The Mitch Easter Sound joins LiLa, Bustello, Billy Sugarfix’s Carousel and Johnny Paul Jason for the Coalition to Unchain Dogs benefit at Durham Central Park Saturday, Aug. 27. The 4 p.m. show costs $12–$15. For more information, visit Music For Fences. It’s hard to believe that the Kernersville home of producer Mitch Easter is also […]
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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Brain F≠’s Sleep Rough
Sleep Rough, the debut LP from Charlotte’s Brain F≠ (pronounced Brain Flannel), will not bowl you over with production values. The garage punk quartet seems to play through a fuzzy filter that shows competent and consistent, if never wowing, engineering. Songwriting won’t be an immediate highlight, eithersure, the words are clever and catchy, but they’re […]
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Dick’s Picks 4006, Various Artists
On stage last week in Raleigh, Whatever Brains frontman Rich Ivey reminded the audience that he had copies of a fresh tape compilation he made. As with most every serious thing the prankster punk says, it was followed quickly by a sarcastic barb. “Three of our bands are on it,” he scoffed, striking at the […]
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Chris Tamplin leaves Motorco, returns to Tir na nOg
For Jeremy Roth, the business manager and co-owner of Durham’s Motorco Music Hall, this is an incredibly busy July afternoon. Running a 500-capacity rock club is loaded with intrinsic responsibilities, from bar and bathroom maintenance to promoting shows and, today, talking to the press. Motorco has just lost one of its partners, Chris Tamplin, who […]
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John Wesley Coleman is a hard man to pin down
John Wesley Coleman plays the Nightlight on Wednesday, July 20, with Shit Horse and fellow Austin act Rayon Beach. The show costs $6 and starts at 9:30 p.m. John Wesley Coleman III finally calls back at 10:15 p.m. It’s a Sunday, and his phone has been off all day. His label, esteemed Memphis garage purveyor […]
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Jack the Radio’s Pretty Money
There’s an innocent and simple charm to fresh dollar bills. They feel perfectly flat on your hand and smell semisweet, not yet crinkled in the recesses of pockets or oiled by dirty hands. It’s still only a dollar, sure, but if only for a moment, it feels like it’s worth more. Like the alluring currency […]
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A new collaboration lets Shirlette Ammons finally speak on sex
Shirlette Ammons and the Dynamite Brothers play Duke Gardens Wednesday, June 29, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5–$10, with children 12 and under admitted free. The name of the new collaborative EP from Durham poet and MC Shirlette Ammons and Chapel Hill rock band Dynamite Brothers is And Lovers Like. You might not get that […]
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Wilmington’s Onward, Soldiers are an unlikely Southern rock band
Onward, Soldiers plays Thursday, June 16, at Raleigh’s Southland Ballroom, with Ladies Gun Club and Grass Pistols. The $7 show starts at 8 p.m. Onward, Soldiers also plays Friday, June 17, at Motorco Music Hall with Big Daddy Love, at 9 p.m. Tickets are $7. Sean Thomas Gerard says the word “well” in the most […]
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Brice Randall Bickford trades The Strugglers for his own name and releases his best record yet
Brice Randall Bickford plays the Cat’s Cradle Saturday, June 11. Phil Cook, Django Haskins, Lee Waters and Heather McEntire open the free show at 8 p.m. Wylie Pamplin’s spare living room isn’t a place most people would drive four hours to visit. Tucked into a wooded corner a few miles south of downtown Carrboro, the […]
