Fall Out Boy Thursday, Jan. 18, 7 p.m. Disco Rodeo, Raleigh Openers New Found Glory, The Early November and Permanent Me Details: www.falloutboyrock.com Until a month ago, Fall Out Boy was pretty uninteresting: Aside from having a bassist who wrote all the lyrics and a singer who never talked, the most fascinating thing about the […]
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World/Inferno Friendship Society
World/Inferno Friendship Society With Bouncing Souls, Street Dogs and Whole Wheat Bread Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro Thursday, Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $14 If we choose to believe the legend, the first (and last) time Spin magazine agreed to interview Brooklyn cabaret-punk collective World/Inferno Friendship Society, the band’s notoriously nutty frontman Jack Terricloth kidnapped Spin‘s unsuspecting […]
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Girl Talk makes a populist statement from pop ephemera
Listen! Listen to a track from Night Ripper by Girl Talk. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player. Listen! Listen to a track from Night Ripper by Girl Talk. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player. Listen! […]
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Kylesa
Rupert Murdoch, Smiling Tom, MySpace: Could it be that social networking Web sites are to blame for the state of modern hardcore? In the MySpace ecosystem most of us call home, punk and hardcore are badges to be worn on tricked-out profiles. After all, the new chug-chug found popularity around the same time MySpace ate […]
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Ratatat
Listen! Listen to Ratatat’s “Wildcat” (the best song built around a sample of a cougar this year) from their new album Classics. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player. Without words, dance music’s steady beat commands our feet to tap. Its thumping bass instructs us to […]
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Hip hop … don’t stop
When Atlanta snappers Dem Franchize Boyz take the Alltel Pavilion stage this Sunday, they’ll run through a couple of songs about their white tees. They’ll lean with it. They’ll rock with it. And then, somewhere in the streets of New York City, an angel will lose its wings. That’s what the hip-hop heads put off […]
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Mary J. Blige & Jaheim
In the late ’80s, the line between hip hop and R&B seemed well-defined. A thick-voiced guy like Luther Vandross was worlds away from the rugged boys in Run-D.M.C., and the thought of cross-pollination seemed pretty outlandish. But with New Jack Swing’s emergence in the early ’90s, producer Teddy Riley blurred the sonic distinction between the […]
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This Song Is a Mess But So Am I
Listen! Listen to This Song Is a Mess But So Am I’s “Song for Donna Ruppert.” If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player. Like a brilliant, single-minded artist who paints the same image every day, Freddy Ruppert plays pathos-driven tearjerkers about one tragic event: the death […]
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Genghis Tron
Its almost insulting to suggest that experimentation is new to metal. Canadian provocateurs in VoiVoD spent the 80s pairing weird time signatures and a prickly prog predilection with the meat n potatoes thrash of Bay Area bands like Slayer and Metallica. Meanwhile, Neurosis was forming in Oakland and laboring over a Frankenstein of its own, […]
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Hammer of the minor deities
Myles Heskett can’t stop laughing. It’s as reasonable a response as any to the past few months of his life. Since January, the affable Aussie and his humble trio of heavy-metal revivalists, Wolfmother, have toured the world on the back of their self-titled debut album–a maelstrom of Sabbath-inspired riffing and classic rock grandeur. Along the […]