, &#8220;but I figured it out.&#8221; I realized pretty quickly I was talking to someone who was not in the same world as me. He told me he was convinced that we had been leaving coded messages and patterns in our music that were all part of some massive scavenger hunt, and that he had won. In my head I was grazing through all the lyrics I ever wrote, all the songs we&#8217;d ever put out, trying to understand how someone could have come to this conclusion. The more I stayed quiet the more he filled the space with words, detailing the parts of this grand narrative and puzzle that I had supposedly made. After a few minutes I stopped him. I told him I had no interest in going to the police, and didn&#8217;t expect to get any of my money back. I asked him if he would be willing to tell me the story in full as he saw it, what he thought I meant in the lyrics, what patterns he was picking up, and how he decoded all of my personal information from the music. He was extremely willing, and after we packed up that night, we met him at a 24-hour halal spot. All of us set up audio recordings on our phones beforehand, and about 45 minutes later he had told us everything. None of it made any sense. We spent the trip home from Boston listening to the recordings in the van laughing and trying to make sense of what the kid had said. The more we listened to it the more entertaining things became, and we started to see recurring themes and characters in his rambling. He said he knew certain songs were from the perspective of &#8220;The ATM Man&#8221; and some songs took place on Earth while others were placed in &#8220;The Junk Space&#8221; and &#8220;The Grocery Store Casino.&#8221; I remember feeling a sense of jealousy that I hadn&#8217;t actually concocted this whole thing. The actual themes and ideas of the music we had made paled in comparison to this one kid's freakish interpretation of them. We got back to New York the next day, played our last show at TV Eye in Ridgewood, and the tour was over. A week later, Connor and I were at his studio starting to lay out our next album. A bunch of demos were already done and we had been feeling super confident about it. But something felt off then. All the tracks felt too safe, even boring. We had been over the moon about them in the months before the tour but now it all just felt weak. The session was massively unproductive in terms of music, but we couldn&#8217;t stop talking about the kid's story - my scammer&#8217;s story. It dawned on me later in the night: let&#8217;s make his album. Whatever this kid thought he was hearing, let&#8217;s make that. We ended up shelving the album we had worked on in the months leading up to our headline tour and started from scratch using the recording of our conversation with the kid as our guide. Theft World is that record]]></description>
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                                <title>Lowertown / Truman Sinclair</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/lowertown-truman-sinclair/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Lowertown finally caught their breath. Over the last few years, the New York-based duo of Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg was teetering on the brink. From constant touring and a separation from their label to creative frustrations and an unhealthy attachment to one another, their artistic partnership and, more importantly, their friendship were on shaky ground&#8212;especially since these experiences were colored by the disorienting intensity of their late teens and early 20s. It became clear that the two had to revisit their roots. Those roots sprung in Atlanta, Georgia, in the forests, in the soon-to-be abandoned venues, in makeshift punk communities, but their roots also strengthened somewhere else entirely: on the internet. The band grew up on Tumblr fanpages, Reddit forums, digital spaces that had not yet been corporatized. They were able to observe and take part in music, anime, and film fandoms that grew stronger in these ungoverned places. So much so, that the fandoms leapt from the virtual to the physical, bringing people together to meet at concerts, coffee shops, and conventions to discuss their obsessions and connect over shared interests. During the pandemic, they watched these spaces change, become commodified, and disappear; people no longer had these physical spaces to be solely amongst friends with shared interests where communities and fandoms could strengthen. Out of this vacuum, the Ugly Duckling Union was born. Inspired by the conceptual creativity of bands like Gorillaz and the emphasis on the communal concert experience of Fugazi, Lowertown&#8217;s new album, fittingly titled