Pachnowski’s exhibition “Visual Rhapsodies” is currently on view at the Page-Walker Arts and History Center in Cary.
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The Fan Community of Popular True-Crime Podcast My Favorite Murder Is Out of Control. Have Its Hosts Done Enough to Fix It?
Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff bring a live version of their podcast to DPAC on Thursday, September 20.
Despite her English Punk and Pop Pedigrees, Hollie Cook Creates Her Own World in Easygoing Reggae
HOLLIE COOK Wednesday, March 21, 8 p.m., $14–$16 Motorco, Durham www.motorcomusic.com To know Hollie Cook is, for better or worse, to start with her family tree, although she gets tired of talking about her parentage. “The most boring question is probably about my dad,” she tells me via phone, moments after I’d asked about her […]
Record Review: With Dream the Wheel, Violet Bell Dabbles in Pop and Nature
VIOLET BELL Dream the Wheel Self-released Swirling, dark, ethereal music is the perfect soundtrack to the early dark and chilly nights of fall. There’s no shortage of the stuff, but Durham-Raleigh duo Violet Bell has offered a few more tunes that do the trick with its debut EP, Dream the Wheel. Lizzy Ross’s vocals are […]
Molly Tuttle Is IBMA’s First Female Nominee for Guitarist of the Year—And She’s Not Stopping There
Though she was raised in California’s Bay Area, Molly Tuttle grew up in bluegrass. She regularly went to Kathy Kallick and Laurie Lewis shows, and listening to records with her music teacher dad. The twenty-four-year-old has been performing since the age of eleven, and for this year’s IBMA Awards, she’s been nominated for Emerging Artist […]
Hopscotch, Night Three: Solange Reigns Supreme
Hopscotch Music Festival Downtown Raleigh Saturday, September 9, 2017 I didn’t make it out to any Saturday day parties, but the evening was more than enough entertainment. The Saturday of Hopscotch is always the most crowded day, as single-day passes for those who couldn’t or didn’t want to get off work Thursday and Friday are […]
Solange and Margo Price Meet on Marginalization
Hopscotch isn’t short on bands that wear their politics on their sleeves. There’s Hurray for the Riff Raff, a New Orleans folk-rock act who’s been peddling T-shirts bearing the phrase “No Human Is Illegal,” Run the Jewels’ protest-heavy hip-hop, and Museum Mouth, which donated a recent cut of its Bandcamp sales to the Transgender Law […]
Record Review: Bombadil Mends a Breakup and Mines Data with Fences
BOMBADIL Saturday, May 6, 8 p.m., $18–$20The ArtsCenter, Carrborowww.artscenterlive.org In early 2015, Stuart Robinson, keyboardist, vocalist, and founding member of Durham folk-pop outfit Bombadil, left the band for a second timeand, it seems, for good. But the bandnow a trio of Daniel Michalak, James Phillips, and Stacy Hardenhasn’t been sweating it much. Instead, they’ve been […]

