Helpful links Wristband / ticket distribution info Purchase tickets The schedule The day parties Complete event info Among bands that have been said to play garage rock, few wear the label proudly. But The Clash did. The perennial signifier of rock ‘n’ roll righteousness closed their 1977 debut with “Garageland,” whose stark declaration”We’re a garage […]
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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Double Negative announce upcoming EP, tour
It’s been several months, a national tour and more than a few local gigs since Double Negative settled into its current lineup after replacing original drummer Brian Walsby with Brain F≠’s Bobby Michaud and original singer Kevin Collins with Logic Problem’s Cameron Craig. (May’s Hits EP memorialized the short-lived formation with guitarist Scott Williams, bassist […]
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Colossus’ and the Sepulcher of the Mirror Warlocks
For seven years, Raleigh’s Colossus has wobbled along a fine line, making intentionally humorous music that teetered at the brink of novelty. Mostly, the band’s instrumental chops have been enough to steady its footing. Colossus’ last outing, 2009’s Drunk on Blood EP, offered five songs that again tested that path, the quintet galloping across five […]
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Spider Bags’ Shake My Head
Perhaps the best way to experience Chapel Hill’s Spider Bags is still on the stage. But it speaks volumes about the strength of the set that Shake My Headthe group’s third and best album to datecasts that assumption in serious doubt. At its foundation, Shake My Head is a collection of straightforward bar-rock songs. Walking […]
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As LaVallee exits, Stripmines enter hardcore punk’s long history of interchangeable frontmen
Stripmines join Raw Nerves, No Tomorrow, Priapus and Atrophix at Berkeley Cafe Thursday, Aug. 2. The $10 show starts at 8 p.m. I have seen a lot of bands perform, and many of those bands have played hardcore punk rock. None have been more intense than Stripmines, a Raleigh force that spills off the stage […]
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TRKfest headliners Lost Skulls revive The Misfits’ gory glory
It’s not wise to talk back to cops, and I’d been speeding, and we both knew it. Dude just couldn’t resist, though. Having noticed the crimson ghost sticker leering from my back windshield, the highway patrolman whose name I purposely forgot gave me a sidelong glance when he asked, “Why do you like The Misfits?” […]
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Grohg’s Culture of Petty Thieves
Grohg plays Kings Saturday, July 7, at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $7. Irata and DJs Redbyrd and Thien share the bill. Though once suffering the slow, grueling death of several thousand subgenre hyphens, heavy metal seems to be on the mend. With the genre already segmented into countless micro-niches, metal in 2012 is reanimating stitched-together […]
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A new wave of crossover, or [d-]beating a dead horse?
The Southern Lord showcase comes to Kings Barcade in Raleigh Monday, July 2, at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $10–$12. Myriad musical phrases and techniques have earned imitators: What would punk be without Johnny Ramone’s buzzing, frantic downstroke, or metal without Dave Lombardo’s thunderous double bass-drum kicks? But when Discharge drummer Terry “Tezz” Roberts punched the […]
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Black Zinfandel: funny name, casual band
By his admission, Brian Cruse isn’t adamant about much. But there was one thing upon which he insisted: “I was like, ‘My next band’s going to be called Black Zinfandel. I hope everybody’s cool with that because that’s the one thing I insist on,’” he says. “And I have a feeling that that name’s the […]
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Dwarr lives!
Photo Courtesy of Drag City RecordsBig rocker: Dwarr [Editor’s note: Dwarr was set to play The Pinhook in Durham tonight, Wednesday, March 16. His entire tour has been canceled.] ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, Durham bar The Pinhook will host the fourth and final gig of South Carolina outsider-metal outfit Dwarr’s first-ever tour. More than 25 years […]
