A story of murder, racism, and grief frames The Faun, the full-length debut from Durham’s Greaver. Dotted with spacious interludes and spoken-word passages from a protagonist named Morgan, The Faun fully embraces both the album’s conceptual conceit and its own emo revivalism. Audacity aside, The Faun‘s greatest strength might be Greaver’s earnestness. Greaver’s members collectively […]
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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A New Documentary Makes it Clear The Damned Matter
THE DAMNED: DON’T YOU WISH THAT WE WERE DEAD THURSDAY, MAY 5 THE PINHOOK, DURHAM 7 p.m., $8 Of course The Damned deserve a documentary. The band was the first of the UK’s original punks to issue a recording; even after peers in the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and Buzzcocks caught up, The Damned remained […]
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ConcussionCast Carnival Showcases Exciting Bouts of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at Durham Central Park
Early rain couldn’t stifle the action at Durham Central Park on Sunday, where a slate of ten jiu-jitsu bouts, fought in an MMA cage, kicked off with a short match. As the rain started to clear, Chapel Hill’s Mary Holmes locked an armbar on her opponent, Washington, D.C.’s Laurie Porsch, and gave the event an […]
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Durham Beer Pioneer Triangle Brewing Company Talks Why it’s Closing
On Friday, rain poured down in Durham. Inside Triangle Brewing Company’s warehouse on Pearl Street, Prince’s hits reverberated from some hidden stereo. The towering final pallets of Triangle’s Strong Golden Ale and IPA stood, as if in vigil, across from empty brewing tanks, ready for impending disassembly. “It’s depressing to say the least,” offered Andy […]
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Just for Kicks, We Get Bruised in the Triangle’s Vibrant Mixed Martial Arts Scene
CONCUSSIONCAST CARNIVAL Sunday, May 1, noon–3 p.m. $10 suggested donation Durham Central Park, Durham www.whupfm.org I grunt as Cody Maltais shoots his foot into the base of my ribcage, feeling his toes curl into my abs. Even with tempered speed and force, Maltais’s teepa straight snapping kick used by Muay Thai fighters to control distance […]
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On Aquatic Occult, Sourvein Dips Into the Cape Fear Waters
Troy Medlin is a nomad. When he’s not touring as the leader of the pugnacious metal band Sourvein, Medlinknown better to fans of the coastal institution as “T.Roy”tours the country for other work. When North Carolina’s film industry boomed, he found regular gigs as an extra. But these days he does trim carpentry on Bald […]
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Bye Bye, Triangle Brewing Company, Which Is Closing Its Doors After Nearly a Decade
In two weeks, Durham’s first microbrewery will pour its last pint. Yesterday afternoon, the owners of Triangle Brewing Company announced their plans to close, via Facebook. “It is with deepest sadness that we announce today that on Monday, May 2nd, after nearly nine years of calling the Bull City home, Triangle Brewing Company will close […]
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Can Carbonated Confections Like Big Boss’s New Root Beer Stout and Brood’s Adult-Oriented Sodas Alter the Soft Drink Industry?
On Christmas Eve, my cousin handed me a curious bottle of booze”Not Your Father’s Root Beer,” read the label. That evening, I became one of many drinkers who propelled Small Town Brewery’s flagship hard soda to more than $75 million in sales last year alone. Distributed by Pabst Brewing Company, Not Your Father’s Root Beer […]
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Blackbeard’s Lost Weekend Returns to The Cave Tonight and Tomorrow
After an absence of almost a decade, Blackbeard’s Lost Weekend, a once-reliable garage-rock bacchanal, returned to Chapel Hill last year. Stretching across three nights and as many stages—two at The Cave and one at Nightlight—the resurrected Lost Weekend boasted almost forty bands and a casual vibe that belied the garage-rock frenzy the bill promised on […]
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Restless As Ever, Napalm Death
NAPALM DEATH MONDAY, APRIL 11 , RALEIGH 8:30 p.m., $16 By any measure, Napalm Death is one of metal’s most important bands. In the early eighties, the British band pioneered a bullet-fast fusion of death metal and hardcore eventually called grindcore. Napalm Death earned the favor of the BBC’s John Peel and appeared on a […]
