Nobunny performs Saturday, Sept. 17, at Cat’s Cradle with Girls and Papa. Tickets to the 9 p.m. show are $14 in advance, $16 day of show. Nobunny is hard to catch. After a series of texts and missed calls, the enigmatic garage rocker calls. He’s just finished playing a show on a bus, driving through […]
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 Rosebuds’ Loud Planes Fly Low
It’s supposed to be news that the offstage divorce of Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp inspired Loud Planes Fly Low, The Rosebuds’ accomplished fifth album. It’s supposed to be, but if that tension really seems that much like news, maybe you haven’t been listening closely enough. The duo began, famously, one week after Howard and […]
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Dex Romweber Duo’s Is That You in the Blue?
Dex Romweber Duo plays Cat’s Cradle Friday, July 22, at 9 p.m., with Birds of Avalon and Eric Sommer. It’s been more than a dozen years since Chapel Hill’s Dex Romweber led the legendary and influential Flat Duo Jets, but it still feels unlikely he will ever fully outgrow his legacy as a wild rockabilly […]
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Whatever Brains save energy and ambition for their songs, not the road
Whatever Brains play Kings Thursday, July 7, at 9:30 p.m. Invisible Hand and Nantan Lupan open the $6 show. By the estimations of its own members, Raleigh quintet Whatever Brains are not a band that’s likely to attract a large audience. But they’re not exactly courting one either. To date, the Brains have published virtually […]
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Double Negative’s Hardcore Confusion, Vols. 1 & 2
Double Negative plays Tuesday, June 28, at Kings, with Fucked Up and JEFF the Brotherhood. Tickets to the 9:30 p.m. show are $12-$14. The second LP by Raleigh hardcore malingerers Double Negative, last year’s Daydreamnation, was mercifully if frustratingly delayed. Fans wanted it, but the lag between LPs left plenty of time to appreciate the […]
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TV Ghost’s post-punk horrors draw light from the dark
TV Ghost plays Local 506 with The Spits and The Temperance League Sunday, June 19, at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8–$10. I’m only just beginning to appreciate how well the name TV Ghost suits the Indiana quartet that claimed it. It’s one of those I-can’t-believe-it-wasn’t-already-taken punk band handles, alluding to the electronic voice phenomenon and, […]
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Trap Them might steal from Converge, but why not?
Trap Them joins Converge, Burning Love, Old Painless, Young and in the Way and Des Ark Sunday, June 5, at The Brewery at 6:30 p.m. The old maxim remains: Great artists steal. From Led Zeppelin’s outright theft of Delta blues tunes to The Cramps’ pilfering of rockabilly obscurities, theftbrazen plagiarism, evenhas driven innovation in music […]
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Animosity-era COC back on road, back in studio
Photo courtesy of the bandCrazy face: COC As a band, Corrosion of Conformity have hardly been the most stable. Some 13 members have cycled through COC in the last nearly three decades. Still, the steady turnover didn’t stop the COC from becoming one of the South’s most influential loud rock acts—inspiring then-nascent hardcore and metal […]
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Five songs, dude: Valient Thorr hits the decade mark
It’s been 10 years since Valient Thorr, the bearded, denim-vested troupe of hard rock avengers, landed in the Triangle from Venus with their twin-axe attack and mythical backstory. And as the rowdy rock band celebrates its decennial, we celebrate the traits that have kept the band’s hordes of die-hard Thorriors fervent and growing since 2001. […]
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Red Collar frontman Jason Kutchma returns from the road, Americana curios in tow
J Kutchma plays three Triangle shows this week: with The Magnolia Collective, Glory Fires and Janzig at a Planned Parenthood Benefit at Nightlight Thursday, April 28; with Bruce Hazel and the Temperance League at Slim’s Friday, April 29; with Amanda Shires at Motorco Sunday, May 1. It’s Easter Sunday, and Jason Kutchma has just arrived […]
