The accidental outburst in output of Raleigh's Negative Fun Records
The label supports Midnight Plus One, Red Hex, Hoax Hunters, Ghostt Bllonde and more by Jordan Lawrence When Chris DeFusco posted on Facebook that he was starting a record label called Negative Fun...
View ArticleMipso's Faces
by Allison Hussey Finding a band more popular than Mipso on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill once seemed impossible. A trio of bright college boys playing pretty bluegrass, they inherited a throne...
View ArticleJosh Starmer's Germany Zulu
by David Klein Josh Starmer is a master collaborator. A former member of The Old Ceremony and Birds and Arrows, he has become an in-demand cello player.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on...
View ArticleMac McCaughan's track-by-track guide to Non-Believers
Mac narrates the album’s area roots. by Grayson Haver Currin Non-Believers—Mac McCaughan’s first album under his own name—brims with lyrical and musical references to his childhood memories. McCaughan...
View Article2015 INDY Poetry Contest: Meet the winners and read their poems
Then join our winners and our judge, Ross White, for a reading at So and So Books on May 19. by Brian Howe Poetry is movement, however paradoxical this may seem for a form that either sits on a page,...
View ArticleRecord review: Oulipo's Kisses to the Sky
Oulipo plays Kings in Raleigh Saturday, May 9, at 9 p.m. by Justin Weber It took four years for Raleigh's Oulipo to arrive at last with its first full-length release, the new Kisses to the Sky. The...
View ArticleThe high-volume, high-sincerity Christian noise of Clang Quartet
Clang Quartet plays Friday, May 8 at the Nightlight in Chapel Hill and Sunday, May 10 at the Pour House in Raleigh by Brian Howe If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I...
View ArticleTonight: The great Jubilee launches the last weekend of Mosaic
For seven years, Steven Feinberg and Keith Ward have been hosting spring and fall music festivals at Raleigh’s Mosaic. The idea is simple but sprawling—to highlight local talent and to promote dance...
View ArticleHear Body Games' excellent new Local Love Vol. 1 EP in full
If you line up the original versions of the four songs that Body Games cover on their forthcoming EP, Local Love Vol. 1, the runtime lasts for less than 15 minutes.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
View ArticleHear new tunes from Phil Cook, MAKE
Two Triangle favorites—Durham roots revitalizer Phil Cook and Chapel Hill doom dudes MAKE—offered previews of their forthcoming albums today. Though they take wildly different approaches to their...
View ArticleTo make his excellent debut LP, Parted Ways, Josh Moore first had to flirt...
Josh Moore plays at the Cat's Cradle Back Room on Friday, June 12 by Allison Hussey Josh Moore did not need a record deal, at least not in 2008. For five years, he'd been the lead singer of Beloved, a...
View ArticleListening to heavy metal heroes with Demon Eye
Catch Demon Eye at the Pour House in Raleigh on Saturday, June 27th. by Bryan C. Reed Heavy metal in 2015 doesn't sound much like heavy metal in 1975, except when bands such as Demon Eye play it....
View ArticleHank Smith, building a bluegrass community by banjo and committee
In this installment of Instrumentalist, we check out Hank Smith's acoustic-electric gear. by Allison Hussey The banjo rules everything around Hank Smith—well, almost. He's played it in multiple...
View ArticleRecord review: Nicolay's City Lights Vol. 3: Soweto
by Brandon Soderberg The City Lights series, by The Foreign Exchange producer Nicolay, transforms his travels into obliquely personal instrumentals. The albums are about a place's effect on him, not...
View ArticleThe Foreign Exchange's Nicolay tours to find new inspiration
How an international show shaped the new LP from The Foreign Exchange's Nicolay by Eric Tullis Phonte Coleman and Matthijs "Nicolay" Rook keep their distance. Together, they've made several albums,...
View ArticleSong Premiere: Hear Phil Cook cover Charlie Parr's "1922"
If you know music in the Triangle, you know Phil Cook. Once of the ambling roots outfit Megafaun, he's long worked on solo material and more recently taken the stage with Hiss Golden Messenger. His...
View ArticleRecord review: Hanz's Reducer
On Hanz's proper debut for Tri Angle, the sound is ghastly and ghostly, as if haunting the unlit nooks of a soon-to-be condemned disco. by Gary Suarez Tri Angle Records has taken a dark stand on the...
View ArticleA bunch of bad relationships inspired See Gulls, one of the Triangle's best...
Break-up songs, dating advice and self-confidence with See Gulls by Allison Hussey Once upon a rather recent Valentine's Day, Sarah Fuller received a dick pic for a present. For her young suitor, the...
View ArticleLive blogging the Durham City Council work session today
1:04 pm: There are several interesting items on today's agenda, but several of them will be taken up later in the meeting. It's standing room only.…
View ArticleTwo men accuse Raleigh cops of racial bias, excessive force following...
The police charged one of them with illegally standing in a sidewalk by John H. Tucker It had been several minutes since Omeze Nwankwo was locked inside a Raleigh police van. Zip-ties dug into his...
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