This week’s Local Band-Local Beer show at Tir Na Nog in Raleigh comprises a trio of regional bands who belong to the Cardinal Collective: the Triangle’s Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores, Greensboro’s House of Fools and Wilmington’s Mike Blair & the Stonewalls (10 p.m. Thursday, June 6, free). They’re just just a few of a […]
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Bevel Summers’ The Cards
Bevel Summers with Wylie Hunter and Curtis Eller Local 506 Saturday, May 11, 9 p.m. $8 When Carrboro’s Bevel Summers released their seven-track debut EP last year, the band centered around two guys with old-timey ambitions, surrounded by a set of friends. The dueling songwriting team of Jeb Brinkley and David Hutcheson sang of liquor-high […]
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Three area programs deliver music (and more) to kids, in spite of threatened arts budgets
Three days after the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 students and six teachers, 30 kids walked onstage at the Carrboro rock club Cat’s Cradle. They stood on creaky bleachers, wearing ordinary outfits of jeans and sweaters. Ranging in age from 14 to 18, they’d come from Durham, Chapel Hill and Carrboro […]
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Nick Driver’s Poet’s Corner: Volume One
Nick Driver Thursday, April 4, Amra’s Friday, April 5, Sparians There are poets who compare thee to a summer’s day or fixate on a red wheelbarrow beside white chickens, and then there’s Raleigh singer-songwriter Nick Driver, who audaciously titled his debut LP Poet’s Corner: Volume One. Thing is, on track one, Driver wastes no time […]
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New ReverbNation initiative Music For Good helps bands direct money to charity
Three clicks are all it takes for a musician to sign up and sell a song on ReverbNation. Now the Durham based music-marketing platform is making it just as easy for artists to donate to charity, too. Music For Good, a new e-commerce spinoff of the site, allows musicians to sell songs directly to their […]
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Baobab’s BAYOHBAHB
Baobab and Virgins Family Band play at Local 506 Friday, Feb. 22. Christian Adams and Jordan Humphrey open. The 9:30 p.m. show costs $5. In Phil Torres’ cozy Durham home, the recording studio is tucked in the upstairs room to the left; even so, his mind tends to wander when he makes music. A neuroscientist […]
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Saturday: Hear music to build a home
Kids these days: They’re always code-talking with their LOLs and HMUs and starting their fundraisers for good causes. For this last bit, thank the kind people at Durham’s Habitat for Humanity Youth United. The program empowers youth ages 5–25 to fully fund and build a home. This year’s project will be the seventh such house […]
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Mobile Merge: The Durham label launches its own app
Pocket Win The label name already graces record packaging, baby onesies, posters, slipmats, an oral history book, totes and T-shirts. And now, Durham’s Merge Records has gone mobile. Part artist-update hub and part streaming service, the new app is the perfect vehicle for exclusive content and streamlined information from the label. After a free download […]
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Barefoot Manner: Bluegrass, quirks and enthusiasm
Barefoot Manner celebrates New Year’s Eve with an all-original lineup and a little help from The Morning After. Tickets are $20–$25 for the 9 p.m. start. Barefoot Manner was a string band gone haywire: In 2000, Shawn Chase, David Kleiss and Walter Hensey gathered to pick and sing most evenings, honing their bluegrass skills. When […]
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A little Rosebuds for Christmas
Santa has been making his list and checking it twice since 1939. The chestnuts have been roasting since 1944. And Rudolph with his nose-so-bright has had us blazed at Christmas since 1949. Christmas, it seems, is a holiday as much about nostalgic feelings as new memories; The Rosebuds’ latest release, Christmas Tree Island, takes that […]