Ugly Duckling Union, is the conceptual world of Dale the duckling protagonist and his companions as they attempt to band together to defeat LBH, a tyrannical media corporation set on separating and isolating in their pursuit of control. Through the band&#8217;s online connection with fans, their Discord server with channels for their community to share their own art and talk to the band, and their Instagram and Youtube pages, where they have built a cult following, they have already begun to bridge the gap between the digital and physical. Lowertown shows are often giddily attended by those who have met through their web of online fandom. Ugly Duckling Union, accompanied by a conceptual story, a playable Minecraft world, a handbook, plush dolls, and drawn comics by Doctor Nowhere (Silas Orion), is creating the space to be obsessed together again. The tumultuous beginnings are in the rearview mirror for Lowertown, as we hear in the first seconds of the opening track, &#8220;Mice Protection&#8221;, Osby&#8217;s composed exhale, a symbolic moment that sets the scene for their most thoughtful, uninhibited, catchy, and eccentric collection of songs. Songs like &#8220;Big Thumb&#8221; epitomize just how far Lowertown has come. In an unkempt folk-jazz murmur, Weinberg slurs his words with palpable heart, while Osby&#8217;s lush vocal melodies and harmonica encircle to haunting effect. The song was written after an hour-plus jam on 12-string guitar and harmonica, and its impressionistic lyrics came from newspaper clippings. Lowertown are perhaps best known for their affecting musings on the melancholia of youth, always captured with biting honesty. But on Ugly Duckling Union, that anguish is funneled through a more mature, detached, and humorous lens.&#160; &#160; https://lowertown.bandcamp.com/]]></description>
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                                <title>Esther Rose / Sam Gelband</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/esther-rose-sam-gelband/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Esther Rose was on a long solo drive when she started writing the opening title track of Want, her stunning fifth album. At first, the words seemed almost like a joke, something to keep herself amused as the miles passed. &#8220;I want a puppy, but I don't want a mess. I want to know where I&#8217;m going without GPS,&#8221; she sang from behind the wheel. Soon, the idea snowballed into a list of desires that spanned existential, spiritual, and mundane; romantic to platonic to familial; at once wildly ambitious yet piercingly relatable; all set to a catchy melody that blends her pop instincts with country storytelling and the raw immediacy of a basement punk show. In other words, she was on her way to another classic Esther Rose song. This precise blend has made the Santa Fe-based artist one of her generation&#8217;s most beloved songwriters: someone whose live shows are known to conclude in mass tears and group hugs. Still, something was different this time. &#8220;For me, these songs felt like revelations,&#8221; she explains, comparing the 11-song record to a memoir, alive with kinetic storytelling and personal insight. In its newly direct and stirringly nuanced writing, you&#8217;ll hear about rock bottom encounters, shifting relationships with substances, evolving perspectives on adult partnership, and, as evidenced by those early lines in &#8220;Want,&#8221; a few jokes along the way. Vivid and bracing, Want places you in the passenger seat while each of these feelings arrive. To match the multi-dimensional tone of the writing, Rose has made the most adventurous, hardest-hitting record of her career. Working with producer Ross Farbe and recording live-to-tape in Nashville&#8217;s Bomb Shelter, she travels as far as she&#8217;s been from the stripped-down classic country of celebrated early work like 2017&#8217;s This Time Last Night and 2019&#8217;s You Made It This Far. Following the wide-open serenity of 2023&#8217;s momentous Safe to Run, she now leans toward confrontational arrangements full of distortion and full-band spontaneity, never sacrificing a classicist&#8217;s gift for melody that makes each song instantly memorable. &#8220;Making this album was the most beautiful experience of my life,&#8221; Rose explains, describing the euphoria of sharing these intimate stories among trusted collaborators like guitarist Kunal Prakash, drummer Howe Pearson, bassist Gina Leslie, and pedal steel player John James Tourville. She also enlisted friends like singer-songwriter Dean Johnson (who duets in the stunning &#8220;Scars&#8221;) and New Orleans rock band Video Age (who she co-wrote &#8220;tailspin&#8221; with) to flesh out