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Record Review: Sail Away with the Zen-Like House of Sponge Bath's Golden Light
During the last year, the phenomenon of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, or ASMR, has grown from a curiosity of fringe artists and binaural beat shut-ins to an online subculture. Described by the...
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Listen to a Sweet New Single from Beauty World, "Joypop Turbo"
In Durham, there are two Beauty Worlds: There's the store on Avondale Drive, one of a few locations, that's a sprawling palace of every beautification item you could ever want. And then there's the...
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Stream Test Out These Records, from Great New Raleigh Rapper P.A.T. Junior
Local hip-hop scenes are generally pretty niche communities, and the Triangle hip-hop scene seems even smaller than most. It’s rare, then, that someone comes out of nowhere. But one such surprise in...
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The Mountain Goats Cover War's Classic "Summer," and It's Pretty Great
For me, very few songs have the power to summon the visceral sensation of my early-seventies childhood like “Summer,” the languid, Latin-tinged single released in June 1976 by War, a band then at the...
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Moogfest 2016: From Dawn of Midi and Jlin to Floating Points and Sunn O))),...
Moogfest talks a lot about the present and the future. It may sound a lot like these ten artists. Dysnomia by Dawn of Midi…
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Live: Blissfully Up, Blissfully Down with Tom Carter in Durham
Tom Carter The Shed, Durham Wednesday, May 25, 2016Tom Carter exploits his guitar. Last night, during the first of his two sets at the preternaturally comfortable Durham club and listening room The...
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In Memory of Wes Phillips, 1977–2016
Wes Phillips of Ticonderoga passed away last week The first half of this year has been a brutal one for our musical icons. David Bowie died early in January, a canary in a coal mine for a string of...
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Squirrel Nut Zippers to Reissue Hot, the LP that Blew Up the Band
Saturday marked a big anniversary for a former local institution: on June 4, 1996, Chapel Hill's Squirrel Nut Zippers released Hot, the record that would propel them toward stardom with "Hell." In...
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Record Review: Oak City Slums' Welcome Is a Righteous Greeting Card for the...
The area's emerging electronic scene needs a figurehead. Might it be the charismatic and omnipresent Oak City Slums?…
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Deep Listen: Jenks Miller & Elysse Thebner Miller Discuss the New Blues from...
Jenks Miller & Rose Cross NC's new Blues from WHAT might be only four songs long, but Miller dives deep into meditative jams here. Together, they offer thoughtful escapes from the everyday hustle.…
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N.C. Music Love Army Returns with a Shot at HB 2
Three years ago, the North Carolina Music Love Army formed as a musical protest movement against Pat McCrory's government. Since then, the very government they were protesting has only gotten worse,...
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Tuskha Makes a Conservative Debut
On his new solo LP, Bowerbirds’ Phil Moore plays it safe with pop For a certain kind of singer-songwriter, pop music has a particular allure. Rock, folk, and related forms often provide these types...
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Listen to "Radio," a Sharp New Song from Sylvan Esso
Durham's Sylvan Esso has been laying low for much of the year after spending most of 2014 and 2015 tearing up the road in support of its self-titled debut LP. But overnight, the duo released "Radio,"...
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Sometimes, voice mail is the best mail Sometimes, voice mail is the best mail.…
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Rachel Hirsh Makes a Break for it With Bruxes
The co-leader of I Was Totally Destroying It celebrates the debut EP of her new project tonight in Carrboro. Fronting Triangle power-pop prodigies I Was Totally Destroying It, Rachel Hirsh drove home...
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New Podcast Don’t You Lie to Me Warmly Colors in the Personalities of Area...
Warren Hicks and Jeff Bell’s new podcast features candid, familiar chats with leading lights of the local scene. Nothing is more mysterious to the uninitiated than the local art world, with its...
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Song Premiere: Peter Holsapple Returns to Solo Work with a New Single
Peter Holsapple, who co-fronted power-pop cult heroes The dB’s in the eighties and subsequently worked with everyone from R.E.M. to Hootie & The Blowfish, has plenty of recordings to his credit,...
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"Taking Alt Back From the Nazis"
The INDY, along with several other alternative publications nationwide, have partnered with journalist and Baltimore City Paper editor at large Baynard Woods to bring our readers his weekly "Democracy...
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Song Premiere: Listen to New Tunes from Organos and Faults on a Forthcoming...
After a hibernation of nearly five years, Durham's Organos is, at last, back with a new song, a quick little number that you can listen to right here. It's side the A-side of a forthcoming split with...
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Record Review: ZenSoFly Blooms Into Hip-House With Her New Sunflowers EP
Her refined throwback approach runs the risk of novelty, but Sunflowers benefits from ZenSoFly’s microphone prowess. Of the various trends and fads cropping up throughout hip-hop's four-decade...
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Before Finding a Place in the History Books, Renowned Blues and Folk Musician...
Huddie Ledbetter, aka Lead Belly, stopped at Raleigh's Central Prison with folklorists John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax in December 1934. Before Johnny Cash recorded "Rock Island Line," before Pete Seeger...
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Listen to New Music from DJ PlayPlay and the Long-Dormant Future Kings of...
Happy Friday! We did it!…
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Raund Haus Celebrates Its Second Anniversary This Weekend—Get Started With a...
Two years ago, Raund Haus sprung up in Durham as a tight-knit family of beatmakers and associated artists. Since then, the collective has established itself as a strong curatorial hub and launched a...
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The Dead Tongues Have a New Record Out This Spring. Listen to "Won't Be Long"...
As a solo artist and with a full band, The Dead Tongues, Ryan Gustafson has crafted some of the area's best twang-tinged tunes of the past decade. Happily, he's continuing that strong streak with a...
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Record Review: On No Excuses, Nance Has His Eye on the Next Level
The Dutch producer teams up with the adventurous Raleigh trio for a record that toes the line between slick and a snoozefest. By all indications, Nance has a great story to tell. He's been on the...
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