In a decade or so, expect a box set from Andrew Bird, a very big box set with alternate versions of alternate versions of most tracks he’s ever released and several that will be making their public debut. Bird scrapped Mysterious Production of Eggs, his second solo album since leaving Bowl of Fire in 2001, […]
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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Out of the crowd
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, I joined a distinct subset of the American public when I walked across the stage at the RBC Center last week. With only 45 million college graduates in a total population of 296 million, possession of a college degree is less common than being married (just above half of […]
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The Butchies move on
Sitting onstage at Durham’s Ooh La Latte last Friday, Kaia Wilson–one-third of The Butchies, one of the nation’s few all-lesbian rock bands–couldn’t decide what she would miss about the Triangle. Of course, the usual suspects appeared: her friends, the South, her bandmates Melissa York and Alison Martlew. She even realized that she would miss Duke’s […]
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In gorgeous
In three weeks, three producers reshaping the borders between electronica, Intelligent Dance Music and hip hop will have visited the Triangle, beginning with Prefuse 73 and Caribou and ending Monday, May 16 at Kings with the most sublime of the lot. On Blue Eyes in the Red Room, Boom Bip–the music moniker of Cincinnati’s Bryan […]
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Homebrew
If Dexter Romweber’s music was ever about exorcism, this is proof it still is. Ten Bad Studs–the latest offering from our hero, justifiably recognized as an architect of backwoods garage rhythm ‘n’ blues–serves five live recordings from Romweber recorded between Chapel Hill and Chattanooga, offering a glimpse into the soul of a man who dances, […]
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Homebrew
Chris Titchner sports a mighty goatee, a busted leather jacket and what may or may not be a Wolfpack hoodie as he counts change for a cup of coffee on the back cover of his fourth full-length album, Moving Day. These otherwise inconsequential minutiae are a fitting primer for Titchner’s music and as lucid an […]
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In rocks off
The appropriately named Birds of Avalon (doesn’t that just sound badass?) gets its splendi-riff-ous edge from the dual guitars of lawfully wed bandmates Paul Siler and Cheetie Kumar. Their axes plow together like a well-oiled big rig one moment just before jackknifing in two directions the next, somehow arriving same-time, same-place at a who-would-have guessed […]
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Homebrew
Classic is another way of saying enduring, so when I say The Rosebuds excel at creating classic pop, it’s a reference not just to the past but also to their future. Shy smiles and flirtatious glances never go out of style–why must great music be subject to fashion and commercial dictates? It isn’t, and that’s […]
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Homebrew
Add Evan Rowe to the list of beat-counting double-timers in the Triangle: Rowe–the back-and-center third of Maple Stave–is phenomenal, playing with a reserve and clarity on Stave’s debut EP generally not associated with rock modified by math and so young. For that matter, add Maple Stave to the short list of new math rockers not […]
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The Nein know noise
“Did you ever think you would be in a touring band again?” “Oh, no.” “That must say something special about these guys?” “Oh, yeah, definitely.” That’s Dale Flattum, the Raleigh artist known as Tooth, father of a 3-year-old son, Eli, and a nine-year touring member of the eight-years-extinct San Francisco noise-punk trio Steel Pole Bath […]
