The cops won’t stop telling Mikey Perros to turn down the bass. Upstairs in Kings, the downtown Raleigh rock room that Perros has booked for four years, the British producer, record label owner and dubstep pioneer known as Kode9 is preparing to step on stage for a modest but enthusiastic early-week crowd. The show is […]
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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Live: Lorde commands and charms an allegiant audience in Raleigh
Lorde, Majical Cloudz Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 After his brief opening set last night at Raleigh’s Red Hat Amphitheater, Majical Cloudz frontman Devon Welsh did something that seemed to surprise even him: He jumped offstage, turned around, leaned his back hard into the black bulwark that separates the front row from […]
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Des Ark’s Aimée Argote plans memorial bike ride Friday night
Last year, Des Ark’s Aimée Argote and Taylor Holenbeck were the first to arrive at the scene of a hit-and-run crash that killed cyclists Alexandria Nicole Simou and Ivin Levander Scurlock outside of Chapel Hill. Argote detailed the personal effect of that night on her blog, describing the scene and encouraging people to be more […]
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Live: The momentary miracle of Farm Aid
Farm Aid 2014 Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014 On Saturday, Neil Young seemed tired—tired of writing songs that don’t change the world, tired of singing them for big crowds that might not be listening, tired of those crowds that, after three decades of massive Farm Aid benefits, have not sparked a revolution […]
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T-shirt of Slim’s owner Van Alston edited by WALTER photographer
If you’ve checked the recent issue of The News & Observer’s high-money, high-gloss magazine, WALTER, you might’ve been delighted to notice a short story about the downtown Raleigh watering hole and rock club, Slim’s. The piece even includes owner Van Alston’s recipe for the “Slim’s Cheerwine shot” and praises the “true grit” of the place. […]
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Hiss Golden Messenger’s Merge debut succeeds on community
Hiss Golden Messenger with Strand of Oaks, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig Lateness of Dancers (Merge Records) Saturday, Sept. 13, 9 p.m., $12 Cat’s Cradle, 300 E. Main St., Carrborowww.catscradle.com For a moment, or at least for a record, Michael Taylor sounded like a man with no friends. On 2010’s Bad Debt, Taylorthe sole constant member of one […]
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Hopscotch, Night and Day Two: The wonder of free day parties and the resurrection of Lonnie Walker
I’ve never been to a Hopscotch day party. During the first four years of the festival’s existence, I worked as its co-director, meaning that those sun-and-booze-filled hours that so many relish meant, for me, afternoons of hauling gear and bleeding sweat, solving logistical challenges and pacifying Kozelek-sized concerns. But I’ve heard a lot about these […]
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Hopscotch, Night One: Anticipation and expectations
In large part, the reputation of Hopscotch has depended on the festival’s desire to deliver the unexpected—to engage experimental music enthusiastically, to coerce different styles into the same space, to rupture the sense of ease that a general-interest, expensive-ticket event can foster. Last night, during a two-hour, pre-festival party limited to those who indeed bought […]
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Interview: Spoon’s Jim Eno talks attending N.C. State, Wolfpack basketball and making records
Talk about a welcome back: After graduating from N.C. State with an electrical engineering degree in 1990, Spoon drummer Jim Eno hasn’t returned to Raleigh since finishing school, at least as best as he can remember. But tomorrow night, Eno’s band will headline Hopscotch 2014 with a late-evening set in Raleigh City Plaza. Eno doesn’t […]
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Sir Richard Bishop talks the toil of making music and giving it away
Sir Richard Bishop with Tashi Dorji Friday, Aug. 29, 6 p.m., $8 The Pinhook Sir Richard Bishop is not a knight. He has never met the Queen. But many years ago, Bishop one of the best and least predictable instrumental guitarists to emerge in decadesbegan adding the honorary title to his solo records. It was […]
