When Mandolin Orange rolls back into town on Wednesday to play the Duke Performances Music in the Garden Series, they may not quite be the band you saw just months ago. Besides stepping out of their comfortable stomping grounds in the Southeast for their first Midwestern tour, they’ve also added Josh Oliver (formerly of the […]
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Simple Music Video Series: Django Haskins’ “Elsinore”
Back in February when we filmed this session with Django Haskins of The Old Ceremony, he alluded to a busy couple of months ahead. Since then he has done some overseas touring with Big Star, and his band The Old Ceremony signed with Yep Roc Records to release their next album, Fairytales and Other Forms […]
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Simple Music Video Series: The Tender Fruit’s “Weighted Down”
When we began brainstorming artists for this series, Christy Smith and her Tender Fruit project were one of the first I wanted to recruit. Shortly after the new year, Christy and cohort Patrick Dyer Wolf graciously agreed to be one of the test subjects for the series. After a fun photo shoot involving Christy’s collection […]
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Simple Music Video Series: Wylie Hunter’s “Child of Summer”
Today’s session brings us Wylie Hunter, who came to Capital Club 16 on a Monday afternoon to perform a few songs off his excellent recent release, Someone You Used to Know. The album is yet another produced by the ever-budy James Wallace and Jeff Crawford at Arbor Ridge Studios. Look for more members of the […]
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Simple Music Video Series: Hiss Golden Messenger (with Megafaun)
Sunday afternoon at Capital Club 16, Hiss Golden Messenger, or Michael Taylor, visited Raleigh to film an installment of the Simple Music Video Series. He brought along two special guests: Phil & Brad Cook of Megafaun. Earlier this week, Taylor announced that the Cook Brothers would accompany HGM for his set opening for Michael Chapman […]
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Simple Music Video Series: John Howie Jr. & The Rosewood Bluff
We return to our Simple Music Video Series with a February performance by John Howie Jr. & The Rosewood Bluff with Mandolin Orange. Here, Howie is backed by drummer Matt Brown, who passed away last month. On Sunday, June 3, a benefit concert at the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw will assist Brown’s family. Here’s […]
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Introducing the Independent Weekly’s Simple Music Video Series: Frank Fairfield
The purpose of the Independent Weekly‘s Simple Music Video Series is to capture local and touring musicians who we feel are producing something special. The hope is to capture something very simple in order to mirror the experience of viewing a performance as if you were in a small crowd watching a quiet set. We […]
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Video: Dexter Romweber and John Howie meet a meager Durham crowd
Thursday night at Durham’s Casbah, as the natives watched the Blue Devils beat the Seminoles in Tallahassee, a very modest crowd turned out for the double bill of Dexter Romweber and John Howie, despite a cheap $7 cover. It’s hard to believe that two artists who tour both domestically and internationally to large crowds and […]
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Video: The Old Ceremony plays new tunes at The Pour House
“It’s been a long long time since we’ve been here,” explained The Old Ceremony frontman Django Haskins at The Pour House last week. Accordingly, Haskins and his band came prepared with a handful of new songs from an upcoming untitled album. Of them, a menacing new number, “Beebe, Arkansas,” explored the strange New Year’s occurrence […]
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Videos: Megafaun, Mount Moriah and The Beast gather to fund a Durham school
Riding in to help: Megafaun Before last Saturday, I had never heard of a venue selling out twice in one evening. But at Motorco, the first half of the night—a benefit for the Central Park School For Children—opened with a mob of young children and their parents anxiously awaiting the student performances to begin. The […]