Old-timey music has charms, but old computers do not. Few organizations know that better than PineCone, the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, currently in the running for a technology makeover from Southeastern communications agency, Milner, Inc. The prize, one of two $35,000 transformations, could provide an important boost for an organization that pours most of […]
Ashley Melzer
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Is Farm Aid coming to Durham in 2014? Maybe
Here’s a little ditty that Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Mellencamp let slip at the Duke football game last Tuesday: Farm Aid could be coming to Durham in 2014. The details, first reported in The Herald-Sun, are so far unconfirmed. Mellencamp, whose son is a member of the Duke football team, made his […]
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Video Premiere: Wild Fur’s “Big, Long Line”
Wild Fur is a new collaboration between Wylie Hunter and Nick Jaeger. A studio project that stemmed from demo sessions for Hunter’s other band, Wylie Hunter and the Cazadores, the group explores somewhat new sonic territory for the two artists. Synths, organs and bob-your-head beats steal the spotlight from sunny ’60s guitars and bar-worn lyrics. […]
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UNC-Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library Launches Tumblr
Keep a keen eye out, Lively Morgue, UNC’s got old photos, too! With a just-launched Tumblr, UNC-Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library is getting in the online content game. The material will be pulled from the North Carolina Collection, Rare Book Collection, Southern Folklife Collection, Southern Historical Collection and University Archives and Management Services, as well as […]
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Raleigh’s Kat Robichaud finally meets her end on The Voice
Kat Robichaud performs Pat Benatar’s “We Belong” After surviving a battle, a knock out and the top 12 with an Instant Save, Kat Robichaud finally met her end on NBC’s The Voice last night. The Raleigh singer delivered Pat Benatar’s “We Belong” for her Top 10 performance with typical flare, playing piano, dancing with masked […]
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Gross Ghost grows up
Gross Ghost with Last Year’s Men and Schooner Friday, Nov. 22 9:30 p.m., $8–$10 Cat’s Cradle Back Room Nick Petersen knows how records get made. A local musician and recording engineer, he calculates he’s worked on nearly 1,000 of them by nowEPs and LPs, singles and demos, for bands from Bon Iver and the Melvins […]
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In January, three-year-old Durham venue Casbah will make way for a game room
Casbah, the 288-capacity music venue that opened its doors on Durham’s Main Street in late 2010, will close its doors Jan. 1. The room is being transformed from a rock club into Social, a “bar with games,” says co-owner Jana Bradley. The rock club business isn’t what she’d hoped. “This is a really tough industry, […]
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Casbah to close January 1, reopen as “bar with games” in 2014
Casbah, the 288-capacity music venue that opened its doors on Durham’s Main Street in late 2010, will close its doors on Jan. 1. The room is being transformed from a rock club into Social, a “bar with games.” Proprietors Jana and Fergus Bradley realized the rock club business wasn’t what they’d hoped. “This is a […]
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Kat Robichaud lives another day on The Voice
Tiredness of nine-lives jokes aside, it looks like Raleigh’s Kat Robichaud really does have them. After nearly getting the boot last week before being rescued by coach CeeLo Green on The Voice, Kat found herself in the bottom three of the Top 12 last night. Thanks to an “Instant Save,” a quick push from online […]
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Kat Robichaud interviews Amanda Palmer, hopes to sail to Top 10 on The Voice
After having been saved from sure elimination by her coach CeeLo Green last week, Kat Robichaud came out fierce in last night’s Top 12 performance on The Voice with swinging with a version of AWOLNATION’s “Sail.” The strategy? Give the audience what they want. The result? Well, that’s to be determined, but the live performance […]