Bastard Noise plays The Pour House with Man Will Destroy Himself, R.B.T., Devour and Sourvein Wednesday, June 23, at 10 p.m. Tickets are $8–$10. For the last two decades, Eric Wood has anchored either power violence pioneers Man is the Bastard, who disbanded in 1997, or power electronics beasts Bastard Noise, a band that remains […]
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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Tift Merritt’s See You on the Moon
“Mixtape,” the opening cut and first single from Tift Merritt’s latest album, See You on the Moon, is arguably the most distinctive tune of the Raleigh-raised singer’s four-record career. A serrated electric guitar chisels through staggered handclaps and kick drumslinky and cool, like a kid with a new dose of self-assurance sashaying into a party […]
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Wesley Wolfe’s Storage
Wesley Wolfe plays Thursday, June 10, at The Pinhook, with Jason Kutchma and Blag’ard. The $5 show begins at 10 p.m. Storage, the second album by near-anonymous Carrboro songwriter Wesley Wolfe, is the sort of record that works to remind you of the redemption available in music. Sing your worries, and they’re easier to swallow. […]
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Phoenix, or sex, skill and the pursuit of gold
Phoenix plays Cary’s Koka Booth Amphitheatre Friday, June 11, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $32.50–$35. The French quartet Phoenix has already sold more than 150,000 copies of its latest LP, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, this year. If the band sells about 80,000 more pieces, which should happen by late fall, the album, the band’s fourth, will […]
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Backstreet Boys open Raleigh Amphitheater—and raises a question about the city’s aims
At least it will have history’s endorsement: When city officials speak of the official opening of Raleigh Amphitheater, downtown’s new $2.5 million public space and the area’s third major amphitheater, they’ll rightfully refer to it as a success that bested all reasonable expectations. During a six-hour, soupy-summer-night concert Friday, between 4,500 and 5,000 people moseyed […]
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Why the Triangle still doesn’t have the perfect amphitheater
Raleigh Amphitheater opens Friday, June 4, with a free concert featuring The Connells, I Was Totally Destroying It, Mosadi Music, Old Avenue, Sleep Control, The Small Ponds and Th’ Bullfrog Willard McGhee. The music starts at 5:20 p.m. Backstreet Boys perform at Raleigh Amphitheater Sunday, June 6, at 7 p.m. Upcoming at Walnut Creek: Brooks […]
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Free Energy and Gayngs, or how your interests can make you ironic
Free Energy plays Tuesday, June 1, at Local 506, with Miniature Tigers and Jukebox the Ghost. Tickets for the 9 p.m. show are $10. The first thing most everyone writes about Stuck on Nothing, the excellent debut by Philadelphia quintet Free Energy, is its qualifications of cool. These 10 tracks were produced by LCD Soundsystem […]
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Luego’s Ocho
Luego plays Nightlight Saturday, May 29, at 10 p.m. With Caitlin Cary and a gang of sonorous backup singers in tow, Luego frontman Patrick Phelan glides into the final minute of “How Bout Them Rules?” “Oh I broke the rulebook,” they sing, Phelan out front, smiling like a proudly poisonous snake, “just to see an […]
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Annuals’ Sweet Sister EP
Annuals play Duke Gardens Wednesday, May 26, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5–$10. Would things be different for Raleigh six-piece Annuals had they taken the term Perennials for their name, rather than the term for flowers that, each year, have to be dug from the earth and replanted? In the summer of 2006, the bandso […]
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Eluvium’s edge
Eluvium plays Cat’s Cradle Sunday, May 16, at 9 p.m., with Julianna Barwick. Tickets are $10–$12. For someone whose music has earned so much praise by way of its nebulous and elliptical qualities, Matthew Cooperwho has recorded as Eluvium since 2003deserves a nod for the definite, deliberate shift of his latest album, Similes. Not only […]
