Yep Roc has released more than 5,000 songs in its 15-year run. We’ve plundered the trove and uncovered 25 that help tell the story of the little big label in Haw River. 1. Mayflies USA, “Walking in a Straight Line” (Walking in a Straight Line) If power pop has a spirit animal, it might be […]
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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Exploring the trials, errors and endurance of Yep Roc Records
15 statistics about Yep Roc’s first 15 years 35,000 Number of square feet in Redeye Distribution’s warehouse 5,140 Number of songs released by Yep Roc since 1997 326 Number of albums released by Yep Roc since 1997 122 Number of artists who have released records on Yep Roc 281 Number of songs released by Robyn […]
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The Minus Times Collected is an impressive literary legacy
The Minus Times Collected: 20 Years / 30 Issues Ed. by Hunter Kennedy Featherproof Books & Drag City Records 435 pp. Drag City Records and Featherproof Books will host a reading and release party for The Minus Times Collected at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, at The Regulator Bookshop. Somehow I missed The Minus Times […]
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The surprising perseverance of psychedelia
Helpful links Wristband / ticket distribution info Purchase tickets The schedule The day parties Complete event info By a conservative estimate, a good quarter of the 175 bands slated to descend on Raleigh for Hopscotch 2012 draw upon psychedelia in one form or another. Some pay homage to the fuzz-toned garage styles of the Seeds […]
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Tracked changes
“They got a little place across the track,” goes a classic Chris Kenner and Allen Toussaint song. Chris could have been singing about me and my friends when we were kids, except the name of our place was not “I Like it Like That.” Someone older than us had named it the Rum Bum. And […]
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Will Durham’s Delta Rae again polish Americana for the masses?
Delta Rae plays Cat’s Cradle Friday, July 27, at 9 p.m. A City on a Lake and Chris Hendricks open. Tickets are $12. When Durham sextet Delta Rae signed a deal with the revived Warner Brothers imprint Sire Records last February, the transaction was not necessarily newsworthy. Sire nabbed the relative unknowns from the small […]
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Anthem of the sunshine
Like food, music is seasonal. For me, Nick Drake is forever the sound of spring, while Echo & the Bunnymen should not be played unless a chill marks the air. Autumn calls for R.E.M., andwhile it’s a highly uncool thing to admit, at least in some stodgy circlesthe ripe, laughing tone of Jerry Garcia’s guitar […]
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Gonna cuss on the mic tonight
My household is a G-rated affair. I attribute this to my wife, whose family prohibited the use of “shut up” and “stupid,” terms that were sometimes seen as a legitimate means of emphasis in my own home. For my 7.5-year-old sons, there are two S-words: the “S-H” word and the “S-T” word. The S-word that […]
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What Rosecrans Baldwin did (and didn’t) find living in Paris
Baldwin hosts a launch party for Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill Tuesday, May 1, 7 p.m. Rosecrans Baldwin, the author of the critically acclaimed 2010 novel You Lost Me There, is one of Chapel Hill’s most talented young writers. His new book, Paris, I Love […]
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Passing not the torch but the turntable
It’s nice to blow your kids’ minds with a gift, especially when they’re only 7. Apple’s polite “On” buttons served as direct links to the twin sons’ pleasure centers, and watching them freak out with joy upon receiving a pair of Craigslisted iPads was its own reward. My own dad got a similar reaction from […]