Anna Rose Beck plays Casbah with Arielle Bryant and Wind and Willow Thursday, June 2, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $8–$10. The most striking thing about Durham songwriter Anna Rose Beck is her voice. Light and crisp, it moves with resilience and lands with the calming effervescence of a seaside breeze, bearing weight without strain. […]
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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Americans in France’s Crawling
Americans in France play Kings Saturday, May 28, with Heads on Sticks and Burma. Tickets for the 9:30 p.m. show cost $6. Two years ago, Chapel Hill’s Americans in France arrived with two qualities that set them apart: First and most immediate was their attitude, a semi-intellectual misanthropy that flirted with searing political barbs countered […]
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The Reservoir’s run ends this weekend
Jeremy M. LangeColossus plays one of the last shows at the Reservoir tonight There is a room on the border of downtown Chapel Hill and downtown Carrboro. It’s on the side of a car wash, and it has no large windows, just two dark metal doors that open up onto a side street that’s appropriately […]
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The Huguenots’ self-titled debut LP
The Huguenots release the album at Chapel Hill’s Local 506 Friday, April 8, alongside The Tomahawks. The show starts at 10 p.m. and costs $6. I’m not entirely sure Chapel Hill’s Huguenots know it’s 2011. The bulk of the ’60s-focused foursome graduated from UNC last year, so it’s fair to assume they’re acquainted with the […]
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The state of Merge Records, after a Grammy win and a mini label festival
In March, it’s a risky wager to attach your name to college hoops, especially around here: We shut down blocks for bonfire parties. We’ve got rivalries that run so deep they annually ruffle relationships with co-workers, friends, even spouses. And on the first weekend of March, when the ACC Tournament is nagging at the boosters […]
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Now a quartet, Birds of Avalon get free
Birds of Avalon play Kings Barcade with Lonnie Walker, Cellar Seas and more Saturday, Feb. 26, at 10 p.m. Tickets are $6–$8. A little more than two years ago, Birds of Avalon were hard at work in the studio, finishing what was to be their second LP. It was December 2008, and the Raleigh-based psych […]
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Floating Action’s Desert Etiquette
Floating Action plays Kings Friday, Feb. 18, with Schooner and The Tomahawks. The $6 show starts at 10 p.m. Black Mountain’s Seth Kauffman has been making some of the most charming lo-fi rock around for five years at this point. Funky and fuzzy, his gems bounce on muscular bass lines and sway with rough-and-ready Basement-Taped […]
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WKNC gives its ears to Triangle bands, and Triangle bands give back to WKNC
Kings hosts the WKNC Double Barrel Benefit Friday, Feb. 4, and Saturday, Feb. 5. Each show begins at 9 p.m., and tickets cost $10, or $18 for a two-night pass. FRIDAY The Old Ceremony Bright Young Things Luego Cassis Orange SATURDAY Hammer No More the Fingers Yardwork King Mez HaLo Kid Future This small office […]
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The track-by-track differences between the first and second versions of All Alone in an Empty House
If you originally purchased Lost in the Trees’ debut LP, All Alone in an Empty House, via Trekky Records, you might think there’s no reason to nab the disc released by ANTI- earlier this year. But you’d be wrong: Ari Picker rearranged and rerecorded most of the album with indie production veteran Scott Solter, even […]
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Ari Picker’s harrowing emotional journey to becoming Lost in the Trees
Lost in the Trees play Motorco Music Hall Friday, Dec. 3, with Veelee at 9 p.m. Tickets are $12–$15. Read also: The track-by-track differences between the first and second versions of All Alone in an Empty House Two weeks ago, the little Chapel Hill folk orchestra Lost in the Trees played the von der Heyden […]
