Audubon Park releases Passion Saturday, May 28, at Local 506. The $7 show is a benefit for CyTunes, and it starts at 10 p.m. Actual Person Living or Dead opens, followed by Audubon Park. Des Ark and Audubon Park will then collaborate for a headlining performance of Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. The third […]
Grayson Haver Currin
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The Clientele’s Alasdair MacLean tries something different
Amor de Días opens for Damon & Naomi at The ArtsCenter Thursday, May 19, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10–$12. Almost two years ago, the British band The Clientele was preparing to release the confidently sweet and sad Bonfires on the Heath, its fifth album (and one of its best) in a decade. Bonfires was […]
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Getting a label deal is important, but it’s not the only route to success
In early April, the Durham trio Hammer No More the Fingers released its second album, Black Shark, on Churchkey Records, the same local label that issued Hammer’s debut record two years prior. The day before the band threw its own party at Motorco Music Hall, The Daily Tar Heel ran two stories about Hammeran extremely […]
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Birds and Arrows’ We’re Gonna Run
Birds and Arrows play Local 506 Saturday, May 7, at 9 p.m. Gray Young headlines, and Justin Robinson and The Mary Annettes open. Birds and Arrows used to be the pair of Pete and Andrea Connolly, a young couple of newlyweds who made sweet, sincere and fairly simple folk-rock. Like a couple of Laurel Canyon […]
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Photos: Davila 666, Spider Bags, Adam Thorn Live
Jeremy M. Lange Click here for Jeremy M. Lange’s photos of Tuesday night’s show in Durham.
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Once & Future Kings’ Dead Lions
Once & Future Kings release Dead Lions, which comes packaged with an 8″-by-8″ piece of art, Saturday, April 30, at Slim’s. Pecosa opens the $5 show at 10 p.m. The Raleigh quartet Once & Future Kings is actually the second iteration of that band. Jess Edison started Once & Future Kings in Nashville about five […]
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Tonight: Tir na nOg hosts 10-band tornado benefit
Raleigh is still reeling from the tornado that cut a terrifying line across five counties, tearing into houses and yards and lives. It may still be a hot clip to the Weather Channel, but here the tragedy is palpable. After last week’s benefit with The Rosebuds, Tir na nOg is again stepping up to the […]
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I Was Totally Destroying It’s Preludes
I Was Totally Destroying It throws an album release party Friday, April 22, at Local 506. Prisms and Antibubbles open the 9:30 p.m. all-ages show. Tickets are $4–$7. In hip-hop, rappers often issue rough-and-tumble mixtapes or short samplers to lead into the release of a proper album. Those tastes serve both as stopgaps and spark […]
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New Music Raleigh’s classical crossover in a rock club
New Music Raleigh performs Penelope with Shara Worden Monday, April 18, at Kings. Tickets are $13–$15 for the 8 p.m. show. When Shara Worden, the leader of the exquisite band My Brightest Diamond and a longtime collaborator with Sufjan Stevens, steps to the front of the stage Monday at Kings, she will be performing only […]
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The Mountain Goats’ steady struggle and conquest
The Mountain Goats play at Cat’s Cradle Friday, April 8, with Megafaun at 9 p.m. The show is sold out. Peter the Hitchhiker is a famous music fan. Just last month, he had an extra ticket for a concert in New York City by his favorite band, the Mountain Goats. He was standing outside the […]
