Mary Timony, Triumphant Sunday, 4:15 p.m., Red Hat Amphitheater Most tours that focus on the music of a band that broke up a long time ago tend to be some combination of cash grab, nostalgia trip, and victory lap. Those labels only apply tangentially to Mary Timony, who will “play Helium” at Hopscotch Sunday afternoon. […]
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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Record Review: Youth League’s Second EP Is a Propulsive, Powerful Effort
YOUTH LEAGUE Second EP Cardigan Records In rock’s formative decades, bands cultivated a signature sound, but these days it’s not uncommon for groups to take an almost perverse pride in their wacky mix of influences. But you don’t have to go on SoundCloud and check out the latest EDM-Klezmer-field holler-jam band to know that more […]
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Durham Jazz Club The Shed Suddenly Closes After Conflicts with Golden Belt’s New Landlords
The Shed has suddenly gone silent. The owners of one of Durham’s most distinct and independent-minded music venues announced Monday, August 13, that the club would be suspending operations immediately but that they hoped to reopen soon with a new alcohol policy and with “stable lease terms to ensure long-term sustainability.” That optimism was dashed […]
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With Wooden Wand and Beyond, James Jackson Toth’s Discography Has Gotten As Wide As It Is Deep
WOODEN WAND Wednesday, August 23, 9 p.m., $10 The Pinhook, Durham www.thepinhook.com It’s been three years between Wooden Wand records, but James Jackson Toth has used the time. He made a bewitching, drone-filled LP, Under Stars and Smoke, with William Fowler Collins; with his wife, Leah, he launched an independent vinyl record label, Footfalls Records. […]
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Twenty Years In, George Holt Keeps Steering the N.C. Museum of Art’s Summer Music Series As a Major Regional Attraction
SUPERCHUNK, WAXAHATCHEE, EX HEX Saturday, August 12, 7 p.m., $18–$33 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh www.ncartmuseum.org Think of a great concert you’ve seen; it was in a club or a stadium or a theater, right? But last Monday, it’s safe to conjecture, somebody walked away from the amphitheater at the North Carolina Museum of […]
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Now in Their Tenth Year, What Do the Carolina Music Awards Actually Accomplish?
CAROLINA MUSIC AWARDS Saturday, August 5, 8 p.m., $27–$53 Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh www.dukeenergycenterraleigh.com For the past decade, the Carolina Music Awards have been conferred upon musicians in North and South Carolina in an array of genres that keeps getting wider. This week, nominees in twenty-two categories will gather at the stately Fletcher Opera House, […]
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Forty Years After Her First LP, Carlene Carter Looks Back on a Long Career and the Ties That Bind
JOHN MELLENCAMP, EMMYLOU HARRIS, AND CARLENE CARTER Wednesday, June 28, 7 p.m., $49–$120 Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary www.boothamphitheatre.org By the time Carlene Carter went to record her rock- and new-wave-informed debut LP in 1978, the then-twenty-two-year-old was twice-divorced and saddled with an intimidating musical legacy: her mother, June Carter, and her stepfather, Johnny Cash. Her […]
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Farmer/Veteran Should Be Mandatory Viewing for Politicians and Others Who Use American Soldiers for Political Football
FARMER/VETERAN Streaming at www.pbs.org through June 30 The issue of caring for war veterans is often used as a political football, but those who conduct these skirmishes may be blissfully distant from veterans themselves. Farmer/Veteran, the poignant documentary by local filmmakers Alix Blair, Jeremy Lange, and D.L. Anderson (disclosure: Lange and Anderson are former INDY […]
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A New Music Series Lands at Dix Park this Summer
Last July, the newly christened Dix Park staged a one-day music festival on three sites within its three-hundred-plus-acre space, but that was clearly just a warm-up for bigger things. This summer, in partnership with Deep South Entertainment, the Raleigh park will present a monthly, three-part free music series that organizers hope will continue throughout many […]
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From the Mountain Goats to The Hot at Nights, Matt Douglas Might Be the Triangle’s Busiest Musician
THE HOT AT NIGHTS Saturday, May 13, 9 p.m., $10–$12 The Pour House, Raleigh www.thepourhousemusichall.com Matt Douglas looks pretty bright-eyed for having just returned from two weeks in Australia on tour with the Mountain Goats. His role in the band on keys, guitar, and sax is just one of several hats the thirty-seven-year-old Raleigh musician […]