If you’re compelled to wince at Shit Horse on first glance, that’s understandable. The bandthree young, white rock musicians from Carrboro and Danny Mason, a black frontman two decades older than the band’s youngest memberdoesn’t do itself many favors: They’re called Shit Horse, of course, and the title of their debut cassette is a riff […]
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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Future Islands’ In Evening Air
Future Islands play a CD-release party for In Evening Air at Berkeley Cafe Tuesday, May 4, at 9 p.m. Lonnie Walker and Low Dens open. In Evening Air, the full-length debut from Baltimore-via-Greenville trio Future Islands, accomplishes a lot with very little. Even calling the band a trio misleads, as the term might evoke images […]
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Little Brother breaks up
See also: Phonte and 9th Wonder take it to the #streets Not long after their white GMC van crossed the eastern border of Vermont in late February, the windows became snow globes. The rapper Chaundon, driving since the crew of five left Cambridge, Mass., at 6 that morning, continued north, toward an afternoon show in […]
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Phonte and 9th Wonder take it to the #streets
See also: Little Brother breaks up Nearly every variation on the tale of Little Brother’s collapse involves miscommunication: As Phonte and Pooh admit, they probably weren’t very clear with 9th Wonder about their expectations for his continued membership in the group. For his part, Phonte and Pooh agree that 9th Wonder never expressed his interests […]
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Jews and Catholics’ Who Are? We Think We Are!
Jews and Catholics release Who Are? We Think We Are! Friday, April 23, at Duke Coffeehouse with Gray Young and Mount Moriah. The show begins at 9 p.m. There’s danger in being a duo. Two people find a sound they’re comfortable with and, lacking the pull of a gaggle of bandmates, they never challenge it. […]
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Titus Andronicus’ Civil War references are writer ammunition
Titus Andronicus plays Local 506 with its favorite band in the world, Spider Bags, Sunday, April 18. Tickets for the 9 p.m. show are $8, and The Dry Heathens open. After only a glance at the second album by livewire New Jersey rock ‘n’ rollers Titus Andronicus, it might stand to reason that the band’s […]
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In the Year of the Pig
In the Year of the Pig plays Nightlight Friday, April 9, with Golden Fire Pig Orchestra, Monsonia, Secret Boyfriend and Hiss Golden Messenger. Aaron Smithers’ Carrboro home brims with media. LPs and CDs, box sets and old concert billsthey’re scattered in corners and stacked on shelves. That profundity of information is reflective of his five-piece […]
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In My Mind
When Duke researcher Sam Stephenson stumbled upon a trove of performances, conversations and photos captured by the eccentric photographer W. Eugene Smith between 1957 and 1965 in New York City, it’s unlikely he imagined what the next decade would bring. Sure, those reels of tape and stacks of photographs carried the voices and visages of […]
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Winning error
Not even five minutes after Butler Bulldogs sophomore Gordon Hayward missed the half-court, last-second three-pointer that would have given his underdogs the college basketball national championship, a friend who’s one of the rare season ticket holders at Duke University’s tiny Cameron Indoor Stadium sent me one of those told-you-so texts. “Remember when I asked you […]
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Spider Bags’ “Dog in the Snow” b/w “Walking Walking Nowhere Nowhere”
Across just two LPs and three prior vinyl singles, ragtag Carrboro rock ‘n’ whatever trio Spider Bags have explored at least a half-dozen approaches. From pasteboard acoustic howlers and broken country sighs to charged Crazy Horse anthems and staggering hooky rock, the Bags have opened most every box and overturned most every object in the […]
