A superfreak of the highest order, North Carolina native son George Clinton is synonymous with funk, as his junior high outfit-turned-musical landscape landmark Parliament evolved into a hard-hitting funk force to be reckoned with years after inception. Clinton launched Funkadelic at the same time, drawing heavily from the ’70s psychedelic and acid culture that allowed […]
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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Two decades of drumming and drawing
It’s not that Brian Walsby doesn’t like his job in the kitchen of Whole Foods Market on Wade Avenue in Raleigh. It’s just that Brian Walsby doesn’t like to talk about his job in the kitchen of Whole Foods Market. He wants to talk about his passion for music and his passion for drawing. He […]
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Phillip Boulding isn’t a hothead. Rather, Boulding was raised by two pacifists, university professors who were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In a way, he resembles Kris Kristofferson and has an extremely patient, ultimately sympathetic manner of speech. At 51, Boulding spends his days in Olalla, Wash., with his wife and musical partner Pam, […]
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Home is where the South is
“Years pass. Our hero moved to the city, then a couple of more cities. He got him a funny haircut or two. He became a punk rocker and tried to disassociate himself from his youthful transgressions. Much like so many well-meaning southern people who try to talk down their southern accents for fear of sounding […]
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Taking the Triangle by strategy
“Do people feel OK?” It’s well past midnight on a Monday night at Lillie’s in downtown Raleigh, and–after three beers, a washout band practice and an hour spent explaining the origin and direction of this Infantry–Nathan Asher really doesn’t have the answers, but the questions come quick and cutting. He doesn’t know why so many […]
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Let the music do the talking
The folks in Shark Quest don’t say a lot. During this Wednesday night practice at Grove Willer’s house way back in the woods of Chatham County, the phone gets passed around a lot, the unerringly sweet Sara Bell holding it up, pleading with the four men in the band, saying, “Come on, guys, talk this […]
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Livin’ (almost) free in Raleigh
I’m not arguing that this is the healthiest diet on the planet, or the cheapest. But, as it often goes, the healthiest can be expensive, and the cheapest involves sitting at home alone with tomatoes, a jar of mayonnaise and a loaf of bread (heavy on the pepper with my tomato sandwiches, please). But this […]
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Dullsborough Street
As a senior in biology at N.C. State University, I’d like to extend my official and sincere congratulations to each and every one of you for choosing to live on this fine campus, a huge bricked-to-the-hilt expanse from which you should glean loads of working knowledge about livestock, Linux and really, really lousy grammar. In […]
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in swan songs
If you haven’t seen a great show at Go! Room 4 in the past five years, it’s your own fault. There have been plenty. The automotive repair shop-turned-small rock haven on Brewer Lane in Carrboro closes after this finale, and it’s not to be missed. A.C. Newman–actually, The New Pornographers frontman/pop auteur Carl Newman–takes the […]
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Victory ‘grass
Hats off to the finely dressed fellows of Chatham County Line, who took first place two weeks ago at the Rocky Grass band competition in Lyons, Colo., progressing past a first round of 13 bands to nab the title in a showdown finale on July 25. “We played three songs and blistered it,” fiddle-and-mandolin-man John […]