Lisa Fischer with a screening of 20 Feet from Stardom Saturday, July 26, 7 p.m. $15–$45 North Carolina Museum of Art The celebrated vocalist Lisa Fischer isn’t sure just what she’ll sing when she steps onto the outdoor stage at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Her rare performance will precede a showing of 20 […]
David Klein
Bio: David Klein lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and two sons. His first book, If 6 Was 9 and Other Assorted Number Songs, is available at his website.Link: http://www.if6was9thebook.com/Twitter: http://twitter.com/DKleinandFall
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UNC-Chapel Hill gives Ringo Starr a plaque—and a hat
On Sunday, Mark Katz, the chairman of UNC-Chapel Hill’s music department, helped secure a Carolina-blue mortarboard to the head of the man who sang “Yellow Submarine.” Ringo Starr, in town to play a show that evening at DPAC with his All-Starr Band, arrived on campus to accept a proclamation from the music department in recognition […]
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Live: Ringo, Toto and a surreal night in Durham
Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band DPAC, Durham Sunday, June 22, 2014 Ringo Starr first took his All-Starr Band on the road in 1989, which means they have been around twice as long as the Beatles, or, as the drummer put it to a rapturous DPAC crowd last night, “that other band I used to […]
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Live: Cher dons her headdress, teases the crowd in Raleigh
Cher, Cyndi Lauper PNC Arena, Raleigh Wednesday, May 7, 2014 “They just want you to come out in ridiculous outfits and sing and be fabulous!” declared the 67-year-old actor-singer-diva-phenomenon Cher, speaking about her audience circa 2014. And in the course of a Vegas-worthy performance at the PNC Arena for her Dressed to Kill tour Wednesday […]
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Wood Ear’s deliberate, difficult path to four rock songs
Wood Ear with Stuart Edwards & Nathan Golub Friday, May 2, 10 p.m. $7 The Pinhook When Nathan Tarr starts writing a new set of songs, he stokes his imagination by envisioning a setting. For Electric Alone, the new four-song EP from his rustic rock project Wood Ear, Tarr imagined what’s known as a “wildland-urban […]
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Justin Williams is a gifted singer-songwriter whose personal problems get in his music’s way
Editor’s note: The names of the children have been removed from this story at the request of Rebecca, Justin Williams’ partner and the mother of the children. On a clear, crisp mid-March evening, 50 or more people have gathered at a Carrboro farmhouse to hear two local singer-songwriters play acoustic sets in a tiny barn. […]
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Live: Dean Wareham, Boogarins come to the Cradle’s Back Room
Dean Wareham, Boogarins Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro Thursday, March 3, 2014 In his memoir and autobiography, Black Postcards, Dean Wareham recounts the mundaneness, indignities and brief moments of transcendence he experienced as the leader of two critically lauded indie rock bands, beginning in the late ’80s with Galaxie 500. The tone is dry and […]
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Live: Ryan Gustafson and Thomas Costello play in Mipso’s barn
Ryan Gustafson, Thomas Costello In a Carrboro Barn Thursday, March 20, 2014 The idea of two folk soloists performing within a tiny barn in Carrboro—a barn owned by members of the neo-roots trio Mipso, nonetheless—was irresistible. You just had to make sure not to miss the narrow winding driveway leading up to the place. The […]
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Out with the Old: Bill Smith donates archive of 300 band T-shirts to UNC
Crook’s Corner head chef Bill Smith came to Chapel Hill in 1969 to attend UNC, where he quickly fell in love with the music scene. He marveled at how, then as now, you could catch a great concert any night of the week. A few years after arriving, Smith joined Marcia Wilson at the helm […]
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Lilac Shadows’ No Dark/No Light
Sam Logan, the founder of the Durham quartet Lilac Shadows, had not yet finished recording his eight-song cycle, No Dark/No Light, when his bandmate Nathan Price suggested a novel record-release strategy: Send the record to their many artist friends, be they poets, painters or graphic designers. Ask them to listen and respond with their own […]