Nine Inch Nails with Godspeed You! Black Emperor PNC Arena Monday, Oct. 21 7:30 p.m. $46.45–$113.90 As the last millennium rolled into this one, Trent Reznora subversive icon for ’90s teensfound himself a sudden dinosaur. “Hi kids, do you like violence? Wanna see me stick Nine Inch Nails through each one of my eyelids?” quipped […]
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The rise of intricacy in indie rock’s female voices
Helpful links Wristband / ticket distribution info Purchase tickets The schedule The day parties Complete event info The most famous female voices in underground music have often been imperfect. Though capable of stern beauty, Nico’s low moan would never have made many ’60s pop charts. The post-punk scene of the late ’70s throve on its […]
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The undersold import of Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance plays the Durham Performing Arts Center Saturday, Sept. 1, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25–$98. Dead Can Dance formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1981, though the band’s defining coupleBrendan Perry and Lisa Gerrardsubsequently made an early move to the United Kingdom. As heard on their self-titled 1984 debut, they were at first […]
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Alchemy and you: A new wave of goths turns expression into assault
Cold Cave and Prurient play The Pour House Thursday. Xiu Xiu plays White Collar Crime the same night. In some sense, the goths won. An entire generation spent their childhoods memorizing assorted spells and curses alongside the student body of Hogwarts. Cheerleading captains now daydream about hunky vampires. The same dark preoccupations that once meant […]
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Destroyer’s Kaputt is the ultimate LP in a string of hip reassessments
Merge Records releases Kaputt Tuesday, Jan. 25. Destroyer plays locally Thursday, April 7, with The War on Drugs at Cat’s Cradle. Tickets are on sale now. With retrospectively quaint optionsthe radio, friends, magazinesfor finding out about music divorced from the mainstream, dissatisfied ’90s kids were given the gift of a culture run on strange, dark […]
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Essay: World samplers
Pictureplane and Javelin play Berkeley Cafe Thursday, Sept. 9, with Future Islands, Double Dagger and EAR PWR. Panda Bear co-headlines City Plaza Friday, Sept. 10, with Broken Social Scene. The Rosebuds open. Tickets are $30 and are still available. Hopscotch hosts a screening of the new Animal Collective film Oddsac at Galaxy Cinema in Cary […]
