HICKORY — The City of Hickory s 2023 Sails Original Music Series begins this week with The Get Right Band. The performance begins at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 5, at
Look out! The psychedelic indie-rock power trio from Asheville returns to Studio B! Singer and songwriter Silas Durocher says their new album iTopia “explores issues of technology and social media and their impacts on our lives, personalities, and relationships. It follows a character "falling down the rabbit hole," starting with techno-utopianism and finding an online tribe, to a growing obsession and addiction, to the darker side of the internet and social media including conspiracy theories, trolling, and a diminishing sense of self. Eventually the character reaches a turning point a moment of clarity and starts "climbing out of the hole," trying to find out what's true and what isn't, seeing how he's being used by the attention economy, fighting against anti-intellectualism, and finally a shaky attempt at optimism.” Their official album release show for it is at The Salvage Station in Asheville on Friday the 7th. They then play The Radio Room
With its latest concept album, “iTopia,” Asheville-based indie-rockers The Get Right Band have offered up food for thought on where we currently stand.
Asheville-based rock/roots group The Get Right Band will perform at 9 p.m. Friday, March 17, in The Gem downstairs taproom at Boojum Brewing in Waynes.