PlayPlay’s breakbeat-happy live vibe, which you might call progressively classic, is in full effect on their second EP.
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Triangle First: Al Riggs Conjures Moody Shades of The Magnetic Fields on “Lavender Scare”
The prodigious local songwriter and musician is releasing their zillionth album next Friday, but we’ve got it streaming in its entirety right now.
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Triangle First: PlayPlay Sends Love from New York with “Truromance”
We’ve got the premiere of a fun-loving house cut from the forthcoming “Invocation” EP by a DJ and producer who still considers Durham their second home.
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A+A Dance Company Stress Tests Concert Dance’s Capacity for Unvarnished Trauma
We can’t even tell you about the most powerful, divisive part of “Don’t Get Any Ideas, Little Lady,” a piece seemingly designed to be indigestible by audiences and star ratings.
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Triangle Music Issue: What Does a “Safe” Dance Party Look Like?
From Party Illegal to Ruby Deluxe, this is how some of our favorite parties and spaces are cultivating an inclusive consent culture.
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Triangle Music Issue: The ABCs of Local Music
Welcome to the INDY’s inaugural Triangle Music Issue, which begins with this crazy thing we made.
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A New York Composer Enlists a Durham Band for a Gloriously Failed Attempt to Recover His North Carolina Childhood
William Brittelle had to come home to create “Spiritual America,” his astonishing album about faith lost and found, and he couldn’t have done it without Wye Oak.
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Say Goodbye to Pleiades Arts. Say Hello to 5 Points Gallery.
The bad news of the impending closure of another Durham gallery is leavened by the good news that another, very similar gallery will replace it.
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Murielle Elizéon and Tommy Noonan Summon a Fleeting Utopia in “They Are All”
Trained dancers and first-time performers with Parkinson’s disease created an unforgettable experience in the ADF premiere of the new work by Culture Mill’s co-founders.
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A+A Dance Company’s New Work on Femme-Phobia Lets the Seams in Modern Dance Show
There are usually ways in which a modern dance work is trying to fool you. In “Don’t Get Any Ideas, Little Lady,” Allie Pfeffer and Alyssa Noble are out for something realer and rawer.
