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Well$ Is at His Best Alongside Metro Boomin' for "Heaven's Door"
Let’s get the most superficial and amazing aspect of Well$'s new single, “Heaven’s Door,” out of the way now, because, if you read the headline, you’re already thinking about it, anyway: Did he really...
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Good Morning, Spring: Listen to Bobby James's Balmy "Lifted"
With temperatures well above seventy degrees every day this week, many are taking North Carolina's balmy weather as a sign that winter is gone. In my mind, it’s been over for a few weeks now—ever...
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This Week Has Been a Grind. Let GRRL's "Keep it Going" End It Well.
It should come as little surprise that Durham dance producer and DJ [GRRL] was among the North Carolina representatives at the ever-expanding South By Southwest music festival in Austin earlier this...
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Don't Miss Boulevards' Ecstatic New "Move and Shout"
On Friday (or May 6, if you're in Europe), Raleigh's Jamil Rashad is poised to launch a worldwide funk renaissance with GROOVE!, his debut LP on Captured Tracks, a New York label with a lot of...
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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: 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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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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