Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. The softly lit, unsaturated photos that grace the packaging of Calico Haunts’ second record, After All, transform familiar, idyllic images with slightly psychedelic hues: A couple runs through a field toward a lake, their figures washed into pale tones. The […]
Spencer Griffith
Bio: Spencer Griffith lives in Raleigh, where he teaches school and writes about bands.
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I Was Totally Destroying It’s The Beached Margin/ Done Waiting
It’s easy for I Was Totally Destroying It to polarize the crowds that tend to flock to Chapel Hill’s Local 506 and Carrboro’s Cat’s Cradle. Indeed, that was my experience when I first saw the quintet at the 506, sandwiched between Red Collar’s crusty rock and Megafaun’s back-porch indie folk: Overflowing with youthful spunk and […]
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Live: Method Man & Redman tear it off
Method Man & Redman, Ghostface Killah Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh Thursday, July 23 The silence that fell over the Lincoln after an enjoyable (though not spectacular) set from Brooklyn’s Duo Live was puzzling. With nearly a half-dozen DJs in attendance, it seems like someone would have been spinning records to keep the room buzzing during the […]
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Lonnie Walker’s These Times Old Times
Though Lonnie Walker frontman Brian Corum initially used the name for solo performances, this isn’t a one-man band. Rather, Lonnie Walker grew into a quintet after several of Corum’s art school buddies at East Carolina University jumped aboard before the band relocated to Raleigh to ultimately record its promising debut, These Times Old Times, together. […]
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Tonight: Help Hopeline help the Triangle
Sure, there are plenty of great shows you could catch around the Triangle tonight, but none deserve your attendance more than a five-deep bill of top-notch local indie rock at Tir Na Nog. It’s more than just another great line-up trotted out by the downtown Raleigh pub that has become known for its weekly Local […]
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Wrecked @ Breakfast’s Kegs Over Easy
Though Kegs Over Easy is the first I’ve heard from Wrecked @ Breakfastit is their debut, after allit’s not the first I’ve heard of the Clayton band: At last month’s Downtown Live season opener, I spied a couple of fellows walking by, Wrecked @ Breakfast splayed across their black T-shirts. “Sometimes, you gotta get drunk […]
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Bassist Aaron Mills’ best years may be ahead of him
For as long as Beverly Mills can remember, her brother Aaron Mills has played bass guitar. “I’ve got a picture of him and my [oldest] brother sitting on their twin beds, playing their guitars,” she says. “He and my brother would close themselves in that room and just stay in there for hours. Aaron’s passion […]
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Lemming Malloy’s The Return of the Norfolk Regiment
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Upon concluding the final Eyes to Space show in July 2007, lead singer/ keytarist Jay Cartwright slammed his instrument of six yearsthe weird old keytaron the stage of Local 506. Little more than a year later, Cartwrightalong with bassist Wendy […]
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Area ukulele enthusiasts and neophytes strum for funds
To stereotype, Rich James looks more electric guitar than ukulele: One of two guitarists in Durham heavy metal titans Tooth, James is tall, with thick legs and long hair, a stiff beard of brown hair extending several inches from his chin. He wears sneakers and band T-shirts and jeans. He delivers pizza. But last month, […]
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Live: Shimabukuro wows Fletcher
Jake Shimabukuro Fletcher Theater, Raleigh Thursday, April 30 After opening his sold-out performance with the flamenco-influenced ‘Let’s Dance,” ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro spread his next 90 minutes of stage time over a pair of seven-song sets and a well-deserved encore, spending almost as much time chatting about his songs as playing them. ‘Hey, I don’t […]