Corrosion of Conformity plays Lincoln Theatre with Torche, Valient Thorr and A Storm of Light Saturday, March 3, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15–$18. How Corrosion of Conformity‘s legacy is defined depends almost entirely upon who is defining it. For some, the veteran Raleigh hard-rockers peaked early, and only the ragged hardcore produced between their […]
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Bull City Metal Fest embraces the genre’s many alloys
In booking the second annual Bull City Metal Fest, Casbah talent buyer Steve Gardner had a clear goal: variety. “Really, it’s kind of metal and heavy music and a bunch of stuff rolled up together,” he says. “What I wanted to do was have a variety of musicas big a variety as I could.” On […]
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Live: Five bands in a taco shack
Spider Bags, Paint Fumes, Flesh Wounds, Brainbows, SnakeThursday, Jan. 26La Salamandra, Durham La Salamandra isn’t designed for hosting rock bands, and it shows. The unassuming taco shack on Hillsborough Rd. features a long, narrow floorplan, divided by an elevated bar and chest-high barricade. The stage, if you want to call it that, is little more […]
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Live: Corrosion of Conformity apologizes for Asheville, unnecessarily
Photo by D.L. AndersonLive and in color: Corrosion of Conformity Corrosion of Conformity, Hail!HornetSunday, Jan. 22Orange Peel, Asheville, N.C. When we parted ways, Corrosion of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin offered an apology for what was, by his estimation, the worst show he’d ever played. The band had struggled through “The Moneychangers,” a cut from the […]
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First Listen: Caltrop’s second album is worth waiting for
File Photo by Jeremy M. LangeCaltrop, back when. On April 3, Caltrop will release ten million years and eight minutes, its second album, and first in nearly four years. That sort of gap between albums is rare in an era of constant content streams, but it actually suits Caltrop; in its own unhurried way, the […]
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First listen: Corrosion of Conformity readies its first self-titled album
Image by Seldon HuntTake note: If you’re putting out your first self-titled album after 30 years, the cover should be this badass. It’s notable that, at least until now, Corrosion of Conformity has never released a self-titled album. Over its almost 30-year history, the band has been a revolving door of membership. Only guitarist Woody […]
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White Cascade’s EP2
White Cascade releases EP2 at Kings Friday, Jan. 13. The Bronzed Chorus opens the $5 show at 10 p.m. White Cascade’s 2010 debut EP offered a promising sample of swirling shoegaze guitars and droning rock soundscapes, steadily balancing post-rock heft and prickly fuzz. Two years later, with a functionally named collection EP2, White Cascade retains […]
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How Raleigh post-hardcore act Alesana quietly became one of the state’s biggest bands ever
For the last five hours or so, the largely teenage swarm near the front of the stage at Raleigh’s large Lincoln Theatre has exuberantly and obediently raised its hands, the black X’s reserved for those under 21 creating an elevated sea of Sharpie ink. As the night progresses, the crowd stretches back toward the club’s […]
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Young and in the Way’s V. Eternal Depression
It’s clear from the name Young and in the Waya play on Jerry Garcia’s bluegrass side projectthat this Charlotte band isn’t about fitting any mold. They give equal weight to black metal, grindcore, noise rock and crust punk, situating them alongside metalhead buzz band Trap Them. Their melodic patience and spacey post-rock-informed epics, however, suggest […]
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The Body & Braveyoung’s Nothing Passes
For the first 27-and-a-half of its 35-and-a-half minutes, Nothing Passes sounds almost exactly like what one might expect from a collaboration between The Body and Braveyoung. The Body, a duo from Providence, R.I., made a splash with its 2010 LP, All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood. The 50-minute LP plummeted into […]
