The Chapel Hill trio’s heavy rock is also carefully constructed, eerie, and ethereal.
Noah Rawlings
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Keenan Jenkins Polishes Off His Studies and Polishes Up His Music with Five Simple Letters
Worthy, Jenkins’s debut EP as XOXOK, is a pristine release of soul-and-jazz-inflected alternative rock.
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Traces of African Pop and Surf Rock Brighten Matt Southern & Lost Gold’s Debut Album
You can hear the wooden body of an acoustic guitar creaking on “Gilles Garnier” and imagine yourself floating down the Eno River on some June day.
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By Picking Up Trash, Artist Calvin Brett Beautifies Durham Streets and Galleries
General Labor, Brett’s exhibit at Lump, is literal garbage. But we don’t mean that in a bad way.
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Moogfest, Night Two: Making Sense of a Muddled Divide Between Past and Future
Moogfest, Night Two: Yves Tumor, Caterina Barbieri, Katie Gately, Tess Roby Downtown Durham Friday, May 18, 2018 Unlike most other music festivals, Moogfest has an overarching message: “to grow a global community of futurists.” But what a “futurist’ is, or ought to be, or does, is unclear. The auras of the Moog synthesizer and other […]
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Record Review: Moon Racer Offers Cozy Bedroom Pop on Is Really It a Secret?
Is It Really a Secret? Ordinal Records “From my bedroom to yours,” reads the biographical blurb on Moon Racer’s Bandcamp page. While musicians and writers alike have criticized the classification of “bedroom pop” for being vague, incapable of capturing the range of sounds and themes explored by artists working by their bedsides, Durham’s Autumn Ehinger […]
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In Frivolous Artist, Ginger Wagg Dances Around the Usual Relationship Between Performers and Audiences to Highlight Our Significance and Question Her Own
FRIVOLOUS ARTIST March 25–26 & 29–31, 7:30 p.m., $15–$20 The Fruit, Durham www.didaseason.com For every question I ask Ginger Wagg, she poses five more. “What’s the point of me? What am I doing? Is it serious? Is it not serious? Is what I’m trying to accomplish really frivolous?” she asks by way of explaining her […]
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NCMA’s Half-Century Wait for the Right Technology to Restore a Mangled Ancient Statue Comes to an End
It’s nine in the morning on a Tuesday, an hour before the North Carolina Museum of Art opens, but one room is already abuzz with activity. In it stands a classical-looking statue, flanked by a projector, two cameras, and a computer. A small group of museum staff, media, and representatives of the Bank of America […]
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Record Review: On Hell House, Al Riggs Builds a Cozy Sonic Home
AL RIGGS Hell House Bull City Records Presents Al Riggs decided to name his record Hell House, but he also decided, it seems, to make a sonic home blanketed with gentle acoustic guitars, cushioned with mic fuzz, and carpeted with the soft patter of percussive shakers, rather than a home engulfed in noisy inferno. Riggs […]
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Liars’ Latest Album, TFCF, Is a Break-Up Record—But Not Quite How You’d Expect
LIARS Saturday, September 23, 9 p.m., $17–$19 Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro www.catscradle.com Liars is a band that has never stood still. Its musical fascinations have led it from dancey post-punk to dark, atmospheric experimental music, to straightforwardly structured noise rock. It’s looked to history and lore for source material2004’s They Were Wrong So We Drowned was […]