her vision. Ranging from stark solo performances to grungy blowouts, the album maintains a steady focus while never staying too long in one place. (Like David Bowie, Rose would arrive at the studio in carefully chosen outfits to set the tone for each session, guiding her bandmates to follow the mood.) https://www.estherrose.net/ &#160; Sam Gelband is starting over while trying not to leave it all behind. His debut album &#8220;That&#8217;s All&#8221; is far from his first, but it is an arrival that&#8217;s been a long time coming. A recent collaborator with The Sons of Rainier, Bella White, Dean Johnson, and Chris Acker, Gelband emerges with his own true voice, one we won&#8217;t soon forget. &#160; https://samgelband.bandcamp.com/]]></description>
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                                <title>An Evening With: Victor Jones</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/an-evening-with-victor-jones/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Victor Jones is a dance rock singer/songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. He plays music for mental breakdowns that can only be resolved with a raging party or a cathartic singalong. Victor gained success with his concept album &#8220;Zookeeper&#8221; and singles like "Mother Teresa" and "I Get Hurt,&#8221; the latter reaching millions of people on social media. He is 6&#8217;3&#8221; if that&#8217;s important to you.]]></description>
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                                <title>Marisa Anderson</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/marisa-anderson/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Marisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her playing is fluid, emotional, and masterful, featuring compositions and improvisations that re-imagine the landscape of American music.&#160; The New Yorker calls Anderson &#8216;one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation&#8217;, and NPR refers to her as among &#8216;this era&#8217;s most powerful players&#8217;. Her music has been featured in Rolling Stone, NPR, The New York Times, Pitchfork, the BBC and The Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le Guess Who and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Anderson is the recipient of the 2025 Spark Award for Oregon Artists presented by the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation. In addition to her solo work, Anderson is sought after as a collaborator and composer. Swallowtail, her second record in duo with drummer Jim White was released May 2024 on Thrill Jockey Records. 2024 also saw the release of the feature film score &#8216; A Perfect Day For Caribou&#8217;, as well as appearances on records by Charlie Parr, Myriam Gendron and Big&#124;Brave. In addition to multiple solo releases, past projects include 2021&#8217;s Lost Futures with guitarist William Tyler, and contributions to recordings by Matmos, Tara Jane O&#8217;Neil, Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux, among others. Classically trained, Anderson honed her skills playing in country, jazz and circus bands. Her current work is focused on a mid-20th century archive of recorded music from the Islamic world, Southeast Asia and the Soviet Union. &#8216;One of the best emotional mediums in the field of solo guitar, Anderson is a master of lovely melancholy.&#8217; - Pitchfork]]></description>
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                                <title>blankstate. / Lennon KC / Fifth Floor / Grace Lucia</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/blankstate-lennon-kc-fifth-floor-grace-lucia/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[&#8220;blankstate.&#8221; Weaving heartfelt lyrics into engaging emo tunes, the three-piece emo project &#8220;blankstate.&#8221; has cut their way through the Charlotte music scene since their formation in 2018. The trio fine-tuned their sound through 3 years of live performance prior to releasing studio music. With traces of everything from indie rock to fifth wave emo, blankstate. creates unforgettable music and an even more unforgettable live act. Their years of live-performance experience make for an explosive show that can fill any space, shake any room, and move any crowd. Leaning fully into their emo roots, the band released their most successful project, LOTUS, in 2024. On any stage, blankstate. creates a captivating and one-of-a-kind experience.Lennon KC is an alternative rock artist from Durham, North Carolina, currently playing as a duo. His sound flows between soft introspective moments and punk-inspired intensity, drawing comparisons to artists like Dominic