97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.
The second annual Sleepy Fest is coming to Hillsborough on Saturday, October 28! This year’s event will feature ten hours of music from some of the featured artists on the Sleepy Cat Records label, including Dante High, Kamara Thomas, Chessa Rich, and many more.
Click here to learn more about Sleepy Fest and buy your tickets.
Among those artists is the band Nightblooms, fronted by Greensboro’s Sam Logan. They’ve just released a new EP called “Night Blooms in the Apocalypse,” with four songs that strike an incongruous balance: upbeat melodies and peppy beats supporting somber lyrics about mass extinctions, climate change, and other assorted existential threats. (“Dark tunes that shine brightly,” they call them.)
Learn more about the band at NightbloomsNC.com.
Aaron spoke (on Zoom) with Sam Logan about the EP and the band’s upcoming performance at Sleepy Fest. They also played a track off the new EP, a song called “Slow Decline.”
Listen:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
