Thin Lizzy and Iron Maiden to Help Go! Room 4. Well, kind of. Booking up-and-coming, cutting-edge alternative music is not a way to get rich quick. And while Go! Room 4 has been packing them in recently with sold-out shows by Engine Down, Milemarker and Ben Kweller/My Morning Jacket, there’ve been nights where folks just […]
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Scene & Heard
Independence Day Indie Rock Weenie FestWhat better way to celebrate routing the Limeys than with an Independence Day Weenie Roast hosted by those eccentric popsters, Evil Wiener. The event starts this July 4, at 7:30 p.m. at The Cave in Chapel Hill. As an added bonus, there’ll be a Zen Frisbee reunion performance featuring the […]
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Hot Rods, Cold Beer
Winston-Salem is a town of dramatic contrasts, its present-day identity traceable to the days when such family dynasties as the Reynolds and Hanes attracted poor, mostly mountain-bred folks from outlying counties and West Virginia to work their tobacco plants and mills. For decades, when the wind was right, residents could pick up the sweet smell […]
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DADA
In two years, a group with the appropriately anarchic name of DADA (the Durham Association for Downtown Arts) has taken a guerrilla approach to bringing free arts events to downtown Durham. In the process, they’ve changed the way the rest of the Triangle sees the Durham arts community. They want to see that Durham artists […]
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Lone Stars
Chris Jones: “I’d never heard the White Stripes when we started.” Eddie Taylor: “Yeah, when we started we didn’t know who that was. People were like ‘Man, you got to hear The White Stripes’ and we were like, ‘Nah, we’re going to go practice.’” The Indy is interviewing The Loners, guitarist frontman Eddie Taylor and […]
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Lite lunch
Being invited to last week’s Winner’s Circle Healthy Diet Program press luncheon brought visions of pale canned pears with a spoonful of no-fat cottage cheese–perhaps a dry, flavorless broiled fish or chicken filet. My curiosity peaked on finding that the Angus Barn, one of the latest restaurants to adopt the program’s “Star and Fork” logo […]
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Everybody Wants Some
“Look, they heard I was here,” says David Lee Roth, er, Mike Callahan. Garbed in full Roth regalia, circa 1982, Callahan’s sitting outside Chapel Hill rock club Local 506. It’s 11 p.m. on a Friday night, and he’s eyeing a police car that’s making its way up Franklin Street. Holding a customized red and white-striped […]
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More is Better
It’s early afternoon on a bright spring day, the time of day when rock clubs and music venues lie dormant, waiting for the sun to go down. Although Kings Barcade seems deserted, all three owners–even The Cherry Valence’s Paul Siler, who’s usually on the road with his group–have agreed to meet the Indy for a […]
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The Teenage Idols
This four-song EP was my introduction to The Teenage Idols, a Stockholm punk/garage quartet who sound like they sacked and pillaged a music store, Viking style, then set about to write the scariest, least cute tunes they could dream up. (The drums sound like someone beating a hazmat container with a pair of oars.) Obvious […]
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BK Baby
Ben Kweller’s had a tough 20 years on this planet: His first band, Radish, a Texas “grunge”-punk trio consisting of him and his high-school buds, landed a major-label deal when he was mere 15, after the kind of major label bidding wars not seen since the post-Nirvana signing frenzies. Radish had less-than-“major” record sales when […]
