Sitting in a New york city neighborhood park on a windy and sunny Sunday in early October, Porter Robinson tucks his hands between his legs and admits that, in the decades he’s lived in North Carolina, he’s only been to one area concert. He saw Ratatat at the Cat’s Cradle when he was a teenager. […]
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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25 area songs to take from 2014
Though this isn’t a comprehensive list of songs released by local musicians that I’ll certainly keep playing next year, it is meant to represent some of the variety and vitality of what happened musically in the Triangle in 2014. From Hanz’ ability to turn bedlam into beats or Brett Harris’ preternatural ease with a melody, […]
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An improvised score aims to tease glee and gloom from a holiday classic
It’s a Wonderful Life With Dale Baker, Tim Carless, Casey Toll and Whit Wright Thursday, Dec. 18, 8 p.m., $9 The ArtsCenter, 300-G E. Main St., Carrboro 919-929-2787, artscenterlive.org Tim Carless did not grow up watching It’s a Wonderful Life every Christmas. Raised in the British countryside by parents who didn’t much favor movies, he […]
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Watch/love/loathe VVAQRT’s new video
Detainee, the new LP from Orange County’s fragmented synth-pop duo VVAQRT, is one of my favorite local releases of the year. With songs that suggest phantom remnants of bygone commercial jingles laced around excerpts of old advertising copy and rueful wallflower observations, Detainee dances along the lines between the surreal and simple, between the illusory […]
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The reopening of The Ritz delayed until, at earliest, January
Live Nation will have to wait until 2015 to open its new Triangle club: Million-dollar remodeling efforts at The Ritz, the long-running Raleigh venue that the world’s largest concert promoter purchased earlier this fall, have been delayed indefinitely. The contractor failed to obtain proper building permits from the City of Raleigh. Though the club originally […]
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In four years, concerts at the North Carolina State Fair have lost almost $900,000. Who’s responsible?
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture likes to remind its employees of the agency’s real cash crop: not cotton, not tobacco, not soybeans, not sorghum. When the weather is right come mid-October, it’s the million people each year who attend the North Carolina State Fair. The department’s headquarters sits across the street from the State […]
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Live: The world premiere of William Tyler’s stunning, stirring multimedia Civil War show
William Tyler’s Corduroy Roads 305 South, Durham Friday, Nov. 21, 2014 If you hoped to keep warm Friday night, during the second show of William Tyler’s four-evening world premiere of his new multimedia work Corduroy Roads, you either needed to pack a heavy coat or not mind nestling near a space heater. Both could be […]
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NC Symphony’s Death and the Maiden: An essential if uncertain step into modernity
The North Carolina Symphony String Quartet and Blursome Performing Schubert’s Death and the MaidenThursday, Nov. 20, 2014 Kings, Raleigh The near-capacity audience at Kings in Raleigh didn’t behave like a typical Thursday evening rock-club crowd, at least not at first. During the opening movement of Franz Schubert’s revered string quartet, Death and the Maiden, the […]
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Live: At 52, Garth Brooks works to be a new boss
Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Karyn Rochelle Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 No one worried that Garth Brooks had been stingy last night in the Greensboro Coliseum, during the first performance of a five-night stand that comes as part of the singer’s after-50 career renaissance. In fact, he’d been generous. In about two hours, […]
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T0W3RS’ TL;DR
On “To Be Woke,” the finale of T0W3RS’ second LP, TL;DR, Derek Torres retreats to old tricks. His voice emerges from a bower’s nest of glowing drones and scrambled electronics, bird noises and guitar strums to deliver ponderous questions. As the beat builds behind Torres’ coo, the inspiration becomes obvious: Animal Collective, circa 2005. It’s […]
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