SEE GULLS YOU CAN’T SEE ME See Gulls with Dad & Dad and SMLH Saturday, July 18, 9 p.m., $7 Kings, 14 W. Martin St., Raleigh 919-833-1091 www.kingsbarcade.com See Gulls do their emotional and melodic damage with enviable efficiency. On You Can’t See Me, the excellent five-song debut of the pan-Triangle quartet, only one track […]
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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After confirming plans to move from Asheville to Durham in 2016, Moogfest works to buck up and fit in
Durham will double the volume of its music festival market in 2016. Moogfesta multi-day event meant to explore the connection between technology, sound and creativitywill move to the Bull City after a troubled four-year stint in Asheville. The event will debut in Durham May 19–22, only two weeks after the city’s jazz-and-soul festival, Art of […]
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Hear “Ties,” the first cut from the first Des Ark LP in four years
At long last, there’s a new Des Ark song—well, sort of. Earlier today, the Vice-boosted blog Noisey premiered “Ties,” the gorgeous and grand first sample of Everything Dies, Aimee Argote’s first full LP since 2011’s Don’t Rock the Boat, Sink the Fucker. As the writer Dan Ozzi noted, it’s a fitting if tempered distillation of […]
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Live: Pursuing immortality with The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones & The Avett Brothers Carter-Finley Stadium, RaleighWednesday, July 1, 2015 The Rolling Stones exploit the best implicit touring marketing pitch money cannot buy: See them now, because there’s no telling if they’ll live long enough for you to see them again. The age of the infamously hard-living Stones has been a punchline […]
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Oops! The Rolling Stones forget to get N.C. State’s permission to use the Wolfpack logo
If they’re not careful, The Rolling Stones may soon find themselves under the thumb of N.C. State University: During their ZIP Code Tour appearance tonight at Raleigh’s Carter-Finley Stadium, the Brits who appropriated the blues will sell merchandise featuring the Wolfpack’s familiar “Tuffy” mascot, with the face replaced by John Pasche’s iconic tongue-and-lip logo for […]
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See See Gulls’ video for “Long Gone”
Sarah Fuller isn’t going to let this boy get the best of her. In the Jacki Huntington-directed clip for “Long Gone,” the mid-tempo seducer from See Gulls’ forthcoming debut EP, You Can’t See Me, the band’s leader is first surprised with a living-room breakup as she sips from a glass of wine. Consternation follows, as […]
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Duke Performances unveils stellar 2015–2016 season
Durham should expect a deluge of music during the coming year. Between September 10 and April 15, Duke Performances will bring more than 60 engagements to theaters, auditoriums and clubs both on campus and across town. And with a handful of notable exceptions, the shows hinge on sound, whether it’s as local as Durham’s Hiss […]
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Five words with Norway’s prolific and powerful drummer, Paal Nilssen-Love
Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit with Tashi Dorji Monday, June 15, 8:30 p.m., $10 Kings, 14 W. Martin St., Raleigh 919-833-1091, www.kingsbarcade.com As Paal Nilssen-Love’s Large Unit carves its debut tour across America and Canada during June, the aptly named Norwegian ensemble might resemble a musical militia. The band will travel in three vans, a dozen […]
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DISH: Heat aficionado says the top hot sauce is…
My friends don’t bring me records anymore. I think they worry I have too many. Instead, every several weeks, another text message or email appears: “Do you have this one?” each reads, the text accompanied by some ridiculous nameSatan’s Ghost, Hellfire’s First Blood, Insanityand an absurd image of a hot pepper crying or smiling in […]
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Hear new tunes from Phil Cook, MAKE
Two Triangle favorites—Durham roots revitalizer Phil Cook and Chapel Hill doom dudes MAKE—offered previews of their forthcoming albums today. Though they take wildly different approaches to their respective topics and tunes, both tracks foreshadow excellent area LPs to come in the next three months. Due September 11 through Thirty Tigers, Cook’s Due September 11 through […]
