Nora Rogers laughs as she says it, but one thing she loves about playing guitar is restraint. She’s sitting on the carpeted floor of the little Carrboro room where her bands Solar Halos and Object Hours practice, and just in front of her is the wall of amps and speaker cabinets that brings her instrument’s […]
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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Our State’s Eco-Fashion Outfits Save the World One Shirt (Made of Plastic Bottles) at a Time
As a college student, Rebecca Kuhns slept outside in fifteen-degree weather as a protest against sweatshop conditions. Then she finished med school. She says that, as a black woman, she was raised to seek a prestigious careermedicine, law, academiato honor the struggles of the people who made civil rights and professional opportunity a reality. So […]
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To Find His Home in the Triangle, Charles Latham Had to Get Away From It
CHARLES LATHAM Thursday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m., $7 The Pinhook, Durham Inside Cocoa Cinnamon it’s lively with conversation, but outside, where Charles Latham sits at a table sipping herbal tea, it’s quieter and quite a bit colder. But the songwriter, clad in a denim jacket, is properly prepared for the moment and very much in […]
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After a Bout with Rheumatoid Arthritis, The Bronzed Chorus’s Adam Joyce Renews His Musical Mission
The Bronzed Chorus Thursday, September 22, 9:30 p.m., free The Pour House, Raleigh Adam Joyce developed a pain in his foot when he was thirty-one. OK, he thought, maybe it’s just wear and tear. He works with his hands, after all, at Skram Furniture Company in Burlington. Maybe aches and pains come with the territory. […]
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Did You Get a Terrible Tat as a Teen? You Can Fix That.
The front room of Glenn’s Tattoo Service is walled with classic tattoo-shop imagerynaked ladies, square-rigged sailing ships, devils and skeletons. It’s a hot Tuesday in July, and I’m just happy to be inside, out of the Carrboro sun. Cody Abell, tattooed from ankles to temples and wearing a perpetual half-smile, strides in from the other […]
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How Metropolitan Malaise Led Brice Randall Bickford to His Beautiful New LP
BRICE RANDALL BICKFORD Saturday, July 30, 8 p.m., $12–$15 The ArtsCenter, Carrboro www.artscenterlive.org An American couple backpacking in Bolivia got off a bus and hiked nine miles into the city of Tarija. They arrived as the sun came up, but everything was shut down. The roads were barricaded by vehicles parked nose-to-tail. It was a […]
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Listening with Brett Harris: The Pop Tunesmith Talks the Beatles, Big Star, and Local Favorites
Brett Harris Kings, Raleigh Friday, June 24, 9 p.m., $10–$12 It’s a sleepy night at Brett Harris’s home in suburban Durham. The indie-pop songwriter has hardly been here in months. He’s been busy traveling, either touring in support of his excellent March album Up in the Air or performing with other projects, including an acclaimed […]
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Personal Journalist: Exploring the Peculiar Perspective of Prolific Raleigh Singer-Songwriter Al Riggs
We’re idling at the end of a cul-de-sac, and we couldn’t be more obvious. We’re outside of a big house at the end of a little neighborhood in Fuquay-Varina. The three-story brick home with the pond and the dock has been well kept, its paint bright and shrubs trimmed. Two cars are in the drive, […]
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We Talk to Henry Rollins About His Anti-HB 2 piece in LA Weekly, He Reads Our Minds
“North Carolina, I love you,” Henry Rollins titled his latest LA Weekly column, “but your governor is an asshole.” If you haven’t read it, go do so right now. In his own foul-mouthed, egalitarian way, Rollins simultaneously condemns Governor Pat McCrory and the legislators behind HB 2 and defends the people of the state. He’s […]
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Live: In Carrboro, The Veldt Is Not Beholden to Its Long History
The Veldt Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro Monday, April 11, 2016 As The Veldt closed its Cat’s Cradle Back Room set Monday night, the last words vocalist Daniel Chavis sang were “wanna find another way.” The midsize crowd was pressed close to the stage, as requested by the band before starting “Symmetry.” Daniel, his guitarist […]
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