Listen! Listen to Josh Ritter’s “Thin Blue Flame” from The Animal Years. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player. Josh Ritter’s The Animal Years, the fourth record from the Moscow, Idaho-bred singer-songwriter, is the best album from an under-30 guy-with-guitar that has been released in 2006. […]
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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Non-current Christianity
Listen! Listen to Current 93’s “Black Ships Were Sinking into Idumæa” from Black Ships Ate the Sky. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player. The plotline is an epic conflict ready for the Lucas-sized screen or the beginning of the end of an ecclesiastic Tolkien trilogy: […]
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Continuous improvement
After college, Bob Pence moved to Wilmington and formed a trio with a high school friend and a local drummer with a metronome tattooed on his arm. They practiced often, but, during the band’s existence, they played just one show: A house party in their own practice space. They weren’t even scheduled to play. All […]
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The music man
Ross Grady has trouble with dates: In the early ’90s, he took over Smash Hits, a friend’s local radio show on N.C. State’s student-run station WKNC. It was 1992 or 1993. Two years later, he dropped out of graduate school. Initially, he’s not sure if that was 1994 or 1995. But when it comes to […]
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Jolie Holland
In 2004, Rolling StoneCleo-like clairvoyants capable of charting the topography of musics future, for sureranked Jolie Holland in a class of four female singer-songwriters capable of coveting The Next Norah crown. The music of California-via-Texas Holland has never been easy to classify, but Rolling Stone couldnt have missed the point more in pinpointing Holland as […]
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Six Organs of Admittance
School of the Flower, the 2005 full-length from San Francisco’s Six Organs of Admittance, was, as somewhat obscure indie rock goes, a popular breakthrough: In a few years time, Ben Chasny–the sole constant of Six Organs and the newest Comet on Fire–had gone from self-pressing a few dozen copies of his own debut and mailing […]
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Matt Douglas & The Proclivities
Listen! Listen to two tracks from The Proclivities’ new album Predispositions. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player. Matt Douglas is the saxophone sideman who pushes the Chris Boerner Trio into the Chris Boerner Quartet, an ambitious acid jazz outfit built around the dynamo guitar style […]
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Danielson
In casual conversation, politics are possible, even if precarious. Religion, though, is the really impassable road, the one talking point permanently bound to big trouble. Daniel Smith–the leader of an evolving troupe of performers named Br. Danielson, Danielson Famile or simply Danielson for nearly 15 years–either never received that lecture or refused to accept it. […]
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Trex closes; Rebel yell
Trex closes The independent record store tradition suffered another hit Monday when The Record Exchange, open on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh since the mid-’80s, closed. The store had been a popular venue for in-store performances for over a decade, with Little Brother even recording its Live! The Commercial Free EP on the store’s stage at […]
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Waiting to explode
Listen! Listen to three tracks from Roman Candle and one from Keegan DeWitt & The Sparrows. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player. See the band in concert: Thursday, June 22 at the Cat’s Cradle (www.catscradle.com) with The Old Ceremony (www.theoldceremony.com) –$8/9 p.m. Friday, June 23 […]
