Bedowyn with Irata, The Seduction and Horseskull Friday, Oct. 30 8:30 p.m. $10 Kings 14 W. Martin St. Raleigh 919-833-1091 www.kingsbarcade.com Mixed martial arts depend upon one simple premise: Develop your optimal fighting style by hybridizing multiple disciplines. Marry, for instance, the aggressive striking of boxing to the physical chess of judo or jiujitsu. Keep […]
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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Review of the debut from the Whatever Brains side-project ISS
With Whatever Brains, Rich Ivey found a posse of simpatico players who were eager to shake and tangle genre tropes and craft an idiosyncratic sound. By the time the band played its last show in May, the group had evolved from a snotty punk act into a consistently confounding band with more keyboards than guitars, […]
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Corrosion of Conformity sign with Nuclear Blast Entertainment for 2016 LP
Next year, Corrosion of Conformity will release a new album, on a new label, with a new lineup. Kind of. The band’s forthcoming 10th album, to be released by the multinational metal imprint Nuclear Blast Entertainment, will be the first since 2005’s In The Arms of God to feature singer/guitarist Pepper Keenan (also of Down). […]
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Chapel Hill’s Mipso hits the top of Billboard’s bluegrass charts with Old Time Reverie
Released last week, Mipso’s new album Old Time Reverie has already left its mark on Billboard’s sales charts. The album debuted at the top of the music industry trade magazine’s Bluegrass Chart, and notched No. 20 on the Folk Chart and No. 23 on the Heatseekers Chart—all on the strength of an album on a […]
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With his new program Alda, Dave Yarwood finds his nexus of composition, computer programming and punk
Alda was bound to happen. For five years, Dave Yarwood worked a generic state government office job in Raleigh. He had studied music at UNC-Chapel Hill, with a concentration in composition and bassoon performance. And for more than a decade, he’d played in a score of local rock bandsThe Drowsies, Devour, Future Kings of Nowhere, […]
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Record review: Whatever Brains An Object b/w My Autumn’s Done Come
During the past seven years, and across a selection of tapes, EPs and LPs, Whatever Brains have built a deep and varied catalog, following an arc from their origins as an off-kilter punk band to, it seems, a final destination as art-pop iconoclasts. The band’s latest, the third installment in Sorry State Records’ North Carolina […]
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Bandages release “Endless Blood,” announce 7-inch debut
The Raleigh band Bandages haven’t rushed to release a record. For all their veteran pedigree—the current lineup boasts ex-members of Double Negative and Pollution—Bandages have instead been patient and deliberate, shaping a scathing rush of dense hardcore on stage. Even as the band prepares to make their recorded debut, a two-song entry in Sorry State […]
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Hopscotch 2015: Backyard finds (Locals to rediscover)
Backyard finds:locals to rediscover Though it draws big names from around the world, Hopscotch has always been an excellent showcase of homegrown talent, too. This year is no different, from alt-country heroes American Aquarium on the main stage to Clang Quartet’s blend of harsh noise and religious performance art. Pay special attention to these five […]
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The doom resurrection of Chapel Hill’s MAKE
There is no need to keep knocking. I’m late for band practice at the Chapel Hill home of Scott Endres, the leader of the contemplative doom metal trio MAKE. Their low, deliberate riffs are already rumbling through the brick walls, so they won’t hear me until they take a break. I claim a chair on […]
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Hear the latest from Negative Fun’s NC Tape Series, featuring The Wyrms and Pink Flag
On September 18, Raleigh’s Negative Fun Records will release two cassettes from two local bands: one, a debut from a new group of veteran players, and the other, a once-shelved swan song for a band that regained its footing after a lineup change. The Wyrms’ At Wizard Island boasts a classicist bent behind its distorted […]
