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by Billy Liggett, Gordon Anderson, Jonathan Owens
The Friends of the Rant podcast is a podcast associated with the Rant, a news outlet covering Sanford, North Carolina.
Episodes
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Friends of the Rant podcast | Carolina Indie Fest performers Trash Van Fever and The Pinkerton Raid
Gordon talks with Trash Van Fever from Pittsboro and the Pinkerton Raid from Durham. Both will perform at Carolina Indie Fest, which is set for September 25 and 26 at Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford. For more information, visit www.carolinaindiefest.net.
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Friends of the Rant podcast | Carolina Indie Fest performers the Southern Brothas and Jo Gore
Carolina Indie Fest is less than a week out, and we have interviews with two of the performers for Spring 2026 - the Southern Brothas out of Durham and Raleigh's Jo Gore. Carolina Indie Fest is set for Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May 16 at Hugger Mugger Brewing, 229 Wicker St. in downtown…
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Friends of the Rant podcast | Lee County's EMS Debate
We unpack what's happened so far in the debate over Lee County's next EMS contract, and speculate irresponsibly about what might happen next.
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Friends of the Rant podcast | Carolina Indie Fest performers Late Night Special & Ol' Joey Scrums
We interview members of Late Night Special (Charlotte) and Ol' Joey Scrums (Raleigh) ahead of Carolina Indie Fest, which kicks off on Friday at Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford. Ol' Joey Scrums performs at 3:15 p.m. on Saturday, September 27, and Late Night Special performs at 7 p.m. the...
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Friends of the Rant podcast | Carolina Indie Fest performers Boom Unit Brass Band & the Corey Stevenson Band
Gordon interviews members of the Boom Unit Brass Band (Raleigh, NC) and the Corey Stevenson Band (Greenville, SC). Boom Unit will perform at Carolina Indie Fest at 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, September 27. Corey Stevenson plays at 5 p.m. on Friday, September 26. Carolina Indie Fest will be held on...
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Friends of the Rant podcast | Carolina Indie Fest performers the Pinkerton Raid & Pageant
Gordon interviews Carolina Indie Fest performers the Pinkerton Raid (Durham, NC) and Pageant (High Point, NC). For more information about Carolina Indie Fest, visit www.carolinaindiefest.net.
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Friends of The Rant podcast | Carolina Indie Fest performers Pablo Atlas & the Dapper Conspiracy
Gordon interviews Greenville, S.C. folk band Pablo Atlas and Raleigh's the Dapper Conspiracy, who play a mix of Americana, folk, rock and more. The Dapper Conspiracy will play Carolina Indie Fest at Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, September 26, and Pablo Atlas...
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Friends of the Rant podcast | Carolina Indie Fest performers Sxvxnt & Jack the Radio
Gordon interviews Charleston-based rapper Sxvxnt, as well as George Hage, frontman of Raleigh-based roots rockers Jack the Radio. Both Sxvxnt and Jack the Radio will perform at Carolina Indie Fest on September 26 and 27 at Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford. For more information about...
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Friends of the Rant podcast | Carolina Indie Fest performers the Great Indoors
Gordon interviews Carolina Indie Fest performers the Great Indoors, who hail from Wilmington. Carolina Indie Fest is set for May 23 and 24 at Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford. For more information, visit www.carolinaindiefest.net.
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Friends of the Rant podcast | Carolina Indie Fest performers Derrick Dove & the Peacekeepers and the Cliff Wheeler Band
Gordon interviews Derrick Dove of Derrick Dove & the Peacekeepers and Cliff and Garrett Wheeler of the Cliff Wheeler Band. Both are slated to perform at Carolina Indie Fest on May 23 and 24 at Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford. For more information visit www.carolinaindiefest.net.
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Friends of the Rant Podcast | Carolina Indie Fest performers Heavy Denim and Nor'Easter Tippers & Pypes
Gordon interviews Carolina Indie Fest performers Heavy Denim (Durham, NC) and Nor'Easter Tippers & Pypes (Central NC) ahead of Carolina Indie Fest at Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford on May 23-24. For more information about Carolina Indie Fest, visit www.carolinaindiefest.net.
