Nick Sanborn’s “Lend Me Your Voice” Duke Performances, Nelson Music Room Friday & Saturday, Nov. 1 & 2, 8 p.m. $10–$24 When the Milwaukee-based, multitalented musician Nick Sanborn moved to Durham last fall, he wanted to be closer to at least one of his bands. A year earlier, he signed on with Megafaun, assisting the […]
Jordan Lawrence
Bio: After seven years in the Triangle, Jordan Lawrence followed his fiancée and their fluffy cat to Greensboro. He has written about music for the INDY since 2010.Twitter: http://twitter.com/JordanLawrence
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Michael Rank & Stag’s Mermaids
Michael Rank & Stag with Magnolia Collective Saturday, Nov. 2 9 p.m., free The Kraken Paired with Michael Rank‘s previous 2013 release, In the Weeds, Mermaids makes it easy to forgive last year’s Kin, his overstuffed debut with sprawling roots-rock collective Stag. That double album boasted a cast of local heavyweights, including pedal steel ace […]
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Thanks to Rolling Rock (?), Tyvek plays Flanders Gallery in Raleigh tonight
If you ask Nate Scudieri, the brand director for Rolling Rock Extra Pale Ale, he’ll tell you that his beer and Tyvek have a lot in common: Tyvek are the restless garage band that will play Friday’s “Project 33,” a Rolling Rock-sponsored art show at Flanders Gallery in Raleigh. Rolling Rock is an affordable brew […]
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The Beast + Big Band ready new EP, Gardens, out Oct. 22
For a few years now, Durham’s The Beast have thrilled Triangle crowds, using sometimes rather smooth jazz as an unlikely propulsion for restless, forward-thinking hip-hop. Since 2012, they’ve augmented that sound for a few gigs with their Big Band, a 13-strong configuration that includes orchestral players from the consistently ambitious New Music Raleigh and members […]
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Five words with … Eleanor Friedberger
Eleanor Friedbeger with Stuart McLamb (of The Love Language) and The Invisible Hand Cat’s Cradle Back Room Saturday, Oct.12, 8 p.m. $12–$14 For Eleanor Friedberger, starting her own band presented some new challenges: Her former act, The Fiery Furnaces, were stylistically far-flung, making music that romped from dreamy psych-pop to sharp and bluesy rock. How […]
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Sadlack’s and Berkeley: Two Raleigh dives will survive in one old spot
When Temperance League plays Sadlack’s Heroes on Friday, the storied Raleigh venue will have less than three months left to live. Opened in 1973, the beloved establishment sits across from N.C. State University’s Belltower on Hillsborough Street, dishing legendary sandwiches and offering a cozy back patio that helped launch some of the Triangle’s notable musical […]
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Charlotte’s Temperance League shrugs off resignation
Temperance League with MSRP Sadlack’s Friday, Oct. 4, 7 p.m. Donation “Rock and Roll Dreams” is the title track and the first song on the second effort from Charlotte rock ‘n’ roll zealots Temperance League, but it sounds like the end. In his rich warble, singer Bruce Hazel conjures the unrepentant sound of a more […]
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How Pinback’s side projects fuel the mothership
Pinback with Deathfix Tuesday, Sept. 17, 9 p.m. $14–$16 Cat’s Cradle Five years feels like an awfully long time in the music industry. In the age of Internet marketing, when music lovers devour new songs and records daily, the amount of tunes stuffed into the same amount of time feels practically overwhelming, a torrent so […]
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Hopscotch day parties are where it’s at
Last month Cory Rayborn received an unusual e-mail. Three Lobed Recordsthe boutique imprint Rayborn has operated since 2000is co-hosting a day party at this weekend’s Hopscotch Music Festival with Duke University radio station WXDU. The email, a request for details about the day party as well as one hosted by record label Paradise of Bachelors […]
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Does Hopscotch need more hip in its hop?
The biggest moment of the first Hopscotch Music Festival in 2010 came from one of hip-hop’s most enduring legends. With storms threatening Raleigh’s City Plaza, the powerfully thumping, infamously insightful Public Enemy took the stageafter the city’s own Helping Hand Mission Marching Band had blasted through the crowd for an invigorating intro. Rapper Chuck D […]
