High-energy electronic artist Paper Diamond brings the electronic dance music scene to Legends Wednesday, accompanied by artists Torro Torro and Nadastrom. In a 2013 interview with The Huffington Post,...

Chrome Scene and Sensation of Falling will co-headline a concert at Legends on  Thursday at 9:30 p.m. The bands tied for first place in the 2013 Battle of the Bands Competition. “It’s crazy how...

What’s happening in Boone: “Local Band Night”: Chrome Scene and Sensation of Falling (Local student bands, co-winners of Battle of the Bands) Thursday, Jan. 22, 9:30 p.m. Legends $4 advance...

Appalachian State University’s only improvisational comedy group, NouN, will hold a free performance Friday Jan. 16 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Whitewater Café. The show will feature new routines by...

Appalachian State University’s spoken word poetry club, Lyric, will ring in the new semester with its first annual Grand Poetry Slam on Jan. 27 at The Local in downtown Boone. Students competing in...

In the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York last summer, sympathy, support and solidarity movements cropped up across the nation, creating...

Noiseless – The first track opens sounding fittingly droning, low key and full of feeling. A refrain of the haunting line “I don’t hear voices” contributes to a slow build and culminates from...

Local band to release first professional recordings Friday Local four-piece progressive psychedelic band From Bears releases “Drone Star,” the band’s first professionally recorded EP, this Friday....

The Local will host a benefit concert on Friday for the Hunger and Health Coalition, a group focused on relieving hunger and poverty for those facing economic hardships. The concert will feature local...

In the 1970s, all of the fun for students in Boone was actually located in Blowing Rock. While the establishments surrounding the school were dry, a number of clubs, bars and dance halls just down the...