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Triangle First: Stray Owls Slow-Dance with the Stars in “Dislocation”
The local indie-rock collective Potluck Foundation’s run of new releases continues with a new album by the gently psychedelic Mebane band.
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Triangle First: Libby Rodenbough Breaks Hearts on Chamber-Folk Simmerer “Tell Me How”
The Mipso member is stepping out on her own with her first solo album in a month, but we’ve got the premiere of the first single on repeat today.
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Hip-Hop’s Long Journey from the Bronx to the Japanese Beat-Makers of DRS
Raund Haus recently released “Strolling Company,” a compilation album of the crew’s dizzying, abstract sample-fests. Here’s a radically abridged history of how we got here.
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Libby Rodenbough, Kate Rhudy, and More in a New Livestreaming Series to Benefit N.C. Workers
The North Carolina Piedmont chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and Mutual Aid Carrboro are starting the series to fuel their COVID-19 Mutual Aid Relief Fund.
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How Minimalist Duo Sylvan Esso’s Maximalist WITH Tour Is Shaping Its Next Album
As Durham’s own electro-pop stars drop a DPAC-set concert film and a live album, they told us about what they learned reworking their svelte songs for big bands and halls.
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Triangle First: Erie Choir’s Eric Roehrig Rages Back to Rock Roots on “Cemetery Rows”
A crash course on Roehrig’s classic indie-rock band, Sorry About Dresden, as it relates to his new Erie Choir EP, “Starlight Veins.”
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Meet the New Director of the Nasher Museum of Art
It comes as little surprise that star curator Trevor Schoonmaker will follow Sarah Schroth as the director of Duke’s art museum when she retires after 25 years.
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Listen to a New Six-Part Podcast of Tamara Kissane’s Unhinged Chekhov
The Piedmont Laureate just released “The New Colossus,” her second play in podcast form, with original music by Skylar Gudasz.
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Johnny Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere” Updated for Life Under Quarantine
Look, we’ll be honest, we thought this was going to be dumb. But Jonathan Byrd, the phantom of the Kraken, gets great mileage from a goofy gag.
