Read our feature story “Wesley Wolfe’s complete pursuit of his own finished product “ Wesley Wolfe joins TOW3RS and Spider Bags at Tir na nOg Thursday, Oct. 20, at 10 p.m. The show is free. There’s nothing very complicated about “Restless Sleeper,” the seventh song on Cynics Need Love Too, the second album in as […]
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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Itinerary: Grayson Currin
Grayson Currin is the music editor of the Independent Weekly and the co-director of Hopscotch Music Festival. It started in late October. Invariably, when I went out to dinner, a bar or a rock club, someone would ask who we’d booked for Hopscotch II. Depending on my momentary disposition, I’d either fib (“Huey Lewis!”) or […]
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The unlearned: Music’s quest for the unidentifiable
Liturgy plays Kings and White Ring play Five Star on Friday. Dreamers of the Ghetto play City Plaza, Dawn Golden and Rosy Cross play Five Star and Toro y Moi play Lincoln Theatre on Saturday. I don’t know if it’s the program’s default setting, but in my iteration of iTunes, the genre of a particular […]
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Bursting the bubble: The un-expectations of The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips headline Raleigh City Plaza on Saturday. Superchunk and Dreamers of the Ghetto open. Tickets are available at Hopscotch’s website. The opening band hadn’t shown up for soundcheck. Naturally, that’s who I was supposed to interview on this particular spring Saturday in Norfolk, Va. I’d driven three hours to talk to The Sun, […]
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Pictureplane lives in Denver, but geographic isolation hasn’t limited his dance music
Pictureplane plays with Motor Skills and Hidden Cat Tuesday, Aug. 30, at 9:30 p.m. at Kings. Tickets are $10–$12. Travis Egedy begs pardon: “Can you hold on one second?” About two minutes later, Egedy, who has been recording progressively more accessible dance music for years as Pictureplane, returns to the line and apologizes. On a […]
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With Death Cab for Cutie, sometimes, a coo just ain’t enough
Death Cab for Cutie plays Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park Monday, Aug. 8. Tickets for the 7 p.m. show are $32–$37. Frightened Rabbit opens. Death Cab for Cutie needs a new singer. This isn’t meant to disparage Ben Gibbard, the sensitive-voiced frontman who began the band as a solo project in the late ’90s. […]
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Bon Iver’s long wager
Bon Iver plays with The Rosebuds Friday, July 29, at Raleigh Amphitheater. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show cost $36.50–$52.50. It’s nearly 4 a.m. in the Milwaukee casino Potawatomi, and the roulette wheel isn’t cooperating. Justin Vernon, the lead singer of the band Bon Iver, is in his second stack of chips totaling $200, and […]
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Craig LeHoullier wants to make better tomatoes easier to get
Craig LeHoullier does not qualify his life goals. Seated on a stool at the gleaming brown granite countertops of his North Raleigh kitchen, LeHoullier leaps up after he mentions that he and his wife of 30 years, Susan, hope to sample every stout and porter in the world. He rushes toward a nearby closet, opens […]
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Clyde Edgerton’s new novel, The Night Train, is his best in years
The Night Train By Clyde Edgerton Little Brown; 224 pp. The lyrics to James Brown’s “Night Train,” the spasm of zealous soul relief that closes his 1963 classic album, Live at the Apollo, consists almost entirely of a list of East Coast cities. “Miami, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, Raleigh, North Carolina,” shouts Brown, climbing up the […]
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Heather and Tom LaGarde are just getting started with Saxapahaw
Heather and Tom LaGarde were being selfish when they returned to North Carolina eight years ago. With a toddler and an infant, they had grown weary of their apartment in New York’s Lower East Side, especially given the city’s new specter of terrorism. Their rent had been raised, too, and the corporate funds that had […]
