The Raleigh author discusses his obsessive new Wilco book as Jeff Tweedy and company head for Cary’s Koka Booth Amphitheatre.
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Whitney’s Julien Ehrlich Joins the Small but August Pantheon of Singing Drummers
Like Don Henley, Phil Collins, and Levon Helm before him, Ehrlich has to engage the crowd while keeping time, as he’ll do with Whitney at Cat’s Cradle this week.
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Spoon Seeks the Perfect Stereo Image in Two Decades’ Worth of Greatest Hits
“Personally, I think it’s pretty cool that one of our most loved songs isn’t due to placements or radio hype,” Britt Daniel says of one surprising inclusion. “People just dig it.”
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Analog Diehard John Vanderslice Gives In to the Wonders of the Digital Age
“If you’re not paying attention, I’m not mad at you, I just don’t care what you think, because there is incredible fucking music coming out right now.”
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Raleigh’s Approaching Andromeda Makes Big, Enveloping Post-Rock for Being Alone
The self-released album by Landon Lechner comes out Friday, Feb. 22.
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Royce Da 5’9″ Deserves His Due
He’s one of the most criminally underrated emcees in modern hip-hop.
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King Draft
King Draft is hip-hop recording artist originally from Plainfield, New Jersey, but he’s come to admirably represent independent hip-hop in the Triangle. In March, King Draft and four other local rappersKonvo the Mutant, $wank, Kelly Kale, and (J) Rowdytraveled to New York City to compete on BET’s reboot of Freestyle Fridays. There, he wasted no […]
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Record Review: Less Is More for Echo Courts on Room with a View
Refresh Records The four dudes in Echo Courts must have rad record collections. The Greensboro rock band’s second album, Room with a View, is loaded with three-part vocal harmonies à la the Beach Boys and trippy studio effects that would have done the late George Martin proud. The band’s 2016 debut album, In the Garden, […]
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Rapper Dessa Does It All, From Hamilton Hits to Exploring the Intersection of Science and Romance
DESSA Saturday, June 23, 8:30 p.m., $20 Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro www.catscradle.com Minneapolis is an unexpected hub for intellectual hip-hop, due in no small part to it being the headquarters for Rhymesayers Entertainment and home to such underground fixtures as Aesop Rock, Atmosphere, and Brother Ali. But there’s another loaded, fiercely intelligent crew in […]
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Can The Decemberists, a Brainy Folk-Rock Band Pointed Toward the Past, Leap Into the Future on its Synthy New Record?
THE DECEMBERISTS Thursday, April 19, 8 p.m., $35–$222 Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham www.dpacnc.com Known for their ornate and verbose folk-rock, The Decemberists have always oriented themselves toward the past. Since forming in 2000, the Portland, Oregon band has mined the annals of pop music, from eighties college rock to traditional folk musicand sometimes even […]