Stillhouse Kings Barcade with Dave Wright Band Thursday, May 2, 10 p.m. $10 (free with Bob Dylan ticket stub) Cat’s Cradle with Shannon Whitworth Sunday, May 5, 8 p.m. Free Stillhouse is a supergroup in reverse: In 1998, the quintet formed from loose jam sessions at Raleigh’s famed musician dive, the Blue House on Boylan […]
Spencer Griffith
Bio: Spencer Griffith lives in Raleigh, where he teaches school and writes about bands.
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Live: Chatham County Line brings the listening room to Fletcher Opera Theater (Videos)
Roughly two and a half years after Chatham County Line first appeared at Raleigh’s Fletcher Opera Theater to record Sight & Sound—released last year as both a live DVD and CD/LP—the Triangle’s preeminent purveyors of Americana returned to the auditorium last Friday to a sold-out crowd. Much of the set was stacked with the quartet’s […]
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The Love Hangover offers songs for the sad and the swooning
Kings hosts The Love Hangover Friday, Feb. 15, at 9 p.m. There’s an $8 cover. The Love Hangover is a local custom suited for both the lovelorn and the lovebirds. Now in its 14th year, the Hangover has traditionally chased the maudlin tide of Valentine’s Day by teaming male and female voices on songs that […]
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HELP WANTED: PineCone and Old Hat’s campaign to restore ancient recordings from WPTF ends today
Last month, PineCone, or the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, and Raleigh archival folk label Old Hat Records joined forces to launch a campaign to crowd fund an anthology of bluegrass and country music from artists that performed on the Depression-era North Carolina radio program “Crazy Barn Dance.” The show took its name from Crazy […]
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Has the Triangle’s venue surge finally found its carrying capacity?
The area love affair with opening new venues might be coming to a halt: At the end of November, Raleigh’s two dedicated heavy metal clubs announced that they would both be closing on Dec. 31, capping a year of turbulent times for Triangle music rooms. “Sadly, the end of an era has come. Volume 11 […]
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This weekend: Durham welcomes a reggae festival
The One Love Reggae Fest Tickets are available via eTix for $20 in advance.
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Live Review: Red Fang, Black Tusk, Lord Dying at Kings
Last night, Kings hosted a sold-out crowd for a touring trifecta that brought varying flavors of heaviness. Portland’s Lord Dying opened with a tough blend of trash and doom, its twin guitar attack relentlessly crushing riffs alongside E. Olson’s raspy bark. The band only eased up on the pummeling for guitar solo heroics and a […]
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Saturday: With or without Morgan Freeman, John Michael Montgomery comes to Dorton Arena
Driving home from work earlier this week, I was taken aback when I saw Morgan Freeman’s name appear on the North Carolina State Fairgrounds’ marquee at the corner of Hillsborough Street and Blue Ridge Road. Not only did I wonder why the hell an award-winning actor would be making an appearance at the Fairgrounds without […]
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Five words with Old Avenue
Old Avenue plays Deep South Friday, Nov. 2. The show starts at 10 p.m. Admission is $7. The Chris Hendricks Band and former Collapsis frontman Mike Garrigan open. From the first notes of “La La,” the opening track on Old Avenue‘s new EP, Shade Trees, the Raleigh quartet’s aim is clear: bright, breezy pop-rock best […]
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Live: GZA leads a chorus of bros in Raleigh
GZALincoln Theatre, RaleighThursday, Oct. 25 The first time I saw Wu-Tang ’s GZA perform his legendary 1995 solo effort, Liquid Swords, was a dozen years after its release at the 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival. Though the rapper held court in Chicago over a field full of fans, a near-dusk set time squandered his energy in […]