Given his hard conservative bent, rights activists and legal experts alike fear that the confirmation of Samuel Alito as Sandra Day O’Connor’s replacement on the Surpreme Court could jeopardize the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Planned Parenthood’s Action Fund of Central North Carolina hopes to deter Alito’s confirmation through fundraising and concomitant organization. Their Rock […]
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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in picking grins
If only the shared dexterity that will be on stage when mandolin men MIKE MARSHALL of Psychograss and CHRIS THILE of Nickel Creek perform together was taken seriously by its owners, it would be too much to bear. But, as it stands, Thile and Marshall keep the festival spirit that spawned their two-album collaboration alive, […]
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in young and on the way
Lynda Wittig, the blonde-locked lead singer and guitarist of Chapel Hill’s KICKIN’ GRASS, sings it straight as The Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe taught it, almost taking entire verses at one, up-from-earth key before stressing select syllables with a brief upscale swing. She’s backed by solid players all around, highlighted by Harnett County mandolin-and-fiddle pair […]
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Rome wasn’t built…
The beer–watch the beer. If something doesn’t change in the next five seconds, it’s going to be everywhere–spilled on the floor, spewed from mouths, sprayed from noses. This is too funny. Dave Wilson is leaning against a table in Mitch’s on Hillsborough Street on a Saturday afternoon, halfway staring into his half-empty glass of Bass […]
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Change of plans
Heads up. We’ve changed plans a bit for our annual music awards and are holding open the nominations process for another few weeks as a result. In order to have enough space for a rundown of nominees, we’re going to open voting with our first Music Quarterly on Jan. 25. Look for bios and descriptions […]
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A beast perhaps
The official bill was THE AVETT BROTHERS headlining, with Ménage and The Truckstop Preachers in opening slots. No advertisements for The Avetts’ New Year’s Eve show at The Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte Saturday mentioned anything about a fourth act that would be performing simultaneously, smiling alongside one of North Carolina’s best bands. Then again, an […]
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in embattled beats
“All right, this will be one of the battles you will be talking about for years. I need everybody to move to the front. This is about to be real live right here,” 21st Records co-founder Travis Keyes told an audience of 100 Thursday night at The Pour House. It was. In the fourth match […]
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Local Review
Endless Mic Cave Livin’ (Trekky Records) “Endless Mic. Trekky Records. It feels good to say that.” That’s Stuart Bell, laying on an intro for “Madman,” the ninth track on Cave Livin’, the debut from the Chapel Hill/Greensboro hip-hop duo Endless Mic. In four years, Trekky Records–the brainchild of Will Hackney and Martin Anderson, then students […]
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Chris Boerner Quartet, upcoming
Iajhi Hampden is on the road, driving through New Jersey and talking on his cell phone, pausing every few minutes to lean out of the window and pay a toll. “Thank you,” he says every time. His father is riding shotgun, and they’re on their way home to North Carolina from New York. Last night, […]
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Anthem’s anathema
“There will always be a handless wrist to crush.” Xiu Xiu demands attention. This is not casual listening. It registers for listeners at poles: shocking or boring, all or nothing, engaging or alienating. Above all, there’s one precept: Drop the notion of a songwriter that requires the bard to invite someone into a place of […]
