Marco Benevento plays The Pour House Music Hall with Savage Knights Sunday, Nov. 11, at 9 p.m. Tickets are $12–$15. The landscape of indie rock doesn’t lend itself to musical cartography: In less than three decades, the field has morphed from one filled with insouciant acts burying and burning hooks with distorted guitars and battering […]
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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Video: Delta Rae succumbs to the Southern Lord, dances in a graveyard
In honor of Halloween, Delta Rae—Durham’s Forever 21 version of a roots-rock band—has released a new music video for the song “Dance in the Graveyards,” from its major-label debut, Carry the Fire. In said video, the band—clad in ghastly face paint and holding torches of fire—actually dances around a graveyard, as if to summon the […]
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The instructive joy of artist-led labels
In-house Though the number of artist-owned labels is innumerable, many illustrate the peculiarities and tastes of the owners in perfect fashion. Here are three such imprints. SOUTHERN LORD Both principals of drone metal giant Sunn O))), Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley, own separate record labels. It’s easy to trace the band’s hell-bound glacial music in […]
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T0W3RS’ Wyatt
T0W3RS play Nightlight Friday, Oct. 26, at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $6, and Boykiller and Jenny Besetzt open. T0W3RS then play Kings Saturday, Nov. 3, at 9:30 p.m. The Caribbean, Alpha Cop and Zack Mexico open. In the modern musical landscape, development is an extremely vulnerable activity. Bandcamp pages can now turn even the most […]
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What might be missing in the N.C. State Fair’s $663,000 band budget
Monday was a wash for the North Carolina State Fair. After estimating that more than 100,000 people would walk through the gates during each of the convocation’s 11 days in Raleigh, only about 52,000 arrived to start the week. A band of storms had streamed across the state from the late afternoon into the early […]
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Tift Merritt’s Traveling Alone
Traveling Alone arrives exactly a decade after Bramble Rose, the 2002 major-label debut from Tift Merritt. Merritt was a coltish singer-songwriter with roots in Chapel Hill and Raleigh; she infused earnest, sophisticated country-soul with a disarmingly warm, inherently bracing tone, and there was talk that it would make her famous. On the cover of that […]
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These five bands make the commute to Shakori Hills count
The Fall Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance takes place Thursday, Oct. 4–Sunday, Oct. 7. For a complete schedule of all Shakori Hills performers, visit Shakori Hills. Tickets range in price from $20–$100 and can be purchased online and at the festival gate. After a lackluster lineup this spring, Shakori Hills doubles down […]
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Floating Action, The xx, and the trouble with avoiding effrontery
Floating Action plays Kings with The Invisible Hand and Luego Thursday, Sept. 27, at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $5. In late August, on a perfectly mild night in the downtown valley of the Raleigh Amphitheater, Kentucky rock lords My Morning Jacket had just entered the third hour of their headlining set when they invited some […]
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David Menconi recounts Ryan Adams’ Raleigh years
Ryan Adams: Losering, A Story of Whiskeytown By David Menconi University of Texas Press; 224 pp. David Menconi’s numerous upcoming appearances include a Sept. 27 reading at Quail Ridge Books & Music, a Sept. 28 reading at Flyleaf Books, and two Oct. 4 appearances at Bull’s Head Bookshop and Regulator Bookshop. Toward the end of […]
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2012 Hopscotch Itinerary: Grayson Currin
Helpful links Wristband / ticket distribution info Purchase tickets The schedule The day parties Complete event info For the three nights of Hopscotch 2012, I’ll have the luxury of running Fletcher Opera Theater and Memorial Auditorium, two of the gorgeous and relatively grand rooms in the performing arts center that sits opposite of the State […]
