After closing at the end of December, Carrboro’s The Station will reopen April 7 under new ownership and with new management. The longtime Main Street venue will retain its live music focus but will shift from as many as seven nights of free events per week to three paid shows. So far, the programming looks […]
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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Grandmaster Flash to Headline Duke’s Brickside Festival
Hip-hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash will headline the twelve-hour Brickside Festival at Duke Coffeehouse on April 9, the venue announced at midnight. Flash isn’t the only New York stalwart on the bill: Martin Bisi, the producer at the helm of some of the city’s most important records in the eighties and nineties, will play his own […]
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Watch: Crooked Fingers Says Farewell at The Pinhook
Next week, former Archers of Loaf leader Eric Bachmann will release a self-titled album through Merge Records. It’s Bachmann’s first LP since 2011 and the first album to sport his own name in a decade. The imaginative nine-song set is also the best work of Bachmann’s career since the start of his former singer-songwriter outlet, […]
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Live: Thank You, South by Southwest, for Bringing Big Thief to The Kraken
Scorning South by Southwest has become the new stereotype. Too crowded, too corporate, too cliché: those are the ways we tend to talk about what’s become America’s biggest tripartite festival, which President Barack Obama will actually address today in person. I’m in no position to argue, either. After going for six consecutive years, I finally […]
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Listen to Body Games’ Debut, Damager, for the Next Forty-Eight Hours
At long last, we have a Body Games LP: after the release of last year’s terrific Local Love Vol. 1, the Carrboro trio promised that its debut LP, Damager, would arrive soon. Nearly a year has passed, and Body Games will finally issue the album independently March 15. You can stream it below for the […]
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Raleigh Television Network’s Live Music Show Premieres This Week. Can It Be More Than Lip Service to the Arts?
On a Friday morning in late February, I stepped into a television studio to watch the premiere of a pilot. Damien Graham, the City of Raleigh’s communications director, had invited the media to the humble offices of the municipally funded Raleigh Television Network to see the start of a program he’d been pushing since his […]
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Prince Rama, Forever Wild
PRINCE RAMA THURSDAY, MARCH 10 THE PINHOOK, DURHAM 9 p.m., $10–$12 Strange things seem to happen to Taraka and Nimai Larson, the sisters who, for the last eight years, have called themselves Prince Rama. Remember, for instance, the New York woman who, in 2013, tried to take a photo of two raccoons in Central Park? […]
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The Final Night at Quail Ridge
In sixth grade, the local library left me in the lurch. My first-ever English teacher assigned each student in her class a separate author. For homework, we’d read that writer’s work throughout the year and file periodic reports about what we liked or learned from each new volume. Mrs. Kendrick assigned to me Walter Dean […]
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Eat This: Oscar Diaz’s Southern Voyage to Jose and Sons’ Collard-Wrapped Tamales
Jose and Sons 327 W. Davie St., Raleigh Oscar Diaz didn’t grow up with the foods of Southern comfort. Diaz was the middle brother in a family of five, raised by parents who migrated to America from a small town in the Mexican state of Jalisco. He left Chicago and his father’s chauffeuring business, heading […]
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Fifteen Durham Restaurants to Participate in April’s Bull City Vegan Challenge
The Bull City Vegan Challenge will return to Durham for the fourth time in April. For a month, a record-setting fifteen chefs from around the city serve a vegan specialty that’s an addition to their general menu. Diners then cast votes about which kitchen came up with the most creative, delicious option in categories like […]