Schooner and The Kingsbury Manx Pinhook, Durham Jan. 30, 2009 Downtown Durham welcomes The Pinhook with open arms, and for good reason. Sure, the club provides a new watering hole for the Bull City, but it also aspires to become a legitimate music venue hosting performances on the regular. The spot’s run by a cadre […]
Chris Toenes
Posted inMusic
Superchunk’s Clambakes Volume Four: Sur La Bouche-Live in Montreal 1993
“You didn’t realize you’d entered a weight-loss program when you came in here, did you?” Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan asked an attentive Montreal nightclub crowd in 1993 during a marathon 80-minute gig captured on tape and presented as the fourth installment of the band’s live release series, Clambakes. McCaughan was referring to the pogo dancing […]
Posted inMusic
After four years, The Reservoir’s cup still overflows
For the regulars, there’s a wave of reverence and remembrance upon passing through The Reservoir’s entrance: There, facing the walkway, the long bar’s corner stands in the same spot where the stage of Go! Studiosone of the Triangle’s best rock rooms between 1998 and 2004once stood. Curtsying to that cornerstone isn’t required, but it would […]
Posted inMusic
The psychedelic mavens of Grails corrode expected forms
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. In his Portland, Ore., home, Alex Hall drinks coffee and talks above electronic minimalists Pan Sonic, who squelch from his stereo while he packs for tour. Since 2002, his band, Grails, has toured Europe more than America, but the band’s […]
Posted inMusic
Live: The Juan Maclean at Local 506
The Juan Maclean Friday, Sept. 27 Local 506, Chapel Hill What happened at the 506 last night wasn’t what anyone expected: The club’s sound engineer conceded that New York’s The Juan Maclean didn’t think the crowd would be nearly as sizable or as lively as it was. But the large group of 20-somethings that flowed […]
Posted inMusic
Spread music forever
Reunions of the family and school sort mostly suffer their own nostalgia. People talk longingly about the good old days (a futile if necessary human instinct) and lament the present through a bent lens of regret (what they could’ve been, etc.). But, hey, look how bald Freddy is, right? Come the Freak On, a reunion […]
Posted inMusic
Lois Deloatch’s Hymn to Freedom: Homage to Oscar Peterson
Though renowned pianist and jazz leader Oscar Peterson lies at the heart of Lois Deloatch’s fourth record, she covers a lot of territory on her way to that center. Judging from the breadth of song choicesfrom the top of the album’s traditional “Down by the Riverside” to its closing with a re-examination of “Auld Lang […]
Posted inMusic
Durham’s Lois Deloatch charms and educates with her tribute to Oscar Peterson
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Lois Deloatch is more than a jazz singer. Her fluid interpretation of a vocalist’s role transcends being only a medium for the music. She often becomes a caretaker of the music’s history, an advocate of its redemptive power. Her latest […]
Posted inMusic
CyTunes: The tale of a beneficent upstart online music provider
Ed.’s Note: Throughout the next two months, we will be updating this story with news in the development of CyTunes.org, an unique online music provider whose profits will support Cy Rawls, diagnosed with a brain tumor last month. Writer Chris Toenes is a friend of Rawls, and they’ve both worked at WXDU and WXYC, though […]
Posted inMusic
Extreme Animals recreates itself with old sounds
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Extreme Animals’ 2005 record, I Gotta Be Me, featured two versions of “Garf’s Nightmare,” a pulsing, minimal number. Given the ready-made remix-and-repackage culture we live in, two takes of one track sharing a record isn’t so surprising. But this alternate […]
