Brian O'Neill

Believe it or not, there was a time not so long ago when the Triangle and surrounding area was considered a hotbed of hard rock music. Before the Squirrel Nut Zippers were a blip on the landscape and when Ben Folds was actually in a hard rock ensemble himself, the likes of Corrosion of Conformity, […]

Ask Kool Keith what he thinks about the current state of hip-hop, and the rapper does not mince words. “I think it’s at a standstill,” he laments. “We’re at a very uncreative point in hip-hop right now. The videos are trendy, the music is trendy, everybody is doing the same things.” Well, everybody, that is, […]