Fike, The Backseat Lovers, and Jack Johnson. His stage presence amplifies these contrasts, creating an experience that is both energized and intimate. Releasing his debut album in 2025, Lennon KC's 'Manic Pixie Dream Boy' navigates selfhood with a soundscape featuring 90&#8217;s grunge, indie rock, hip-hop, and bedroom pop. Fifth Floor is a high-energy pop-rock band inspired by the electrifying sounds of 5 Seconds of Summer, Paramore, and other iconic alternative pop rock acts. Known for their dynamic performances and catchy, emotionally charged songs, Fifth Floor brings a fresh, vibrant energy to every stage they step on. With driving rhythms, infectious melodies, and a passion for connecting with their audience, they strive to make every show unforgettable. Grace Lucia is a genre-blending rock and roll artist based in Wake Forest, NC, known for high-energy and heartfelt performances that light up bars, restaurants, and stages across the Research Triangle. Her original music fuses elements of dreampop, goth, pop punk, and classic rock, balancing grit and vulnerability in songs about resilience, love, and loss. With a voice that cuts through and a stage presence that pulls you in, Grace and her backup band create an atmosphere where every show feels personal. She doesn&#8217;t just play for a crowd&#8212;she plays with them. Grace Lucia delivers whether you're ready to dance, laugh, cry, or connect.&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Wes Parker / Slow Funeral / Chessa Rich</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/wes-parker-slow-funeral-chessa-rich/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[For Wes Parker, sounds interlock like puzzle pieces. A ruddy guitar riff might click next to a broken piano melody, or a hauntingly angelic vocal could mesh just right with an off-kilter chord progression and D.I.Y. beat. All of these elements fit together in order to paint the personal portrait depicted in his music. It&#8217;s almost like he&#8217;s a mad scientist in his home studio, architecting poetically primal alternative rock that could&#8217;ve appeared in the MTV Buzz Bin back in the day or would make for a fiery sunset set at Coachella. The Richmond native grew up as the youngest of four kids with two older brothers and a sister. Mom bought a copy of Green Day&#8217;s American Idiot from PACSUN for him, and it proved life-changing. He honed his skills as a songwriter and producer and also devoured classics from the likes of Muse, Radiohead, and more. He dropped out of college after one semester and co-founded the band Camp Howard alongside a cohort of childhood friends. The band saw some success on DSPs and the road, touring with everyone from Stone Temple Pilots to Backseat Lovers. Though the group eventually parted ways, Wes continued to write and record on his own. After quitting a day job, he dropped his first solo single &#8220;Why Won't You Pick Up The Phone?&#8221; in February 2024 followed by &#8220;Annie Moore&#8221; and &#8220;Tattoo.&#8221; Gaining momentum, he ignited 2025 with the Splinter EP applauded by VPM and more. Signing to Big Machine in 2025, he emerges as just the alchemist rock music needs with his Fantom EP, presenting an arresting perspective on the devil&#8217;s downfall over a cinematic soundscape threaded together by eerie piano, glitchy beats, off-kilter guitar, and transfixing vocal transmissions. &#160; Slow Funeral:&#160; https://www.slow-funeral.com/ &#160; Chessa Rich:&#160; https://www.sleepycatrec.com/chessa-rich]]></description>
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                                <title>Theo Kandel / Kate Stephenson</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/theo-kandel-kate-stephenson/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[With bold, witty lyricism that brings you to that liminal space between laughter and tears, Theo Kandel has been described as "a modern-day James Taylor, albeit slightly scruffier and a good deal shorter. But maybe also sexier." (Source pending.) Having amassed over 160k followers across social media and 8M+ worldwide streams, Theo continues to delight listeners young and old, leaving his own fingerpicking-saturated musical fingerprint as he goes. Originally from New York City, he spent six years honing his chops in Nashville before moving to Los Angeles, where he is currently based. His debut album, Eating &#38; Drinking &#38; Being in Love, is out now. &#160; https://www.theokandel.com/]]></description>
