Word to the wise: If you ever attend a The Doobie Brothers concert, don’t pull out your BlackBerry and start texting unless you’re cool with overly tanned 40-something-year-old ladies singling and cursing you out about how it’s blasphemous to use modern technology at a concert featuring yesteryear rock heroes. Apparently, this sort of behavior is […]
Eric Tullis
Bio: Eric Tullis lives in Chapel Hill, where he writes about music and basketball.Twitter: http://twitter.com/erictullis
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Former Justus League rapper L.E.G.A.C.Y. lives in Baltimore now, but his attitude is big enough to touch from here
If we overhauled the term “The Sweet Science” and used it to describe language instead of boxing, we’d ultimately end up in a conversation about hip-hop: Beneath most every fire-breathing emcee’s armor is a complex writing organ, obsessed with and fueled by detail, emotion, drama, irony andultimatelyego. Trouble is, these mean emcees are the sort […]
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Live: Tigallo’s debut Two-Step Thursday lacks, but a white lady disagrees
Phonte Coleman’s Two-Step Thursday Globe, Raleigh Thursday, June 11, 2009 (continuing every other Thursday) Thanks to some handstand-breakdance maneuver I hoped to land on the dance floor at the first of Phonte’s weekly Tigallo’s Two-Step Thursday affair at Raleigh club Globe, I nearly fractured my thumb last week. It’s not broken, I think, but it […]
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The surprising collaboration of Freebass 808 creates its own hip-hop universe
Exhaling smoke from a freshly rolled spliff and staring through the storm door window in the three-bedroom Chapel Hill home of drummer and hip-hop producer Apple Juice Kid, Suede Heron rolls into a handclapping clamor. Suedeknown to the hip-hop faithful as Geechie Suede, half of the hip-hop duo Camp Loenthusiastically relates a seemingly mundane story […]
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Freebass 808
Freebass 808’s story goes a little something like this, “Once upon a time in a place called Chapel lived a little de la Sueda and a little de la Apple, one was pushin beats and one was pushin rhymes and they got together to cook voodoo one taboo time”. Once you get passed the occult […]
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Carlitta Durand’s Carlitta’s Way: The Prelude mixtape
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Rumor has it, some folks haven’t figured out how to whisper into their lover’s ear. Take note: A sexy whisper isn’t supposed to sound as though you’re puffing into a candy-striped coffee stirrer lodged in someone’s ear canal. It’s also […]
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Live: Snoop D-O-Double gizzle fizzles in Raleigh
Snoop Dog Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh Wednesday, May 13 If you’re not puffing ganja or drunk-fingerbanging someone in the crowd (which, honest Eric, happened last night), there’s really no other way to enjoy yourself at a Snoop Dogg show, right? Actually, the few hundred Snoop Dogg fans who showed up for his Lincoln Theatre show Wednesday […]
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Live: Kings of Leon, swine flu and complaining people in Cary
Kings of Leon, The Walkmen Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary Tuesday, April 28 There’s been a bit of controversy about last night’s Kings of Leon show at Cary’s luxuriously wooded Koka Booth Amphitheatre: The Followill brothers decided to ban beach blankets, lawn chairs, beer bottles and water bottles at the show so that, one assumes, people […]
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Signalfest: On pillow fights and good clothes [ERIC TULLIS]
D.C. emcee Wale sprinted past me on the way to his tour bus immediately following his performance Thursday night at Cat’s Cradle during the opening night of Signal’s big four-day weekend. For much of the festival, I followed suit, sprinting up and down Franklin Street, trying to catch as many acts as possible at the […]
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C’mon, Del, give us something to care about
Unless you’ve made it your daily chore to visit Del the Funky Homosapien’s MySpace page (and some of you have, I know), you might not have realized the Oakland rapper just released a new album, Funk Man (the stimulus package). Well, that is if you count putting a free record on one of those Bandcamp […]