“Pretty girls/Pretty boys/Have you ever heard your mommy say/Noise annoys,” The Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley once sang. Here to prove mommy wrong is Oops! The Tour, which is coming to the Triangle this week. The idea for the event originated with a series of concerts held in Chicago in the ’90s that featured a revolving cast […]
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Dilated Pupils
There exists a netherworld of rabid musicians and fans whose penchant for soaring guitar lines, coupled with an unhealthy love of ’60s “out music,” created the space rock phenomenon of the end of last century. These days, only a few superior, stalwart groups remain after the genre’s heyday. But since their inception in the mid-’90s, […]
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Boards of Canada
It’s been nearly five years since Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison (aka Boards of Canada) released their groundbreaking dream-beat record, Music Has the Right to Children. While the disc’s samples of kids playing and down-tempo beauty wooed lovers of drone guitar bands (such as My Bloody Valentine) and beat heads alike, the duo have since […]
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Work Clothes
Work Clothes are Carrboro’s Jenny Scheitler and Lee Waters, and they’ve both been making music in this area for years. Scheitler has worked with Bevel and Clok Lok, while Waters is a mainstay of punk outfits in the Triangle, serving in Cobra Khan, Panzer, and recently joining The Ghost of Rock (whose Ron Liberti and […]
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Bats and Mice
Naming all the rock bands in which these guys currently or once claimed membership would take a while, but the only one that’s relevant is the Virginia group Sleepytime Trio, an on-again, off-again screaming emo-punk quartet that included Chapel Hill resident Ben Davis. As on the Ben Davis Conspiracy’s recent album, this debut full-length from […]
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Static Flow
“Yo, let me clarify that. Early hip-hop was always electronic.” MC Beans, in an interview with the Indy, is speaking from a buzzing NYC office discussing the crackling underground hip-hop group he performs with, Anti-Pop Consortium. APC will be hitting the Cat’s Cradle (and the Triangle) for the first time this Friday, April 5. The […]
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Go Back Snowball
In the arena of the most capable, prolific songwriters in modern rock music, the two fellows on this disc are top seeds in the pop bracket. Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan and Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices team up on this long distance collaboration, with McCaughan composing a tape of instrumental tracks and sending it to […]
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Infinit Style
Independent hip-hop artists in the Triangle hone their skills in the raw setting of live competition, forcing each other to up the ante on every exchange of lyrical flow or DJ action on the decks. The battles are always fiery and explosive, with dueling turntablists fighting to represent for themselves. The spotlight is undoubtedly the […]
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Cex
What’s a pasty former emo-punk kid doing behind that laptop, raising the roof with his hands in the air like he’s onstage at a Jay-Z show? To respectfully borrow a line from Salt ‘n Pepa: “Let’s talk about Cex.” This wiry Baltimore-spawned 20-year-old, otherwise known as Rjyan Kidwell, is part of a young clique succeeding […]
