Last night, Baltimore’s Future Islands played The Late Show with David Letterman. The dramatic synth-pop trio is still claimed for the Triangle by many local musicians and fans, largely due to their origins in nearby Greenville, but also because of their continued personal and professional connections to North Carolina. While they have not called the […]
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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Gone quiet: Aimée Argote talks Des Ark’s upcoming, gentler record
Aimée Argote is in Austin, at least through today. The Chatham County-based songwriter behind the longstanding, alternately tender and raging Des Ark is there working on the followup to 2011’s Don’t Rock the Boat, Sink the Fucker. The LP, due out in the fall, gives a home to some of Argote’s quieter songs: to that […]
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Terry Bozzio-lympics: Virtuoso drummer plays Raleigh Monday
Terry Bozzio and his drums – all his drums This coming Monday at 7:30 p.m., Terry Bozzio—originally Zappa’s drummer, now a soloist with a distinctly maximalist approach—brings his drum clinic to the Pour House in Raleigh. And while some may roll eyes at his virtuosic flurry of sticks and kicks, one thing is undeniable: Holy […]
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The Love Hangover turns 15 at Kings this weekend
Saturday, which aptly happens to be the day after Valentine’s Day, is the Love Hangover‘s fifteenth birthday. The concept is simple: a handful of duos, often assembled specifically for the evening, perform love-oriented songs. Friends Richard Alwyn and Caroline Mamoulides started the annual event in Raleigh in February 2000, and it has returned to Kings […]
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A man and his garage: Dusky Electronics’ Chris Rossi talks amps and pedals
From running Spacelab Studio to playing in various bands to conceiving CyTunes in order to help (and then, sadly, memorialize) late local music lover Cy Rawls, Durham’s Chris Rossi has been integrally involved in Triangle music for years. And now he’s making gear, as guitarist Zeke Graves mentioned in last week’s INDY. Right now, Dusky […]
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Live: Death by the Pixies
Pixies, CultsDPAC, DurhamFriday, Jan. 31 At 9:15 on Friday night, The Pixies took the stage at DPAC and proceeded to play what seemed like their entire back catalog. There was hardly a break between songs, with little room for banter as the band charged through a set crowded with Gen X-and-sometimes-Y sing-alongs such as “Here […]
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Anna Rose Beck’s Glass House in Outer Space
Glass House in Outer Space, the new LP from Durham singer-songwriter Anna Rose Beck, starts off jagged and gentle. A finger-picked nylon string guitar runs counter to a defeated 3 a.m. shuffle, punctuating Beck’s dejected imagery and keeping the listener from getting too comfortable. The song grooves, but it’s hard to groove to. The central […]
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Live: Solar Halos album release party
We’ve all heard the meteorological cliché “If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes.” Here’s a variant for the Chapel Hill music scene: If you’re curious what this bassist and that drummer would sound like together, wait five years. At Saturday night’s Solar Halos album release show in the Cat’s Cradle Back Room, the […]
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Live: Mandolin Orange at Fletcher Opera Theater
Fletcher Opera Theater can pack a lot of people into its relatively small space, and Carrboro’s Mandolin Orange sold out the 600-capacity room Friday night. The curving rows of seats all but guaranteed an unobstructed view from anywhere in the house, and a respectful silence fell over the room during two sets and an encore, […]
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Future Islands sign to 4AD, discuss new LP
Most likely, it’s no longer accurate to call Baltimore-via-Greenville’s Future Islands rising stars: These guys have risen. Yesterday the emotionally charged dance-pop trio announced its signing to 4AD, making the band labelmates to big-draw acts such as Bon Iver, Deerhunter and tUnE-yArDs and part of one of the most influential catalogs in indie rock lore. […]