Community man Willie French Lowery Lauded Lumbee songwriter, artist, husband and father Willie French Lowery passed away May 3 at the age of 68. Lowery’s legacy includes more than 40 years worth of music, shaped by Indian, African, and European American traditions alike. His prolific career spanned psychedelic rock and children’s music, painting and stagecraft. […]
Ashley Melzer
Bio: Ashley Melzer is a writer, photographer and filmmaker living in Carrboro.Twitter: http://twitter.com/ashleymelzer
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Trekky Records mixes it up with new compilation and release show
Chapel Hill’s Trekky Records is known as much for being a mutual admiration society as it is a proper business entity. For the first time in its history, the Trekky crew is assembling and releasing a mixtape to showcase their history. The compilation, Amalgam, will showcase tunes from the many acts they’ve nurtured through creation […]
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The Gathering Church uses music to consider faith, not coerce it
Hymns will be released at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro Friday, Jan. 27. Performances by many of the featured musicians will follow an 8 p.m. opening set by Near-Blind James and Harmonica Bob. Tickets are $10. See music.allgather.org for more info and to stream the full album. “Skeptics, seekers and believers” seems like the kind of […]
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The accidental fortune of Lizzy Ross’ Read Me Out Loud
Lizzy Ross Band plays Local 506 Friday, Dec. 16. The Broadcast and Jeremy Gilchrist open the show. Tickets are $5–$8. Drew Daniel is not a Rollerblade champion. This fact did not stop him from taking a pair of three-sizes-too-big blades he found at a local thrift store for a spin on a cold January afternoon. […]
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Durham hip-hop zombie onslaught
It used to be that you’d meet someone, they’d bite you, you’d develop a taste for flesh and pillage the surrounding town looking for someone nice to eat. Apparently, that won’t do anymore. There’s now a furious new wave of Durham-born zombies walking amongst us and rapping as they go. The source of this revolutionary […]
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Five words with Lizz Wright
Lizz Wright performs Friday at 8 p.m. at Reynolds Industries Theater in Duke University’s Bryan Center. Tickets run $26–$34. Lizz Wright came into the world as the daughter of a pastor in small-town Georgia. The family business led her to a love of gospel music, which flowered into a love of singing. Her incredible vocal […]
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Itinerary: Ashley Melzer
Ashley Melzer is a music critic living in Chapel Hill. She also worked as the Talent Coordinator for Hopscotch 2011, meaning she’s emailed every band playing at least 37 times. If you’ve ever worried that your life would never live up to the excitement of a pinball game, welcome to Hopscotch. This year’s three-day retreat […]
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Considering Britney Spears as an avenue of memory
Britney Spears plays RBC Center Wednesday, Aug. 24, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $40.10-$381.25. Momentarily just another little girl from Kentwood, La., Britney Spears has grown with her public personafrom Star Search champ and Mouseketeer to a pop princess with a closet full of arguably awkward skeletons. She’s now a household name, a top (and […]
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Django Haskins, Jeff Crawford and Daniel Wallace in a bill with crossover twists
Django Haskins, Daniel Wallace and Jeff Crawford play Casbah Thursday, Aug. 11. Tickets are $8–$10. The show starts at 8:30 p.m. Django Haskins has five solo records to his credit and four with his extravagant pop band, The Old Ceremony, at his back. It’s hard to believe that he’d ever feel inadequate about performing or […]
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Full Frame video interview: Julie Moggan, director of Guilty Pleasures
Interview with Julie Moggan, Director of Guilty Pleasures from Independent Weekly on Vimeo.