Chuck Johnson plays as Pykrete at Nightlight Saturday, July 24, with DJ Nasty Boots and Kinoeye. Neill Prewitt will provide projections. The 9:30 p.m. show costs $5. See Related Events below. In 1913, Swiss psychology pioneer Carl Jung began penning a series of texts and illustrations in journals that, after more than a decade, became […]
Bryan C. Reed
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This weekend’s benefit for Shayne Miel epitomizes the Triangle’s musical community
This Machine Kills Cancer happens Saturday, June 19, from noon until midnight at Triangle Brewing Company (918 Pearl St.) in Durham. Performers include: Catie Yerkes Tea & Tempests The Mercators The Tourist Magic Mike Casey Beloved Binge Wigg Report Reese McHenry Jason Kutchma Tender Fruit The Pneurotics Magic Mike Casey The Narcoleptics Charles Latham Bowerbirds […]
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Actual Persons Living Or Dead’s self-titled debut EP
Actual Persons Living or Dead play Thursday, May 20, at The Reservoir, and Saturday, May 22, at The Pinhook. Both shows start at 10 p.m. Offering their self-titled debut EP for free via bandcamp.com and as a giveaway at shows, Durham trio Actual Persons Living Or Dead follow the paradigm of start-up acts of the […]
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Dead to Society’s It’s Not Over!
A year ago, Dead to Society was exactly that. The Bull City punk trio announced its dissolution in February after bassist, singer and lone constant member “Ill Bill” Nottingham suffered his second heart attack. But with a new drummer and guitarist, the trio’s second record provides a reintroduction by way of its name, It’s Not […]
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Whatever Brains’ Nesting 7″
Whatever Brains play Berkeley Cafe Saturday, April 24, with Invisible Hand, Gross Ghost and The Alphabet. The 10 p.m. show costs $5. The band plays Berkeley Cafe again Tuesday, May 4, with Future Islands, Lonnie Walker and Lower Dens. One time at a Whatever Brains show, singer Rich Ivey spit a gooey green loogey on […]
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Scrappy label Odessa Records celebrates a year
Visit Nightlight’s website for the complete lineup and details for Odessa Fest, Friday, April 23–Saturday, April 24. The plans for the inaugural Odessa Fest, a celebration of a label surviving against the odds, were set in motion months ago. Naturally, the execution is coming down to the wire. “It’s cutting it close on all fronts, […]
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Durham’s Free Electric State rides a big beat and blasts bigger guitars
Free Electric State releases Caress at The Pinhook Friday, April 16, at 10 p.m. Tickets are $5. A Rooster for the Masses and Beloved Binge open. By any measure, Free Electric State should be considered a new band. It’s been less than a year since the Durham quartet played its first show. They’ve made one […]
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In the Year of the Pig’s Jamón
In the Year of the Pig is a heavy band with five memberstwo of them drummers, two of them bassists. Jamón is a fittingly heavy collection with five songs that stretch across a full hour. The shortest song is six and a half minutes long. The other four all reach beyond 10 minutes, and two […]
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Blatant Disarray’s Everyone Dies Alone
First impression: This band sounds like a gang of Metallica fans that wasn’t disappointed by Load and Reload. The first impression isn’t the whole picture, but boy does it linger. Press materials are quick to lunge for the “thrash-revival” angle, like Blatant Disarray’s widescreen bluster was anything at all close to Municipal Waste’s basement-party whirlwinds […]
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Horseback signs to Relapse Records
Horseback, the well-established solo-plus project of Chapel Hill ace experimentalist Jenks Miller, has signed to Relapse Records, one of the nation’s biggest and most respected loud-music labels. He joins a roster that includes Baroness, Dillinger Escape Plan, Pig Destroyer and many others. Later this year, Relapse will re-release Horseback’s 2009 album, The Invisible Mountain, on […]
