Eddie Sanchez had just played an arena, but he had not prepared to give any autographs. On Friday night, just 15 minutes after he stood stage right with The Love Language, working the strings of his electric bass for an hour-long set, Sanchez did not appear ready to stick around. Clutching a few small cases […]
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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Durham’s Kathy Hester is the queen of vegan slow-cooking. Don’t be scared.
Kathy Hester is worried that her recipe might be too threatening—not because it, like all of her recipes, is vegan, or because it, like all of the ideas in her latest book, keys on Halloween. Rather, she frets that people may not know what “vegan sausage” is, or that their grocery store will not stock […]
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Dedicated band parking in Raleigh? Not so easy or quick
Last year, Raleigh mayor Nancy McFarlane returned from South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, talking about band parking. She’d visited the technology-and-music festival in part to recruit businesses and boast about the rise of the city’s tech start-ups and in part to see what Austin did right that perhaps Raleigh didn’t do at all. She […]
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Boulevards talks his new Captured Tracks record deal, taking the funk to the kids
Yesterday, Jamil Rashad got an early birthday present: News broke that the Raleigh funk revivalist had landed a deal with Captured Tracks, a vogue New York record label whose promotional and industry cachet stand to push Rashad to bigger audiences rather quickly. That’s already started to happen for Rashad. Since his debut single, “Got to […]
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Hear the first sample of the fourth, final Whatever Brains LP
You might have heard whispers for the past five months that Whatever Brains—to my mind, one of the absolute best bands to emerge from this state during the last decade—have broken up, playing their final show while opening for Lighting Bolt back in May. Indeed, Bryan C. Reed alluded to the dissolution in his recent […]
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Will The Square Rabbit—and many other old downtown businesses—get “revitalized” out of business?
Doug Llewellyn remembers when people began to walk dogs again in downtown Raleigh. For a decade, he and his wife, Rebecca, had owned and operated The Square Rabbit, a tiny bakery and sandwich shop on the ground floor of a century-old building at the intersection of Martin and Wilmington streets. Since opening in 1991, they’d […]
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Live: MAKE—yes, the heavy metal band—at the second day of the North Carolina State Fair
MAKE N.C. State Fair’s Waterfall Stage, Raleigh Friday, Oct. 16, 2015 The North Carolina State Fair cannot be accused of being shy with its decisions. When the 162-year-old agricultural institution announced its music-booking facelift earlier this year, followed in short order by a schedule of bands, one of the most surprising features was the inclusion […]
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Durham and Raleigh crater in food affordability study, but ponder the fine print
Another day, another appearance by Raleigh and Durham on a quality-of-life list. The cities’ positions on Wallet Hub’s “Best and Worst Foodie Cities for Your Wallet” spreadsheet, however, leave a lot to be desired: Durham lands at No. 67, while Raleigh limps in at No. 82. That is, of the 150 most populous cities in […]
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Gray Brooks will change the name of “Hattie Mae Williams Called Me Captain”
After a week of discussion about “Hattie Mae Williams Called Me Captain,” the proposed name for Gray Brooks’ new downtown Durham restaurant, the chef announced today that he will indeed change the name before the place opens early next year. He told the INDY he was considering such an option during our Wednesday interview with […]
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Gray Brooks defends “Hattie Mae Williams Called Me Captain,” but he’s willing to consider a name change
Gray Brooks was quick to call me back Wednesday morning. Though Brooks is currently visiting Seattle, the city to which he moved for 15 years after growing up in Durham, he seemed eager to talk, even if a little let down by the topic. For the last week, the Durham restaurateur—or, specifically, the name of […]