So you like garage rock, kid? The White Stripes get you movin’? The Hives keep you jerkin’? Few do straight-ahead, vintage-style rock “n’ roll like the Georgia boys who call themselves The Woggles, a perennial Sleazefest favorite and a blistering rock “n’ roll quartet that will make you sing, sweat and shake with nothing but […]
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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Martin Street gets a remake
From the smell of the cool air seeping between the two mammoth glass doors that mark the city-chic entrance of Martin Street Music Hall, one would suppose that the spot was already legendary. It’s that day-old smoked cigarette and spilt beer smell, the one that lingers in a rock club even when it’s empty and […]
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in jam’n
The N.C. State Fairgrounds will serve as the epicenter in a three-day extravaganza of Capital City bluegrass that will include performances by The Jerry Douglas Band at the Museum of Art and local standouts Chatham County Line and Big Fat Gap at The Pour House Music Hall (see the Indy music listings). The big-band bluegrass […]
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Back to the Brewery
If you’ve been wondering what’s happening with the promised reopening of The Brewery , have no fear. Tom Taylor, longtime editor and publisher of EDGE Magazine and the newest manager of the longtime Raleigh rock club, finally obtained the proper beer permits last week, and plans to open the doors to the public this Friday […]
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in beats and juice
Plan on going to Kings Thursday night in lieu of work on Friday morning. When you show up Monday and The Man asks you where you were, tell him you got too caught up in the beat on Thursday night to even call in sick. Quickly, before you lose your job (a jobless recovery, of […]
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Phon call
Phon –the experimental noise duo of Dustin Dorsey and Drew Robertson formerly known as The Gaze –are duly thrilled about an upcoming chance to record in Chicago’s SOMA Electronic Music Studio, owned and operated by John McEntire (Tortoise, The Sea and Cake). The band will be heading to Chicago at the end of July and […]
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Destroyer sails south
“If some people don’t like how this stuff sounds live, I couldn’t honestly care less,” quips Destroyer’s Dan Bejar, repeating himself above the Curtis Mayfield record blaring in the background. “If someone has a problem with the way I do this stuff with a band, they can always listen to the record when they get […]
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Rocking under the stars
The beer comes in a plastic bottle, and it has been known to cost seven bucks or so for a mere 22 ounces, the cap twisted off of the brown plastic by people in white polos and visors yelling, “Let’s see those wristbands, folks.” And people buy–not necessarily because beer in the summer at a […]
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Music (Tele)Vision
That David Figueroa–the president and founder of Media Moguls, Inc. –is just slightly self-important is more than slightly self-evident. Sitting on the front deck of the East Village on Hillsborough Street on a sunny, springtime afternoon a few weeks ago, Figueroa lounged back in his chair, dressed like a cool cat in a short-sleeve, bright […]
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Hit the bricks
It’s safe to say that the end-of-the-year bashes at Duke and East Carolina last week didn’t require much on-campus publicity. Announcements that Kanye West would be on hand at Duke’s Quad certainly sent the kids clamoring for a little Marvin Gaye and Luther Vandross, and The Roots–one of hip-hop’s must see live bands–sent Greenville into […]