Led Zeppelin 2 With The Australian Pink Floyd Show Thursday, Aug. 20, 7 p.m. $25–$65 Red Hat Amphitheater 500 S. McDowell St., Raleigh 919-996-8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com Led Zeppelin cover bands tend to come in two stripes. There are those that trade in gimmicksthe one that renders, for instance, Zeppelin standards as Afrobeat jams, or Lez Zeppelin, […]
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Talking to two ‘bama exports, St. Paul and the Broken Bones and Alabama Shakes
St. Paul and the Broken Bones with Parker Millsap Saturday, June 6, 7 p.m., $25–$30 Lincoln Theatre Street Stage 126 E. Cabarrus St., Raleigh 919-821-4111 | lincolntheatre.com Alabama Shakes With Courtney Barnett Wednesday, June 10, 7:30 p.m. $35–$45 Koka Booth Amphitheatre 8003 Regency Pkwy., Cary 919-462-2025boothamphitheatre.com Then and now, Alabama music has both a legacy […]
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Record review: Daniel Bachman’s River
Daniel Bachman plays Nightlight in Chapel Hill Wednesday, May 6, at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8–$10. Ignatz opens. River by Daniel Bachman A few months after the release of last year’s Orange Co. Serenade, the guitarist Daniel Bachman told South Carolina alt-weekly Free Times he wished he could erase some of his earliest recordings. He […]
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Record review: Mac McCaughan’s Non-Believers
After three decades of making music, Superchunk and Merge Records co-founder Mac McCaughan has at last released his first record under his own name, Non-Believers. McCaughan taps into a deep personal well for these 10 tracks, his writing full of wistful reflections. The “’82 Honda getting all its tapes stolen” during “Your Hologram,” the rows […]
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Jake Xerxes Fussell’s self-titled
Though new to Durham, Jake Xerxes Fussell knows the lay of this Southern land. The son of a noted Georgia folklorist, Fussell spent his childhood surrounded by traditional music, riding around with his dad while he documented bluesmen, string bands and Native American artists throughout the Southeast. Fussell later enrolled in the Southern Studies department […]
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On his solo debut, Arcade Fire’s Will Butler becomes indie rock’s king parenthetical
Will Butler with Teen Sunday, March 15, 8 p.m. $13 The Pinhook 117 W. Main St., Durham 919-667-1100 thepinhook.com Will Butler seems, somehow, relaxed. Early on a weekday in March, less than a week before Durham’s Merge Records issues his debut LP, the 32-year-old songwriter and bandleader isn’t concerned about his full day of interviews […]