Did you know that North Carolina has an official carnivorous plant?
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M8alla and Treee City Craft the Absolute Jam of a Lost Summer
A jubilant slice of R&B full of ‘90s hip-hop footnotes and detailed production, “Mek Mi Anxious” finds M8alla getting butterflies about a crush at a party—the sort of anxiety most of us would gladly trade our present kind for.
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Time Machines: New Songs by H.C. McEntire, Autumn Nicholas, and Jay Bishop
More than three months into the longest month ever, these three songs each helped shake us out of limbo in their own way.
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Pierce Freelon Breaks Down the Invention of Whiteness in a New Animated Musical Series
“The History of White People in America” premieres on The World Channel on July 6, but you can watch the intriguing trailer today.
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The Devil’s Interval Gets Its Due in XOXOK’s “Right On”
After we premiered Keenan Jenkins’s stunning meditation on the specter of police violence, we wanted to learn more about where it derived its uncanny power.
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Triangle First: The Novelty of Being Happy at Home in Thomas McNeely’s “Total Restoration of the Heart”
The first single from the well-rounded local musician’s forthcoming indie rock EP bursts with optimism and renewal.
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Triangle First: Orquesta GarDel Bottles Its Freewheeling LAC Residency in “Siempre Estoy Contigo”
COVID-19 couldn’t stop the Durham salsa band’s social spirit, as the good vibes radiating from this new video attest.
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From the Freestyle to the Protest, Cypher Univercity Keeps the Code
“I think we all recognized as soon as the protests happened, this is what we had been training for, in a way,” says Raleigh rapper Jrusalam, who’s been helping hold down the cypher at N.C. State’s Free Expression Tunnel for a decade.
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From Midwife Traffic Cops in Thailand to Quechua Rappers in Peru, Saleem Reshamwala Podcasts Stories of Global Ingenuity in “Pindrop”
We interviewed the Durham filmmaker-turned-podcaster about hosting a new global-travel podcast for TED during a pandemic that prevents global travel.
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Indigena Presents a Black Lives Matter Reading to Support Emancipate NC
Featuring Jabar Boykin, Honora Ankong, Kayla Rodney, and Destiny Hemphill, “Poetry in Protest” will benefit the anti-mass-incarceration organization’s Freedom Fighter Bond Fund.