Young Miko Checks Into Uptown

The Marquee

The week saves its biggest room for last. Young Miko brings the Late Checkout Tour to Spectrum Center on Sunday, November 1, and it is the first arena tour of her career, 31 dates across 11 countries with only 12 of them in American arenas. The Puerto Rican rapper plays Atlanta on Halloween night and drives up Interstate 85 for this one, then heads to Philadelphia. Uptown on a Sunday night is easy going, the LYNX Blue Line stops a short walk from the doors on Trade Street, and an 8 p.m. start leaves time for dinner first.

Around The Neighborhoods

Uptown opens the stretch quietly. John Splithoff plays the Booth Playhouse on Wednesday, October 28, a small seated room that suits his soul songs. On Friday, October 30, the Carolina Theatre has Bruce Cockburn with Livingston Taylor, the first run the two songwriters have ever shared, and Cockburn has a new album due this fall.

NoDa has a homecoming. Ethan Regan grew up in Charlotte, and the Young Regan Tour stops at the Neighborhood Theatre on Friday, October 30 before it heads to Philadelphia, the Midwest and a December run through the UK and Ireland. Lily Kershaw opens. A night earlier, on Thursday, October 29, Yung Gravy brings The Joyrider Tour to the Neighborhood Theatre Tap Room with Terror Reid, one week into a 36 date run.

The Music Factory carries Halloween. Thursday has Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE at the Fillmore, the Home On The Range date that moved from July 15 after Earl was hurt and needed surgery, with original tickets still good. On Saturday, October 31, Hawthorne Heights play If Only You Were Lonely front to back in the Underground for its 20th anniversary, with letlive. and Creeper on the bill, while Sammy Rae & The Friends throw the costume party upstairs. Their last Charlotte show was at the Neighborhood Theatre in February 2024, so this is a step up in room. Almost Monday close the week in the Underground on Sunday with Thank God It's Almost Monday, the San Diego trio's second album, out since September.

East on Independence Boulevard, Bojangles Coliseum gets a country night on Thursday, October 29. Gavin Adcock brings The Day I Hang It Up Tour, his fourth headline run, with Braxton Keith and The Creekers along, between a Cary date and a Savannah one.

Greater Charlotte has the late shift. Ray Volpe is Charlotte's own, and he plays the Blackbox on Sugar Creek Road on Friday, October 30 and again on Saturday, both at ten, a hometown Halloween weekend of bass music for the 18 and over crowd.

The Comedy Card

Duckworth's on North Tryon has Learnmore Jonasi for five sets from Thursday, October 29 through Saturday. The Zimbabwe born comic calls this run the Look It's A Lawsuit Tour, after the real lawsuit his Lion King bit drew from Lebo M, and he has turned the whole episode into material. At the Comedy Zone, Kevin Nealon works four sets on Friday and Saturday, years of Saturday Night Live and Weekend Update behind a delivery that never seems to raise its voice.

On Sunday, November 1, David Sedaris reads at Ovens Auditorium at seven, a mix of new and older pieces, and the evening often runs long with questions from the crowd and a book signing after.

Next Week's Radar

Rod Wave brings the Don't Look Down Tour to Spectrum Center on Tuesday, November 3 with Fridayy. Two nights later, on Thursday, November 5, Victoria Monet plays Ovens Auditorium, the Frequency of Love date that moved from the Skyla lawn and from October 28, so hold on to those tickets.