With only a few days until The Foreign Exchange’s big Sunday, July 12, concert at Durham Performing Arts Center with soul compatriot Eric Roberson and reunited R&B duo Floetry, the Phonte-and-Nicolay-led band has just announced an Aug. 21 release date for its sixth album, Tales From the Land of Milk and Honey. The announcement comes […]
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The Foreign Exchange’s Nicolay tours to find new inspiration
The Foreign Exchange with Floetry and Eric Roberson Sunday, July 12, 7 p.m., $45–$75 DPAC, 123 Vivian St., Durham919-680-2787www.dpacnc.com Phonte Coleman and Matthijs “Nicolay” Rook keep their distance. Together, they’ve made several albums, toured the world, been nominated for a Grammy and built a little independent empire under the name The Foreign Exchange. But Coleman […]
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Live: Waka Flocka Flame gets soft in the club
Waka Flocka Flame Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh Saturday, June 27, 2015 A “Pyramid of Moisture” is exactly what it sounds like—a 5-foot pyramid stacked with many of the twerk-sweat-soaked women Waka Flocka Flame invited onstage for his large living room party on Saturday night at Raleigh’s Lincoln Theatre. Waka loves the ladies, it seems, unless they […]
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Record review: Sarah Kaboom’s Jump Into Infinity/Trill Hippies
Despite her onomatopoeic handle, the first few years of the career of 23-year-old Bull City singer Sarah Kaboom have been a tiresome series of non-exploding teases and duds. She’s contributed to projects by the likes of King Mez, SkyBlew, Azon Blaze and B Stacks, meaning any noise she hoped to make as a solo artist […]
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Death and disappointment nearly kept Drique London from becoming one of the Triangle’s best new emcees
When the rapper Drique London invited me to his family’s Memorial Day weekend hangout, I did not expect to arrive in a northeast Raleigh subdivision made of suburban dream homes. But two weeks after the release of London’s provocative second LP, Sound of the Rising Sun, members of his extended family trickle into […]
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Record review: Carlitta Durand’s I’ll Be Gorgeous When I Die
Carlitta Durand has said she set out to make I’ll Be Gorgeous When I Die “like a live album.” For a singer like Durand, who’s been largely absent from the local music scene since having her first child several years ago, it’s a fitting strategy for re-entrycharm us all, like we’re sitting in a room […]
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Live: Jazmine Sullivan puts it on at The Ritz
Jazmine Sullivan The Ritz, Raleigh Wednesday, April 29, 2015 “We’re about to get a little ’hood,” announced Philadelphia vocalist Jazmine Sullivan on Wednesday night to a nearly sold-out Ritz. It was the setup for “#HoodLove,” a track from her recent Reality Show LP. “Is that OK with everyone?” In 2009, shortly after Sullivan’s “Bust Your […]
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Day by day: A glimpse into Art of Cool 2015
Art of Cool Festival Downtown Durham Friday, April 24-Saturday, April 25 Friday, April 24 In a world far removed from the stages of the 2015 Art of Cool Fest, which began Friday evening inside the Durham Armory, an intellectual beef between two titanic black academics—Michael Eric Dyson and Cornel West—recently reached one of its most […]
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Art of Cool: Don’t miss these acts of 2015
The debut of the Art of Cool Fest last year in downtown Durham teemed with dazzling moments. There was the superhero instrumentalist, Christian Scott, who wielded his custom-made horn like a sorcerer’s wand; the underground soul hippie, Cody Chesnutt, who wore an Army helmet and sang about his crack-smoking days; and the alt-soul priestess, Alice […]
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Art of Cool: The festival’s quest to challenge jazz’s genre and gender problems
When the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival begins later this week, it will quickly express that jazz is just its heritage, not its limit. On the first night of the two-weekend Goliath event, country star Keith Urban and indie rock crossover kings Wilco will play the big stages. The next six days are loaded […]
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