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Friends of the Rant podcast | Indie Fest performers La Unica and Droze & the Drift
Gordon interviews Carolina Indie Fest performers La Unica (Washington, D.C.) and Droze & the Drift (Charleston, S.C.). Both will take the stage at the event, set for May 23 and 24 at Hugger Mugger Brewing at 229 Carthage St. in downtown Sanford. For more information, visit www.carolinaindiefest.net.
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Friends of the Rant podcast | Carolina Indie Fest artists Paper Rabbit & Lipbone Redding
Gordon talks with Syracuse, New York's Paper Rabbit and North Carolina's Lipbone Redding about their upcoming performances at Carolina Indie Fest, set for May 23 and 24 at Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford. For more information visit www.carolinaindiefest.net.
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Friends of the Rant Podcast - January 18, 2025
Gordon, Billy and Richard talk Mexican restaurants, the public school funding debate, and snow days. Happy 2025!
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Friends of the Rant Podcast | Indie Fest veteran Cliff Wheeler
Gordon welcomes Cliff Wheeler back to the podcast to talk about what he's been up to over the past year, as well as the ways Carolina Indie Fest has evolved over the years. The Cliff Wheeler Band headlines night one of Indie Fest on Friday, September 20 at Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford.
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Friends of The Rant Podcast | The month in local government: Library bonds, guns at the polls & more
Gordon and Richard review the month in local government for Sanford and Lee County. Topics include bond financing for a new library, guns at the polls, proposed housing and commercial developments, and the start of the new school year.
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Friends of the Rant Podcast | Indie Fest performers Bombadil
Gordon interviews Durham, North Carolina's Bombadil, a folk rock/Americana act who headline night two of Carolina Indie Fest at Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford on Saturday, September 21.
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Friends of the Rant Podcast | Indie Fest performers Suburban Key Party
We kick off our fall 2024 Carolina Indie Fest performer podcast series with Virginia's Suburban Key Party, who play on Saturday, September 21 at 6:45 p.m. Carolina Indie Fest will be held at Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford on September 20 and 21. The festival, which also includes food...
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Friends of the Rant Podcast | Longtime CCCC Trustee Bobby Powell
We welcome Central Carolina Community College President Dr. Lisa Chapman as well as Bobby Powell, who was recently awarded an honorary degree from CCCC after completing 32 years of service on the college's Board of Trustees.
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Friends of the Rant | Lee County Athletic Park, teacher shortage, storm damage
The gang talks about the forthcoming Lee County Athletic Park, now less than a year away from completion, as well as our local teacher shortage, and some damage caused by recent storming.
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Friends of the Rant podcast | Sanford Spinners coach Jeremy Palme talks "the Web"
Jeremy Palme, coach of the Sanford Spinners, joins the podcast to discuss the new baseball/softball facility he and partners have opened in Jonesboro.
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Friends of the Rant Podcast | The gang is back!
The Friends of the Rant podcast returns to regularity with a new format. The first week of each month we'll discuss the cover story from The Rant Monthly and do a recap of the month in local government. The gang also discusses the truly frightening prospect of songs of any genre and topic,...
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Friends of the Rant | Indie Fest performers Jive Talk & Tuatha Dea
Gordon talks with Carolina Indie Fest performers Jive Talk (Nashville synth-driven alt rock) and Tuatha Dea (progressive rock from Asheville mixing Celtic and Appalachian sounds), completing the Friends of the Rant podcast's Spring 2024 artist interview series. Tune in to get familiar with these...
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Friends of the Rant | Indie Fest bands Julia and Blue Cactus
On the Friends of the Rant podcast, Gordon interviews Indie Fest performers Julia, an "intergalactic funk" band from Raleigh, and Chapel Hill's Blue Cactus, who play a strain of Americana that brings together country, psychedelia and 70s pop. Julia plays Carolina Indie Fest at Hugger Mugger…
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Friends of the Rant | Indie Fest performers Chris McGinnis and Paleface
On this week’s Friends of the Rant podcast, Gordon interviews Asheville’s Chris McGinnis, whose music has been described as “Appalachian absurdity for the 21st Century,” as well as Paleface, whose career in the music industry goes back to the 1980s and who tours full time with his partner and...
