Erik Anderson They’re in there somewhere: North Elementary North Elementary, Some Army Kings, Raleigh Friday, May 16, 2014 There weren’t many people at King’s in Raleigh Friday night for North Elementary‘s Honcho Poncho LP release show: the 20 or 30 people in attendance largely hugged the walls or hovered at the bar, while the headliner […]
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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Sylvan Esso’s wonderful electro-pop debut stems from two lifetimes spent in training
Sylvan Esso With The Human Eyes Friday, May 9, 9 p.m. SOLD OUT Cat’s Cradle Amelia Meath won’t be able to enjoy her front porch very often this summer. Actually, if her career continues its current meteoric ascent, this may be one of the last afternoons she spends here for the better part of the […]
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crowdsource, the new multimedia project from Baobab’s Phil Torres
Adam Graetz In Baobab, Phil Torres constructed elaborate pop songs that suggested both the chaos and rigid order of an active mind. With that project on hiatus, Torres has started a new, performance-oriented solo act. Now, as crowdsource, Torres manipulates audio and video streams, mixing between the two to create an experience specific to each […]
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Live review: John Howie Jr. & The Rosewood Bluff turn The Cave into a rainforest
It was hot in The Cave Saturday night; with dozens of people packed into the front room to see both John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff and Magnolia Collective play, the room felt like a rainforest, albeit altered by the smell of beer and mixed drinks. In short, it was the perfect spot to […]
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Listening with John Howie Jr.
John Howie Jr. & The Rosewood Bluff CD Release Party with Magnolia Collective @ The Cave April 12, 10:00 pm $5 Of course John Howie Jr. wants to meet in a singlewide down a Chatham County dirt road. For two decades, after an adolescence and early adulthood spent making punk and indie rock, he has […]
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Future Islands’ international star is rising, but their roots run back to North Carolina
On a Monday in early March, Hugh Cashion bought a digital video projector, set it up in his living room and invited his friends over so that they could stay up late. His son, William, was set to make his national television debut with his band, the pulsing electro-pop soul men of Future Islands, that […]
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Rogue Band of Youth’s Rogue Band of Youth
Thinking of Rogue Band of Youth as a standalone outfit is difficult: The members are part of an extended family that includes local acts like Schooner and Some Army, of which primary vocalist Patrick O’Neill is a member. Will Clinton, the driving force of Wichita Falls, recorded Rogue’s self-titled debut LP. They are, in fact, […]
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Cry of Love vocalist Kelly Holland died depressed, but not alone
Kelly Holland Memorial & Benefit With Hank Sinatra, Tuesday’s Gone, The Wannabees, Super Jam Sunday, March 23 $5, 5:30 p.m. Lincoln Theatre Kelly Holland knew he was dying, and he wanted out of the hospital. Doctors had given him between two and five months to live, but he didn’t want to spend them in a […]
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Indigo Girls, Des Ark, Del McCoury, and dozens other to play Shakori Hills April 17-20
The original DMB: The Del McCoury Band plays Shakori Hills this April For such a massive festival, Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival—the four-day weekend of music and mud on a 72-acre site just north of Pittsboro—doesn’t worry with big announcements. On Sunday, the festival created and posted its official Facebook event. The lineup, too, just went […]
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Live review: Future Islands at the Haw River Ballroom
At the end of last night’s sold-out Future Islands show at Saxapahaw’s Haw River Ballroom, vocalist Samuel Herring asked to have the house lights turned up—not a lot, just a little—to “strip the artifice for this last one.” Then the band played “Little Dreamer,” an old and tender song, written, as Herring pointed out, in […]