Midtown Dickens and Kairaba co-headline a dual CD release show at Cat’s Cradle Saturday, April 7, at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5. Everything changes; that’s just living. The axiom has been especially true for quixotic Durham act Midtown Dickens, a songwriting pair of lifelong best friends who’ve never let their band sit still. When Kym […]
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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Michael Rank & STAG’s Kin
STAG joins Melissa Swingle and Calico Haunts at The Cave Friday, April 6, at 10 p.m. They play with The Magnolia Collective and Calico Haunts at Motorco Friday, April 13. Michael Rank’s been sporting that “What Would Keith Richards Do?” bracelet so long it’s fused to his skin. That STAG, the new band from the […]
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The growing market of kids music
Keller Williams plays for the kids Wednesday, Dec. 28, at Lincoln Theatre. Tickets are $17 for the 3:30 p.m. show, with a signing of Because I Said So to follow. Keller Williams plays with Kdubalicious that night at 8 p.m. “This one goes out to the kids“: It’s arguably the hoariest sentiment in all of […]
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Jeff Hart’s Ghosts of the Old North State (Singles 1991-2011)
Jeff Hart releases Ghosts of the Old North State Saturday, Dec. 10, at The Cave. The show starts at 10 p.m. Jeff Hart’s music suggests a new friend whose company becomes increasingly pleasurable the more time you spend in his presence. Hart’s distinctive baritone possesses a slight twang and an easygoing manner. Those qualities make […]
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The Magnolia Collective gets past its ghosts
The Magnolia Collective plays with The Moaners and Stag Saturday, Dec. 3, at Local 506 at 10 p.m. The $8 cover includes a free copy of Ghost Stories. The story of the Magnolia Collective is one of friendship, an asset that even high seas and long distance sometimes can’t destroy. Daniel Snyder grew up in […]
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The P-90’s Limited Supply EP
The P-90’s play Motorco Wednesday, Nov. 23, with Almost People and B Side Project. Remember when you were still young and pissed off? Billie Feather does, because it was about five minutes ago, judging from the fury in the half-dozen amped-up rockers found on Limited Supply, the debut EP from The P-90’s. The Winston-Salem native’s […]
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Tonight: Southern Culture brings its Halloween release to the stage
Southern Culture’s new Halloween-themed release, Zombified, is a look back as well as forward. That’s because eight tracks are remastered versions of a SCOTS 1998 Australian tour EP, Zombified, joined by five new songs. Befitting the theme, SCOTS exchange their usual fascination with redneck living for a horror movie set dressed in vampires, witches, zombies, […]
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Stratocruiser’s The Spark
Stratocruiser isn’t going for style points. That’s certainly not to say their mix of bar-band rock and power pop isn’t competent; rather, The Spark is as crisply recorded and executed as any of their ’70s rock radio influences. But they haven’t been trying to impress or innovate, especially in the past. The lack of solos […]
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Sinful Savage Tigers’ The Last Night of the Revels
For Chapel Hill’s Sinful Savage Tigers, there’s no escaping comparisons to The Avett Brothers, given the shared geographical proximity, string-band instrumentation, rich harmonies and gift for a hook that the two bands share. But as with the Avetts, bluegrass is only the jumping off point, or the sepia-shaded medium for richly melodic meditations on the […]
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Insane Clown Posse’s fan reflection
Insane Clown Posse plays Lincoln Theatre Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $28.50–$32. Twiztid and Blaze open. Insane Clown Posse is the Grateful Dead of horror-rap: Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J have created their own traveling cult of the dispossessed around the somewhat poetic concept of a strange carnival sideshow. Like their […]