Red Collar plays Motorco Saturday, May 19, at 8:30 p.m., with Signals Midwest, Restorations and Maple Stave. Tickets are $8–$10. When Red Collar released its full-length debut, 2009’s Pilgrim, the Durham favorites seemed like a safe bet for an emerging national profile. That album’s title tracka story of an unbeatable racehorse longing for more than […]
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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The new RaleighPalooza festival gets melodramatic for a day
For tickets and schedule information, visit the RaleighPalooza website. RaleighPalooza is a new music festival scheduled to bring 38 bands to the Raleigh Convention Center this weekend. A one-day smorgasbord of what festival organizer Jamie Malerba described as “pop-punk/ alternative/ pop-rock,” the event will seek to satisfy what Malerba sees as an underserved local niche. […]
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Live: Whatever Brains show their sides
Whatever Brains, Burglar FuckerKings BarcadeApril 26, 2012 Photo by Tim LytvinenkoIn the cut: Whatever Brains If one didn’t know better, the fact that Thursday night’s gig was in honor of Whatever Brains’ second LP release might’ve gone unnoticed. Frontman Rich Ivey offhandedly mentioned the new album twice. Once, after the set’s first song, “Bad Dads,” […]
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The Mountain Goats, Mac McCaughan and Greg Cartwright team up to fight Amendment 1 at Motorco
In less than a month, North Carolinians will vote on the so-called defense of marriage amendment, which would permanently prohibit same-sex marriage and all forms of non-marriage civil unions by codifying the ban (which already exists in state law) into the state constitution. Before that happens, though, three of the state’s finest songwriters will offer […]
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Tonight at Motorco: New York jazz quartet Endangered Blood
Endangered Blood strikes an intimidating tone with its name, but it’s actually a reference to the short-lived Comedy Central series TV Funhouse. That irony is fitting for the band: Its members arrive bearing stacked résumés in the out-rock and contemporary jazz realm. The band’s most well-known member outside of jazz circles, bassist Trevor Dunn, has […]
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First Listen: Whatever Brains’ new LP and 7-inch
Before releasing their first full-length last year, Whatever Brains had marked their evolution from flash-bang scuzz-punk into warped and weird post-punk pranksters across a series of singles and limited releases. So when that first long-player was finally released, barely more than eight months ago, there was an already-deep well of experience from which to draw. […]
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First Listen: Horseback’s new single offers Half Blood glimpse
After the flood of releases that preceded it, Horseback‘s 10-month lull has been a dramatic pause. But Half Blood, the long-awaited follow-up to 2009’s The Invisible Mountain, has finally been announced, “set for a Spring 2012 release via Relapse Records.” No specific date has been set, but at least it’s something. In the meantime, the […]
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Stripmines debut LP Crimes of Dispassion makes impression, but band’s future uncertain
Last Friday at Raleigh’s Berkeley Cafe, five mostly new local hardcore bands took to the stage to raise money to help LA grindcore musician Sergio Amalfitano cover his daughter’s medical expenses. The altruism was a warm touch, but with Greensboro’s Torch Runner serving as the most veteran band on the bill, the gig was representative […]
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New Band Alert: Is Infección the Triangle’s new punk supergroup?
The new Raleigh punk band Infección runs the risk of an overcrowded résumé: Its four members can count Double Negative, Whatever Brains, Brain F≠, Devour, Logic Problem, Grids, Street Sharks, Cross Laws and Crossed Eyes as relevant experience. But with only one show and a raw three-song practice space video to its name, the quartet […]
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Corrosion of Conformity: An oral history of 30 years
Editor’s Note: Bryan C. Reed’s oral history of Corrosion of Conformity pulls from interviews with more than two dozen members, collaborators, friends and fans of the band. These interviews were done during the last two years. This heavily truncated version gets at the gist of the tale—the chronology, the characters, the conflicts. Oral histories are […]
