Hopscotch Music Festival Downtown Raleigh Friday, Sept. 11, 2015 Hopscotch offers a wide array of bookings at each venue from night to night. Depending on your tastes, though, it can be easy to spend all of your time posted up at one or two venues. This was the “problem” I faced Friday night: Fletcher Opera […]
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Think big, girl: Allison Hussey’s Hopscotch picks
I’ve attended Hopscotch in a press capacity every year and have had a different approach for planning my schedule almost every time. I once carefully mapped out which bands I wanted to see weeks before the festival arrived. More recently, my approach has been to attack the schedule with a highlighter the day before the […]
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Hopscotch 2015: The festival’s sprawling day party roster creates more scheduling conflicts
From the start, day parties were vital to Hopscotch’s model. For three nights, the festival itself would build out a big to-do, packing bands into clubs and on stages set in the middle of city streets. But for the long weekend to be a real party, Hopscotch needed action during the days, too. So they […]
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Watch the gorgeous new video for Mandolin Orange’s “Jump Mountain Blues”
Still riding high on the May release of their album, Such Jubilee, Mandolin Orange released a stunning new video yesterday for their “Jump Mountain Blues.” The song follows a folktale about a young woman who loves one man but whose father wants her to marry another. In classic ballad fashion, the saga ends unhappily when […]
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Listening to bluegrass, pop and local music with Mipso
Mipso with Kristin Andreassen Friday, Sept. 4, 8 p.m. $15–$17 Cat’s Cradle, 300 E. Main St., Carrboro www.catscradle.com 919-967-9053 Mipso with Josh Moore Sat., Sept. 5, 9 p.m. $12–$15 Cat’s Cradle, 300 E. Main St., Carrboro Mipso is not a college band anymore. Mipso Trio began four years ago on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. […]
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Lunch at Durham’s new Luna, or an exercise in midday decadence
Durham’s downtown food offerings expanded last week with the opening of a new spot on Main Street, Luna Rotisserie and Empanadas. The spot, which offers lunch and dinner, brands itself as a blend of “South American and American South.” We’ll have a full review soon, but in the meantime, I checked it out for lunch. […]
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Live: Finding myself—or at least my tolerance—at my first Phish show
Phish Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh Friday, August 14, 2015 It’s Friday night. I am a confident, single young woman preparing to leave the house for an outing. But I’m not going on a date, like a lot of other people my age. It’s not even a gal-pal hang, spent cackling over cocktails. No, I am […]
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Cops find drugs at Raleigh Phish show, very proud of selves
Real talk: Busting people for drug possession at a Phish show is the law-enforcement equivalent of shooting actual fish in a very small barrel with a high-powered assault rifle. The State Bureau of Investigation’s Alcohol Law Enforcement (acronym: ALE, which makes us chuckle) division did just that Friday night, but then weirdlydecided to vigorously pat […]
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The soft, sad songs of Michael Rank and Stag’s Horsehair
Michael Rank and Stag with Heather McEntire Friday, Aug. 14, 8 p.m., $7 Cat’s Cradle Back Room 300 E. Main St., Carrboro 919-967-9053 | www.catscradle.com Michael Rank’s modernist home is tucked back into a sylvan stretch between Pittsboro and Carrboro, a steel-and-concrete prism that juts from the surrounding greenery. Gray and angled, the formidable four-story […]
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American Roots Music & Arts Festival lineup is here, with Willie Nelson, The Roots, Modest Mouse and more
This morning, the American Roots Music & Arts Festival announced its lineup for its first two-night stand at Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Saturday, Oct. 18–Sunday, Oct. 19. And, yes, it’s pretty pale. Country star Eric Church headlines both nights, with Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson serving as the weekend’s other biggest names. Modest Mouse and […]