“Creamsicle complexion” doesn’t quite rhyme with “erections,” but it does just fine to capture the groovy Chapel Hill country band’s rage-grin on their Presidents Day single.
Brian Howe
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Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival to Livestream Lineup Announcement and Launch a Podcast
Tickets are on sale before the lineup drops, a mark of the trust that the Pittsboro festival has built among local roots-music lovers and happy campers.
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Now’s Your Chance to Get Into the Women’s Theatre Festival
One of the region’s most accessible festivals announced summer dates, new programming, and a broad call for submissions this week.
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Raleigh Little Theatre Announces 2020–21 “Season of Great Heights”
“Dreamgirls,” Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Jane Austen enliven a new season of community-broadening musicals and plays from good old RLT.
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Triangle First: The Homespun Monumental Style of Tacoma Park’s “There Are Three Ones”
The new duo of two local-music vets performs “Floating Point for High Fives,” its debut album of giant, gentle landscape music, in a release show at The Cave on Friday.
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Watch Wye Oak, The Mountain Goats, and Ibibio Sound Machine Perform at MRG30
If you couldn’t get the coveted tickets for Merge Records’ thirtieth birthday party last summer, you can find out what you missed courtesy of WUNC.
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Spellbound by the Anti-Magical Powers of Nym: A False Story
Durham’s Lewis Scaife insists he’s sincere that he can cancel curses, quiet ghosts, and deflect hexes, and he has a new album, “Countermagic,” to prove it. But what is the secret of Nym?
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Nick Wallhausser of the Beat-Music Collective Raund Haus
“Everyone who’s come here has left so pumped about their experience.”
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Americana Musician Alan Barnosky Takes a Whole Band Down a “Lonesome Road”
After his stripped-down debut album, the Durham-based flatpicking guitarist brought friends along for his new EP, which they’ll perform at the release show at Nightlight on Saturday.
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Enter a World of Mountain Mantasy
In its Cosmic Prom on Sunday night, the adored folk trio transformed a warehouse into a fantasy land of friendship, family, and photo ops.
