Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Unless you’re Christina Scabbia or Bleeding Through’s Marta Petersonwho’ve both accentuated their sexuality to ease entry into the boys’ club of metalit can be hard out there for a female metal musician. Years of He-Man jocularity and racy “Ladies of […]
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Pity for Black Kids
Cure-worship dusted in confectioners’ sugar and glitter, “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance,” is the “big one” from visiting buzz-holdovers Black Kids. It’s the stubbornly catchy, if sort of empty, pop song that churned its way through the Internet hype machine last summer, and after so many breathless blog posts, landed among […]
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Billy Corgan’s bombast was mother’s milk
In a recent interview with the Independent, the Annuals/ Sunfold songwriting team of Adam Baker and Kenny Florence outlined the bands that helped shape their sound. While critics have mostly likened Raleigh’s Annuals to hipper, younger acts like Arcade Fire and Animal Collective, Baker and Florence listed the prime selections of BMG Music Club, circa […]
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Bellafea
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Bellafea’s 2005 Pidgeon English debut, Family Tree EP, was often encumbered by its own ideas: Brilliant as the songs were, naked vocals, shuffling feet and eerie guitar interludes seemed a bit awkward set against a core of riot pop. It was […]
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Edie Sedgwick is dead, but empty celebrity is alive and well
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Before she overdosed at age 28, Edith Minturn Sedgwick changed the way Americans conceived celebrity. She wasn’t famous for anything, really, other than being rich, friendly with Andy Warhol, sleeping with Lou Reed and Mick Jagger, and maybe inspiring Dylan’s Blonde […]
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Fighting Poseidon
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Until about five years ago, Kudzu Wish was one of the finest rock bands in North Carolina. After the band’s breakup, the Guilford alumni splintered across Triad and Triangle. Vocalist Adam Thorn turned into a jangle junkie and dialed it back […]
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Anticon co-founder Sole talks corruption
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Plenty of “conscious” emcees are content to spot mop with soap and water, using elbow grease on a pet political peeve or a specific social sinkholeeducation, violence, corruption, etc. But Anticon co-founder Solewho’s “too Bakunin for your backpack rap,” if you […]
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Tooth
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. • Read our article about Tooth Animality, the debut EP from Durham quintet Tooth, begins a lot like a chubby pop-metal record: “Moderate Monster” lurches with two thick chords tacked with bright, wobbly bends. The tease ends after 30 seconds, though, […]
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Hammer No More the Fingers
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. The self-titled debut from Durham’s Hammer No More the Fingers sounds almost passé. But after a half-decade of post-punk hair bands and precious indie pop, it’s refreshing to hear an album get its hooks in without disco hi-hats or another whimsical […]
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Wolves in the Throne Room’s “I Will Lay Down My Bones Among the Rocks and Roots”
Listen! Download “I Will Lay Down My Bones…” (MP3, 42.1 MB) or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. For the trio of commune-dwelling Olympians in Wolves in the Throne Room, black metal is only a vehicle for a message: The earth is totally getting raped. […]