DURHAM, NC—With more than 13 minutes left in the second half during a season-opening exhibition against St. Augustine’s University Saturday night, the Duke University Blue Devils—last year’s national champions and, thanks to several returning stars and a promising fleet of young guards, ESPN’s pre-season favorite—broke the 100-point barrier. That benchmark gave the Devils a 59-point […]
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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919 Noise: Piedmont Melodies
The best pieces on 919 Noise: Piedmont Melodies are those unapologetic devotionals to an idea or a sound. For instance, Joe Hendrix’s closing, eight-minute aubade, “Trem III,” is a blossoming drone for guitar and effects. It begins only as a whisper of pure tone, a short loop cycling around itself, growing louder with each pass. […]
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Not quite out of high school, Last Year’s Men have made one of the year’s most addictive records
Last Year’s Men release Sunny Down Snuff at Duke Coffeehouse Saturday, Oct. 23, at 10 p.m. Spider Bags will also release their new 7″, Take It Easy Tonite, and share the bill. When Ben Carr, the frontman of the Carrboro three-piece Last Year’s Men, was still 17, he would drive to Durham on Tuesdays and […]
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Maple Stave speaks with its music
Maple Stave plays Saturday, Oct. 16, at The Pinhook with Lurch and Cantwell, Gomez and Jordan. The 10 p.m. show costs $5. In downtown Durham on a recent sunny Saturday afternoon, the usual business of the bar The Federal idled. A couple leaned in close to chat at an outdoor table, hiding away from a […]
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Veelee’s The Future Sight
Veelee releases The Future Sight at Duke Coffeehouse with Cassis Orange and Old Bricks Saturday, Oct. 16. The $5 show starts at 9 p.m. The first release by Chapel Hill duo Veelee was called Three Sides, a reference, of course, to the captivating little CD-R’s trio of tracks, not to the music itself. The tunes […]
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The strangely compelling, sample-based songs of The Books return to the stage
The Books play an early show (8 p.m.) and a late show (10 p.m.) at Duke University’s Shaefer Lab Theater Friday, Oct. 1. Both shows are sold out. Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jongknown widely as The Books since their conception-shattering 2002 debut, Thought for Foodnever intended to tour. A decoupage of samples hoarded from […]
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The Small Pond’s Caitlin Cary & Matt Douglas Are The Small Ponds
The Small Ponds release Caitlin Cary & Matt Douglas Are The Small Ponds Thursday, Sept. 16, at The Pour House. Bright Young Things and The Tomahawks open the 9 p.m. show, which costs $8 and is part of SPARKcon. Caitlin Cary could start a goddamn grindcore band and she’d still be tagged popularly as an […]
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Interview: Public Enemy vs. Fucked Up
Public Enemy headlines Hopscotch Music Festival with a show at Raleigh City Plaza Saturday, Sept. 11, at 5:50 p.m. Tickets are $30 and are still available. Fucked Up plays Berkeley Cafe for Hopscotch Friday, Sept. 10, with Harvey Milk, Double Negative and Whatever Brains. See Related Events below. INDEPENDENT WEEKLY: Damian, where did you first […]
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Itinerary: Grayson Currin (2010)
Now ain’t that some shit? Late last year, Greg Lowenhagenthen an ambitious (and extreme, I might lovingly add) account executive at the Independent Weeklyasked me to draft a fantasy list of bands I’d like to see play one long weekend in Raleigh. During these last 10 months, some variation of that list became the roster […]
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The Body might have the most terrifying, electrifying album of the year
The Body was set to play Kings Monday, Sept. 6, but due to a family emergency, the band has returned to Providence, canceling much of the second half of an extensive nationwide tour. They’ll return to Raleigh this winter. In the meantime, All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood is out now on […]
