Tangents Stories

TKO Faith Healer: Hear to Believe

It was a feeling that I haven’t felt in a while. That feeling that you get when you see a new band, and you slowly realize that this is the best thing that you’ve heard in ages. Enter TKO Faith Healer, which I discovered when they recently opened for Richard Lloyd at Snug Harbor. Guitarist Bo White will be recognizable to many in the Charlotte music scene, but the rest of the band is relatively new. TKO Faith Healer plays a stripped-down, primal sound of rock 'n' roll. Hypnotic, with a

Toto at Knight Theater on June 7, 2017

While I am the greatest masked wrestler in the known universe, and the grandson of El Santo (as far as you know), I am also a conisseur of the fine arts. So when I saw that Toto was going to play the Knight Theater, I thought, “Alright! I loved Wicked! Somebody took the rest of the Wizard of Oz story and made it a musical.” So I bought tickets, got dressed in my finest suit ... spandex pants and mask ... and went to the show. I also wanted to share the evening with someone, so I brought my

Rhiannon Giddens at Carolina Theater on June 7, 2017

Over the past ten years, Rhiannon Giddens has grown from one-third of the Carolina Chocolate Drops to a full-fledged star. On this sold-out return to her hometown, Giddens again showed that she is capable of singing anything and everything. The addition to this tour of Dirk Powell, producer of Giddens’ new album “Freedom Highway,” brought extra depth to a band that has grown with Giddens’ with every album and every song. Rhiannon Giddens Carolina Theater Greensboro, NC June 7, 2017