PAINTINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, FRIENDSHIP Friday, Sept. 9, 6–9 p.m., free FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill Years ago, at a Durham Bulls game, Clyde Edgerton told John Rosenthal about a man he’d seen that day whose jaw looked like it was swallowed up into his nose. “It was one of the weirdest looking men he’d ever seen,” remembers […]
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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Doctored Lambchop: How Kurt Wagner Learned to Love Auto-Tune
The title of Lambchop’s forthcoming LP, FLOTUS, repurposes the popular political acronym for the First Lady to mean For Love Turns Us Stillbut it could just as well refer onomatopoetically to the floating, wafting quality of the record. Kurt Wagner, who’s led the ensemble for more than twenty years, is best known for a constantly […]
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Five Words with Zoocrü’s Christian Sharp
ZOOCRÜ The Pour House, Raleigh Saturday, August 27, 9 p.m., $10–$12 www.thepourhousemusichall.com In June, four years and a world away from its youthful origins at North Carolina Central University, the Durham-based five-piece Zoocrü released Lucid, its first recorded work. The record is a complex, masterful reimagining of black American music, drawing liberally from multiple jazz […]
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How to Navigate Busy City Streets on Two Wheels
The benefits of making a trip by bicycle are abundant. You’re substituting a healthful, active, environmentally sound, economically advantageous activity for one that is passive, polluting, and pricey. You’re swapping the soul-stealing ennui of your typical daily drive with a nice rush of endorphins, the satisfaction of calories burned, and a lingering zip in your […]
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Watch Skylar Gudasz Rolling in the Deep in “I’ll Be Your Man”
The visuals for Skylar Gudasz‘s new video for “I’ll Be Your Man,” from her gorgeous new Oleander, make a dazzling visual accompaniment to her aqueous voice: the brilliant, sun-filtered water of a swimming pool, her blood red dress, orbs of crystalline bubbles. It’s an immediately pretty song, but isn’t just a simple devotional. The video […]
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Video Premiere: Louis Landry’s “I Know a Guy” Updates the Bible
Louis Landry’s JJ vs the Digital Whale is a concept album that retells the biblical story of Jonah with a modern twist. Replacing the cetacean beast with the colossus of digital data, JJ tells the story of “a hesitant prophet” who flees the sprawl of ones and zeroes in order to transcend it. It’s the […]
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Corrosion of Conformity, Superchunk Top the State Fair’s Concerts This Year
This year’s edition of the North Carolina State Fair offers a slate of all-North Carolina musical talent that speaks to the vibrancy of the state’s musical riches and emphasizes a dazzling variety. Corrosion of Conformity, a legendary, notoriously intense Raleigh metal band formed in 1982, will lead a lineup dotted with other big names, including […]
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A Decade In, Bull City Records Keeps Booming
Sunlight pours in through the plate-glass windows of Bull City Records as a few lunch-hour browsers leisurely investigate the shop’s wares. It’s midafternoon in early July, and the heat of summer has not yet become insufferable. Up front, near the register, a member of a local hip-hop collective flips through the used bins in search […]
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The Sounds of Summer
To every season there is a songseveral songs, actually. But for every “Autumn Leaves” or “It Might As Well Be Spring” or “A Hazy Shade of Winter,” there are dozens of songs about summer, many of them familiar classics that remain oldies radio staples. It’s not hard to see why. A bunch of leaves signifying […]
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Pit Bulls May or May Not Be Dangerous. But Bronwen Dickey Can Attest That Writing About Them Definitely Is.
Bronwen Dickey was working as a freelance journalist for various publications (including this one) when she met her first pit bull. Within a few years, she had embarked on an extensive study of the notorious dog breed and, with her husband, adopted one of her own. The result is Pit Bull: The Battle over an […]