OFF! With Bad Antics, Gay Kiss, Davidians Tuesday, Aug. 19, 8:30 p.m. $13–$15 kingsbarcade.com He was a hardcore legend, the co-founder of two of the form’s biggest bands, but Keith Morris languished on the shelf for nearly a dozen years, wasting away instead of making music. He was in Black Flag long before Henry Rollins; […]
Chris Parker
Bio: After a fond stint in the Triangle, Chris Parker lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where he writes about music and politics for a variety of newspapers and magazines. He has written about music for INDY Week since 2002.
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To benefit a new foundation, some of the state’s foundational bands reconvene
Be Loud! With The Pressure Boys, Let’s Active, The Connells & more Friday, Aug. 8, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 9, 2 p.m. & 9 p.m., $10–$40 Cat’s Cradle Sophie Steiner never did quite fit in at the hospital. In November 2012, doctors diagnosed Steiner with germ-cell cancer. She was 14 and surrounded by young kids […]
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Crash-test smarty Five words with rowdy raconteur Bob Log III
Bob Log III with The Pork Torta Thursday, July 31 $10–$12, 9 p.m. The Pinhook thepinhook.com Bob Log III is a one-man music wrecking machine. Like Evel Knievel’s mutant, slide-guitarist twin, the helmet-wearing, jumpsuit-clad rock ‘n’ roller produces a wall of distortion-drenched blues. An unhinged showman, he even crowd-surfsin a raft, from which he continues […]
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Jefferson Hart & Ghosts of the Old North State’s Corolla Ponies in the Snow
COROLLA PONIES IN THE SNOW (BOMBAY RECORDS) The back jacket of Jefferson Hart’s new album, Corolla Ponies in the Snow, depicts two horses trudging over soggy ground, their heads and shoulders slumped. It’s as though the lonely redundancy and emptiness of their days have finally begun to weigh on them. This tensionbetween moving past despair […]
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Jon Shain talks about the blues and a new LP
Starting tomorrow, Durham’s 9th Annual Warehouse Blues Series inaugurates four Fridays of outdoor shows at the Pavilion in Durham Central Park, with the theme of all of the shows being a focus on the slide guitar. This week’s featured performers include Jon Shain, Melissa Swingle (Trailer Bride, The Moaners) and duo the River Otters. The […]
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“Hell” and back again: Tom Maxwell’s tale (and new LP)
Like a vintage shirt from the back of the closet, Tom Maxwell has returned to the rotation, and it’s a good look. On Monday, the former Squirrel Nut Zipper announced the impending release of a new album and book. After an eleven-year recording hiatus, it’s his second album in three years. Maxwell’s fronting a new […]
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The Baseball Project mines the diamond of a national pastime’s folklore
The Baseball Project at the Triple-A All-Star Block Party Saturday, July 12, Free 6–10 p.m. Durham Bulls Athletic Park, durhambulls.com at Schoolkids Records’ 40 Anniversary Party Sunday, July 13, Free 5 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, lincolntheatre.com There’s a band for the wizard universe of J.K. Rowling, another for cooking up pizza-inspired Velvet Underground covers and yet […]
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Art of Cool jazz camps brings decades of tradition to the next generation
After inaugurating a heralded Durham jazz-plus festival in April, the nonprofit Art of Cool Project has launched a summer jazz camp in cooperation with Global Scholars Academy (GSA), a Durham charter school. The 6-day program, which started on Monday, will give 33 kids between third and seventh grade an introduction to jazz and the blues, […]
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At CDS, photos of hardcore’s early history
Lucian Perkins was just a 26-year-old Washington Post intern when he began chronicling the incipient D.C. hardcore scene in 1979. Perkins, who graduated with a degree in biology before being enticed into photography, would go on to win two Pulitzers as the Post’s staff photographer, a position he still holds. The images featured in this […]
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Growing old with Widespread Panic
Widespread Panic With Galactic Thursday, June 5–Friday, June 6, 7 p.m. $42.50 Red Hat Amphitheater Widespread Panic After-Parties Thursday, June 5: Big Something, 11 p.m., $8–$10 Friday, June 6: Leftover Salmon, Spongecake & The Fluff Ramblers 10 p.m., $17–$20 Lincoln Theatre When Chris Malarkey was in high school in Richmond, Va., a friend tricked him […]
