Organos plays The Pinhook Saturday, March 10, with The Spacemen and Curtains. The $6 show starts at 9 p.m. See more dates below. If you listen closely, the first voice you’ll hear on Concha, the sprightly eight-song gem from Organos, is founder Maria Albani speaking, not singing. “Here,” she says about five seconds in, signaling […]
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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Jphono1’s Living Is Easy
Download Living Is Easy at jphono1.com. Jphono1 plays Thursday, Feb. 16, at The Cave, with songwriters including Inspector 22, Sara Bell, Neven Carswell and Matt McMichaels. He joins some of the same singers at Slim’s in Raleigh on Friday, Feb. 17. New collaboration can be a threat or a treat, conditions that certainly aren’t mutually […]
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Bon Iver’s local ties
Revisit our 2011 cover story about Bunny Bearerr, Bon Iverwho took home two Grammys last night, for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album.
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If Sonic Youth is finally done, its many ghosts are welcome
Thurston Moore plays Duke’s Reynolds Industries Theater Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 8 p.m. Hush Arbors opens. Tickets are $22–$28. Lee Ranaldo opens for M. Ward at Duke’s Page Auditorium on Tuesday, May 15. See Duke Performances for tickets and more details. In 2002, the Village Voice reviewed Murray Street, the spiraling-and-shrieking best work in seven […]
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Des Ark’s WXDU V.3
A quick look at the first decade of Des Ark could convince you that the band’s mercurial membership policies have stymied the productivity of Aimée Argote’s musical concern. To wit, Des Ark has had at least twice as many drummers as proper albums, making each live appearance by the band somewhat of a guessing game […]
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Gauchiste’s mix of metal and electronics is free to possibility
Gauchiste is out now in an edition of 100 CDs and 100 LPs on Little Black Cloud Records. The organ that invokes “/ Beyond the Light,” the centerpiece of the debut album by Richmond-to-Raleigh trio Gauchiste, sounds titanic but distant, removed but looming. It’s as if the organ of some remote cathedral can’t be silenced […]
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Kenny Roby lands Kickstarter success in less than a day
Photo courtesy of the artistKenny Roby, funded. Early yesterday afternoon, I reached out to Raleigh singer-songwriter and former Six String Drag leader Kenny Roby with a few questions about his Kickstarter campaign, which he’d launched just a few hours before. I’m a proponent of artists funding projects through Kickstarter, but still, I sometimes get flustered […]
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Some Army’s Some Army
Some Army plays with Fan Modine and Prypyat at Local 506 Friday, Jan. 13, at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $8. When seven-inch singles include more than two songs, the music between the grooves is generally spasmodic and shortbreakneck hardcore, blasting noise, bursting power-pop. But the three tracks on the debut release from Chapel Hill scene-vet […]
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10 in local music to look for in ’12
Watching Old Bricks play in Kings as most of Raleigh spent their post-tornado hours in the dark; seeing black metal bad boys Inquisition play in a North Raleigh sports bar; hearing Hiss Golden Messenger’s Poor Moon for the first time, and every time since; marveling at how different the Cat’s Cradle felt with a few […]
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The Year in Music 2011
My fairest guess is that if you see these pages frequently enough, you probably already know about those Archers of Loaf reunion shows. Maybe you’ve bought some of the Superchunk reissues, too, and you might’ve even rolled VIP at Hopscotch (while, of course, wondering if the Independent Weekly really did kill Troika, after all). Megafaun, […]
