Oulipo plays Kings on Sunday, Nov. 6, with Ladies Auxiliary and Noncanon. Tickets for the 9:30 p.m. show are $5. As I write this, I’m a day removed from Asheville’s second annual Moogfest. A veritable small army of electro-tinged psych rockers crowded the festival; many of those bands are likely acts Raleigh’s Oulipo might list […]
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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The dB’s throw in for the revolution
Photo by Daniel CostonThe dB’s “Revolution of the Mind,” the new song from influential and underrated indie rock progenitors the dB’s, does not sound like the work of a band that hasn’t released new music since 1994. The tune, the band’s first since the “classic” line-up began playing together again in 2005, is a burst […]
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Logan Pate’s The Difference Between Moths and Butterflies
On the Bandcamp page for The Difference Between Moths and Butterflies, the second of two startlingly beautiful 2011 EPs from Chapel Hill’s Logan Pate, the singer lists his influences: Bon Iver, Lykke Li, Fleet Foxes and Madeleine Peyroux. At first, the list seems like a trite run-down of popular indie artists for marketing purposes. Thing […]
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Heads on Sticks’ Brutish & Short
In the last two years, Heads on Sticks have gone from a largely studio-bound offshoot of a prominent local bandleader and sideman to one of the best live acts in the area. Birds of Avalon bassist David Mueller began the project by cobbling dirty dance grooves with misshapen psychedelic bits, mostly consisting of samples, field […]
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Wesley Wolfe’s complete pursuit of his own finished product
Read our review of Wesley Wolfe’s Cynics Need Love Too Wesley Wolfe joins TOW3RS and Spider Bags at Tir na nOg Thursday, Oct. 20, at 10 p.m. The show is free. It’s March. Carrboro’s Wesley Wolfe is on a train bound for a small town in Germany. He’s flown halfway around the world to meet […]
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A year after opening, three new Triangle venues talk their past, present and future
Jeremy Roth stands in the doorway of Durham’s Motorco Music Hall dressed in dark blue overalls, his hands covered in black grease. He’s Motorco’s business manager, a title that usually means he monitors the venue’s books to ensure the former car dealership is sitting on solid financial ground. Right now, the job means door repairman: […]
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Reconsidering Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Buckingham plays Carolina Theatre Saturday, Oct. 1, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $40-$65. “Not Too Late,” the first track on Lindsey Buckingham’s 2006 LP, Under the Skin, is as self-aware as any song you’ll ever hear. Over gorgeous, elliptical fingerpicking, the Fleetwood Mac guitarist and songwriter whispers through a web of reverb about the […]
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Love triangle: The local bands at this year’s Hopscotch illustrate the area’s sense of community
Community is a difficult word to define. In a world where young people communicate transcontinentally and instantaneously via digital mediums like Twitter and Gchat, while their parents stay in at night with a few hundred channels of HD television, it sometimes seems hard to find examples of physical, functioning communities. That is, unless you count […]
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Renovations and expansion at Cat’s Cradle offer a sight line to the club’s future
The Old Ceremony plays a free show with The Tomahawks at Cat’s Cradle Thursday, Sept. 1, at 9 p.m. Frank Heath has co-owned Cat’s Cradle for about 25 years. It’s a business he knows well. At this moment, though, it’s undergoing a string of extreme renovations, the first major changes the venue has seen since […]
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Cat’s Cradle gets a facelift; major alterations completed by Wednesday (updated)
Update (Aug. 29, 2011): The free, all-ages show celebrating the completion of the renovations will be Thursday, Sept. 1, with The Old Ceremony and The Tomahawks. Doors are at 8 p.m.; show begins at 9. RSVP at the Facebook Event. Anyone who has walked down Main Street in Carrboro in the last month has likely […]
