Listen! Listen to Airiel Down’s “December” from their debut album Vision. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player. Counting Crows just finished the first song of their encore, and we’re already on the bus. Well, not the bus, but it’s not too far from backstage. Instead, […]
Grayson Haver Currin
Bio: Grayson Haver Currin was the music editor of INDY Week and the co-director of Hopscotch Music Festival.Twitter: http://twitter.com/currincy
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REX back intact
Just three weeks after The Record Exchange in Raleigh’s Mission Valley closed, the space is open again as a new record store–under the same name. Plan 9 Music, a Virginia-based chain that operates six stores throughout Virginia, bought the store in July and is managing and stocking it, though they have deferred replacing The Record […]
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Auto racing
They have fried bologna sandwiches, one still-soaked piece of meat slapped onto two pieces of soft, white bread, splattered by grease that makes the dough stick to the roof of your mouth like the sweat sticks to your skin on such a hot Southern night at the races. That’s right, at the races: No more […]
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Paulson’s plans
Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy dedicated the fifth song of his solo-set encore at the N.C. Museum of Art Wednesday night to Brian Paulson, the Chapel Hill producer who made Wilco’s first record, A.M., in 1994. Paulson was in attendance, though only a day before he had hunkered down in his studio for the first day […]
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History on a string
Five days ago, Rhiannon Giddens returned from a week in the mountains of West Virginia. She was giving lessons on how to sing old-time ballads and blues to traditional music enthusiasts at The Augusta Heritage Center, a three-decade-old program dedicated to preserving the old-time American musical legacy. She thinks it’s a great idea, especially if […]
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The Two Gentlemen Band
By definition, traditional music is conservative, holding tight to centuries-old tenets to give antiquated forms continued life. But form, technique and styles are different from ideology, even though modern purveyors of age-old sounds are infamous for turning their obsession into completely stoic scenarios. If one believed four-fifths of old-time musicians, pre-pop America was a land […]
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Lincoln re-opens
Raleigh’s Lincoln Theatre re-opened Sunday night after closing in May to add a balcony and renovate the club’s interior. The balcony, which has been in the works since late 2003, pushes the Lincoln’s capacity to 800, transforming the space into a club without a Triangle counterpart. Though the Lincoln’s former capacity of 550 made it […]
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Tough wait
When Bob Dylan plays a minor-league baseball park in Winston-Salem on Aug. 18, he may thank the audience once. He probably won’t say a word. Instead, Dylan will stand and deliver, directing a band that tackles the most revered portions of his canon and twists them into new shapes. On tour in 2006, Bob Dylan […]
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Mountain Goats mania
Two Madison, Wis., software developers love The Mountain Goats, and–at last weekend’s Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago’s Union Park–they were ready to shell out to show it. Andrew Bazan and Aaron Hook, both 25, won mix CDs tracked, burned and designed by John Darnielle and Peter Hughes of The Mountain Goats. Bazan found himself in […]
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White Whale
Listen! Listen to White Whale’s “The Admiral” from their new album WWI. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player. Of all the common terms in the music critic’s lexicon, supergroup is the most dubious. Though its ostensible etymology suggests only certain bands can be super, its […]
