Apparently, snow’s about to hit the fan, so why not cozy up with a new Sylvan Esso tune? The Durham duo premiered “PARAD(w/m)E” (pronounced “parade”) last week on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The track is nice and bouncy, but despite its bubbly beat and catchy refrain, the song’s lyrics dig into darker stuff. The track’s titular […]
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Music Industry Heavy-Hitters Come to Raleigh Tomorrow for the 2018 Dreamfest Living the Dream Conference
Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, and it feels like this year, especially, most Americans need to take the time to reflect on King’s esteemed legacy as a civil rights leader. This weekend, Community Initiatives of NC is hosting a conference in Raleigh to honor King and continue his messages of empowerment and social […]
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Bat Fangs, Faults, and Heather McEntire All Have New Songs Out—Listen to Them Here
If your Monday’s a drag so far, we’ve got a smattering of new songs to share with you that should help turn it around. First off is Faults, the current project of Gross Ghost’s Mike Dillon. Though Dillon relocated to New York in the fall of 2016, he returns to Carrboro this weekend with Faults […]
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Listen to “Own Your Sadness,” A New Song from Christy Jean Smith
Happy New Year! How are those resolutions going so far? Here’s another one to try on, courtesy of Christy Jean Smith: own your sadness. For the better part of a decade, Smith made gorgeous, gentle acoustic songs as The Tender Fruit. But now, Smith has dropped The Tender Fruit name to go by Christy Jean […]
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Listen to Sylvan Esso’s Sweet Acoustic Cover of Mister Rogers’ “There Are Many Ways to Say I Love You”
The world feels nuts on a daily basis, for a multitude of reasons, and it can feel hard to find moments of joy, peace, and respite. But this morning, we’ve got a good one for you. Let Sylvan Esso soothe you with this quiet, acoustic rendition of “There Are Many Ways to Say I Love […]
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Missy Thangs Blooms in Her Role as a Producer Behind the Board at Fidelitorium Recordings
It’s approaching 9:30 p.m. on a Sunday night. A snowy, wet weekend is drawing to a close; most folks at home are probably winding down into their end-of-day exercises. But for Missy Thangs, her work is just about to begin. Her main task this evening is calibrating a Studer A800 MKIII, a thirty-year-old, twenty-four-track analog […]
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Watch Hiss Golden Messenger Take Over Late Night with Seth Meyers
If you’re one of the early-to-bed types, you probably missed Durham’s Hiss Golden Messenger performing “Domino (Time Will Tell)” on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night. But fear not, we have YouTube! M.C. Taylor’s ten-piece band includes some other esteemed local characters: Phil Cook, James Wallace, Skylar Gudasz, Tamisha Waden, and Darren Jessee are […]
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Moogfest Announces Chelsea Manning, Jenny Hval, Jamila Woods, SOPHIE, and More for 2018
Moogfest isn’t until mid-May, but today, it announced its first wave of programming—all of which is female, trans, and nonbinary performers and speakers. One of the biggest names is Chelsea Manning, the former soldier who was imprisoned for seven years for leaking information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to Wikileaks. She was released […]
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Meet the Winners of the 2017 Indies Arts Awards
It’s been about three hundred and twenty days since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States, but boy, it feels like a whole lot longer. Every day brings a seemingly infinite parade of awful stories of corruption, moral bankruptcy, and general villainy in government chambers. It’s all been terribly exhausting. But amid […]
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Rapsody, Sylvan Esso, and Iron & Wine Represent the Triangle in This Year’s Grammy Nominations
On Tuesday, The Recording Academy announced the nominations for this year’s Grammy Awards. On the very long list of honorees, you’ll find a few Triangle names holding strong. Among this year’s nominees is Rapsody, who’s up for a Best Rap Album award for her record Laila’s Wisdom, as well as Best Rap Song for her […]