Whether you call it alt-country, Americana or No Depression music, the genre has exploded in the last couple of years, spawning major films, fanzines, and tons of ink in the press. For its fans, singer-songwriter Jay Farrar needs no introduction, having released three albums each with his bands Uncle Tupelo (their 1990 release, No Depression, […]
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Jell-O Quilt = State Pride?
You can hardly blame Jell-O, that venerable, jiggly food beloved by kids since 1897, for the timing of World War III. Or the company’s oddly patriotic idea of making a “quilt” out of fancifully decorated Jell-O No Bake desserts laid out in the shape of North Carolina. Or that the Mountain State Fair in Fletcher, […]
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Fall-ternative: Rock 101
Just when it seems like every third person in Chapel Hill has a band or a tape, there’s now going to be an eight-week class instructing artists on how to get their music out there to the peeps (in the spirit of DIY, of course), along with a class focusing on concert and event planning. […]
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Fall-ternative: Film
The Center for Documentary Studies is accepting submissions up through Oct. 1 for their annual Documentary Film and Video Happening, which takes place Friday-Sunday, Nov. 2-4. The event isn’t only for students, but for emerging community filmmakers from across North Carolina. “It’s a happening really–more of a community event for the emerging filmmakers to participate […]
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Fall-ternative: Black Metal
Attention all goat throwers–tell ’em Natas sent you. The dark gods have answered your murmured backward prayers and sent a concert of epic volume and brutality to our fair land this October: Metallennium 2001, brought to you straight from the cesspools of heck. The tour, headlined by Six Feet Under (who are occasionally chastised as […]
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Fall-ternative: New Drinkery
Attention Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents. If you’re looking for a new drinkery to frequent, the soon-to-be-opened Orange County Social Club, a new bar with an funky urban vibe, promises to be a cozy club where you can drink, play cards, Scrabble, chess–what have you–and actually talk (what a concept). The club will open sometime […]
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End of an Era?
“Well, none of the Rolling Stones have ever played here,” quips Local 506 co-owner Dave Robertson from behind the bar, when quizzed on what rock celebs have graced the club’s stage over the past 9-plus years. Behind Robertson, next to the liquor bottles and porcelain 1940s girlie figures, photos of local and national musicians–most personalized […]
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Sex Becomes Him
On Lake Wobegon, the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are all above average. But go up a little farther north, to the Mesabi Iron Range, and the women are loud, the men are even louder (and prone to facial hair, profanity and homophobia), and the children are repressed beyond belief. […]
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The Yayhoos
Not only does former Woods member Terry Anderson have a knack for writing catchy rockers (remember “Battleship Chains?”), turns out he’s got great taste in cohorts, namely the other “yayhoos” featured on this disc: Eric Amble, who now does guitar duty with Steve Earle (but you may also remember him from the Del-Lords or as […]
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Mogwai’s Rock Action
In Scotland, Glasgow is seen as the hard-driving counterpart to the more effete, University town of Edinburgh. Along with an accent as thick as that porridge mixture they use to fill haggis (the national sheep stomach treat), Glaswegians are known as soapdodgers. But the city has also produced a crop of fine new bands, from […]