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                                <title>Robber Robber / Empath</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/robber-robber-empath/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Pinpointing the specific catalyst for an avalanche can be slippery &#8212; any combination of classic elements, human interference, or freak accident can trigger disaster &#8212; and documenting these precise moments often rests on serendipitous reflexes. On Two Wheels Move the Soul, Robber Robber offer themselves as ignition and capture every sound in the wake. Involuntarily thrust into the throws of rootless nomadism, Robber Robber ringleader Nina Cates collects a series of pressurized vignettes to assemble the Burlington quartet&#8217;s thrillingly explosive sophomore album. &#160; Two Wheels Move the Soul was written and recorded throughout the winter of 2024 and 2025, a season of Cates&#8217; life characterized by near-constant upheaval. In January of 2025, Cates (and Robber Robber co-founder) Zack James were displaced from their longtime home at the behest of a landlord&#8217;s call to have their building demolished. In a moment&#8217;s notice &#8212; and amidst a particularly brutal Vermont winter &#8212; Cates and James were left to fend for themselves. Luckily, the two were able to tap a deep well of support within their community, finding respite on the couches of Lily Seabird, Greg Freeman, and Thus Love&#8217;s Echo Mars. An unused attic provided their longest arrangement. &#160; The personal and economic chaos of living at the mercy of nameless powers-that-be redirected into a hyperfocused attention on Two Wheels Move the Soul. Returning to Little Jamaica Studios &#8212; one of the sites for their acclaimed debut Wild Guess &#8212; Cates, James, guitarist Will Krulak and bassist Carney Hemler hunkered down with their trusted engineer Benny Yurco. The familiarity between the cast of characters allowed the studio to become a sanctuary, and foregrounded Two Wheels Move The Soul&#8217;s constant foray into sonically adventurous terrain. &#8220;Everywhere else that we had to be, we were very much visitors,&#8221; James recalls. &#8220;When we were working on the record, it was nice because it felt like this is our space.&#8221; Still, an overwhelming sense of impending doom hangs over Two Wheels Move the Soul. Every scribble on the guitar thins the air, each stab of percussion and wave of distortion makes it that much harder to breathe. &#160; On Two Wheels Move the Soul, landslides come early and the news of their arrival is just as chilly. Propelled by Cates&#8217; nonchalant bars &#8212; inspired by the effortlessly-cool cadence of Gucci Mane and Lou Reed &#8212; Two Wheels Move the Soul saunters in and out of frame with the implicit assurance that any gaze will follow. Album opener and lead single &#8220;The Sound It Made&#8221; rattles into existence, eschewing exposition to plunge directly in the deep end. The polarized extremities of Robber Robber&#8217;s sonic palette fuse throughout Two Wheels Move the Soul, spanning post-punk scorchers, burnt-out slacker anthems, and melodies that sweeten the bitter pills stomached along the way. &#8220;Yes I know, gotta work for my pay,&#8221; Cates exhales on standout &#8220;New Year&#8217;s Eve,&#8221; a swaggering depiction of life&#8217;s myriad impediments. &#8220;I&#8217;m tired, so is everyone - how can I complain?&#8221; Cates wastes no time indulging in the miseries of late-stage capitalism, opting instead to resolve casual disappointment with a cool composure. &#8220;What more is there to do?,&#8221; Cates asks on &#8220;Pieces,&#8221; the slow-burning b-side intro that plainly lays out what happens when your life falls apart: &#8220;you&#8217;ll end up with a piece.&#8221; &#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Jared Benjamin / Harris Boe</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/jared-benjamin-harris-boe/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Jared Benjamin is a singer-songwriter from Long Island, NY. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he picked up his first guitar and learned every cover he could think of before beginning to release his own music in 2021. Jared applied that same discipline to his self-promotion, which led to his first official single, Superhero, experiencing success with over 2 million streams to date. In 2023, Jared graduated BerkleeNYC with a masters degree in songwriting and production, and released Flatline, garnering more viral attention, in his final month of school. Jared has been releasing consistently ever since and has amassed over 200 million streams across his catalog and a social footprint of over 1 million followers. &#160; Harrison Boe is an independent folk/pop singer-songwriter with a dedicated fan base including over 230K monthly listeners on Spotify and 65K followers on TikTok. His musical influences include Ed Sheeran, Lizzy McAlpine, and Noah Kahan.&#160;With over 8 million streams across all platforms, his authentic writing reassures listeners they are not alone and allows them to explore the positive side of negative emotions.&#160; Harrison spent much of 2023 &#38; 2024 traveling the U.S. doing house shows, performing on college campuses and festivals, and appearing in small venues. 2025 is shaping up to be a year of more extensive touring and consistently releasing more great music.]]></description>
