Jake Xerxes Fussell with Nathan Golub and Bad Braids Friday, April 3, 9 p.m., $7 Nightlight 405 1/2 W. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill 919-960-6101 | nightlightclub.com Jake Xerxes Fussell with Wood Ear and Sam Logan Saturday, April 4, 9:30 p.m., $5 Nice Price Books 3106 Hillsborough St., Raleigh 919-829-0230 | nicepricebooksandrecords.com Folk music is a […]
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The restless roots of Ari Picker’s first project after the end of Lost in the Trees
Ari Picker’s Lion and the Lamb Friday–Saturday, March 27–28 8 p.m. $10–$28 Nelson Music Room 1304 Campus Dr., Durham 919-684-4444 dukeperformances.duke.edu Ari Picker moves on quickly. Just three months since the last show from Lost in the Trees, the orchestral indie rock act he led for seven years, he is but a week away from […]
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Merge Records announces Record Store Day party at Bull City Records
Last week, Record Store Day—the annual event that champions and aims to boost sales at independent record stores—announced its list of releases for the worldwide celebration on April 18. With it, Merge Records unveiled that it would be reissuing William Tyler’s 2008 LP Deseret Canyon, which was originally released under the name The Paper Hats […]
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Follow the music home: A post-Grammy game of catch-up with Alice Gerrard
Last month, Durham’s Alice Gerrard made the trip out to Los Angeles to attend the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. Her Follow The Music, which came out via Tompkins Square in September, was nominated for Best Folk Album, but Old Crow Medicine Show took the prize for Remedy. Still, Gerrard says she had a great time […]
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J Kutchma & the Five Fifths’ Blue Highways
J Kutchma screens Blue Highways and then plays solo at Motorco in Durham Tuesday, March 10, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $8–$10. Jason Kutchma does not lack for audacity. His new album, Blue Highways, is actually a massive multimedia project, where the music comes paired with a book and film of the same name. The […]
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Ben Folds to join yMusic in Durham in April
Ben Folds may run his music career from Nashville these days, but the piano-playing pop star (does that title still apply?) hails from Winston-Salem and built his music career in Chapel Hill, of course. Monday afternoon, Duke Performances announced that Folds will come home again in April, teaming with Brooklyn new music sextet yMusic for […]
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Hear Hiss Golden Messenger cover Led Zeppelin for a Physical Graffiti tribute
40 years ago yesterday, Led Zeppelin released its sixth LP, Physical Graffiti, an extra-special culmination of the titanic band’s broad abilities. The London-based music magazine MOJO assembled a track-by-track tribute CD as a companion for its April issue, of which Zeppelin graces the cover. Alongside the likes of Laura Marling, Sun Kil Moon and Blackberry […]
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Record review: Rhiannon Giddens’ Tomorrow is my turn
Rhiannon Giddens made a name for herself as the cofounder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. That old-timey trio of black musicians changed some perceptions of American folk history, earned her a Grammy and a place in a Denzel Washington movie. In recent years, though, her fellow originals, Justin Robinson and Dom Flemons, have left to […]
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Chapel Hill native Rhys Ernst works on trans issues behind the scenes of acclaimed TV series Transparent
Last fall, Amazon had a hit with its new original series, Transparent. In 10 half-hour episodes, the first season explores a father’s late-life transition into womanhood and his adult children’s attempts to come to terms with it. Jeffrey Tambor’s careful, endearing portrayal of Maura earned the actor a Golden Globe Award last month. Each episode […]
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J Kutchma announces new LP with The Five Fifths, Blue Highways
At the end of last November, Durham singer-songwriter and Red Collar leader J Kutchma played a week-long residency at The Cave in Chapel Hill. It was his first string of shows in several months, and Kutchma cited the need to refocus on his performances as the reason for the preceding break. Now, on the heels […]
