M Is We bandleader Michael Wood’s Carrboro-based tape label has two new post-punk releases, including its first foray into vinyl.
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Triangle First: An Inspired Song by S.E. Ward from Suah Sounds’ Benefit Compilation
“The Co-Isolation Sessions” to benefit N.C. service workers isn’t out until June 5, but we’ve got Ward’s gripping “State of Wonder” today.
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Triangle First: XOXOK Returns with the Gorgeous, Chilling Soul Song “Right On”
The day after Jenkins defended his dissertation at UNC, police officers in Minnesota shot and killed Philando Castile. This song is the darkly beautiful result.
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The Coolest, Weirdest, and Sketchiest Local Stuff on eBay
We spent hours filtering through all the vintage postcards, bar matchbooks, and school yearbooks to find the wowest items from the Triangle on this cursed site.
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Triangle First: The Mountain Goats’ Matt Douglas Steps to the Front on “Black Smokestack”
The song comes from Douglas’s forthcoming “En Masse” EP, where a warm bath of indie rock vestiges and hushed, sweeping electronic vistas converge into vivid forms.
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Monday Music Mania: Sidewalk Furniture, Wye Oak, Tescon Pol, and Tons More
Angry-nerd punk, Teutonic sci-fi music, Wye Oak’s last stand, and other new-ish stuff to keep you busy as we ready a three-day barrage of premieres.
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The Chelsea to Screen Local Films While Weighing Its Timeline for Reopening
In other cinema news, The Carolina announced new dates for the OutSouth Queer Film Festival, formerly the North Carolina Gay + Lesbian Film Festival.
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Des Ark, Laura Ballance, Mirah, and More to Make Merry in What the Hell-a-Thon II
The first outing of The Pinhook and NorthStar’s telethon-style marathon fundraiser featured almost ten hours of music and shenanigans, so we hope you remember how to stay up late.
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Watch Toshi Reagon’s Visionary Folk Opera “Parable of the Sower”
No one who saw the adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s sci-fi novel at Carolina Performing Arts in 2017 will ever forget it. Now a concert version is available, but only once, this Friday.
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ShaLeigh Dance Works Gives the Coronavirus-Canceled “The In-Between” a Proper Virtual Premiere
The dance theater company’s latest work was thrown into chaos at The Fruit as social distancing orders came down, but it was filmed for this virtual do-over.
