John Waters: “This Filthy World” The Carolina Theatre, Durham Friday, Feb. 6 At 68, there are still many things that filmmaker John Waters (see the INDY‘s recent interview) wants to do with his life. He wants to be a snobby GPS narrator—turn left, asshole—and he wants to open a bar with emergency room-style lighting and […]
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Talking about The Shed, Durham’s new jazz venue
Three-quarters of a mile from downtown Durham sits Golden Belt, a massive mixed-use compound that’s home to a hair salon, a coffee shop, loft apartments and more. Three months ago, Daniel Stark added to Golden Belt’s list of attractions with The Shed, a 50-capacity club dedicated to jazz. Finding the right kind of space for […]
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At 80, Durham’s Alice Gerrard heads to Los Angeles to (possibly) win her first Grammy
When the phone rang on the first Friday afternoon of December, the 80-year-old singer Alice Gerrard answered from her upstairs office. She once ran a journal devoted to old-time music from the spare room, but she was in the middle of a Photoshop lesson when Josh Rosenthal, the founder of the label Tompkins Square, called. […]
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Third Film:Acoustic installment announced with Neko Case and Repo Man
Film:Acoustic, the series of film screenings paired with talks by musicians, returns to Durham’s Carolina Theatre again next month for a presentation of cult hit Repo Man, with Neko Case discussing the film. Case was last in town back in the fall for a sold-out gig at the Cradle with The New Pornographers. The goal […]
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Live: Aoife O’Donovan takes on two sets in Raleigh
Aoife O’Donovan Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 On her recordings as a solo artist and with other musical outfits, Aoife O’Donovan often gets pegged as a folk-leaning songwriter. But live, her voice takes on more power and elevates her status above that of a simple songstress. Friday night’s show in Raleigh proved […]
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Jack the Radio premieres new song in the Raleigh Denim workshop
Raleigh roots-rock standbys Jack the Radio have been mostly quiet over the past year or so, playing occasional local shows and working on new material. To that end, the band took to the Raleigh Workshop to record a video for an acoustic version of their new tune, “My Way.” It’s a slow-burning, foot-stomping number, served […]
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Video Premiere: Ghostt Bllonde covers Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne”
It’s mid-January. It’s cold, it’s wet and it feels like we haven’t properly seen the sun since, what, maybe October? But Ghostt Bllonde’s Marc Kuzio and former See Gulls member Jacki Huntington come to the rescue with a new video of their cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne.” Together, the two turned the tune from a […]
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Five words with Aoife O’Donovan
Aoife O’Donovan with Kristin Andreassen Friday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m., $27–$29 Fletcher Opera Theater 2 E. South St., Raleigh 919-664-8302, pinecone.org Aoife O’Donovan’s name, with its cluster of vowels, can seem a shibboleth for fans of contemporary American folk. It’s really not so hard: EE-fah. It’s Irish. She was raised stateside, but spent her childhood […]
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Live: Tommy Edwards and Andrew Marlin have fast-picked, sold-out fun in Raleigh
Tommy Edwards and Andrew Marlin Daniels Auditorium, NC Museum of History, Raleigh Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015 The Edwards-Marlin Mutual Admiration Society convened at the North Carolina Museum of History on Sunday for a public meeting that offered rare insight into what happens when two guys get together just to play. It wasn’t a meeting meeting, […]
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WKNC finishes Double Barrel Benefit XII lineup with Lonnie Walker, Mac McCaughan, Museum Mouth and more
A few weeks ago, N.C. State’s student-run radio station WKNC 88.1 announced the headliners for its annual Double Barrel Benefit bash and they’ve now finalized the lineup with openers for each night. On Feb. 7, No Love, Mac McCaughan and Lonnie Walker join Spider Bags for a rollicking night of rock ‘n’ roll at the […]
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