Destination Dix Saturday, July 23, 10 a.m.–7 p.m., free Dix Park, Raleigh All of the world’s great cities have a great park that shows their best face to the world: New York’s Central Park, Paris’s Luxembourg Garden, Barcelona’s Gaudi-designed Parc Güell. Raleigh has no such equivalent at the moment, but if Dix Park comes to […]
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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Listen to Hiss Golden Messenger’s “Biloxi,” from a New LP Due This Fall
In November of last year, Michael Taylor spoke to the INDY about the forthcoming record with his band, Hiss Golden Messenger. Titled Heart Like a Levee, the record was, at least initially, inspired by photographs taken by William Gedney, many of them depicting Americans living a hardscrabble existence while working in a Kentucky mining camp […]
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Jphono1’s Warm, Wooly Refinement
Jphono1 & the Chevrons Time in the Chevron (Potluck) Jphono1 & the Chevrons Friday, July 8, 8:30 p.m., $7The Station, Carrboro On his last record as Jphono1, 2013’s Know Your Clouds, John Harrison built songs and atmospheric miniatures around moments recorded during his at-home guitar jams, ranging from wide-awake-at-3-a.m. ruminations à la Elliott Smith to […]
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Watch the New Video for Sarah Shook & the Disarmers’ “Heal Me”
The fireworks have arrived early for Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, whose in-your-face video for the incendiary single “Heal Me” made its debut today on Rolling Stone Country’s list of “10 New Country Artists You Need to Know.” The high-visibility platform praises Shook not only for her music but also for her outspokenness and repertoire […]
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Record Review: On Stranger Times, Milagro Saints’ Folk-Rock Gets Mad
Milagro Saints Stranger Times Milagro Saints Thursday, June 16, Weaver Street, Carrboro Friday, June 17, The Kraken, Chapel Hill Saturday, June 18, Big Boss, Raleigh Anger is an energy, sang John Lydon, and some righteous fury seems to have jolted Milagro Saints on the Raleigh band’s eighth LP, Stranger Times. The record barrels open with […]
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Record Review: Jon Lindsay’s Cities & Schools Puts Pop Beneath the Polish
Last October, the singer-songwriter Jon Lindsayformerly of Charlotte, now of Raleighwhetted appetites for his third full-length, Cities & Schools, with “All Them Houses,” a cannily crafted head rush of a single. Lindsay dropped two tunes shortly thereafter, both offering further evidence of his advanced pop skills. “Lifer” addresses a woman’s life choices and contains the […]
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Durham Gets a New Online Radio Station in Troon, Which Will Focus on Recordings from Area Clubs
Starting this Saturday at noon, Troon Radio will begin broadcasting out of Durham at Troonradio.com. The brainchild of Bob Donaghey, the station is focused around “the lively arts,” and the plan is to emphasize Durham’s talent pool through live performances collected from the city’s venues. Donaghey, who named the station after his north Durham address […]
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The Mountain Goats Cover War’s Classic “Summer,” and It’s Pretty Great
For me, very few songs have the power to summon the visceral sensation of my early-seventies childhood like “Summer,” the languid, Latin-tinged single released in June 1976 by War, a band then at the end of an exceptional run of singles. Somehow the tempo, abetted by scraped percussion and lyrical references to C.B. radios and […]
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Out of the Woods: Foraging Steps into the Clear
But for a man in a rowboat fifty feet from shore, all is still on Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Greenway. It’s late February, and these are scarce times. Sure, the intrepid forager may turn up some hearty greens and edible roots, but the summer bounty of blackberries, grapes, honeysuckle, and pawpaw is still a season away. […]
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Trying Out for AC/DC: The Frontman of a Local Cover Band Remembers His Day Leading the Legends
Last month, for two hours, a twenty-nine-year-old construction worker from Butner, North Carolina, fronted AC/DC. It was an audition, not a public performance, and he was ultimately passed over for the big name of Axl Rose. Still, Lee Robinson experienced something electrifying and unforgettable, and he came away with the kind of ego boost that […]