Rolling Rock Project 33, featuring Tyvek Flanders Gallery, Raleigh Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 Full disclosure: By the time you read this, my likeness has likely been used by the Latrobe Brewing Company to market Rolling Rock. At the Rolling Rock-sponsored Project 33 (or, for the social media-savvy, #RRProject33), being photographed and videotaped was unavoidable. There […]
Bryan C. Reed
Bio: Bryan Reed lives in Raleigh, where he nerds out about punk rock and comic books. He's written about music for INDY Week since 2008.Twitter: http://twitter.com/BryanCReed
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Live, last night: Jeb Bishop and Jaap Blonk get playful at Neptune’s, then FUZZ gets loose at Kings
Jeb Bishop and Jaap Blonk Neptune’s, Raleigh Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013FUZZ Kings, Raleigh Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 There is something inherently absurd about watching a man in his sixties, his face stuck between two angled microphones, making various sputters, slurps, horn squeaks, fart sounds and turkey gobbles with what he has decided to call a […]
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Tonight at Neptune’s: Surprises in store from Jeb Bishop and Jaap Blonk
Muzikaret (Rubber Music) by Jaap Blonk from Stephen Malagodi on Vimeo. Tonight at Neptune’s in Raleigh, noted trombonist Jeb Bishop and Dutch artist/writer/musician Jaap Blonk will perform together. Aside from that, though, we’re not entirely sure what to expect. Bishop is a reliably adventurous improviser who has helped ferry a variety of avant-improv talent through […]
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Durham headbangers Tooth reunite to celebrate The Pinhook’s fifth anniversary
Five years ago, when the downtown Durham club The Pinhook first opened its doors, the beloved Bull City metal band Tooth took the stage first—outside of the now-defunct Troika Music Festival, anyway. On Nov. 2, the fierce quintet will again play The Pinhook. For a time, that booking seemed like a longshot at best. Tooth […]
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Sorry State to open record store in downtown Raleigh
“There’s four or five different places to buy records in Raleigh, but there’s nowhere to hang out and talk about records and look at fliers for the shows that are coming upjust a place to be,” Daniel Lupton says. “I want to do that.” Of course, he’ll want to sell some records, too, when his […]
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On Sunday, All Day Records celebrates three years with 21 bands
When Carrboro’s All Day Records opened its doors in 2010, some skepticism would have been understandable. Opening any record store amid the oft-proclaimed death throes of the music industry seems like a crazy prospect; opening one that eschewed CDs almost entirely and focused its wares on the fringes, well, it might’ve been called a hail […]
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Iron Maiden’s never really changed, so neither has the band’s importance
Iron Maiden with Megadeth Tuesday, Sept. 3 7:30 p.m. $32.10–$101.65 Walnut Creek Amphitheatre Iron Maiden’s greatness exists as a foregone conclusion. Pioneers of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and one of the most influential bands, metal or not, of all time, Maiden set the template for generations of headbangers to come. Bands they […]
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Live: Superchunk parties at The Pinhook
Superchunk The Pinhook, Durham Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 At the end of a sweat-soaked, near-hour-long set last night at The Pinhook, Mac McCaughan, Jim Wilbur, Jon Wurster and newly added bassist Jason Narducy climbed back onto The Pinhook’s stage to grant an 11th song to the packed room. They’d barely grabbed their instruments before a […]
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Bedowyn’s Wolves & Trees EP
Bedowyn with Year of the Ox The Maywood Saturday, Aug. 17 9 p.m. doors A distinctly old-school current winds through Wolves & Trees, the five-song debut by Raleigh quartet Bedowyn. It’s in the meaty riffs that drive these songshardened alloys of Sabbath groove and mid-era COC thrashand in Alex Traboulsi’s gruff but not guttural bark. […]
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Horseback’s A Plague of Knowing
Based only on The Invisible Mountain and Half Blood, the two well-publicized and much-lauded Horseback LPs released via the stalwart metal label Relapse, Jenks Miller’s outfit has defined its kind-of-metal aesthetic well: winding riffs, tenacious repetition and circular drums, all coiled beneath Miller’s understated croak. But apart from those albums, Miller’s musical wanderlust has taken […]
