What do Jessica Simpson, Filter, Disturbed, Pussycat Dolls, Metal Sanaz and Carlos Mencia have in common? Until recently, not much: Simpson and Pussycat Dolls are bootylicious pop stars; Filter and Disturbed are heavy guitar bands; Metal Sanaz is an ambiguous internet celebrity; and Carlos Mencia is a comedian. But these diverse acts became unlikely barracks […]
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The stars of Track & Field
The blood-red hallway is long, high and narrow. It’s lined with sconces that make it feel like a windowless train car. Vibrantly colored flyers for bygone shows pepper its length. At one end, a stairway climbs up, disappears around a bend. At the other, there’s a closed door. It’s the kind of room David Lynch’s […]
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White Williams’ tunes tie pop eclecticism to peripateticism
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Trekky Yuletide Orchestra returns
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Harrison Haynes has long made art just on the outside
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Understanding America with cultural critic Greil Marcus
• Read an excerpt from Greil Marcus’ The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice With his close-cropped white hair, owlish black eyeglasses, and smart dark coat, Greil Marcus cut a sharp profile against the softly lit contours of the Wilson Library Manuscripts Department. It was an apt setting for a conversation […]
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Three unhappy women, in Haven Kimmel’s latest novel
The Used World By Haven Kimmel Free Press, 320 pp. Haven Kimmel lives in Durham, but her heart remains in the rural Indiana of her upbringing. It was the stage for her pair of hit memoirs, A Girl Named Zippy and She Got Up Off the Couch, and for her two prior novels, The Solace […]
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Matthew Dear opens up the electronic audience
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DeYarmond Edison, Bon Iver, Megafaun and one twisted story
New York bands can operate in a bubble, but smaller musical enclaves like our own must connect within and without to thrive. The Triangle has a history of forming intimate musical connections with other regions: Consider the ties to Florida since a constellation of Gainesville and Jacksonville musicians centered around Fin Fang Foom moved here […]
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ProgDay, now 13, busts the purist stereotypes
“Punk” is impossible to define unambiguously. The same can’t be said for “progressive rock.” The genre aspires to the complexity of classical music or jazz, and it operates according to fairly rigid standards: It eschews verse-chorus-bridge structures, includes non-rock instrumentation, uses complex meters, and de-emphasizes traditional chord progressions and scales in favor of more florid, […]
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