Regal Rap n’ Roll Justus League emcee L.E.G.A.C.Y. –who just released his first 12″ single, “Nice”, on the Hall of Justus/Fat Beats imprint in advance of his forthcoming full-length Project Mayhem–will host a mammoth hip-hop affair Friday night at Kings Barcade. Chapel Hill High School principal and emerging national rapper Spectac (see profile, pg. 45) […]
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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Raleigh Rhythms
Kings & KNC Kooperate Ask most students at N.C. State University where exactly Kings Barcade is, and you’ll get the same quizzical expression that they provide everyday in Calculus I (or that engineers give in a humanities class). Then again, ask the same cohort what the call letters of the student radio station on campus […]
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23/7
To the couple idly chatting at a table for two at The Rockford, a downtown Raleigh restaurant, the young fellow who pulls out their chairs may not mean a lot. Sure, he’s friendly, polite and handsome–clean-shaven with spiked blond locks, dressed casually in dark jeans and a yellow, long-sleeved shirt with the top three buttons […]
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The listening room
Imagine you have a big project to finish at work, and you need to be in the office early. Your feet hit the floor at 12 a.m., and you’re out of the door in 10 minutes. It’s a marathon morning, day and night, and you can only afford three non-lavatory pauses: breakfast, lunch, dinner. You […]
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The listening room
Imagine you have a big project to finish at work, and you need to be in the office early. Your feet hit the floor at 12 a.m., and you’re out of the door in 10 minutes. It’s a marathon morning, day and night, and you can only afford three non-lavatory pauses: breakfast, lunch, dinner. You […]
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Raleigh Rhythms
Hear This Band With a fist to the face courtesy of a longtime bandmate, Nathan Asher knew Phantom FM was through. But, following the band-breaking fisticuffs, Asher still had plenty of songs and ideas, and he knew better than to waste them. What he needed was the same as most any other unestablished songwriter: a […]
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In multi-talented
Virginia-born singer/songwriter Erin McKeown , insists that, although she plays the guitar, banjo, drums, organ, bass and piano, she isn’t necessarily good with any of them. But the results on Grand–her third solo effort to date–seem to suggest otherwise. On the Dave Chalfant-headed project, McKeown emerges as an amalgamation of her mixed-bag CD collection–writing perfect […]
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In western exposure
This is a call to those who sport Carolina blue when the sap rises in the springtime and to those rock club wallflowers whose life expectancy leapt 10 years when the Cradle went non-smoking. This Saturday night get in your car and get on I-40 East. Stay straight until you see the Wade Avenue exit. […]
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Raleigh Rhythms
Help Found If Raleigh rock ‘n’ roll legend and inveterate Brewery soundman Jack Cain rushed to the upstairs stage at Sunday’s Alejandro Escovedo Benefit at Retail Bar one time, he did it a hundred times. He practically skipped his way across an almost empty dance floor to check out a noise that kept popping into […]
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In Peter Tosh
Life as a music critic can be odd. No, not Cameron Crowe-watching-as-Kate Hudson-spins-around-the-room-naked odd; odd as in the conversational conundrums in which we often find ourselves. We’re a friendly lot, and most of us like to talk to people. Inherently, we like to talk about music. Inherently, we find that a host of those who […]