For a decade, the Troika Music Festival brought dozens of bands to Durham venues for three nights in the fall. Sometimes it was a harmonious affair. Sometimes it was a mess. But it was still Durham’s homegrown celebration of local music. And now it’s over, per an announcement on the festival’s website. Its original purpose, […]
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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Andrew Weathers heads west to expand the dialogue of his experimental music
Andrew Weathers plays the Nightlight Thursday, July 28, at 9:30 p.m. Bicameral Mind, Khristian Weeks and Remora open. Just days after he plays the Nightlight on Thursday, the Chapel Hill-raised, Greensboro-schooled experimental composer Andrew Weathers will pack his belongings into his Toyota 4Runner and head west, to California. This news still surprises him.
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The Protomen are a bridge between gaming and the mainstream
The Protomen play Local 506 Monday, July 25, at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8, and The Wiley Fosters open. Like a phantasmagorical video game character, nostalgia can take the strangest shapes: Monday night at Local 506, for instance, it will be embodied by a rock opera that further fictionalizes the Mega Man games that became […]
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Bitter Resolve’s misfits march forward
Bitter Resolve joins Hog and Caltrop Friday, July 1, at Nightlight. The 10 p.m. show costs $5. The brick ranch home that Corey Dial, the guitarist in slumbering metal trio Bitter Resolve, rents sits in dense woods. Indeed, were it not for the murmur of nearby traffic, it would be easy to forget how close […]
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Pink Flag’s King of Scene
Pink Flag releases King of Scene Saturday, June 18 at Motorco Music Hall. The $10 cover gets you a copy of the EP. The Pharmacy Spirits open at 8 p.m. Punk is a funny word. Sure, there are the irksome hard-liners who insist on a rigid, form-based definition, but punk’s most useful as an indicator […]
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The Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation lends visibility—and sound—to environmental issues
The Moderate and The Oatmeal Conspiracy play Sweetwater Brewing’s “Save the Neuse” benefit Friday, June 10, at The Pour House. Tickets cost $8–$10, and the music starts at 9 p.m. The “Save the Neuse” tagline for the Sweetwater Brewing-sponsored Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation benefit this weekend relies on dramatic immediacy, implying a critical moment of activism […]
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Durham metal titans Tooth split into two bands; finally, one pushes beyond the past
Hog releases Archetypes Friday, May 20, at Casbah in Durham. The Bronzed Chorus and Monsonia open the $8–$10 show at 9 p.m. Hog’s first release, the four-song EP Archetypes, isn’t a starting point in the traditional sense. Rather, it’s the last word in the complicated dissolution of Durham metal band Tooth. Hog is one of […]
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The Love Language, The Connells and Marcy Playground (?) to headline tornado benefit
In the wake of recent Raleigh tornado benefits at Kings and Tir na nOg, and another next week at The Pour House, the city will officially throw its own musical assist next month. The event—dubbed Rise Up Raleigh headlined by The Connells, The Love Language and Marcy Playground, or that band who sang “Sex and […]
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Tonight, a benefit for a late heavy metal fan
Carrie Martin was a mother of two, a tattoo artist and a lover of local heavy music. She worked at Raleigh’s No Shame Tattoo and “didn’t have insurance,” says DIVEbar Raleigh booking agent Robby Rodwell. “So there’s a lot of bills that need to be taken care of.” And, though she died in March, Raleigh’s […]
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Live: Andrew Weathers doesn’t say farewell—not yet, at least
Note: Last week, I was in error. I said that Andrew Weathers’ senior recital in Greensboro was his sendoff, inferring it was our last chance to catch this remarkable young composer before his upcoming move to Oakland, where he’ll pursue an MFA in electronic music at Mills College. Yet he isn’t actually leaving until August, […]
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