Friday, December 06, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm | McChesney Scott Dunn Auditorium
NCMA-WS (SECCA) is proud to present legendary power pop act The dB's for a special sixth round of the Southern Idiom concert series on Friday, December 6, 2024. Special guest Rachel Kiel will open the show, and Y'all Supper Club will have dinner available to purchase beforehand.
Tickets on sale now! Members receive a discount. VIP tickets are SOLD OUT.
This concert is supported by EMBER Audio + Video.
ABOUT THE DB'S
The dB's will expand the Southern Idiom bounds with the hometown heroes on their first official tour in 30 years, celebrating a righteous reissue of their 1981 debut LP, "Stands for Decibels" (considered one of the great "lost" power pop albums of the 1980s.) Formed in late-1970s New York City by R J Reynolds High School alumni (Peter Holsapple, Chris Stamey, Will Rigby, and Gene Holder,) the dB's are often regarded as the band that bridged the gap between classic '70s power pop and the jangly new wave of smart, alterna-pop made famous by groups like R.E.M.
ABOUT RACHEL KIEL
With a distinctive voice and undeniable hooks, North Carolina songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Kiel combines a strong pop sensibility with a track record of creative reinvention. Each successive album finds Kiel exploring new genres and instruments -- but although her methods shift, her songs remain unmistakably her own, full of wit and generous vulnerability.
After releasing her catchy and emotionally direct debut album (Table Manners, 2008), Kiel dove into banjo-driven alt-country (Television Waltz, 2012) and then jangly underground pop (Shot from a Cannon, 2017).
Dream Logic(2020), Kiel's fourth album, finds her at a new creative peak as a songwriter and artist. With Jeff Crawford (The Dead Tongues, Mandolin Orange) engineering and co-producing, the record features an all-star cast of musicians, including Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Let's Active), Chris Stamey (The dB's), Robert Sledge (Ben Folds Five), Laura King (Superchunk, Bat Fangs), Carter Gaj (The Love Language), Charles Cleaver (Big Star's Third Live), Daniel Faust (H.C. McEntire) and more.
The record's stylistic reach spans from synth, art, and dream pop to droning guitar psychedelia, to punchy garage rock. Layers of strings, keyboards, percussion, brass, guitar and vocals create lush textures; lyrical material drawn from dreams of all kinds gives the album a surreal and immediate quality. Dream Logic pulls off something both bold and delicate: Kiel invites the listener into her dreams, and more fully into their own.
SOUTHERN IDIOM
Originally launched as an exhibition series for local visual artists, Southern Idiom has grown into a concert series celebrating the diverse musical artistry of Winston-Salem musicians. This show marks the sixth concert in the series, which has previously featured Victoria Victoria, Withdrew, Jonathan Kirby, Sonny Miles, and Maia Kamil.