Check out the INDY’s review and stream of Al Strong’s LoveStrong, Vol. 1 Al Strong is very late. For the last 90 minutes, while tucked in tight at a corner table at the downtown Durham club and restaurant Beyù Caffè, the trumpet player has talked about the first three decades of his life and how […]
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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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Within a month, Tyler’s and Brewmasters both closed in Raleigh. What’s up with burger-and-brew spots in the capital city?
Someday soon, I will open a long-neglected drawer and discover a gift certificate I will never use. The creditwritten, I believe, in blue ball-point on a pale green server’s slip in the amount of $25came from Brewmasters Bar & Grill, a beer-burger-and-ball haven at one of the busiest commuter intersections in downtown Raleigh. For nearly […]
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Hear MAKE’s surprise new instrumental EP, In Pursuit
No matter the rotation of its members or the format of its releases, the Chapel Hill trio MAKE has always been more than another doom metal band, content to plod away at punishing volumes. They’ve covered The Velvet Underground and nodded toward Spacemen 3, aimed for high-concept fare and eased into pastoral reverie. This was […]
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The final night of Southern Rail, Carrboro’s reliquary of food, music, booze and history
Chris Young walks into the room, glances at the bar and the bartender, tosses three creased dollar bills onto the counter and lets out a sigh so heavy the whole crowd can hear it. “Hey, Chris,” Mike Benson exclaims, momentarily lifting his hands from the bar’s smooth surface. Undeterred by Young’s frown, Benson’s face lights […]
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Listen up: The Triangle’s 25 best albums of 2015
Each year, when I begin compiling the list of my favorite local LPs and EPs, I initially question how I will ever make it to 25: Were there even 25 great “local” releases this year? Ones that hung together beyond including a notable song or two? Ones that I will remember when the calendar soon […]
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The Durham News’ resident whitesplainer, Bob Wilson, finally calls it quits
It wasn’t very hard to find reasons to protest in Durham this year: From withheld wages for construction workers to union-stifling maneuvers at Duke, from data that confirmed racial bias within the police department to the blue’s sometimes mortally bungled arrests, from horrid conditions in the county jail to fights for fair pay for service-industry […]
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WKNC keeps Raleigh-and-Carrboro format for Double Barrel Benefit, adds hip-hop
During the last decade, the Double Barrel Benefit has done a whole lot of work for N.C. State’s student-run radio station, WKNC 88.1. Sure, it’s raised money to boost their signal and enhance their studios, but it’s also given the station a real public face beyond the listless voices you may hear during breaks between […]
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Live: Wow, Baroness, it’s good to have you back
Baroness & Earthling Local 506, Chapel Hill Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 Last night at Local 506, as soon as Virginia’s Earthling sounded the final note of an excellent opening set, two human rivers collided: The first emptied out of the club’s rear music room and headed toward the exit, either for the bathroom, the bar […]
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With burnthemasters, Durham’s Housefire builds beats just to break them
Housefire with Liquid Asset, Lack, Virusse, Mille, Yohimbe and Karl Raymar Friday, Dec. 18, 9 p.m., $7 Nightlight 405 W. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill 919-960-6101 www.nightlightclub.com Luci Waldrup has waited a dozen years for this surreal sight. On a Friday night, standing beside a photocopier at a FedEx Office on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, […]
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Dairy Christmas: How the Triangle’s favorite eggnog gets made at Maple View Farm
Related: Nogged Out Loaded: A trip around the Triangle with eggnog The sun has finally risen through a small rectangular window inside Maple View Farm’s milk-processing room, and Luis Velasquez already needs a drink. For the last 20 minutes, Velasquez has methodically unpacked new glass bottles from heavy cardboard boxes and routed them, one row […]