Krave 105 W. Main St., Carrboro 919-408-9596 www.kravekava.com It’s 7:42 p.m. on a wet Wednesday in early November, and Iperched atop a Carrboro barstool, holding a Styrofoam cup full of what appears to be macerated Soylent Greenfeel like a human-size gummy bear. My body is relaxed but contained and controlled, with none of the wiggly […]
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Chapel Hill’s Mipso will play aboard the KFC float during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
After a jump into a full-time music career, the past year has been loaded for Chapel Hill’s Mipso. This fall has been especially stacked, with an album release that found the young quartet’s new record, Old Time Reverie, topping Billboard‘s bluegrass chart and the band itself pursuing a hefty nationwide touring schedule to support it. […]
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Live: Mary J. Blige closes out Central’s homecoming weekend with a trip to church
Mary J. Blige Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 On a rainy and muggy Sunday evening, some 2,700 people congregated at the Durham Performing Arts Center. The combination of the day of the week and the well-dressed congregants suggested a church service, but no, we had gathered there for the last installment […]
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Tuskha, the new project of Bowerbirds’ Phil Moore, releases new video for “The Program”
Phil Moore, formerly(?) of Bowerbirds, just dropped “The Program,” the debut single of his new electronic pop project, Tuskha. If you missed Moore’s first-ever set as Tuskha at the Friend Island day party at Hopscotch, you can catch him again in an opening slot for Made of Oak, the electronic side project of Sylvan Esso’s […]
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Van Nolintha talks Tir Na Nog’s reconfiguration into Plenty; Local Band, Local Beer moves to The Pour House
As announced yesterday, Tir Na Nog, the downtown Raleigh Irish pub, will close November 22 after 18 years beside Moore Square. By next summer, it will be replaced by Plenty, a brewery serving room with a focus on food pairings—specifically, traditional Chinese dim sum. Tir Na Nog’s owner, Pete Pagano, will continue to serve as […]
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Mount Moriah delivers first single, “Cardinal Cross,” from new LP, How to Dance
Just a month ago, Mount Moriah released a new three-song seven-inch that featured two new songs and a recording of “Plane” from the band’s 2013 set at the Hopscotch Music Festival. It seemed as though a full-length album announcement was imminent, and as of today, it’s here. How to Dance, the band’s third LP, will […]
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Press problems: MAKE talks about their slow return to the scene—and the slow return of their vinyl
It’s becoming a familiar story: As vinyl increases in popularity, small bands, labels and most of all, pressing plants, have felt the crunch of major labels cashing in on the format’s resurgence. MAKE, the Chapel Hill-based heavy metal trio, recently experience the uncomfortable squeeze of having to wait around for the records they poured part […]
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“Snake Stuff,” slugs and beets: Watch the creepy, gorgeous new Des Ark video
Des Ark’s new Everything Dies, released earlier this month via Graveface Records, is one of the year’s best local records. Full of lush arrangements and devastating songwriting, the “proper” follow-up to 2011’s Don’t Rock The Boat, Sink The Fucker has been well worth the wait. Now there’s a new reward: The video for the standout […]
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Listen to Skylar Gudasz, who’s so happy she could die, in a new song and video
If you’ve spent some time paying attention to local music, Durham’s Skylar Gudasz should be a familiar name. Of late, she’s been involved with Big Star’s Third, the Chris Stamey-led project that pays tribute to the great, late pop band. She also lent her voice to Josh Moore’s Parted Ways earlier this year. Under her […]
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Live: Citizens Kahane and company give a Guide and more to Raleigh
An Evening with Jeffrey and Gabriel Kahane Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh Saturday, September 24, 2015 I will admit—without a drop of pride—that I haven’t seen the full North Carolina Symphony perform since I was a child. Having grown up in Cary, it was an annual tradition for the fourth-grade kids to head to Meymandi Concert […]
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