• Read our reviews of the new albums by Double Negative and Cross Laws. Scott Williams, Justin Gray and Kevin Collinsthree-fourths of Raleigh’s Double Negativeand Cross Laws guitarist and Sorry State Records owner Daniel Lupton met at my apartment Sunday last week. Amid a few beers, some “off the record” trash talking and a YouTube’d […]
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Cross Laws
Listen! Listen to Cross Laws’ “Buried Alive” from the new 7-inch Behind the Curve. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Listen! Listen to Cross Laws’ “Buried Alive” from the new 7-inch Behind the Curve. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Listen! […]
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Bull City
Listen! Listen to Bull City’s “Knock It Down” from the new album Guns & Butter. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Like the sonically similar Wilco, Durham’s Bull City melds the pop cognizance of Alex Chilton, the face-peeling passion of Neil Young and the empirical studio slight-handedness of […]
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Castanets’ Jesse Ainslie
Castanets With Auxiliary House, Shapes and Sizes, The Physics of Meaning Nightlight, Chapel Hill Friday, March 9, 10 p.m. Tickets: $6 In 2001, Jesse Ainslie quit his Chapel Hill band, Straight No Chaser, and moved to Florida. Soon, he was in New York, studying creative writing and musicology at the New School University. In 2005, […]
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Nevermind the hangover
Love Hangover: Peter Holsapple & Lynn Blakey, Caitlin Cary & Scott Phillips, Billie Karrel & Roger Gupton, Caroline Mamoulides & Brian Quast Thursday, Feb. 15, 9 p.m. Kings, Raleigh Tickets: $7 Peter Holsapple is responsible for the best power pop song ever to come out of North Carolina. So what if he lived in New […]
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The Triangle’s Complete 2006 Discography
Rock ‘N’ Roll Quarterly: Sounds Good Out with the old… | Cover charge | Sounded stories | Track list | Over the hill | Asheville, Charlotte & Greensboro The Triangle was responsible for more than 150 records this year, and we’ve compiled them all, or at least come close. Several albums included come from former […]
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Lucero
Lucero with Rocky Votolato and Drag the River Trio Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro Thursday, Nov. 16, 9 p.m. Tickets: $10-$12 “You used to love me/ A drunkard running wild in the streets/ C’mon baby, what else would you have me be?” Lucero frontman Ben Nichols has never shied from a good tune about booze or women. […]
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Soccer Team
Excepting the extreme D.I.Y. ethos, it’s Dischord’s slow and steady stylistic shifts that have kept things so interesting. The ’80s were defined by fierce 4/4 punk, the ’90s perfected heavy, anomalous grooves, and the ’00s have had a thing for cerebrally fetching rock. Each Dischord band draws so much from its label predecessors, though, that […]
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Just him
When he graduated from N.C. Central, Darien Brockington became a teller at Bank of America. But that changed when college buddy Thomas “Rapper Big Pooh” Jones walked through Brockington’s line. Jones asked him to join the Justus League, and Brockington became the “hook guy” for Little Brother’s Atlantic Records debut, The Minstrel Show, showcasing his […]
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Shellac comes back
Steve Albini is famous–well, sort of. He’s the guy who recorded Nirvana’s In Utero and the Pixies’ Surfer Rosa, not to mention over 1,000 other albums. He owns a recording studio called Electrical Audio in Chicago. A barrage of fanboys await any and all Albini output. He has a band, too. They’re called Shellac, and […]