THE WEATHER STATION Thursday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m., $10–$12 Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro www.catscradle.com In early September 2012, Tamara Lindeman sat in a Hillsborough barn and, to a small but rapt audience, played songs from her year-old LP, All of It Was Mine. It was a stop on the Ontario native’s first-ever American tour […]
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Record Review: Fitness Womxn’s Macho City Is a Roaring Catharsis
FITNESS WOMXN Macho City Acid Etch Recordings The world has always been hostile toward women and non-binary people, but the recent weeks of publicly relived tales of abuse and harassment at the hands of men have compounded this perpetual pain. But this means that Carrboro trio Fitness Womxn couldn’t have picked a better time to […]
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Patriarchy Got You Down? Fitness Womxn’s New Macho City Will Fix You Up
For women and nonbinary people, the past few weeks of public revelations and oustings of various male creeps, harassers, and abusers in positions of power have been a strange situation to witness. It’s-about-damn-time joy can get dampened by the pain of hearing so many survivors’ stories; everything feels exhausting. Thank goodness, then, for Fitness Womxn, […]
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Video Premiere: Mipso Tumbles Down the Mountain and into the Archives
Back in April, Chapel Hill quartet Mipso released Coming Down the Mountain, its fourth full-length record. Today, we’ve got a new video for the record’s title track, which feels like a little slice of sunshine as our days start to get shorter. Crafted by Ruth Lichtman, the video is a collection of archival footage shot […]
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Record Review: Ama Divers’ Shadow Seeking Sun Is a Dense, Decadent Getaway
AMA DIVERS Sunday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m., $7 The Pinhook, Durham www.thepinhook.com Shadow Seeking Sun Rent Hike Records It’s 2017, and we’re surrounded by noise. Phones and computers chime in thousands of different tones and timbres as social media streams flood us with more information than we could ever digest; there are times when even […]
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From Underwear Up, The Shape of Fashion Takes the Measure of Women’s Shifting Silhouettes
There’s a scene in the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada in which Miranda Priestly, a terrifying but brilliant fashion magazine editor, chastises her young assistant for snickering during a meeting. “You think this has nothing to do with you,” she says, before delivering a dressing-down on how fashion has everything to do with […]
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Instead of Styling Musicians in Costumes, Dear Hearts Helps Them Be Themselves
Some musicians’ looks are as iconic as their artthink Siouxie Sioux’s gothy cat-eye makeup, Annie Lennox’s edgy androgyny, Elvis Presley’s gold lame Nudie suit, Madonna’s gilded cone bra, or basically any era of David Bowie. But how do they get that way? The answer, sometimes, is stylists. In Durham, two women have helped a few […]
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Is It a Good Idea to Call a Country and Southern-Rock Concert a Carolina Uprising?
CAROLINA UPRISING Saturday, Oct. 21, noon, $40–$90 Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary www.boothamphitheatre.com Born in Wilmington, Charlie Daniels is one of North Carolina’s most significant cultural exports. He’s a scorching fiddler with an unforgettable voice, and his biggest hit, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” remains a country standard. Daniels’s place in country music history cannot […]
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To an Anxious, Isolated Teen Girl, David Sedaris Offered Far More than Funny Essays
AN EVENING WITH DAVID SEDARIS Monday, Oct. 23, 8 p.m., $46–$61 Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh www.dukeenergycenterraleigh.com David Sedaris isn’t a North Carolina native, and he hasn’t lived here in decadesin fact, he lives in England. But he’s surely an honorary North Carolinian, having spent most of his formative years with his family in Raleigh. His books […]
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Listen to “Heather,” a Driving New Cut From Reese McHenry & the Fox
In mid-July, Reese McHenry released one of the Triangle’s strongest LPs of the year: a collaborative record with the mighty Spider Bags, titled Bad Girl. But she’s not satisfied to stop there, apparently. With her new band, Reese McHenry & the Fox, she’s continuing her impressive streak of mighty musical output with a new EP, […]