1. No Age* When No Age started in the middle of the last decade, their releases came as if from a flood. In their first three years as a band, the Los Angeles duo of drummer Dean Spunt and guitarist Randy Randall issued a string of a half-dozen singles, a compilation that collected many of […]
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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Duane Pitre and the simple spell of seemingly difficult music
Duane Pitre with Polyorchard and The Hem of His Garment Friday, Aug. 16, 9:30 p.m. $7–$9 Nightlight On paper, the music of New Orleans composer and multi-instrumentalist Duane Pitre might seem esoteric. There are unfamiliar instruments and obscure references, theoretical constructs and modified tunings. Indeed, without listening to Pitre’s music, it seems cloistered behind the […]
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The week in music: August 14-21, 2013
1. Birds of Avalon Eight months into 2013, this three-band bill stands as one of the best convocations of local acts this year: It’s a rare appearance for , whose members are busy running the Raleigh cultural center of Kings, The Garland and Neptune’s. But they’ve been working on a follow-up to their 2011 self-titled […]
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The week in music: August 21-August 28, 2013
1. Steve Earle & the Dukes In a recent session for satellite radio syndicate SiriusXM, Steve Earle talked about taking a walk to the gym with actor Tim Robbins. They went past a church where Robbins had served as an altar boy, the same place Earle had noticed long soup kitchen lines forming. As it […]
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I thought my baseball card collection had value. It did, but only to me.
No one had room for my childhood, even if I was content to give it away. Last month, my wife, Tina, and I trudged through the Kerr Scott Building, a 23,000-square-foot exhibition space on the edge of the North Carolina State Fairgrounds. She pulled a green rolling suitcase, heavy enough that its hard-polymer handle curved […]
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Daughn Gibson’s slip from unsigned to signed
Daughn Gibson with Ryan Gustafson Local 506 Wednesday, Aug. 14 9 p.m., $8–$10 If you want to own a copy of All Hell, the 2012 debut album from Pennsylvania baritone weirdo Daughn Gibson, you’d better have a credit card and patience. Though you can conveniently download All Hell‘s haunted 10 tracks online for less than […]
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The week in music: August 7-14, 2013
1. Run the Jewels: EL-P and Killer Mike Run the Jewels is a new collaborative album between Killer Mike and El-P. Mike is a husky Atlanta rapper who has kicked around the majors, rapped on a Grammy-winning number and worked with Jay-Z and OutKast. Former Company Flow anchor, Definitive Jux proprietor and New York underground […]
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Listening with Goner
When Scott Phillips and Chris Dalton lived together for a year on Carson Street in Raleigh, they called their place “The House of Bruce and Bruce.” Six years before, Phillips, the singer and keyboardist in the rock trio Goner, had given himself over entirely to Bruce Springsteen, consuming every record and song and idea The […]
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The week in music: July 31-Aug. 7, 2013
1. KEN Mode, Inter Arma Winnipeg’s KEN Mode and Richmond’s Inter Arma are responsible for two of the year’s most electrifying and absorbing heavy records for very different reasons. The first word of KEN Mode’s handle is an acronym borrowed from Henry Rollins, meaning “Kill Everyone Now.” And indeed, their fortified mix of hardcore aggression, […]
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The week in music: July 24-31, 2013
1.Zo! It’s been nearly 10 years since Durham rapper Phonte Coleman and Dutch producer Nicolay Rook released Connected, their pristine futuristic R&B excursion as the transcontinental, file-sharing duo The Foreign Exchange. At that point, you’d have been hard-pressed to find many to think that Coleman’s future lay with The Foreign Exchange and not with Little […]