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                                <title>Liz Cooper / T Hardy Morris</title>
                                <eventupdate>4 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/liz-cooper-t-hardy-morris/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[The thing about finding yourself is there's always another corner to turn. While recording, Cooper assumed production duties for the first time in her career, which enabled her to work bold new textures into each song. Together with co-producer Dan Molad (Lucius, JD McPherson), she wrung entirely new sounds out of her guitar with studio equipment she&#8217;d never tried before. For the album&#8217;s bristlingly optimistic title track, Cooper ran her guitar through a Kaoss pad synthesizer while Molad captured the sound by swinging a microphone around the room. They visited the War on Drugs&#8217; studio to record feedback from Marshall amplifier stacks. Rather than focusing solely on composition and performance, Cooper took a sculptural and procedural approach to production. &#8220;Instead of writing my guitar parts note by note, I was experimenting on the spot,&#8221; she says. &#8220;It opened my mind up &#8211; and it felt really good.&#8221; Despite its boisterousness and verve, New Day was originally born in a quiet place. A longtime guitarist who found her first musical home in Nashville&#8217;s Americana scene, Cooper taught herself to play the piano during lockdown, opening up brand new creative channels outside her usual writing practices. She didn't have to worry about disturbing her neighbors with an amplified electric guitar, and the process of learning an instrument while simultaneously writing on it unearthed an almost childlike sense of discovery. The piano proved to be a loyal friend during a profoundly alienating time. "It felt like someone I could lean on &#8211; like the piano was my voice when I couldn't talk or sing," says Cooper. As songs started to trickle out, Cooper flew back and forth to Los Angeles to record with Molad, who engineered her 2021 album Hot Sass. The first song they recorded together was the riotous new wave number "Boy Toy," where Cooper fully ignites her confidence as an openly queer performer. "I wrote 'Boy Toy' the night before we went into the studio. It was totally random, not at all planned," says Cooper. "I met up with my friend Caroline Kingsbury, and we were like, Let&#8217;s make a fun song that&#8217;s just super direct and sexy and big. It felt so powerful and free to start there." Over time, Cooper built out the songs she had written and demoed in New York. Slow and sparse sketches became big, buoyant anthems. She looked to early Beck records for inspiration as she crafted New Day's crisp, high-contrast sound. On the album's lead single and title track, fuzz bass churns underneath twinkling synths and binaural backing vocals. Piano and strings take center stage on the swelling "IDFK," one of many songs inflected by Lou Reed's classic album Coney Island Baby, which Cooper played on repeat while living in Brooklyn. The bittersweet "Sorry (That I Love You)" conjures the extremesof a troubled relationship over warm, vintage-toned guitar and bass, while closer "Baby Steps" wraps the album on a hopeful note: "I've made mistakes / I'm only human / These baby steps / Lead me to you," she sings at the love song's sweetly irresistible hook. "I struggled so much while writing this record," Cooper says. "I felt like I wasn&#8217;t allowed to come out &#8211; I was dealing with a lot of internalized homophobia. Celebrating my queerness and understanding who I am has been a long process. Every day is a new day of coming out to myself and to everyone around me. I&#8217;m very proud to be making music that feels honest to me and my experience." No matter how many times you change, no matter how many hours you commit to improving yourself, each new phase in a life is still only a prelude to the next one. With New Day, Cooper captures the unfurling transformations that revealed her to herself &#8211; and leaves the door wide open for all the people she's still yet to become. &#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Michael Nau / Natalie Jane Hill</title>
