When New Zealand’s Architecture in Helsinki first (and last) visited the Triangle in June at the Cat’s Cradle, they inquired about Cheerwine on stage and–15 minutes later–were guzzling two hot 12-packs of the sucrose-infused syrup. Maybe that explains the hard-edged Go-Betweens cover and their playful mid-song banter. The crew–eight in all–brings its dramatic, exuberant and […]
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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Little Brother mans up
Philadelphia. Two white guys in a gleaming white Corvette splashed with streetlights, top down and blaring with bass. “Get low, get low, get low, get low/ To the window, to the wall/ ‘Til the sweat drops down my….” The sound is instantly recognizable as crunk music, a recent Southern signal that’s been at the top […]
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in indie pen dents
“Is it ever gonna not be so hard to see you around? Am I really, really, really, really gonna have to really have to really have to leave town–again?” sings Matthew Houck, the postmodern bard and post-tragedy voice behind Phosphorescent, almost rhetorically. Yes and yes, mister. Houck writes and sings like he’s had his heart […]
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in greater Cary acoustics
The Six String Café, the Triangle’s venerable listening room, closed the doors on its first location back in August, but founder David Sardinha hopes to maintain his commitment to acoustic music by opening a new venue and by organizing events like the inaugural Carolina Acoustic Music Festival. An all-star lineup of nine Six String favorites–from […]
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in musicians helping
A tizzy of benefit activity is slated for the weekend throughout Triangle clubs in an effort to raise funds for Hurricane Katrina victims. Yep Roc hosts at least three of its acts–Cities, Chris Stamey and American Princes–at Local 506 on Friday, Sept. 23. The Triangle’s hardest soft rockers, The Wusses, make their Triangle debut on […]
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Soundbite
If passion isn’t your question, Nathan Asher & The Infantry isn’t your answer. On Sex Without Love, the follow-up EP to last year’s promising, bursting-at-the-seams LP, The Last Election, the six-piece Infantry delivers an apolitical stance on the same key-charged anthem rock that made them initially noteworthy. (Former seventh member, Jay Cartwright, is busy with […]
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Long distance runaround
On a sunny Sunday afternoon, standing on a stage, somewhere above a recreational baseball field in Chicago’s Union Park, thousands of eager fans looking on with squinted eyes beneath a beautiful blue sky, Dungen’s Reine Fiske lost the connection. Not with his band or with an adoring audience, happy to be at one of the […]
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in welcome backs
Enough with the “former Archers of Loaf frontman” thing. By now, four albums and one haunting EP into Crooked Fingers, former Asheville kid and Chapel Hill townie Eric Bachmann’s reputation as a songwriter exists apart from AoL for good reason: Bachmann’s dark songwriting and full, deep voice recall both Springsteen and Waits, finding characters and […]
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In the clubs this fall
If music sales in local record stores valley in the next quarter, don’t lambaste Limewire, Soulseek or piracy at large; blame the clubs. Actually, don’t blame them at all. This fall is going to be fun. In fact, grab that stack of College Music Journals sitting in your living room, pull the pages out, throw […]
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Soundbite
Oh, this is dangerous territory: that nervous voice, that slightly-off kilter, highly emotive, frazzled-and-showing tone that creeps into the fronting vocals of rock bands, particularly those of indie ilk. It can make the best songs unlistenable and the best bands doomed for anonymity or infamy. But not Pleasant. To the credit of all four pieces […]
