Death From Above 1979 The Ritz, Raleigh Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 Growing older, of course, means changing. But when you’re a wild rock ’n’ roll band, that process isn’t necessarily easy or graceful. It can be hard to fight that current, to stay wild, like you once were. That’s what made you edgy, cool; to […]
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Tonight: The great Jubilee launches the last weekend of Mosaic
For seven years, Steven Feinberg and Keith Ward have been hosting spring and fall music festivals at Raleigh’s Mosaic. The idea is simple but sprawling—to highlight local talent and to promote dance nightlife and DJ culture. This year, Feinberg and Ward decided to make an essential change in format, allowing individual crews the chance to […]
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Live: How a room of Sleater-Kinney fans reacted to THEESatisfaction
Sleater-Kinney & THEESatisfaction The Ritz, Raleigh Wednesday, April 22, 2015 When I found out Seattle duo THEESatisfaction were opening for Sleater-Kinney in Raleigh, I wondered how a crowd of aging hipsters and guitar-loving music snobs would react to a hip-hop duo. I first heard Sleater-Kinney in high school, when my quest to find edgy music […]
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“We care about the human race”: An interview with Black Pussy
As a black woman who spent a large part of my young life in the mostly white world of rock music, I attended shows up and down the East Coast, threw gigs in my garage and even started a group of online friends with the purpose of uniting black hipster weirdos like myself. I never […]
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Looking to like Sylvan Esso at a karaoke party
Sylvan Esso Hosts Karaoke The Pinhook, Durham Friday, Feb. 13, 2015 Even my grandma knows about Sylvan Esso. Last year, the innocuous electropop of Durham duo Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn made Sylvan Esso new indie darlings. They sold out shows on a few continents and made late-night TV appearances; they’re billed rather high on […]
