The Bottom String

In 2017 I'd wager to state that North Carolina's hip-hop scene is stronger than it's been in the past decade. It seems like st...

North Carolina music fans, it's been a minute. Amidst a year and a half of busy-ness, I gotta say I've been missing the hell out of ...

Happy Abandon is set to release their debut full-length record on Schoolkids Records in August 2017. Throughout 2016, Happy Abandon prov...

Kooley High will release 'Heights' on Oct. 9 and will celebrate its release on Oct. 16 at Kings Barcade While historically North...

Shirlette Ammons Photo by Boris Niehaus While you were probably out day-drinking and Hopscotching around last Friday, it's possible ...

I'll never forget the moment I came upon Josh Moore's music. I was in the midst of filming Mandolin Orange's excellent Bottom ...

Temple5 will be performing at Deep South in Raleigh alongside NO9TO5 and Jswiss. Purchase tickets here When one thinks of North Carolina...

Photo Credit: James Willamor When you talk to most musicians about whether or not they had a direction in mind with their musical projec...

It seems as if with each passing year the creative output of North Carolina increases with unfathomable speed. It's an exciting time to ...

So The Bottom String hasn't been incredibly active for the past month or so, and for that, local music fans, I apologize. But alas the t...

Denzel Curry & Deniro Farrar Many people may say hip-hop is dead, and that is true if you have been listening to anything on the rad...

2014 boasts a strange musical landscape to say the least. The internet is currently exploding over a cat-centric remix of a snarling hip-h...