By David Menconi Check the “Current Bands” section of Billie Feather’s website, and you’ll see no less than eight acts covering everything from bluegrass to punk. She also does the… Read More →
Monthly Features
Down on Copperline: Libba Cotten/Cat’s Cradle
Featured photo by Daniel Coston By David Menconi It’s been well over a century since the late great Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten was born in what is now Carrboro, but you… Read More →
Jeanetta Hopkins Brings Musical Education to Hillsborough Youth
By Taylor Tyson “Art teaches humanity how to coexist…Art is telling the story of life,” said Jeannetta Hopkins, founder of Bull City Music School. Having grown up in Memphis, Tennessee,… Read More →
Down on Copperline: Kirk Ross
By David Menconi Chapel Hill musician Kirk Ross leads something of a double life, political reporter by day and rock star by night – except, of course, for those times… Read More →
WXYC celebrates 25 years of broadcasting online
It was a random Tuesday night in the summer of 1994. Bill Burton, a member of the WXYC Student Educational Broadcasting Board of Directors, was filing music in. The campus… Read More →