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Friends of The Rant | Indie Fest bands Culper Ring and Gooseberry Jam
On the Friends of the Rant podcast, Gordon interviews Indie Fest performers the Culper Ring, a self proclaimed “dad punk” band from Dallas, Texas with a knack for big hooks and shimmering production, as well as Greensboro’s the Gooseberry Jam, who present a “Southern fried taste of soul set to a...
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Friends of The Rant | Katie Basden and Newspaper Taxis
Carolina Indie Fest returns to Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford on May 10 and 11, and the Friends of the Rant podcast is back to interview the performers. This week, we talk with Nashville-based Durham native Katie Basden, who melds a diverse array of influences into a soulful take on...
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Friends of The Rant | Kara Grainger and Farewell Friend
The final entry in the fall 2023 Carolina Indie Fest/Friends of the Rant podcast series features Australia-born and Nashville-based blues rocker Kara Grainger and Farewell Friend, a Greensboro-based Farewell Friend, an indie–folk-rock band “known for their unique instrumentation and poetic...
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Friends of The Rant | Gooseberry Jam and Jeremiah McKinley
The Friends of the Rant podcast is joined this week by two Carolina Indie Fest acts, Gooseberry Jam and Jeremiah McKinley, both hailing from the Triad area. Gooseberry Jam, who bring “a Southern fried taste of soul, set to a backdrop of raw rock and roll,” play at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 29....
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Friends of The Rant | Heat Preacher and Shirlette Ammons
This week, Friends of the Rant is joined by Chapel Hill band Heat Preacher, who combine alternative rock, soul, and indie sounds to create their own brand of modern pop rock music, as well as Durham's Shirlette Ammons, a poet and storyteller who uses a wide variety of genres as tools for her…
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Friends of The Rant | Oort Patrol
What happens when a Friend of The Rant is an actual member of The Rant? Possibly nothing. Possibly an implosion of the space-time continuum. The Rant’s Gordon Anderson sits on the other side of the mic as he talks to Patty Kempton about his band Oort Patrol, their music and their upcoming...
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Friends of The Rant | Skyler Gudasz | Indie Fest ‘23
Durham based singer/songwriter Skylar Gudasz has been called "the Joni Mitchell the south never had." She's headlining day two of Carolina Indie Fest on Sept. 30, and joined the Friends of the Rant podcast recently to talk about her work.
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Friends of The Rant | Indie Fest 2023 - Reese McHenry, Cliff Wheeler Band
Ahead of the annual Carolina Indie Fest at Hugger Mugger Brewing (Sept. 29-30), The Rant’s Gordon Anderson interviews artists Reese McHenry, a garage rocker with a monster of a voice from the Triangle, and Lee County's own Cliff and Garret Wheeler of the Cliff Wheeler band.
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Friends of The Rant | Indie Fest bands Hustle Souls, Regence and Rhinestone Pickup Truck
Three bands from the upcoming Carolina Indie Fest — Hustle Souls, Regence and Rhinestone Pickup Truck — take the time to talk to us and become official "Friends of The Rant."
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Friends of The Rant | Paleface and the Pseudo Cowboys
The Friends of the Rant podcast welcomes Paleface and Mo for their third appearance, as well as Adam Pitts of Raleigh's the Pseudo Cowboys. Both acts will perform the first night of Carolina Indie Fest on May 12 at Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford.
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Friends of The Rant | Indie Fest performers ”Mom Rock”
The members of Mom Rock, a 2022 Rolling Stone "Hot Band" named "one of America's best young bands" join our revived Friends of The Rant podcast leading up to their performance at Carolina Indie Fest, set for May 12-13 at Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford.
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Friends of The Rant | Indie Fest bands Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands and Oort Patrol
Crystal Bright and the Silver Hands will headline day two of this weekend's Carolina Indie Fest with a variety of European and American world music influences, instruments including accordion, piano, and musical saw, and soaring operatic vocals. Oort Patrol is fronted by Rant co-founder and known...