                                <eventupdate>6 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/michael-nau-natalie-jane-hill/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Michael Nau is a Singer/songwriter hailing from Cumberland, MD who has blended country, folk, psych, and vintage influences in the bands Page France and Cotton Jones as well as solo &#160; https://www.michaelnau.com https://www.instagram.com/mnau/ &#160; Natalie Jane Hill is a Texas native guitarist and singer-songwriter currently based in the mountains of North Carolina. She writes songs that reach for the haunted and comforting corners of the natural world, dressed in a gently virtuosic and singular approach to finger-style guitar. &#160; https://www.instagram.com/natalie.jane.hill/https://www.facebook.com/nataliejanehillmusic]]></description>
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                                <title>Queer Country Night</title>
                                <eventupdate>11 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/queer-country-night-18/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 18:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Saddle Up Sissies&#8230;. Welcome to Queer Country Night. EVERY FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH and QUEER LINE DANCING NIGHT every THIRD TUESDAY of the month.&#160; These sometimes change - so sign up for our queer country night specific email list and we'll keep you posted.&#160; https://app.hive.co/l/3ym1nr&#160;&#160; &#160; All ages.&#160; $5-$10 sliding scale!&#160; &#160; Get the hitch out of your giddyup and sashe on over to queer country night at The Pinhook from 7-11 or 12. The only constant will be country &#8211; karoake and line dancing w/ friends ... Saddle up sissy&#8217;s and lez do this &#8211; see you here ? It is what you make it! Tell your partner(s)? &#160; Karaoke will start at 7pm!&#160; The first line dance will be VERY beginner friendly and start at 730 (ISH).&#160; Until the next line dance lesson @ 830 / 9 we'll do a mix of karaoke and pretty simple line dances / karaoke and THEN we'll move to 1 for one - line dance / karaoke sign up after the 2nd line dance lesson.&#160; Is so fun and below are some dances that come up OFTEN at the end of the night.&#160;&#160; &#160; SOME LINE DANCES TO LEARN (yes they're all on youtube)&#160; &#160; Country girl shake 3 So hot you&#8217;re hurting my feelings Walk the line Fuego High class Burn it to the ground Pieces to the puzzle High horse Texas time Askin questions The wolf My Maria&#160; Rattlesnake kiss Four on the floor Easy rider Cowgirls Redneck angel Honky tonk way 6s to 9s &#160; https://9thstreetjournal.org/2024/04/29/a-more-inclusive-nashville-inside-durhams-queer-country-music-scene/&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Blends With Friends (Open Decks)</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 year ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/blends-with-friends-open-decks-78/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 03:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[#BlendsWithFriends is an open decks DJ skill share event 1rst and 3rd Wednesdays at The Pinhook in Durham! Come learn to DJ, spin some tunes, play with synths and make new friends. From 8pm-midnight, people will be able to sign up for short sets. All skill levels are welcome and instruction is available. Bring records, USBs or a hard drive of music. Donations please!&#160; Help us keep this event alive! &#160; Learn more about #BlendsWithFriends: https://www.treeecity.com/blog/2021/12/12/how-do-you-blendswithfriends]]></description>
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                                <title>Blends With Friends (Open Decks)</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 year ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://thepinhook.com/event/blends-with-friends-open-decks-79/the-pinhook/durham-north-carolina/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 03:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[#BlendsWithFriends is an open decks DJ skill share event 1rst and 3rd Wednesdays at The Pinhook in Durham! Come learn to DJ, spin some tunes, play with synths and make new friends. From 8pm-midnight, people will be able to sign up for short sets. All skill levels are welcome and instruction is available. Bring records, USBs or a hard drive of music. Donations please!&#160; Help us keep this event alive! &#160; Learn more about #BlendsWithFriends: https://www.treeecity.com/blog/2021/12/12/how-do-you-blendswithfriends]]></description>
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