The Canadians and the Californians will bring their tour to UNC-Chapel Hill’s Memorial Hall Friday, June 25. The Dutchess and The Duke open. Oh, well: You can’t win ’em all.
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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Kings returns to Raleigh late this summer
After more than a three-year absence, Kings, the Raleigh rock club that served as a hub for the Triangle music scene from July 1999 until it closed in April 2007, will return late this summer. The second iteration of Kings will take over a three-story space at 14 West Martin that will combine a 250-capacity […]
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The Triangle in Austin: Who’s going to South by Southwest?
These eight acts aren’t the only North Carolina bands heading to Texas to play South by Southwest this year: Austin veterans Chatham County Line, Spider Bags and My Dad is Dead join this delegation, as well as Carolina Chocolate Drops, looking to capitalize on the steady momentum behind their recent Nonesuch Records debut. But the […]
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Construction begins at The Geer, Durham’s new 400-plus rock club, and the venue shuffle continues
In early January, Chris Tamplin, a bartender and booking agent who has supplied sounds and spirits at Tir Na Nog in downtown Raleigh since 2005, was worried he wouldn’t be able to fill his club for a long weekend. He’d just announced Raleigh Undercoverhis biggest event of any year, a charitable concert series where local […]
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Shakori Hills announces lineup
Shakori Hills GrassRoots Music Festival, held twice a year in rural Chatham County, has been slowly leaking its lineup via its Web site since last week. Now, they’ve unveiled the whole
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Duke 82, UNC 50: Old ghosts and current standbys
DURHAM, N.C.The UNC Tar Heels struck first Saturday night against the Duke Blue Devils in Durham, taking the first lead of the game on a made Marcus Ginyard free throw. It was their only lead. Duke’s Schminglerthe composite scoring machine of Jon Scheyer, Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith, whose combined 65 points alone would have […]
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Go see The Manx: Tonight at Slim’s
Tonight at Slim’s, one of the best, The Kingsbury Manx, joins Inspector 22 for a benefit show for a friend with cystic fibrosis. I received this note Wednesday afternoon, after our print preview hit the racks. Grayson,Thanks for getting this weekend’s The Kingsbury Manx benefit show into this week’s Indy. It is very much appreciated. […]
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From soul to symphonic, familiar folk to wooly, six locals finish new music
Last year, bands in the Triangle made so much great music and so many national inroads that, for the first time all decade, we polled our critics on their favorite local albums. We better get ready for a repeat: Though this is only the first issue of March, we’ve already reviewed a handful of strong […]
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Knock Out Roses’ Knock Out Roses
If Neko Case had Her Boyfriends, Jane Tarry has Her Sidearms. Flanked by the flashy fraternal rhythm section of Dan and Nick Abbate, the audacious guitarist Stefan Turner and the tasteful keyboardist Lawson Bennett, Tarry’s new Raleigh quintet, Knock Out Roses, offers surprisingly diverse takes on sassy Southern rock, especially for such a recent addition. […]
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Lost in the Trees sign to ANTI-
Big news from California and for Carolina today: Local orchestral indie band has signed to Lost in the Trees for a re-recorded take on last year’s All Alone in an Empty House. We’ll bring you an interview with the band about the deal tomorrow, and look for the full story in Wednesday’s print edition of […]
