Last Year’s Men play behind Slim’s at Hopscotch 2012. Image courtesy of the band. Chapel Hill garage rockers Last Year’s Men are going into the studio in December to record the follow-up to 2010’s Sunny Down Snuff. With regular local shows, a delightfully bizarre Twitter feed, and unhinged, catchy songwriting, they have become a fun […]
Corbie Hill
Bio: Corbie Hill lives on three wooded acres in Pittsboro, where he is a writer, musician, dad of two and community college English instructor. He is a regular contributor to INDY Week's music section.Twitter: http://twitter.com/afraidofthebear
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The comfortable audacity (and Christmas music) of Birds and Arrows
Birds and Arrows joins The Small Ponds with The Fair and the Foul Saturday, Dec. 1, at The Pinhook. The $7 show starts at 8:30 p.m. Andrea Connolly has a broken left arm, but she can still play guitar. The Birds and Arrows singer and co-founder fell from a horse while surveying the 88-acre sprawl […]
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Invisible’s The New Obsolete ends its run in Chapel Hill
Corbie HillJust one part of Invisible’s water-driven drum machine Invisible, Eros and the EschatonNightlightNov. 16, 2012 It’s a rare Nightlight show that starts at 9 p.m., especially on the weekends. Yet this special engagement did exactly that, and was over by 11:15—per the design of headliners Invisible. The Greensboro art-music outfit (band is a tricky […]
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The strange machines and eccentric hobbies of Invisible
Invisible performs at Nightlight Thursday, Nov. 15, and Friday, Nov. 16. Each show begins at 8 p.m. and costs $8. Ama Divers open Thursday, while Eros and Eschaton open Friday. Invisible is a band, and it isn’t. Yes, there are guitars and synthesizers and amplifiers onstage, playing structured music that respects typical performer-and-audience conventions. But […]
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How Invisible gets their sound
Download this page as it appeared in print: JPG or PDF Location: Greensboro, N.C. Formed: 2006 Who they are: Mark Dixon, Jonathan Henderson, Jodi Staley, Bart Trotman Philosophy: “Invisible has always worked with old junk that we find on the side of the road or thrift store instrumentsthe cast-off objects of society. That’s a practicality […]
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Yoderfest grows in year two
Chris Yoder: self-portrait Chris Yoder’s friends are doing what they can to honor his memory. The local music lover died of heat stroke at Bonnaroo 2011, and Sunday sees the second Raleigh festival bearing his name. The first Yoderfest, a four-band affair at the Pour House, took place in August of last year. This weekend’s […]
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MAKE’s Scott Endres talks about new EP, Axis
Jeffrey HollisStudio time: MAKE’s Scott Endres (L) and Matt Stevenson (R) MAKE’s debut LP, Trephine, got folks’ attention: The 2011 offering made many best-of lists, including the Indy‘s, and garnered a flurry of press. Last Wednesday at midnight, the band released the first post-Trephine EP, Axis, on its Bandcamp site. The titular opening track is […]
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Compass Center benefit: Tonight at Chapel Hill Underground
Greg HutchinsonBoykiller, Friday at Chapel Hill Underground Friday sees five predominately female acts take the stage at Chapel Hill Underground to benefit the Compass Center for Women and Families. This organization was formed from a merger of the Family Violence Prevention Center of Orange County and The Women’s Center with the goal of preventing domestic […]
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Savagist and Bitter Resolve: Tonight at Slim’s
It gets loud from here: Bitter Resolve We goofed: A blurb that ran yesterday said Arizona minimalist garage duo Acorn Bcorn would play Slim’s on Thursday, Oct. 4. It was supposed to say Oct. 3. This mistake has been corrected online, but the misprint still overshadows an excellent heavy bill booked at Slim’s for tonight […]
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Horseback’s Impale Golden Horn to see vinyl release (and slick new artwork)
Impale Golden Horn’s new look: art by Denis Forkas Kostromitin Debut Horseback (AKA Jenks Miller) LP Impale Golden Horn will see a vinyl release Oct. 23 jointly through Three Lobed Recordings and Divide By Zero Records. Impale‘s patient dronescapes have been released twice on CD (once by Indy Music Editor Grayson Currin’s former label Burly […]