Saturday, August 15, 2009

Follow Local Music On Twitter!

If you haven't been living in isolation for the past year, you are bound to have heard Twitter on the news or in some form of conversation. And without a doubt Twitter is slowly beginning to take over media outlets and the struggling newspaper industry, even having an upper hand on blogs. If you are involved with this communication phenomenon and are also into North Carolina music, then rejoice, for listed below is the largest compiling of twitter accounts related to North Carolina Music. Bands, artists, musicians, venues, record labels, journalists, DJs, blogs, radio stations, newspapers, and nearly anything else you can think of involved with our music scene has a twitter. So jump on board and tweet away!

*Note, if you are not listed below and would like to be, or if you would like your twitter removed from this list, please email thelocalbeat@wknc.org.
















Bands/Artists:
9th Wonder (Hip-Hop)
A Rooster For The Masses (Rock)
Alcazar Hotel (Rock)
American Aquarium (Country)
Aminal (Rock)
Archbishops of Blount Street (Ska/Reggae)
Ariel Down (Rock)
Arielle Bryant (Acoustic)
Arizona (Indie)
Avett Brothers (Country)
The Beast (Hip-Hop)
Bender of Inflowential (Hip-Hop)
Beggars Caravan (Rock)
Beloved Binge (Indie)
Birds Of Avalon (Rock)
Black Skies (Rock)
Blue Marble Beat (Trip Hop)
Bombadil (Folk)
Boxbomb (Rock)
Brett Harris (Pop)
Brooks Wood (Acoustic)
Bowerbirds (Indie)
Caruso (Punk)
Charlie Smarts of Inflowential & Kooley High (Hip-Hop)
Cool Ethan (Emo)
Death To The Details (Rock)
Dirtbag Love Affair (Punk)
Dirty Little Heaters (Rock)
DJ Ill Digitz of Kooley High & Inflowential (Hip-Hop)
Edgar Allen Flow (Hip-Hop)
Eric Hirsh of the Beast & Orquesta GarDel (Hip-Hop)
Foriegn Exchange (Hip-Hop)
Future Kings of Nowhere (Indie)
Gene Smilek (Acoustic)
Hammer No More The Fingers (Rock)
Hidden Cat (House)
Holy Ghost Tent Revival (Folk)
I Was Totally Destroying It (Indie)
Ivan Rosebud of the Rosebuds & Brad Cook of Megafaun (Indie)
Jason Adamo (Pop)
Jeremy Blair From Effingham (Rock)
Jim Brantley of Bull City (Rock)
Joe Hero (Rock)
K-Hill (Hip-Hop)
Kelly Rosebud of the Rosebuds (Indie)
King Mez (Hip-Hop)
Kingsbury Manx (Indie)
Kooley High (Hip-Hop)
L.E.G.A.C.Y. (Hip-Hop)
Lemming Malloy (Steam Punk)
Megafaun (indie)
New Town Drunks (Rock)
North Elementary (Indie)
Once & Future Kings (Indie)
Pink Flag (Punk)
Phonte (Hip-Hop)
Pico vs Island Trees (Pop)
Pneurotics (Rock)
Red Collar (Rock)
Regina Hexaphone (Rock)
Roman Candle (Indie)
Ryan Adams (Country)
Sandwiches (Punk)
Scarlet Virginia (Acoustic)
Schooner (Indie)
Scientific Superstar (Electronic)
Sean Hayes of the Whiskey Smugglers (Country)
Sequoya (Indie)
Shaker Maker Band (Rock)
Silver (Rock)
Simple (Indie)
Small Ponds (Folk)
Snmnmnm (Indie)
Squirrel Nut Zippers (Alternative)
Steve Wilson Band (Pop/Rock)
Telescreen (Shoegaze)
Thad Cockrell (Rock)
Valient Thorr (Metal)
Veronica Blood (Gothic)
Virgo 9 (Rock)
Western Civ (Rock)
Whale Watchers (Rock)
Whiskey Kills The Butterfly (Indie)
White Cascade (Shoegaze)

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FOLLOW WKNC ON TWITTER
-Blog Updates
-Ticket Giveaways
-Show Information
-Make Requests!


Venues:
Busy Bee Cafe (Raleigh)
Cats Cradle (Carrboro)
Duke Coffeehouse (Durham)
Duke Theatre (Durham)
Durham Performing Arts Center (Durham)
Papa Mojos (Durham)
Pinhook (Durham)
Pour House (Raleigh)
Tir Na Nog Irish Pub (Raleigh)

Record Labels:

307 Knox Records (Durham)
Churchkey Records (Durham)
Death To False Hope (Durham)
Loose Charm Records (Durham)
Merge Records
Misbehaved Records (Durham)
Neckbeard Records (Raleigh)
Ramseur Records (Concord)
Vinyl Records UNC (Chapel Hill)
Yep Roc Records (Chapel Hill)

People/Other:

Adam Kincaid (WKNC Local Beat Host)
Betsy Harris (Local Music Photographer)
Bryan Reed (Writer for Shuffle Magazine)
Bull City Records (Record Store In Durham)
Choose Local Music
Deep South Entertainment
Duke Performances
Goodnight Raleigh
Grayson Currin (Writer for the Independent Weekly)
The Hidden Places (Taintradaio.org)
Independent Weekly
IndieNC
Jake Seaton (Writer For Music.MyNC)
Jeremy Blair (Blogger for Secrect Carrboro Ninja Patrol
Justin Weber (Writer for Raleigh Indie Music Examiner)
Karen Mann (Writer for Mannsworld & New Raleigh)
Mz. Kelly (DJ at WKNC 88.1)
New Raleigh
North Carolina Music
North Carolina Music Factory
Paste Magazine
Rachel Oehring (DJ of The Hidden Places)
Raleigh Concerts
Raleigh Downtown Live
ReverbNation (Durham Based Music Website)
Ross Grady (TriangleRock.com)
Schoolkids Records (Record Store in Raleigh)
Shuffle Magazine
The State of Things (WUNC 91.5 FM)
Steve Salevan (DJ For The Hidden Places)
Triangle Music
Troika Bullbot
WCOM (Carrboro Radio)
WKNC 88.1 (The Best Local Music Station in NC)
WUNC (NPR)
WSOE 89.3 (Elon Univeristy Radio)
WXDU 88.7 (Duke University Radio)
WXYC (UNC Radio Station)

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7 comments:

  1. Scientific SuperstarAugust 16, 2009 at 2:43 AM

    Thanks for listing us Adam!

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  2. What about local Electrofunky jammer http://twitter.com/hiddencaaat ? Dig his stuff.

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  3. I can't believe you took the time to compile this list. It is fantastic. Thanks for putting it together!

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  4. Great resource. Thanks for posting + adding us to the list.

    -brent + silver

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  5. thanks so much for putting this together. yess definitely check out Hidden Cat, he is my boy. Also, Orquesta GarDel is on twitter: www.twitter.com/orquestagardel

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  7. Thanks Adam!! We really need more people like you who take the time to share local music!
    You sir...Rock! :)

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