You’ll catch whiffs of Migos’s “Slippery,” Ciara’s “You Can Get It,” Lil Wayne’s “A Milli,” and other choice cuts you feel sure you’d recognize if the Raleigh producer didn’t transform them so skillfully and completely.
Brian Howe
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Django Haskins Pastiches Poe in Halloween Treat “Strange Birds”
This is a world in which eyes are not merely lensed, but lenséd, a pungently incensed world of crimson flasks and taloned fingers and spider-infested houses.
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Two Recent Country Albums Walk the Line Between Pop and Purist
C. Albert Blomquist and Charles Latham both home in on a certain timeless simplicity, letting old tropes and truisms breathe clear contemporary air.
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David Menconi, the Dean of North Carolina Rock Critics, Pens a Loving Landmark History of Our State’s Popular Music
With chapters focusing on figures as larger-than-life as North Carolina will allow, “Step It Up & Go” is brisk and fun but will also be cited as a reference for years to come.
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Triangle First: Optimism Bursts from Tragedy in Nathan Oliver’s Strokes-y Single “Everybody’s Swimming”
If the video of swimmers and skydivers for the new track from Oliver’s forthcoming album doesn’t make you feel a little better, you probably already felt fine.
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Opposites Attract on Sylvan Esso’s “Free Love”
On their anticipated third album, the acclaimed Durham electro-pop duo are pop stars you can put in your pocket.
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Triangle First: The Charming Nostalgia of “Left on Red,” the First Music Video by Charles Latham and the Borrowed Band
The local country-rockers conjure the world of MTV before “120 Minutes” in their first-ever visual, which leads into a livestream show at the Pour House tonight.
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Raund Up: Hot-Air Balloons and David Mamet in Two New Releases from a Beat-Music Bastion
Hubbble’s “The Plot (Thickens)” and FootRocket’s “Block Adventurer OST: Adrift” are the latest beat-scapes from Raund Haus.
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Triangle First: A Cardboard Durham Comes to Life in Kane Smego’s “Collard Green Music” Video
The “North Cack” rapper and spoken-word stalwart returns with Jeghetto, Phil Cook, Saleem Reshamwala, and more local all-stars with a vivid video from his new album.
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Bassist Casey Toll Is the Unsung Hero of the Triangle’s Indie-Americana Vanguard
Casey Toll is the timekeeper of a rich vein of local music, from H.C. McEntire and Skylar Gudasz to Nathan Bowles and Jake Xerxes Fussell. It’s time we learned what makes him tick.