Bowerbirds and Megafaun, two of the finest musical acts this state has to offer, are on the road together for a six-week jaunt that began Monday in Washington, D.C. and ends Aug. 17 in Atlanta. (A full list of tour dates is below the jump). It will bring the bands north to Canada and west […]
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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Microsoft wants to pay your band, maybe
In defense of Twitter: There are some pretty sweet tweets floating around, including one yesterday from @hnmtf. “We just released a new track from the looking for bruce recording session Do the Human – FREE!,” it read, offering a link to a bit of Web 2.0 marketing shared between Windows and ReverbNationwherein one could, as […]
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Track: Polvo’s “Beggar’s Bowl” surprises
‘Beggar’s Bowl,” the first track to be unveiled from Polvo’s forthcoming In Prism, is as good as a fan could hope for, but not likely what they’d expect. (Download here, and read more after the jump). Even though one might consider this a relatively straightforward alt-rock jamand it feels like it might be’Beggar’s Bowl” is […]
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Impossible Arms’ Ripped in No Time
⇒ Read our interview with the band Ripped in No Time, the debut from Chapel Hill’s Impossible Arms, mostly operates atop the well-tread terrain of guitar rock. It’s not a particularly esoteric or unfamiliar record, but it’s not particularly easy to get, either. That’s not a criticism: Chief among Ripped In No Time‘s multitudinous charms […]
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Colossus’ Drunk on Blood
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. The triune guitars tugging at the reins of this five-song chariot give Colossus little time to offer introduction: Just 13 seconds into “The Mountain That Rides,” the Chapel Hill-Raleigh sextet is at full gallop, harmonic twin leads stealing the spotlight […]
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Holidays For Quince throws a block party
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. More than any other season, summer in the South demands activity. Spring’s break pales to summer’s vacationsweating and swimming, planting and playing. And then there are the block parties of summer, community gatherings that pause to celebrate the bustle. Chapel […]
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The Thermals’ “When I Died”
Listen up! or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. After releasing something of a mini-landmark with 2006’s bitter, enraged The Body, The Blood, The Machine, Portland trio The Thermals found itself at a crossroads. Ultimately, they pursued in a new direction: It meant a switch […]
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Briefly: Merge; Merge; Mac McCaughan; Mac McCaughan
Briefly: Updated XX Merge lineup; Merge documentary; Superchunk and Mac McCaughan on ABC News; Mac McCaughan, MAGNET guest editor With June 22-26 quickly approaching, and five-day passes completely gone, XX Mergethe Merge Records curated 20th-Anniversary music festivalhas announced both single-day ticket sales, and the line-up for the Sunday night marquee held at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Memorial […]
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The Grappling Hook’s …And Those Who Would Keep Us Safe
With its precise balance of complex song structures and swift, fluid changes in tone and time, Durham’s Grappling Hook is a band for a live audience. Fantastical battle hymns reforge power-metal glory with noisy indie rock and tough-guy blues-metal. Onstage, the tunes inspire high theatricality and comic-book suspense. That has a lot to do with […]
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Horseback’s back: two releases, approaches, premieres
Never content to stick to any one sound for too long, Jenks Millerreturning to his Horseback aliashas announced two new releases. Neither sound at all like his masterful debut, Impale Golden Horn. Yes, for all you keeping track at home on your handy little conflict-of-interest scorecards, that was released by Miller’s Holidays For Quince label […]
