The new album is inspired by McEntire’s exodus from her farmhouse on the Eno River.
Brian Howe
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A Mere Quarter Century After He Started, Paul Finn Debuts Evening Pines
Evening Pines’ debut album comes out this month, with a release show scheduled for January 20 at Local 506.
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The Kingsbury Manx Bring It All Back Home
With a reunion and a reissue, the reunited Kingsbury Manx revisits the perfect naïveté of its classic debut as a seasoned band.
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Mimi Luse Takes an Exhilarating Turn to Industrial Techno as Permanent
“I have always felt deeply moved by music,” Luse says. “But when I finally started making it myself, it brought about a sense of cohesion I had never experienced before.”
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Treee City’s Full Length Debut, “Good Job,” Has a Vivid Emotional Center
The album’s title is literal and too modest: Treee has been putting in work.
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How to Be an Iconic ’90s Band in 2022
Twenty-four years after their last album, Chapel Hill torchbearers Archers of Loaf are reborn in the fires of frustration on ‘Reason in Decline.’
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Raising a Toast to 21 Years of the Orange County Social Club
From the rhythm of her own nightlife, Tricia Mesigian had identified a need for a “middle-night” place. No shows, no food, no frills—just cheap beer, stiff highballs, and a clean, cozy place to meet and talk.
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Sweeping Aside a Screen of Iconic Benday Dots, the Nasher Reveals the Real Roy Lichtenstein
It’s the first time a museum has taken a full look at the dozen years before Lichtenstein Popped—when he painted, drew, and made prints in a wide variety of styles.
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Carrboro’s Trash Tape Records Gives a Gen Z Update to the Ethics and Aesthetics of a Gen X Record Label
“A lot of the modern DIY scene is not based on style as much as genuineness and emotion. People aren’t coalescing around how something sounds but around the fact that the music is very personal to them.”
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Florence Dore’s Parallel Lives in Southern Literature and American Rock Curve Together in New Album ‘Highways & Rocketships’
“People talk about songwriting in mystical terms for a reason. It does sometimes feel like you have to ready yourself to be visited.”