CaveAid II Shows start at 8 p.m. • Friday, March 18: Studio Gangsters, Titanium Rex, Randy Whitt and Burke • Saturday, March 19: Puritan Rodeo, Blood Red River and Turntable Graveyard • Sunday, March 20: Bird & Arrows, New Town Drunks and Pinche Gringo The bar business is often thought to be recession-proof, but perhaps […]
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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Weedeater shapes up its act—well, kind of
There was no puke. It seemed easy to expecthope, eventhat “Dixie” Dave Collins would barf onstage in Durham. The raspy frontman is known for it. In fact, when Weedeater, the band he leads, issued its third album, God Luck and Good Speed, in 2007, one of the trio’s press photos featured Collins in sharp focus, […]
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Ty Segall outgrows other people’s songs
Ty Segall plays Kings Barcade Sunday, March 6, at 9:30 p.m. with Double Negative and Super Vacations. Tickets are $7–$8. The infamous GG Allin was just recently a stranger to the indie sanctum of Daytrotter, the Illinois recording studio and website that captures and catalogs songs by the hippest bands in the land. But late […]
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Five years in, Bull City Records keeps spinning
The fifth anniversary party for Bull City Records happens Saturday, Feb. 26, at Fullsteam Brewery in Durham. Last Year’s Men, Cantwell Gomez & Jordan, Maple Stave, Des Ark, Midtown Dickens and members of Megafaun all play the 7 p.m. show. Admission is $10. Shopping at Bull City Records requires some degree of intention. Though the […]
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After bailing on a major label, Against Me! returns to the road
Against Me! plays Cat’s Cradle Tuesday, Jan. 18, at 7 p.m. Fences and Cheap Girls open, and tickets cost $12–$14. The narrative of Gainesville, Fla., punk band Against Me! is one of consistent upheaval. Since Tom Gabel adopted the moniker for his agit-folk solo project in 1997, the band’s biography counts two van crashes, three […]
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Brian Walsby’s essential history of Raleigh hardcore, Manchild 5
The Kickass and Righteous Fool play the release party for Manchild 5 at Kings Saturday, Jan. 8. The show starts at 10 p.m., and the $10 admission includes a copy of the book. Either I had the good fortune or the great misfortune of being born in 1986for some, the year of Iran-contra, and for […]
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Local label Holidays For Quince almost collapsed this year; instead, it dropped a hit parade
Difference makers This year, we decided to approach the Triangle’s year in music with three separate but inevitably related approaches. In this issue, we write about three people or organizations—the rapper Kaze, the record store owner Ethan Clauset and the record label Holidays For Quince—who beat tough odds in order to add something essential to […]
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Pianist Vijay Iyer explores how the brain handles sound
Vijay Iyer plays with his trio Friday, Dec. 3, at 8 p.m. in Duke University’s Reynolds Industries Theater. See Duke Performances‘ website for tickets ($5–$34) and more information. Understanding how the brain responds to sound has been the fixation of scientistsand musicians, the practitioners of those soundsfor ages. As our understanding of the way the […]
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Whatever Brains’ Rapper’s Delight II
Whatever Brains play Local 506 Saturday, Dec. 4, with Bellafea and Spider Bags. Last we heard from Whatever Brains, the quartet began to toy with its usually frenetic pacing with the long, teasing intro of “Nesting,” from the 7″ of the same name. This year’s CD-R, Trim Jeans and/or Gross Urge Plus Ten, was a […]
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Carrboro’s Sorry State Records documents the Triangle’s hardcore throttle
“Pound for pound, [Raleigh has] the best hardcore scene in the country,” says Daniel Lupton. And if anyone’s an expert in the state of modern hardcore, Lupton, a 31-year-old English literature scholar and proprietor of the Carrboro-based label Sorry State Records, is as qualified as any. For the past five years, Lupton has steadily grown […]
