It’s 2 o’clock in Omaha, Neb., and Ted Stevens has a lot of packing to do. Gear needs to be gathered, clothes need to be tucked away and friends need to be called or seen. This is the last day Stevens will spend at home in Omaha for a month, but he’s not anxious about […]
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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Troubadour in residence
Five songs into a set that may last three hours, Kenny Roby is buried in the bustling first verse of “The Committee,” the 11th song from his forthcoming fifth album, The Mercy Filter. Unbeknownst to the crowd slowly gathering at the seven picnic tables along the tin-lined walls of Sadlack’s back porch, his mind isn’t […]
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In familial fecundity
Oh, them Dixon boys : Carrboro’s finest fraternity of artists, also known as Laird and Kevin Dixon, reveal their newest installation of paintings, drawings and sculptures Sunday night from 6-9 p.m. at Chapel Hill’s Fuse (403 W. Rosemary St., www.f-use.com). You may recognize the names for several reasons: The two share their own musical notation […]
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In third rounds
Gordon Gano and THE VIOLENT FEMMES capitalized on early Reagan-era angst a full decade before the stuff became a major-marketing ploy under King George I, and the proof is in one of my favorite greatest hits encapsulations ever, the Femmes’ glorious Add It Up (1981-1993). Want evidence? Try the dopey-kid mope of “Waiting for the […]
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in rawk, returns & revelry
Triangle music clubs seem to come and go like financial quarters, but for six years now Kings has kept the doors open and the speakers on through the strength of a shared vision between Steve Popson, Ben Barwick and Paul Siler. And, boy, do they know how to throw a party. Their Sixth Anniversary Bash […]
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The return of the Cherry Valence
The Cherry Valence’s third: Somehow, someway, sometime, with some players, on some label, it was just going to happen. Friday night, it finally does. The story of TCV’s third full-length record, TCV3, is long and convoluted, a mini-drama with plot branches of goodbyes, hellos, new bands, new bandmates and–as with everything the band has done […]
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in rivers and rock shows
For 16 years now, the Haw River Festival Learning Celebration has visited 28,000 fourth graders in the six counties connected by the river with a traveling educational caravan, employing puppets, music, science and art to illustrate the ecological worth of the Haw. Once a year, the Haw River Hootenanny hikes up in some local dive […]
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Art lair
Up the stairs and to the left of Cliff’s Meat Market, the door is open and the fan is on. The fan makes for awkward and unsure entrances, hanging there in the door with an obtrusiveness that suggests it has been there for years and isn’t going any place any time soon. Laird Dixon’s apartment […]
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Wearing it proudly
After the sweat pit that was The Pixies’ Raleigh engagement last Sunday night, I finally made it to bed around 5 a.m. That allowed me three hours of sleep–just enough time to rest my eyes before waking up and hustling down I-40 into the Durham office. As you can expect, work was a bit grueling […]
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Django on
Polyglot perhaps best describes Django Haskins, songwriter and bandleader for The Old Ceremony, Chapel Hill’s eight-piece, carefully debauched chamber pop band. At 28, he’s recorded under several guises, fronting the lustrous Django & The Regulars in New York until 2002, then moving to Chapel Hill to pursue his solo songcraft before joining International Orange, the […]
