Listen up! or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. The two-piece band: The configuration evokes a number of images, prerequisites, possibilities or lack thereof. It’s simple, for one: There’s either the purity of the stripped down form or a too-bare sound of a band that […]
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Live: The Meat Puppets don’t grow old
Meat Puppets, Retribution Gospel Choir Sunday, June 14 Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro The Meat Puppets and Retribution Gospel Choir don’t seem to have much more than a touring van in common, at least at first glance. Another side project of Low’s Alan Sparhawk, Retribution Gospel Choir has one self-titled album, and they play rock songs with […]
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Kaia’s Godmakesmonkeys
Kaia Wilson’s voice pierces deeply but, somehow, softly: Hushed but direct, lilting but experienced, her coo on Godmakesmonkeysthe ex-Butchies’ third solo outing, recorded before she left North Carolina for Portland in 2005 and finally issued by Portland label Jealous Butcherwraps the listener in lullaby feelings. That’s the flipside of the impassioned yelping she lent to […]
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Oneida: Armed and ready
Some call it krautrock. Others think of it as a natural evolution of jazz, replacing calculated empty space with a rolling sine wave’s drone, downshifting improvisation into more minimal musical fluctuations. For more than a decade, Brooklyn’s Oneida has called it something like a lifestyle, exposing the darkened corners of sound that usually go glossed […]
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Embarrassing Fruits’ The First Time EP
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. While listening to The First Time EP, the Trekky Records debut from Chapel Hill trio Embarrassing Fruits, certain physical sensations drift in and out: There’s the smell of a packed club in the summer heat, the feeling of wind rushing […]
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Thao Nguyen
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. “Can I be honest with you?” asks Thao Nguyen, sitting on a curb in Charleston, S.C., where her band, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, will open for Rilo Kiley tonight. “I hate those girls, because they’re setting us […]
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Sunset Rubdown
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Spencer Krug plays in bands: There’s Wolf Parade, the band he started while still in Frog Eyes, and Swan Lake, the band he started with fellow Frog Eye Carey Mercer and Destroyer’s Dan Bejar. Before Swan Lake, though, Krug started Sunset […]