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Bio: Grayson Haver Currin was the music editor of INDY Week and the co-director of Hopscotch Music Festival.Twitter: http://twitter.com/currincy
Niall Hanley does not want to talk about a silly award. Late on a Thursday afternoon, six hours into a workday that is scheduled to last for 14, the downtown Raleigh pub-and-restaurant kingpin is hunched over a crowded desk, shuffling through and signing stacks of papers. This is a rare moment at rest: Already today, […]
Here’s a fun little tidbit making the rounds in Raleigh: According to several sources within Raleigh’s food community and current and former employees of Greg Hatem’s Empire Eats, the restaurant group will soon open another eatery in The L Building, the near-completed and entirely huge multiuse space at the corner of McDowell and Davie streets. […]
Mutoid Man with Sweet Cobra Tuesday, Aug. 11, 8:30 p.m., $10–$12 Kings, 14 W. Martin St., Raleigh 919-833-1091, www.kingsbarcade.com Death from Above 1979 With The Bots Monday, Aug. 10, 8 p.m. $25 The Ritz, 2820 Industrial Drive, Raleigh 919-836-8535, www.ritzraleigh.com Stephen Brodsky knows why modern Metallica sucks: The band’s members simply don’t play enough music. […]
Earthly prefer not to sit still: Like kids racing onto the playground after a day wasted in a cold, dull classroom, or enthusiastic explorers stumbling for the first time into some wild, unknown land, the duo of Edaan Brook and Brint Hansen cavort through at least a dozen electronic niches on their beguiling debut LP, […]
Not long after Earthly finish a set on a stage, the members of the new Carrboro electronic duo, Edaan Brook and Brint Hansen, typically fight. No, they don’t come to blows. And the words of the 22- and 23-year-old shaggy-haired producerswho, sitting in the summer shade beneath a broad oak tree, talk slowly about making […]
Late last week, The Love Language’s leader, Stu McLamb, sent me a text to say thanks. A native of Cary, McLamb has been attending the North Carolina State Fair since he was a child. He’s gone at least 20 times, he thinks, and remembers seeing both concerts and circus acts inside the fall spectacle’s biggest […]
So Durham gets electronics and technology, but Raleigh gets a little country and some blues? That appears to be the case, at least according to an information packet on the website of New York-based production company Blackbird Presents. (UPDATE: Blackbird removed the information from their website. Good thing we saved it, and you can see […]
Chuck Johnson arrived late to the world of solo instrumental guitar. For nearly a quarter-century, Johnson made music in a variety of collaborative guises, from the atavistic indie rock of his ’90s tenure in Chapel Hill’s Spatula and the subsequent globetrotting explorations of Idyll Swords, to the wordless Southern exotica of Shark Quest and his […]
Earlier today, we published Justin Weber’s lengthy review of Kid Rock’s concert at Walnut Creek on Saturday night. It’s been a difficult two weeks for Detroit’s Kid Rock, who has been challenged at home for his use of the Confederate flag but refused to back down until a publicist named Nick Stern took over for […]
If you’re not on drugs, Google Deep Dream will make you believe you are. Released last month by the company’s engineers, the software is an experiment that uses a database of code and images to interpret and recognize other images. That sounds nice and simple, sure, but the psychedelic results have become a steady viral […]
