Artist Spotlight: Ultimate Painting

Searching for some new music and an opportunity to get out during the middle of the week? Then look no further than this Tuesday night at the Local 506.  Making a stop on their North American tour will be Ultimate Painting alongside The Charming Youngsters.

The European duo of James Hoare and Jack Cooper have blended their unique guitar skills once again as they make their way to the Triangle with a new record to share. Hoare (originally from Veronica Falls) and Cooper (of Mazes) started traveling as Ultimate Painting back in 2014 and were well received by music fans with the release of their first self-titled LP, Ultimate Painting.  After touring with the likes of, Parquet Courts and Twerps, the two artists went back into the recording studio to generate yet another solid collaboration of songs for their second album, Green Lanes.  With their initial success and the release of Green Lanes in August, the two Brits have generated enough excitement to receive praise from major music industry publications like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone.

Check out the following track off of Green Lanes, "(I've Got The) Sanctioned Blues," and find your way to Chapel Hill when Ultimate Painting and The Charming Youngsters take the stage.  The doors open at 8pm and the show will soon follow at 9pm.  Tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance through Ticketfly.

Artist Spotlight: Blank Range

On May 4, Blank Range and Two Gallants will be making their way to the Triangle for a Monday night performance at Cat's Cradle.  These rock bands are in the midst of a US tour that includes 28 different stops.

The members of Blank Range grew up in the Mid-West, mostly in and around the Chicago suburbs. For different reasons, they found themselves in Nashville a few short years ago. Blank Range's members were originally in two separate bands with only the chief songwriters as differing members. For both practical purposes and mutual respect, they decided to merge the two projects into one band with a unique catalog of inspiration, starting with Big Star and Wilco and ranging to jazz music and training.

With no money to get going, the four members recorded a scrappy 6 song EP, Phase II, in a tiny basement and copied it onto cassette for sale. The throwback format inspired a business of sorts - making cassette copies of projects by other Nashville bands to sell at their shows. With a tape-to-tape recorder, a lot of time on their hands, and a small mark-up, eventually the band was able to save enough to record a proper 7 inch with a true engineer, Eric McConnell, at his famed home studio. This is the same studio that Loretta Lynn and Jack White recorded Van Lear Rose.

For more information on Blank Range or Two Gallants, check out the show preview on the Cat's Cradle website.  The show is scheduled to start at 8:30 and doors will open one hour prior at 7:30.  Tickets are just $15 and are still available at www.ticketfly.com.