On Friday, Bruce Springsteen canceled his weekend performance at the Greensboro Coliseum, a move that has received international attention. Springsteen’s decision was one of many in a wave of calls for boycotts of the state and event cancelations in response to HB 2. Later that day, though, North Carolina native Rhiannon Giddens took her own […]
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Full Frame: Who Run the World? Girls. And Noise.
In Pursuit of Silence, Hooligan Sparrow, Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham Thursday, April 7, 2016 Early on Full Frame’s Friday presentations, In Pursuit of Silence provided a beautifully shot exploration of sounds, noise, and the absence thereof. The documentary took several approaches, from the spiritual to the slightly technophobic, […]
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Des Ark’s Aimée Argote Will Teach You How to Play “Ties”
Des Ark’s Aimée Argote is a DIY lifer, and now she’s got a video showing you how to be one, too. It’s a demonstration tape for playing her song “Ties” for yourself. The eleven-minute explainer arrives via She Shreds, a magazine promoting female guitarists and bassists, and is the second installment in the magazine’s web […]
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Here’s Some Stuff You Can Get to Push Back Against HB 2
The backlash against the state’s horrendous HB 2 has grown rapidly since the bill’s passage in late March. Some local musicians have joined the fight. Among them is the metal outfit MAKE, who have released a T-shirt that features governor Pat McCrory’s head framed by the phrase “human garbage.” McCrory’s forehead is emblazoned with MAKE’s […]
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It Took More Than Biscuits and Donuts to Make Rise the Triangle’s Fastest Growing Food Empire
The wall of Rise’s new downtown Durham store If you show up at Rise Biscuits & Donuts at four o’clock on a Friday morning, you’re already running four hours behind Bethany Conver. The baker has been at the Rise near Durham’s Southpoint Mallthe flagship operation of a suddenly sprawling local franchise, with big plans to […]
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Really, Though: Pie Pushers to Open Brick-and-Mortar Restaurant over The Pinhook in Durham
Durham, your nights at The Pinhook—as well as your lunch hours—just got a whole lot tastier. At Pie Pushers’ fifth birthday party celebration at The Pinhook Friday night, Mike Hacker and Becky Jo Cascio announced that they will soon install a brick-and-mortar version of their food truck in the space above The Pinhook. The spot […]
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The Pinhook and Pie Pushers Pioneer a New Rooftop Food Truck And Garden Atop the Club
The arms race of local food innovation may have, unfortunately, jumped the shark. The Pinhook has announced that it is partnering with Durham food truck institution Pie Pushers for “Pie in the Sky,” a permanent installation that will serve pizza and more from the roof of The Pinhook. A press release issued this morning announced […]
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Watch a New Video from Skylar Gudasz, “I Want to Be With You in the Darkness”
Last month, after nearly three years of work, Skylar Gudasz finally released her full-length debut. Oleander is a wonderful record stacked with thoughtful, gorgeous songs, which Gudasz says explore her relationship with herself as much as they do relationships with other people. The video for “I Want to Be With You in the Darkness” follows […]
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Skylar Gudasz Made Oleander, One of the Year’s Best Records. She Took Her Time to Get to It.
Skylar Gudasz Friday, April 1, 8:30 p.m., $8–$10 Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro Skylar Gudasz didn’t give up when record labels didn’t respond to her songs. Instead, she used the extra time to make them better, to finish one of the most exquisite local records in recent memory. In the summer of 2013, the renowned […]
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Record Review: On How to Dance, Mount Moriah Makes its Best Record Yet
MOUNT MORIAH HOW TO DANCE Merge Records A few weeks ago, I drove into a west Texas desert just before midnight and pulled onto the road’s shoulder. I leaned back on the hood of my rented car and looked up at the beauty of hundreds of thousands of stars. My head spun as I tried […]