Verses Versus Verses On April 12, I sat down at the judge’s table in UNC’s moderately crowded Great Hall Auditorium for the third annual UNC/Duke Battle of the Bands. It struck me as a fundamentally odd, almost arbitrary, proposition: Three Duke bands would square off against three UNC ones to find out who a couple […]
Brian Howe
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Lost in the Trees
In her essay “On Keeping a Notebook,” Joan Didion describes diarists as “children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.” Of course, she’s talking about herself. But she could just as well be talking about Ari Picker, Lost in the Trees mastermind and ex-member of the Never, whose music is uncommonly elegiac for […]
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Cory Doctorow’s stories of the techno-present
Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present by Cory Doctorow
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Whose limbs shatter mountains
Listen! Listen to Fin Fang Foom’s “Machines” from their album Native Tongue. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player.
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Many multitudes
Should poetry be timeless or timely? With three new titles that are inextricably bound to time and place, Carolina Wren Press makes a tacit argument for the latter. Each book contains multitudes within the purview of its author’s unique cultural vantage point: William Pitt Root’s White Boots is situated among the shining landscapes of the […]
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Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center, Greensboro College Saturday, Nov. 18, 7 p.m. Sun City Girls’ co-founder Sir Richard Bishop opens “There are a thousand different ways to sound sinister,” Joanna Newsom confides. She checked off many of them on her debut album The Milk-Eyed Mender, which explored love, loss, inspiration and fidelity by […]
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Elan and circumstance
Listen! Listen to The Old Ceremony’s “Talk Straight” and “Papers in Order” from their new album Our One Mistake. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player.
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Phon
Phon The Orm (Iseler Communication Recordings) In capitalism’s intensely competitive environment, the notion that art’s worth is predicated upon the measure by which it exceeds one’s own abilities is practically pre-axiomatic. It’s not enough for something to be beautiful. It must also be difficult to make. The meme is particularly pernicious in rock circles: DJs, […]
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Like a weed
Listen! Listen to five tracks from Trekky Records. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player.
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The Walkmen
Listen! Listen to The Walkmen’s “Emma, Get Me a Lemon” from their new album A Hundred Miles Off. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player.
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