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Your Money, Their Time: How Some Army's Decision To Go Slow After a...

Some Army needed three years to finish a crowdfunded debut. It paid off. The first time it rained, the water flooded Russ Baggett's new sanctuary. It was the summer of 2015, and the Some Army...

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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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Record Review: Boulevards' Groove! Will Start Your Party, But Can It Make the...

Boulevards' funk revival With the possible exception of Scientology, funk is the most important religion to emerge from the twentieth century. The faith's founding mothers and fathers, those bold...

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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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Listen to Our Hotline to Hell

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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