Listen! Listen to Radio Birdman’s “We’ve Come So Far (To Be Here Today)” from the new album Zeno Beach. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Sometimes, the right guys get the second chances. Overshadowed by their Aussie brethren The Saints, Radio Birdman formed around the same time in […]
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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On July 4, Joey Chestnut could become America’s king
Listen! Listen to Billy Sugarfix’s “Jaws,” an exclusive for the Independent Weekly. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Listen! Listen to Billy Sugarfix’s “Jaws,” an exclusive for the Independent Weekly. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Listen! Listen to Billy Sugarfix’s […]
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Des Ark
When drummer Tim Herzog left Des Ark in the fall of 2005, singer and guitarist Aimee Argote was crestfallen. She’d spent the better part of the decade with Herzog, building the band, playing living rooms and basements across the country and releasing one LP, Loose Lips Sink Ships, on Raleigh label Bifocal Media. “Sometimes you […]
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KRS-One
Without history, there is no foundation. What does McGwire mean without Maris and Mantle? Or Einstein without Newton? Bush without Dad? Modest Mouse without the Pixies? As rap struggles with its identity now caught in a schism between underground combatants and commercial clockers, it seems like it’s time for more heads to embrace their antecedents. […]
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The Rosebuds locks itself at home and emerges with its most extroverted album yet
Read our review of Night of the Furies. It’s a classic: Dad makes Mom mad. Mom kills Dad. Mom remarries. Son kills Mom and avenges Dad. Son is haunted. Oh, the Greeks and their tragedies. The Oresteiaa three-part tragedy about the curse on the House of Atreusfinds its tragic hero, Orestes, tortured by a chorus […]
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Peeping Tom
Peeping Tom has been billed as the closest Mike Patton has come to making pop music since he was a teenager singing “Epic” in Faith No More. Indeed, Peeping Tom is a studio-born Patton project, built ground-up from samples taken from e-mail collaborations with experimental favorites and bona fide pop stars alikeAmon Tobin, Kool Keith, […]
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The Moaners slide down to ‘ssippi for their second LP
Read our Record Review and listen to a track from Blackwing Yalobusha. When people talk about Mississippi being a whole other part of the world, they’re talking about places like the Sardis Motel. That’s where The Moaners stayed while they recorded their new album, Blackwing Yalobusha. They weren’t alone in the Sardis. There in those […]
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Southern Culture on the Skids
Listen! Listen to “Rose Garden” from Southern Culture on the Skids. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. If we were to deconstruct Southern Culture on the Skids like an alarm clock, loosening the screws of their countrabilly chassis, we’d discover their genius isn’t in the pieces. It’s not […]
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Chapel Hill’s the dB’s play Carrboro
the dB’s (Chris Stamey, Will Rigby, Peter Holsapple, Gene Holder) With The Mayflies USA Friday, Feb. 2, 9 p.m. Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro Tickets: $15 The fabric of music, like that of life, is woven from chance and timing. But for a broken bus heater, would Buddy Holly be here today? And what if J.P. “Big […]
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Elvisfest returns to Franklin Street
Elvisfest, featuring 20 bands West Franklin Street (Local 506 and Shorty’s), Chapel Hill Friday and Saturday, Jan. 5 and 6, 8 p.m. Details: www.local506.com, elvisfest.loserville.net If Elvis were a country, we’d all be its citizens. Like a lamented lost uncle, his heritage courses through our shared musical arteries sure as blood. This doesn’t necessarily ensure […]
