Saturday, April 14 Slim’s, Raleigh 9 p.m., $7 www.slimsraleigh.com If Slim’s, the “premier music hallway” of downtown Raleigh, were an actual nineteen-year-old, it would be a scrappy, rowdy punk kid with a heart of gold. For the better part of two decades, Slim’s has been an essential incubator for local bands getting their start as […]
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Anna & Elizabeth Put a Staggering New Spin on Old Traditions with The Invisible Comes to Us
ANNA & ELIZABETH Nightlight Bar & Club, Chapel Hill Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m., $15 www.nightlightclub.com Anna & Elizabeththe duo of Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrellegot their start as a folk-focused duo that offered clear-eyed, thoughtful interpretations of traditional ballads and old-time tunes. Their efforts were pleasantly straightforward, as on their 2015 self-titled LP. But […]
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Petey Pablo Teams Up with Neuse River Brewing Company for a New Beer
When you think about Petey Pablo, the rapper behind “Freek-a-Leek” and the all-time North Carolina anthem “Raise Up,” the thought of “personally branded craft beer” probably isn’t one of your most immediate associations. But that might change this spring. In a few weeks, Raleigh’s Neuse River Brewing Company is releasing Petey’s Pale Ale, a guava-infused […]
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As Circuit Des Yeux, Haley Fohr Builds Mysterious, Mesmerizing Songs
Monday, April 9 Duke Coffeehouse, Durham 8:30 p.m., $5, free with Duke ID www.dukecoffeehouse.org The title of Circuit Des Yeux’s latest record, Reaching for Indigo, reminds me of the devastating prose poetry of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets. Nelson writes of love and loss with stirring poignancy, framed around a love of the color blue. As Circuit […]
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The Triangle’s Tropical Drinks Are Mighty Tasty, but Their History Is Harder to Swallow
In a visit to Atlanta a few weeks ago, two close friends took me to a place I knew only through myth and Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London”: a Trader Vic’s. The institution was a leading force in popularizing tiki bars and beverages in the United States, where only two locations now remain. (The chain […]
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It’s Impossible to Lose at Girls Rock NC’s Rock Roulette
Saturday, March 31 Motorco Music Hall, Durham 6 p.m., $10, www.motorcomusic.com For the third year in a row, Girls Rock NC is hosting its Rock Roulette showcase, an inventive effort meant to both spark creativity and raise money for its efforts to encourage female and nonbinary kids to learn both music and self-esteem. About ten […]
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Moogfest Adds Mouse on Mars, Kelela, and Limp Bizkit Guitarist Wes Borland to This Year’s Lineup
In December, Moogfest made its first wave of programming announcements for this year’s festival, with a slate that included Chelsea Manning, Jenny Hval, Nadia Sirota, SOPHIE, and more. Today, they’ve released the second wave of programming, and it’s…unexpected. One of the most notable pieces of this round is a four-hour Durational performance by Wes Borland, […]
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Durham’s Art of Cool Festival Has Been Sold; Nas, Erykah Badu, Damien Escobar and More Will Headline in Late September
The Art of Cool Festival—which, for the past few years, has been a late-April staple for downtown Durham—is facing some big changes in 2018. Tonight, the festival announced a change in ownership and dates, as well as its headliners for this year’s festival. The festival itself has been sold to the DOME Group, an entertainment […]
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Susan Alcorn’s Heavenly Pedal Steel Landscapes Will Take You to a Higher Plane
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 Duke Coffeehouse, Durham 9 p.m., $5 or free with Duke ID www.dukecoffeehouse.org There’s a small handful of musical instruments that suggest heavenly and celestial bodies in their timbres: harps, organs, French horns. But allow us to make a case for the pedal steel, which, in the right hands, can expel some of […]
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The Dead Tongues Have a New Record Out This Spring. Listen to “Won’t Be Long” Now.
As a solo artist and with a full band, The Dead Tongues, Ryan Gustafson has crafted some of the area’s best twang-tinged tunes of the past decade. Happily, he’s continuing that strong streak with a new record, Unsung Passage, which comes out on May 18. Today, you can listen to “Won’t Be Long,” the record’s […]