Billy Joel will play the PNC Arena in Raleigh Feb. 9, 2014, Raleigh mayor Nancy McFarlane announced Thursday morning at a press conference at the sports and entertainment complex. Tickets go on sale Saturday, Dec. 14, at 10 a.m., following a special pre-sale for American Express cardholders. No ticket prices are currently available. City officials […]
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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The week in music: Dec. 4-11
1. Let Feedback Ring Might Let Feedback Ringa monthly free show at Raleigh’s Legendsbe the city’s next great, permanent First Friday addition? Here’s hoping. The talent for this second regular installment, after all, is an exceptional blend of newcomers, veterans and the path between the two. The new and promising Wool crafts evocative indie rock […]
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The week in music: Nov. 27-Dec. 4
1. Pontiak, Guardian Alien As 2014 begins, New York’s Guardian Alien and Virginia’s Pontiak will release new albums on the same day and the same label, the artistically exploratory and long-risky Chicago imprint Thrill Jockey. Taken together, these recordsGuardian Alien’s Spiritual Emergency and Pontiak’s Innocencepaint a wonderfully boundless picture of what rock ‘n’ roll can […]
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Four months after the last Moral Monday, the protest’s soundtrack is finally out. So, what now for the NC Music Love Army?
NC Music Love Army with Apple Juice Kid Saturday, Nov. 30 9 p.m., $8–$10 Cat’s Cradle On Halifax Mall, the great expanse of subdivided lawn that stretches in downtown Raleigh between a cluster of government buildings, the grass is now brittle and brown. But this summer, the scene on Halifax Mall was hot, bright and […]
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The week in music: Nov. 20-27, 2013
1. Agrimonia The asymptotically pop black metal of Deafheaven, the fitfully interesting fare of the thrash revival and reconfiguration, the death of Jeff Hanneman: The most prominent threads in heavy metal this year haven’t really made room for Agrimonia, a Swedish crew whose long-form mix of doom, crust punk and post-metal accounts for one of […]
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The Letter Jackets’ varsity rock ‘n’ roll
The Letter Jackets with Josh Moore Friday, Nov. 22 9 p.m., $10–$12 Motorco Saturday, Nov. 23 9:30 p.m., $10 Kings The fiddle and the mandolin were not John Teer’s first musical loves, even if they are the instruments that now pay his bills. Teer is best known as the wide-smiling multi-instrumentalist of Chatham County Line, […]
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The week in music: Nov. 13-20, 2013
1. BASIA BULAT When fireside-voiced Canadian singer Basia Bulat first gathered critical laurels, she was rather new to her 20s. And though she clutched an autoharp to her chest or stood above a dulcimer with hammers in hand, her music felt young and a touch nave, as though those antediluvian instruments hid her innocence from […]
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A multimedia show meant to differentiate an indie rock band
People Get Ready Friday, Nov. 15–Saturday, Nov. 16 8 p.m., $10–$22 Reynolds Industries Theater Duke Bryan Center Duke Performances When the New York band People Get Ready visits Duke University for two consecutive concerts this weekend, they will require the gear expected of most rock acts: guitars and attached amplifiers, drums and a sound system, […]
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A pint for Mr. Reed
I knew that Lou Reed had been dead for about an hour, but the woman sitting behind me in the small Asheville bar seemed to have just found out. She had not taken the news so well. “Run, Run, Run!” she yelled suddenly, screaming the title of one of the “hits” on the band’s debut […]
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In Raleigh, a music store relocates, another opens and one passes into fresh hands
When Brian Shaw tries to remember how old Nice Price Books on Raleigh’s Hillsborough Street is, he uses his age as a measuring stick. “I think it’s 1991,” he says, staring at the cars passing by in a parking lot as he does the quick calculation. “I’m 30, and it’s been there as long as […]
