ART OF COOL FEST Friday, April 24–Sunday, April 26 $30–$260 Downtown Durham aocfestival.org A week before the second Art of Cool Fest brings three-dozen jazz, soul and R&B acts to the outdoor lawns and indoor halls of Durham, co-founder Cicely Mitchell seems self-assured. She has one essential piece of information she didn’t have before the […]
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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A quintet of collaborations that never panned out for North Carolina’s piano man
Ben Folds decided to come home to launch his latest cross-curricular collaboration. Next week, the North Carolina native and former leader of Ben Folds Five will play Duke University with the ambitious, young classical ensemble, yMusic. They’re launching a four-week tour as a teaser for a joint album, due later this year. Folds teaming with […]
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A love story resurrects an underground rock ‘n’ roll fest
Blackbeard’s Lost Weekender Friday, April 10–Sunday, April 12 The Cave, 452 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, 919-968-9308 www.caverntavern.comNightlight, 405 W. Chapel Hill St., Chapel Hill, 919-960-6101 www.nightlightclub.com Josh Johnson admits he was ready to give up. In late 2013, Johnson flew from Los Angeles, where he’d been living, to North Carolina, where he’d been raised, […]
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The Mountain Goats’ Beat the Champ
The Mountain Goats broke the Merge Records website. In late January, the Durham label announced it would soon be releasing its third album by the longtime outlet of singer-songwriter John Darnielle. Though Darnielle has been incredibly prolific during his quarter-century career, this new music, collectively titled Beat the Champ, would mark his first musical release […]
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Despite delay in official announcement, several sources confirm Rolling Stones coming to Carter-Finley
Several high-level sources confirmed Friday afternoon that The Rolling Stones will play N.C. State University’s Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh Wednesday, July 1. Rumors of the show have been circulating for days, and the stop appears to be part of a tour that was expected to be announced yesterday, Thursday, March 19, as part of a […]
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Black Pussy’s Raleigh gig back on, kind of
The canceled Raleigh set by the controversially named Portland, Oregon stoner rock band Black Pussy is back on for the capital city, but with a new date and venue. Slim’s—located on the opposite side of the same block as the show’s original locale, The Pour House—will host the group on Thursday, March 26, one day […]
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Three Raleigh friends have found that beer makes good communities
David Meeker picked the wrong route. For the last minute, he’s sat still in his 2006 Honda Accord, except for his head, which he turns to scan four lanes of traffic on Raleigh’s busy, curving Western Boulevard. Meeker starts to ease forward twice only to stop, look again and find that someone else is approaching […]
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Violinist Jenny Scheinman turns obscure Tar Heel films into an hour-long musical meditation
Jenny Scheinman Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait Friday, March 20, 8 p.m., $10–$34 Reynolds Industries Theater 125 Science Dr., Durham 919-684-4444 | www.dukeperformances.duke.edu Jenny Scheinman struggles when she starts to speak about her new project. Her sentences turn sometimes into fragments and other times into paragraphs, as if, when she tries to connect all the factors […]
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Talking to The Pour House about its canceled Black Pussy show
A week ago, the calls started coming for The Pour House owner Adam Lindstaedt. One after another, familiar customers, enraged civilians and even an anonymous person using voice-masking software let him know that they would never return to his club. The Pour House had offended them. Several weeks before, he’d booked Black Pussy, a Portland, […]
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The N.C. State Fair will not book headlining Dorton Arena concerts in 2015
The North Carolina State Fair has decided to stop the bleeding: The Department of Agriculture announced yesterday that they are putting the customary headlining concerts inside Dorton Arena on pause, replacing them instead with free exhibitions during the day and a “Homegrown North Carolina” concert series focused on area acts at night. The decision follows […]
