A proper introduction to Bat Fangs requires but a single hypothetical question: If, by some strange miracle, pop rock and heavy metal were able to set aside their longstanding stylistic differences, shack up together, and produce offspring, what form would their progeny take? It’s an odd coupling, to say the leastand yet, on the duo’s […]
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Record Review: With Birds, 1970s Film Stock Flies Away with Dynamic Approaches
1970S FILM STOCK Birds Fire Talk Records Eddie Garcia never set out to be a guitar hero, but once he turned thirteen and figured out how to record riffs onto the family VCR, his destiny as a forward-thinking musician was essentially set. After earning a degree in audio engineering from a local community college, the […]
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Four Decades After Leading Punk’s New Wave, Blondie Keeps Buzzing with Pollinator
Blondie Saturday, August 5, 7 p.m., $32–$49.50 Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh Blondie has never stopped evolving. The storied band’s catalog is less a collection of songs than it is a vibrant, musical reflection of New York City, where the band got its start nearly fifty years ago: the modern city, with its culture clashes and […]
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As Moor Mother, Camae Ayewa Leads Moogfest’s Afrofuturist Missions
While you probably won’t spot our forty-fifth president in the crowd at this year’s festival, Donald J. Trump’s small-handed shadow still looms over Moogfest 2017. Accordingly, a significant chunk of this weekend’s programming focuses on music-related forms of protest. The opening night’s firestorm on the Protest Stage pushes back against the president’s travel-ban attempts as […]
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Record Review: Natural Causes Go Fast and Furious on LP Number Two
Natural Causes Saturday, March 4 9 p.m., $8-$10 Local 506, Chapel Hill www.local506.com Carrboro trio Natural Causes are synth-punk purists. In other words, they’re always at war with themselves. Such is the genre’s tradition: Before Le Tigre, LCD Soundsystem, et al., made the term synonymous with “mildly rugged indie pop” in the early aughts, synth-punk […]