Tangents Stories

Stranger Day evolves into Rapper Shane

Over the last several years, Rapper Shane has kept himself busy. After starting out under the moniker of Stranger Day, he has continued to work under his own name, as well as being a part of Deep Six Division, and being part of the collective Deep Fried Family. Shane talked about all of this and more in a recent email. Tangents: At what point did you say, “Music is what I want to do?”          Rapper Shane: It was in high school, though it still doesn’t pay the bills. Ha ha! Tangents: What

The melancholy melodies and soulful crooning of Radio Lola

Tangents: How did Radio Lola come together?  Radio Lola: We had at one point or another collaborated through various shows in the past. I had just experienced my second band breakup which served as a double whammy because my band mate was also my boyfriend (Awkward band lesson learned there!) Going through the motion of a breakup, I had completely forgotten about a show we had booked way out. I received a message a couple weeks prior to the show to start talking through the details and this is

Bill Noonan takes his place in the rock ’n’ roll universe

Tangents: Tell me about some of the early bands that led or played with? Noonan: Well, my first band after college that actually got off the ground was Radio Reach … formed with my best buddies from UNCC … that was 1980 … our singer was known as Scott Savage, and he really had an authentic proto-punk persona … so our music was somewhat in that vein … a lot of original tunes and our own take on covers that we liked. We played a lot of gigs and developed a pretty good local following. After that