When Trampled by Turtles headlines Red Hat Amphitheater Saturday night, the progressive string band will do more than just burn through breakneck bluegrass-based numbers and dark bouts of folk balladry. As the top draw for Band Together’s annual Main Event, the Minnesota quintet will help the Raleigh charity close on a goal to raise $1 […]
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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Q&A: Ryan Martin Talks Savage Weekend VI, Starting at Nightlight Tomorrow
Ryan Martin does not seem to mind the logistics of booking ninety bands during two days. Instead, Martin—as a musician, label head, and promoter, the area’s most steadfast experimental impresario—views his Savage Weekend as an ad hoc family reunion for international power electronics powerhouses, harsh noise blasters, and drone sculptors. Martin’s sixth-annual symposium of abrasion […]
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The Family Reunion of Savage Weekend
SAVAGE WEEKEND FRIDAY, MAY 13–SATURDAY, MAY 14 NIGHTLIGHT, CHAPEL HILL 4:30 p.m. (Friday) & 4 p.m. (Saturday), $20 Ryan Martin does not seem to mind the logistics of booking ninety bands during two days. Instead, Martinas a musician, label head, and promoter, the area’s most steadfast experimental impresarioviews his Savage Weekend as an ad hoc […]
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Hunting for Honeysuckle with Crook’s Corner’s Bill Smith
Crook’s Corner 610 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill The pair of primly dressed couples tucked beneath umbrellas and inside heavy coats on a jarringly windy, cold, and soaked night in early May pay little mind to the man shuffling across Franklin Street in the rain. He holds a four-liter pitcher half stuffed with honeysuckles. Undeterred, […]
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Fighting Poisoned Food and Unnecessary Subsidies: A Talk with Provenance’s Teddy Klopf
Iven when Teddy Klopf sits down, he rarely sits still. When he’s silent, his fingers bounce from the surface of a table in Provenance, the downtown Raleigh restaurant he opened earlier this year. And when he speaks, his hands become semaphores, helping to highlight words and emphasize the importance of ideas. He seems to vibrate, […]
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Introducing EATS, the INDY’s 112-page Look at Local Food
For the last five years, the INDY has issued an annual food magazine, EATS. In previous editions, EATS largely pulled together our favorite food-and-drink stories of the last year or spotlighted favorite dishes or trends in Triangle dining, along with a thick section of restaurant and bar listings. This year, though, we took a different […]
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Southland Ballroom Will Likely Remain for at Least a Year
The imminent demise of Southland Ballroom, it seems, has been exaggerated. In February, news broke that a somewhat mysterious venture between Raleigh development kingpins John Kane and Cross Williams had purchased pricey parcels on downtown Raleigh’s North West street. That property has widely been considered to be the home of a future Publix, which would […]
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Live: In Raleigh, Beyoncé Reigns
Beyoncé Carter-Finley Stadium, Raleigh Tuesday, May 3, 2016 Beyoncé’s stop in Raleigh last night seemed doomed from the start. Consider, for instance, that Beyoncé announced her current world tour and its only North Carolina date during the Super Bowl, the first of two national championships Carolina teams have lost this year. Soon thereafter, members of […]
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Instead of Canceling His Shakori Hills Performance Because of HB 2, Brett Dennen Asked How He Could Help
Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival 1439 Henderson Tanyard Road, Pittsboro Thursday, May 5–Sunday, May 8 In early April, the organizers of the Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival ended a short section of an email with an electronic wink. “We can’t wait to see you here!” wrote co-coordinator Sara Waters in a message to the five-dozen acts scheduled […]
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Mystery Brewing Company’s First Four-Pack Takes a Tour of Belgium
Mystery Brewing Company Erik Myers had a storytelling problem. Since 2012, his Hillsborough brewery, the preternaturally idiosyncratic Mystery, had struggled to put a variety pack into retail outlets. Each season, Mystery rotates its beers, offering a fleet of four new flagships every three months. Though that philosophy has quickly made Mystery one of the state’s […]