How to Sharpen Pencils By David Rees Melville House; 224 pp. David Rees appears 7 p.m. Friday, May 11, at The Regulator Bookshop in Durham. If you send David Rees an unsharpened No. 2 pencil and $12.50, he’ll mail you back a sharpened pencil. He’ll also return a bag of shavings because, as he writes […]
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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Foreign exchange: UNC Beat Lab curriculum to be taught in Goma, DRC
May 13th is UNC’s graduation date, which makes it an appropriate day for the UNC Beat Making Lab to release its free compilation. These 13 tracks—which draw samples from a wide variety of North Carolina acts—represent the final project from a course on beat-making taught by The Beast emcee Pierce Freelon and Chapel Hill producer […]
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Following the jagged pattern from one Horseback LP to another
Relapse Records releases Half Blood May 8. Jenks Miller has been working on Half Blood, the new LP from his prolific metal hybridizers Horseback, for several yearsat least since the heavy music titan Relapse Records added the Chapel Hill musician to its roster. His 2009 LP, The Invisible Mountain, earned Relapse’s attention, resulting in a […]
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The end of the road for Monoslang: Raleigh band plays final show tonight
Johnny BiddyHappier times: Monoslang’s EP release at Kings, Jan 14 Monoslang hadn’t planned for tonight’s Pour House show to be its last. If anything, the bill at the 350-capacity room sounds like a natural followup to the band’s January 14 self-titled EP release show, which bassist Will Crockett says 185 people attended. Yet on Monday, […]
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Listening with Caltrop
Read our extended interview with Caltrop. Caltrop plays a CD release party Saturday, March 24, at Cat’s Cradle. Tickets for the 9:15 p.m. show are $5–$7. Pipe, Black Skies and Dave Heumann open. Read our extended interview with Caltrop. It’s a warm March day in Carrboro, perfect for this kind of practice break. The dudes […]
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Live hip-hop and punk tonight on East Franklin, but Zog’s isn’t a venue.
I’m on a boat, motherfucker: PT Burnem plays Russia as part of 2011’s Rap Ambassadors Tour. Image courtesy of the artist. While West Franklin and Carrboro are more typically the home for live music — original stuff, at least — there seems to be at least the seeds of something similar in East Franklin. Chapel […]
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In Organos, Maria Albani has built her sound her way
Organos plays The Pinhook Saturday, March 10, with The Spacemen and Curtains. The $6 show starts at 9 p.m. See more dates below. The Standard is a new Chapel Hill pub in a familiar space. On Rosemary Street, it claims the room that used to be FUSEa restaurant, bar, art house and occasional music club […]
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Gray Young plays Kickstarter awareness show Friday at Slim’s
Photo by Corbie HillGray Young at Local 506, May 2011 Raleigh’s Gray Young—whose first record was praised by this paper and second record was panned—is raising funds via Kickstarter to record its third LP. This Friday, with 11 days left to reach its $5,000 goal, the band will play Slim’s in Raleigh to raise awareness […]
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New Red Collar record due this summer
Jo KingsburyRed Collar vs. plastic lawn chairs On June 12, Durham’s sociopolitical firebrand rock outfit Red Collar will release its second LP, Welcome Home, the followup to 2009’s Pilgrim. And though the band doesn’t play as regularly as it did around Pilgrim time, the three-year wait for Welcome Home comes from a desire to get […]
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After seven years, Country Bears beat the logistical odds for one more show
Country Bears join Flesh Wounds and Swordmasters of Ginaz at Chapel Hill Underground Saturday, Feb. 25, at 9:30 p.m. Steve Wright has been in at least 10 bands since he was 13. He lived in San Francisco and toured the West Coast in various outfits before moving to Chapel Hill and doing much the same […]