Photo by Karen MannRighteous Fool, playing Raleigh’s DIVEbar in 2009 When word began circulating on Facebook last week about the impending demise of DIVEbar, reaction on the Glenwood South music club’s page was swift and appropriately doomy. Many voiced outrage and sadness, often sharing memories of the club and ending their comments with “m/”, web-speak […]
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Awake and acoustic: Metal frontmen Mike Scheidt and Nate Hall tour with their guitars
Looking far: Yob’s Mike Scheidt “Stay Awake” seems like a pretty straightforward command: Stay conscious, stay alert and stay aware. That is, don’t fall asleep physically, mentally or spiritually. Mike Scheidt, who is best known to heavy music fans as the force behind esoteric Oregon doom act Yob, depends on the idea of staying awake. […]
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Live: Confessor stuns in Raleigh
Photo by Adam KissickConfessor, in preparation A reviewer’s nightmare, turns out, isn’t having to write about a show that sucked; it’s having to write about a show that was so phenomenal that the only thing left to say is, “Damn, that rocked.” That’s the position yours truly finds herself in—struggling to put into words exactly […]
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Metal aficionados regard Raleigh’s Confessor as one of the most important heavy bands ever; maybe now you can hear of them
Confessor plays Lincoln Theatre Friday, May 18, with Jonin and Parasite Drag. The 9 p.m. show costs $10–$12. In the winter of 2005, Tina Shoaf, the wife of Confessor guitarist Brian Shoaf, was reading Revolver, the heavy metal and hard rock magazine. She thumbed to an article titled “31 Wickedly Obscure and Important Bands.” “She’s […]
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Mark Holland conquers his restless musical spirit, kind of
Mark Holland plays Blue Note Grill in Durham Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. On an unseasonably warm January night, all of Chapel Hill seems to be out celebrating UNC’s basketball victory over N.C. State. In the Carrboro bar Southern Rail, a mix of hippies, hipsters and sorority sisters in UGG boots hold drinks and […]
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For Black Skies, Southern metal is a network, not a style
Black Skies plays Kings Wednesday, Nov. 9, with Cough and Church of Wolves. The 9:30 p.m. show costs $7. The quickest way to learn anything you need to know about Carrboro’s Black Skies is to hear “The Sleeping Prophet,” the last song on their new self-released album, On the Wings of Time. Sure, the 9-minute-33-second […]
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Hanging on every note
There’s really no better way to describe a good improv jazz concert than with the words of Walt Davis. “On stage, you have one, two, three, 25 musicians playing music with little or no pre-conceived structure, listening intently to each other, often traveling from the most delicate, intricate music you can imagine to a full-force […]
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Think global, act local
“I’ve been so lucky,” says Bob Haddad. “Every job that I’ve had in my life I’ve loved, and the few jobs that I haven’t loved, I’ve quit. Everybody has it within their power to do it, but they’re afraid.” Take a look around Haddad’s gorgeous Orange County homestead and you’ll see what he means by […]
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Adult Film Makers, Adult Film Makers, Deamonbeach Records CD
Adult Film Makers is the latest project from Clifton Lee Mann, whose many musical projects all seem to share the same qualities: speed, catchy riffs and a really dirty (in a good way) sound. Adult Film Makers is as raunchy as its name suggests, with lyrics and licks that conjure images of fast cars, mean-ass […]
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Clang Quartet, Jihad, Silber CD
Clang Quartet is not a quartet, but it (or he) is clangy indeed. The project is the creation of Scotty Irving, former drummer for Geezer Lake and current drummer for Elvis X, two alternative prog-metal groups from Greensboro. For a couple of years now, Irving has also been performing as the Clang Quartet, an act […]