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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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