It appears as though the eerie silence looming over The Brewery at 3009 Hillsborough Street for the past two months will end soon. Eva Mettrey–an Atlantic City resident who inherited the property from her father when he died in 2001–recently leased the club to Virginia Beach entrepreneur Jeff Hodgson and a partner. Mettrey, whose uncle […]
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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Candle in the window
Cramped behind a table at Amante’s Pizza just two doors down from the Cat’s Cradle, Thad Cockrell, Skip Matheny and Timshel Matheny are groping for the essence of Chris Stamey: as a producer, as a collaborator and as a friend. Cockrell discusses his work ethic, his attention to detail, his drive to get the sound […]
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Bye-bye Brewery
Perhaps more than any other person you will ever meet, Jac Cain loves rock ‘n’ roll. The music is in his attirea tight tank top peaking from beneath an unbuttoned, navy blue shirt embroidered with the famous “Stubb’s Bar-B-Q” logo. His hair, a bottle-blonde glow cut close and carefully combed, points to punk. And the […]
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Reunited Americans
If Neil Young hadn’t written “Buffalo Springfield Again” during one of the more quietly acoustic portions of his career, it would make an appropriate musical motif for the reunion action set for Kings Barcade on Thursday night. But, as is, don’t expect to hear a time-stopping, mind-unraveling hardcore punk take on the Young country pine […]
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In badness
If Who’s Bad? wasn’t a Michael Jackson tribute band, it would probably be a local jazz supergroup–bound and determined to set the scene on fire with a handful of musicians that met half a decade ago through Chapel Hill’s jazz program (Matt McCaughan, Ray McCall, Vamsi Tadepelli) and the acid-wash stylings of Raleigh guitar phenom, […]
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Hear this band!
It seems that after making music together in some form for over a decade, any sort of a fresh start would be virtually impossible. But don’t tell that to Ticonderoga , the Raleigh trio of Iowa City transplants Wes Phillips, Mark Paulson and Phil Moore that hopes to use their new hometown and new three-man […]
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Bye bye Brewery
Venue Revue For those of you who drove down Hillsborough Street in early January and laughed over the “Gone Fishin’” motto hanging from the marquee in front of The Brewery, the joke may be on you. On the first day of March, the message went up on the club’s Web site that it’s closed for […]
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In anybody else, please
Never mind the mawkish name, Axis of Change, the fledgling Raleigh grassroots organization of three politically concerned locals that created the Anybody But Bush concert series. Instead, consider change the group’s sincere, sole reason for existence. Founders Brad Farran, Owen Rosenbloom and Jay Winfrey claim that their goal is to launch a series of regional […]
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In new voices
It would be easy to pigeonhole San Francisco’s Matt Nathanson as the next John Mayer. After all, he’s got one of those boy-next-door names, not unlike that of Mr. Mayer himself or those of his cronies Jack Johnson, Howie Day and Josh Kelley. And he’s got the looks to charm: like a huskier Matthew Perry […]
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Ralegh Rhythms
The Popular Kids and their allies Barring the occasional set from a national touring band or a multi-band showcase of local favorites, most Wednesday nights in Raleigh are dominated by the popular open mic jams at Berkeley Cafe. But it seems as though that may change very soon thanks to a group of Kings regulars […]