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Friends of The Rant | Indie Fest performers Mike Dillon and Big Break’s David Myers
This week we chat with Carolina Indie Fest performers Mike Dillon, a New Orleans-based electric vibraphonist/percussionist who leads Mike Dillon’s Punkadelick, and David Myers, frontman for China Grove, N.C.'s Big Break.
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Friends of The Rant: Indie Fest performers Paleface and Whoop!
It's two bands in one podcast as we talk to Carolina Indie Fest performers Whoop! and Paleface, the latter returning both to Sanford and to the podcast after appearing in Year 1. Indie Fest is Sept. 23-24 in downtown Sanford.
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Friends of The Rant: Cliff Wheeler talks Indie Fest; we talk N.C. Press awards
Musician Cliff Wheeler returns to talk about the return of Carolina Indie Fest and his involvement in bringing it back, and hosts Billy and Gordon talk about their return to the North Carolina Press Association awards banquet.
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Friends of The Rant | Durham family rock trio Secret Monkey Weekend
Another upcoming Carolina Indie Fest band, Secret Monkey Weekend, shares their unique story before their upcoming performance in September.
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Friends of The Rant: Folk musician and Indie Fest performer David Childers
Singer songwriter David Childers has been "chronicling mankind’s and his own bouts with devilishness" — mixing rock, country, rockabilly, jazz and more — since his debut in 1998. The former attorney from Mount Holly has played with some of the state's best (recently, the Avett Brothers) and will…
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Friends of The Rant | Sanford Spinners coach Jeremy Palme talks Season 2
Sanford Spinners head coach Jeremy Palme joins us to talk about Season 2 of the Sanford Spinners, and hosts Gordon and Billy talk about this week's big news regarding the Prince Down Town motel.
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Friends of The Rant | Oscar Moreno from Central Carolina Hospital
Oscar Moreno, director of patient services for Central Carolina Hospital, talks to The Rant about new programs and services being offered (and on the horizon) for CCH. This episode also offers an insight to what's coming at Fonda Lupita's new location and the news this week of a longtime Lee…
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Friends of The Rant | Kevin Baldes from Lit talks music, Wampus Cat Fest
Kevin Baldes from Lit — the SoCal pop/punk band that had a string of hits in the 90s, including "My Own Worst Enemy" and "Miserable" — joins the podcast to talk punk music, Lit's rise to fame in the 90s and the band's upcoming performance at the Wampus Cat Music Festival in Sanford, May 13-15....
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Friends of The Rant | Country artist Jenny Tolman on storytelling and Wampus Cat Festival
Country singer/songwriter Jenny Tolman is one of the 90-plus artists scheduled to perform at the upcoming Wampus Cat Music Fest in Sanford May 13-15. Tolman joins the podcast this week to talk about her music, her songwriting approach, the humor in her lyrics and her influences.
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Friends of The Rant | Nitro Nitra returns to Sanford (and our podcast)
Nitro Nitra and her band lit up the stage at Carolina Indie Fest, and the rising artist is excited to return to the area for next month's Wampus Cat Festival. Listen to our interview and stick around for frivolity and yuks.
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Friends of The Rant | J.R. Richards, former Dishwalla frontman and upcoming Wampus Cat Fest performer
J.R. Richards, the former lead singer of Dishwalla and current independent solo artist, will be among the many big names performing at the Wampus Cat Festival near Sanford on May 13-15 at Gross Farms II. Richards talks to The Rant about growing up with music, the songs that inspire him, how a...
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Friends of The Rant | Wampus Cat country artist John Norris
Country artist and Sanford native John Norris — our first in a series of performers for the upcoming Wampus Cat Music Festival — joins the Friends of The Rant podcast to talk about his career and the upcoming three-day festival. Learn more about John here: https://www.johnnorrismusic.com/about
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Friends of The Rant | Jeff Popka shares Wampus Cat Music Festival details
Jeff Popka, CEO of Indie on Air Records and organizer of the upcoming Wampus Cat Music Festival, shares details on the May 13-15 event that will include acts like Everclear, Lit, Sister Hazel, Thompson Square, the Swon Brothers, J.R. Richards (Dishwalla) and more than 90 acts.
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The Friends of the Rant podcast is a podcast associated with the Rant, a news outlet covering Sanford, North Carolina.
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