For tickets to the Shakori Hills Spring GrassRoots Festival, from April 21–24, see www.shakorihills.org. “When you say ‘We’re going to do this music festival, and it’s going to be this outdoor camping thing,’ the first thing that pops into people’s minds is, ‘Oh, it’s like a Woodstock-y kinda thing.’ They assume that it’s a hippie […]
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Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores
“You gotta make your own salvation,” declares young Chapel Hill songwriter Wylie Hunter during the opener, panning post-collegiate ennui up front. The manifesto “Get On Up!” steels listeners for the six songs that follow on The Cazadores’ first EP. The five-piece melds a sense of early Springsteen-ian desperation and upbeat Guster-ian positivity. Anthemic choruses and […]
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Lizzy Ross’ Traces
The Lizzy Ross Band plays Broad Street Cafe Friday, July 16, at 11 p.m. Humble Tripe opens at 10. Singing for Lafcadio, Lizzy Ross belted indie twang with disregard for whomever her stagecoach ran over. Drums and electric guitar spurred her forward. But on Traces, her solo debut, Ross reins everything, creating a quiet ode […]
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Steampunk, or the whimsical joy of inclusion and play
Every week, sisters Klaude and Emmett Davenport host The Clockwork Cabaret, a weekly two-hour radio show from their traveling airship, Calpurnia. Well, at least that’s what they do through the magic of radio. They’d prefer that you not know their real namesone works at a local middle school, the other at a hair salon. And […]
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Laura Veirs’ “I Can See Your Tracks”
Like a cold creek trickling through the forest, picked guitar bubbles at the start of “I Can See Your Tracks.” The opening cut on Laura Veirs’ latest album, July Flame, the sound creates a beautiful and slightly melancholic world, where memories prayed away. My Morning Jacket’s Jim James howls like a scourging, scouring wind, and […]
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Tonight and Friday: The Tannahill Weavers present Scotland sounds
Since forming in 1968, the Tannahill Weavers have grown into one of the world’s premier conduits for traditional Scottish music. On the road six months of the year, an active touring schedule lets the band spread the sounds of Scotlandand often puts them in interesting, unexpected situations. While preparing for another U.S. tour at his […]
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Will McFarlane plays Nigeria, Papa Mojo’s
Pastor Paul Adefarasin of House on the Rock church led The Experience, and Lagos, Nigeria certainly shook the night of December 4. Lasting from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., the fourth annual interdenominational gospel concert drew over 450,000 people. Local guitarist and minister Will McFarlane traveled over the Atlantic to be one of the many. […]
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Humble Tripe’s Counting Stars
Low notes ring from an electric guitar, and the peaceful but sad “Friend Song” begins; Shawn Luby sings out comfort and support, and the sparse sound grows. Drums crash against the calm, accenting the space and the doubt in the lyrics. It finally settles into a steady beat, just as violin rises like the sun […]
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Jeanne Jolly’s “Desert of My Mind”
Listen up! or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Drums brush like a train while a dobro weeps on “Desert of My Mind.” Rather than jumping on that train, Jeanne Jolly escapes from the world: “Lock the doors and leave the world outside / Pray […]
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Birds & Arrows sing their life and love onto the new Starmaker
⇒ Stream Starmaker and read our review Just two weeks ago, Andrea and Pete Connolly took a trip down to a local tattoo parlor. To celebrate their first wedding anniversary, both got a little ink of the artwork from Starmaker, their first full-length album as Birds & Arrows. That scenetwo young lovers getting matching tattoosepitomizes […]