Junk Culture comes to Local 506 with El Ten Eleven Thursday, May 5, at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $10–$12. Deepak Mantena has released music twice under the name Junk Culture: 2009’s West Coast is a collection of J Dilla-inspired beats, while this year’s Summer Friends showcases Mantena’s dexterity with manic dance pop. He’s passionate without […]
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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Tonight: Andrew Weathers’ final N.C. stand
Drew ValentiAndrew Weathers We’re losing a good one: Greensboro’s Andrew Weathers, an avant-garde composer whose evolution can be traced from his solo guitar-via-laptop work as Pacific Before Tiger to the more recent classical drone-folk of the ensemble that takes his name, is finishing at University of North Carolina-Greensboro and summarily moving to California. Good for […]
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Tonight: Tir na nOg hosts 10-band tornado benefit
Jeremy M. LangeCarpenter Ryan Carlson sits underneath a tree that landed on his roof in the Oakwood neighborhood of Raleigh. A record 92 tornadoes tore through North Carolina on April 16. Raleigh is still reeling from the tornado that cut a terrifying line across five counties, tearing into houses and yards and lives. It may […]
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Bands ollie in for Pittsboro Skate Park
Caltrop, Blag’ard, Gasoline Stove and Shred Crust play the Pittsboro Skate Park benefit at the General Store Cafe Saturday, Feb. 26, at 6 p.m. Admission is $10. The “Pittsboro bowl” sits in Tony Sabbagh’s backyard. It’s a concrete depression about the size and shape of a large swimming pool, and it regularly attracts skateboarders to […]
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Homemade, but not lo-fi, Veelee turns two
Veelee plays with Motor Skills and Juan Huevos Sunday, Feb. 13, 9:30 p.m. at Kings. Tickets cost $5. Two years ago at the small Chapel Hill club Nightlight, Veelee played its first show. The new two-piece of Matthew Park and Ginger Wagg gave away homemade keychains that read, “I was at the first Veelee show […]
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Death to False Hope Records’ Scotty Sandwich just wants you—and your kids—to listen
On the bill Death to False Hope may be an online-only clearinghouse for donation-based punk downloads, but that isn’t to say all the bands on the bill for the two-year anniversary festival this weekend fit that mold. The fest, which takes over both Motorco and Fullsteam Brewery, packs a walloping 49 bands onto three stages. […]
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Shit Horse and Evil Wiener’s Christmas Hijinx, Old and New
From Trekky’s mammoth Yuletide Orchestra to Hammer No More the Fingers’ goofball take on They Might Be Giants’ “Snowball in Hell,” the tradition of local holiday rock has, well, snowballed. Remarkably, and thankfully, not much of it is overly sentimental. It’s appropriate to see Carrboro pranksters Shit Horse release a Christmas single. “Little Drummer Boy […]
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Greensboro’s The Bronzed Chorus looks to rewire its mold
The Bronzed Chorus plays Sadlack’s in Raleigh Friday, July 30, with Goodbye Titan and Prawn. The show starts at 7 p.m. After five years in Greensboro’s The Bronzed Chorus, guitarist Adam Joyce was ready for some evolution, but he felt almost tied to his own trademark sound: the drive and sparkle, the optimistic passages of […]
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Saint Solitude, a rare touring Asheville act, gets ready to roll
See Related Events below for upcoming shows. Dup Crosson lives lightly so he can travel that wayand often. The creative force behind Saint Solitude sounds relaxed over the phone, somewhere between his Asheville home and coastal New Jersey, as he pushed his 8-year-old Saturn to yet another tour stop. “Pennsylvania features the Northeast’s largest erotic […]
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Graveyard Fields’ Saturn’s Moon
The expanding universe theory states that the energy of the Big Bang is greater than the mass of the universe. Everything in space retreats from everything else, forever, and eventually all the stars go dark. Cheerful stuff, really. It takes an accomplished lyricist to explain that notion with just two lines (and to not make […]
