PEARL JAM WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 PNC ARENA, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $68 I didn’t marry any of my high school girlfriends, and I don’t listen to Pearl Jam much anymore, but damn if I don’t owe a debt of awkward gratitude to both. I was like any teenager, falling hard for my first loves. Pearl Jam […]
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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Your Money, Their Time: How Some Army’s Decision To Go Slow After a Kickstarter Campaign Made One Stone and Too Many Birds Better
Some Army Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro Friday, April 8, 9 p.m., $7–$10 The first time it rained, the water flooded Russ Baggett’s new sanctuary. It was the summer of 2015, and the Some Army bandleader had just moved to Alabama. His wife, Hannah Baggett, had finished her doctorate at N.C. State and found work at Auburn […]
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After Battling Racism, Record-Label Executives, and Nineties Nostalgia, The Veldt Returns to Tell Its Story—And Perhaps For a Second Chance?
In the old days, The Veldt’s vibe might not have been so mellow. On a warm weekday afternoon, most of the banda longtime Raleigh cult favorite whose pioneering distortion-soaked soul went tragically overlooked amid the rise of indie rocksits on cushions around a low, worn wooden table in the downtown apartment of cofounder Daniel Chavis. […]
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Apocalypse No: How Making Happy Metal Makes SOON Happy
At the end of the record-release party for Vol. 1, the debut by the heavy Triangle quartet SOON, the band opted to close with a cover. It was The Cure’s “Plainsong,” a decidedly non-metal selection for one of the Triangle’s most alluring, aggressive new acts. Still, the version was slow and heavy and crushingly loud, […]
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Live: How Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage Left Me Stranded in Space
Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage DPAC, Durham Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016 On Thursday night, I went to see Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage at DPAC. It is a live orchestral performance of Star Trek music, accompanied by a cinematic clip show. A week has passed, and I’m just now forming my opinion. I was supposed […]
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Caltrop’s Murat Dirlik left the band and the Triangle for Costa Rica. But not before making a heartbroken stunner.
In North Carolina, it’s sweater weather. The wind is cool and damp, the ground riddled with strata of soggy, decaying leaves. But not so along Costa Rica’s western shore, where, not far from celebrated Pacific swells, Murat Dirlik sits outside in the middle of a sunny Playa Grande afternoon. He’s shirtless and drinking homemade wine. […]
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Out with the old, in with the blues: Caltrop bassist Murat Dirlik releases wonderful, heartbroken solo LP
Caltrop was a lot of things, but it was rarely gentle. A heavy, heavy band from Chapel Hill that edged blues-rock into metal territory with enviable technicality, the group bid farewell at a February show at The Kraken. Guitarist Sam Taylor is in Morehead City now raising a family, while bassist Murat Dirlik moved to […]
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The Charming Youngsters made Middleweights, one of the Triangle’s best indie rock records in 2015. Are they gone for good, though?
It’s a Monday night in Durham, and Nolan Smock is tired. In recent weeks, the 31-year-old singer-songwriter has been sorting through the logistics of his January wedding to his bandmate Kathryn JacksonKJ, as he calls her. Smock has been working shifts at Bull City Records. And now he’s at the storage-unit practice space of his […]
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Review: The electronic excellence of GNØER’s Tethers Down
During its 14 years as a band, Goner released four remarkable LPs. The last, 2013’s Faking the Wisdom, cut a memorable line between the poignant narratives of late-period Joe Strummer and Big Star’s insistent power pop, peppered by bits of R.E.M. and Springsteen. Trapped in dreary towns and surrounded by losers, the tragic characters of […]
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Shopping for records, talking fashion with Raleigh phenom Boulevards
Boulevards with T0W3RS, Mikey Maison Friday, Nov. 27, 9 p.m. $10–$12 Kings 14 W. Martin St., Raleigh 919-833-1091 www.kingsbarcade.com Jamil Rashad walks into Capital Club 16 and slides directly onto a seat at the bar. It’s lunchtime on a Thursday, but he’s impeccably dressedmirrored sunglasses, denim jacket, a button-down shirt tucked into straight-leg jeans lifted […]
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