Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Blag’ard’s injuries have been numerous and fancifully acquired. The Chapel Hill duo of singer/ guitarist Joe Taylor, 36, and drummer Adam Brinson, 26, seems destined for near-misses and closeness-to-catastrophe. Lucky for us, that spirit of physical abandon translates to the […]
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Waumiss
The European version of The Kingsbury Manx’s 2005 EP, Afternoon Owls, included two remixes by producer (and Wilco keyboardist) Mikael Jorgensen, which made the songs seem adrift in time, harking back to Pink Floyd-era sounds even as the music plunged headlong into the future. WAUMISS is The Manx’s Clarque Blomquist and Shallow Be Thy Name’s […]
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Even indie rockers want the remix
You know a grassroots phenomenon has hit critical mass when massive soft drink companies are hip to it: Any garden-variety consumer can now cool down with a Sprite Remix, which adds cherry, berry or tropical fruit flavors to … whatever Sprite is supposed to taste like in the first place. The concept of the remix […]
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Unraveling the continuing mystique of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences Through Dec. 28 It’s 1947. Northwest of the Dead Sea, not far from the settlement of Qumran, a Bedouin named Mohammed Ahmed el-Hamed throws a stone into a cave. He hears a curious breaking sound and goes inside. Amid shards of pottery, he finds several linen-wrapped […]
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Improv music director Shannon Morrow brings outsiders in
Experimental, avant-garde, outsider: These are rubrics we use to define the wild fringes of the art establishment. But they can be just as elite as the academy they revolve aroundan outside that becomes a different kind of inside. Those unfamiliar with the hermetic rituals and internal hierarchies of either sphere can feel unwelcome in both. […]
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Les Savy Fav’s “Patty Lee”
Listen up! or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Brooklyn’s Les Savy Fav (which includes Durham-based drummer Harrison Haynes) mellowed out a bit on their most recent album, Let’s Stay Friends. But mellow is relative, as the rollicking “Patty Lee” attests. It’s just a more […]
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BoyZone, Clang Quartet, Jeff Rehnlund and Relay for Death
Listen up! Click the track buttons to guide through all four of our Albums of the Month. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. When people say that music from any given genre “all sounds the same,” they’re actually saying they aren’t familiar enough with the genre to make […]
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Glow in the Dark tour featuring Kanye West, Rihanna, N.E.R.D, Lupe Fiasco
I was running late for the Raleigh date of Kanye West’s hyper-ambitious Glow in the Dark tour, so I missed the opening set by Lupe Fiasco. Luckily, I was informed by one concert patron that Lupe Fiasco, a Grammy-winning rapper on a major label, was “really underground.” Though initially nonplused by the idea, I kind […]
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The Rosebuds’s Sweet Beats, Troubled Sleep (Night of the Furies Remixed)
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. The indie rock remix album is a dicey proposition. Often, the music’s spontaneity and looseness make it ill suited to remixing, which, during this decade, has often meant techno-precision. And if you’re a diehard indie rocker, chances are a lot […]
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Wakers and dreamers in Dangerous Laughter
Dangerous Laughter By Steven Millhauser Alfred A. Knopf, 256 pp. “There are two kinds of people,” says a character from Steven Millhauser’s new short story collection, “wakers and dreamers.” The author is among the latter. Few writers tap the oneiric muse as deeply as Millhauser, who tampers with the boundary between reality and dreams until […]
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