By the numbers North Carolina • Winners: 2 • Finalists: 7 • Population: 9.5 million • Finalists per capita: 1 per 1.3 million States with more than five finalists • California: 17 • Texas: 10 • Georgia, Florida: 9 • Tennessee: 8 • North Carolina: 7 • New York, Illinois: 6 On Oct. 6, 2008, […]
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 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, […]
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T0W3RS’ Summertime
T0W3RS play The Cave Friday, Dec. 9, at 8 p.m. with Skylar Gudasz & the Ugly Girls and Slender Beast. Nearly four minutes of the 10 that comprise Summertime, the debut EP by Chapel Hill’s T0W3RS, are a cover of “Summertime,” Lonnie Walker’s incandescent country tune about growing old and neurotic. Over a keyboard drone, […]
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American Aquarium, the Triangle’s premier road warriors, might have found their formula
Tales from the road We asked American Aquarium’s B.J. Barham to share some of his most vivid memories from the road. Las Vegas, Nev.: While touring on the East Coast, American Aquarium became accustomed to being able to drive from town to town in a matter of hours. On an early trip out west, they […]
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Future Islands’ On the Water
Future Islands play Cat’s Cradle with Ed Schrader’s Music Beat and Lonnie Walker Sunday, Nov. 27. Tickets for the 8:30 p.m. show are $12–$14. It seems that every few months, stories of yet another must-see, completely crazed live band cycle through the music press. These acts are inevitably varying incarnations of some zany spirit, from […]
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Chuck Johnson’s acoustic guitar debut represents a long, rewarding voyage
Chuck Johnson plays Nightlight Sunday, Nov. 20, at 9:30 p.m. with Fan Modine and Mark Holland. Tickets cost $5. A Struggle, Not a Thought is the debut album by California-based, Raleigh-born solo acoustic guitarist Chuck Johnson. But this is a doubly misleading description; the strength of A Struggle, after all, stems from Johnson’s years of […]
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The sad, strange and sweet voyage of Bombadil
Bombadil plays Cat’s Cradle Saturday, Nov. 12, at 9 p.m. Tickets for the show cost $12 in advance and $15 on the day of the show. The Future Kings of Nowhere and Jason Kutchma open. More than a decade before Dolph Ramseur helped guide The Avett Brothers to a major label and late-night television appearances, […]
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MAKE’s Trephine
Read our MAKE feature story MAKE plays Casbah in Durham Saturday, Nov. 5, at 8:30 p.m. Hog and In the Year of the Pig open the free show. If you’re looking for your modern metal to sound more like a medley than any singular style, MAKE’s Trephine isn’t made for you. At a time when […]
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The very personal touch of The Field
The Field plays Kings Barcade Thursday, Oct. 27, at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $10-$12, and Megafaun’s Brad Cook opens with a solo electronics set. Viewed from some distance, the covers of the first three albums by The Field, the pulsing and glowing project of Swedish producer Axel Willner, look rigorously academic. On From Here We […]
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Willie Nelson and a spate of veterans take their area bows
To find out when and where to see these acts, see Related Events below or search our Music Calendar. For all its LED-emblazoned Ferris wheel and high-anxiety ride spectacle, the North Carolina State Fair is nothing if not a cobweb of nostalgia. For hours on end, and for a lowly few dollars, one can wander […]
