How many times do you need to be told to go to comedy open-mic to change a lightbulb? Well, Johnny Cook can answer that!

Local singer-songwriters Brandon Herndon (Twilighter) and John Pardue (Puritan Rodeo) give you a taste of what drives their respective bands.

Justin Trawick sounds like a mixture of Ryan Adams, OAR, and G. Love with a taste of bluegrass, funk, and roots rock to form a warm unproduced acoustic sound with smart, emotional, and fun lyrics.

So, you need to laugh at something other than the existential abyss? Well, Johnny Cook will take care of that!

Former Two Dollar Pistols singer/songwriter John Howie, Jr. strikes out on his own with all new songs and The Rosewood Bluff, a crack band featuring members of the Patty Hurst Shifter, Fontana, and the New Town Drunks. Brian McGee & maintains a gritty, rockabilly speed and more hooks than a fisherman's hat.

Old-school blues from Lee Gildersleeve and the crew.

Jeff Hart has been the guitarist and songwriter for the Americana styled "Brown Mountain Lights", "The Nervous Grooms," the power pop "Frosted Sugar Bombs", "Meltzer-Hart," played with the "Two Dollar Pistols", "Chris Stamey's Big Band" and "Robert Kirkland & The Hanks," and now his own rock combo "Jeff Hart & The Ruins". Sea Cow is a five-piece band from Durham that plays original, rootsy, guitar-based rock with rich vocal harmonies and bile-filled-yet-whimsical lyrics.