Two hours after she calls, Kym Register will start the seventh anniversary party for The Pinhook, the rock club and community space on Durham’s Main Street that she co-founded in 2008. But two hours before she called, Register and The Pinhook staff posted an unexpected plea on the crowdfunding website Fundly: They need to raise […]
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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The lineup for Durham’s Moogfest is out and impressive. Now it must fit into its city.
When the music-and-technology festival Moogfest announced in July it would relocate from Asheville, its longtime home and the headquarters of its parent brand, Moog Music, to Durham, the impending move raised a set of salient questions. How, for instance, would downtown Durham and its slim set of music venues provide adequate space for a few […]
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No missing the meat: Durham’s Vegan Flava Cafe is one of the Triangle’s best new restaurants
Vegan Flava Café 4125 Durham Chapel Hill Blvd. Durham 919-960-1832 www.veganflavacafe.com The chef knows this look well. For three minutes of a post-lunch lull late on a Thursday afternoon, Yah-I Ausar Tafari Amen has patiently stood behind the bar of Vegan Flava Cafe, his palms spread flat against the marbled emerald laminate countertops. He stares […]
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Moogfest to announce inaugural Durham lineup Tuesday
At last, we’ll begin to get some answers to the many questions we—and a lot of folks in Durham—have had about the Bull City’s inaugural Moogfest, set for May 19–22. Marisa Brickman, Moogfest’s director, says the festival will announce its debut Durham lineup Tuesday, Dec. 8. Moogfest, of course, relocated from Asheville after a series […]
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Secret Boyfriend announces new Blackest Ever Black LP, offers incredible track
Secret Boyfriend soundtracked my morning with a single song. In January, the long-running, always exploratory project of Carrboro experimental impresario Ryan Martin will issue This Is Always Where You’ve Lived, his second album for the great Blackest Ever Black. The eight-minute “Memorize Them Well” is the premiere cut from that record, and its slowly fluctuating […]
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Review: Whatever Brain’s fantastic farewell LP
The club was packed before the openers even began. In early May, Raleigh’s Whatever Brains took the second slot on a three-band bill at Kings. This wasn’t an exceptionally rare circumstance: Whatever Brains had expressed few qualms about overplaying their own market, sometimes stepping onto a few Triangle stages per month and often opening for […]
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Sorry, New Yorker: You missed the Triangle’s best Eastern-style “barbecue”
You can raise the price on North Carolina pork barbecue. You can put brisket on the menu. You can even sell chicken from the most traditional pig-purveying huts. But a wine list at a barbecue joint? For The New Yorker, that is a modern-day deal-breaker. At least that’s how Calvin Trillin ends his early November […]
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Video: Escape work (and land-speed records) with Earthly’s new “Glaze”
Earthly—the Chapel Hill electronic duo of Edaan Brook and Brint Hansen, responsible for Days, one of my favorite area albums of 2015—have released a wondrous little video for one of the record’s most powerful tracks, “Glaze.” Produced by Belgian illustrator and GIF whiz Eno Swinnen, the concept for the “Glaze” clip is simple but transfixing: […]
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Indies Arts Awards: Chris Tonelli gives Raleigh its poetry presence, even if it can feel like a one-person mission
2015 WinnersGreg Lowenhagen and Cicely MitchellEmil KangKym RegisterDasan AhanuChris Tonelli Previous winners Several months passed before Charles Wilkes realized he might need to ask his business partner what would happen if the bookstore they had opened together never made any money. In early 2013, Wilkes had just turned 30. He had a steady income and […]
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Indies Arts Awards 2015
2015 WinnersGreg Lowenhagen and Cicely MitchellEmil KangKym RegisterDasan AhanuChris Tonelli Previous winners The INDY had existed for less than a decade when, in 1990, the young newspaper paused to honor community artists. That year, the INDY named 16 professors, sponsors, spaces, bands, impresarios and organizations as its inaugural “Indies Arts Awards” winners. Some of those […]