A Rousing Performance from Sweet Honey in the Rock Rings in Juneteenth at NCMA
Sweet Honey in the Rock’s roots in the struggle for human rights run deeper than deep.
Live: Full of Hell and Outer Heaven Offer Hardcore Catharsis at Local 506
It can feel as though we’re living in a realm of eternal decay, which is perhaps part of the reason why 2018 has been such a banner year for death metal.
Live: Belle and Sebastian Brings Summer Bliss to the North Carolina Museum of Art
Belle and Sebastian North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Monday, July 31, 2017 There’s something you should know up front about my relationship with Belle and Sebastian: my wife, who accompanied me to Monday night’s concert at the N.C. Museum of Art’s outdoor stage, is an unabashed fan, such that our dogs are named Belle…
Concert Review: Decades After New Wave, Joe Jackson Keeps Looking Forward
Joe Jackson Carolina Theatre, Durham June 5, 2017 Since most of Joe Jackson’s compatriots in the British new wave have long since hit the Stop button—either that or they tour in perpetual Rewind—it’s a notable act of chutzpah that he named his latest album and current tour Fast Forward. Then again, the Staffordshire singer’s career…
Live: Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa Puff Puff Pass in Raleigh
Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, Raleigh Tuesday, July 26, 2016 “How many of y’all smoking right now?” Snoop Dogg asked a packed crowd during his set on Tuesday night at the Coastal Credit Union Music Park in Raleigh. The question might as well have been rhetorical. Even through…
Live: Citizens Kahane and company give a Guide and more to Raleigh
An Evening with Jeffrey and Gabriel Kahane Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh Saturday, September 24, 2015 I will admit—without a drop of pride—that I haven’t seen the full North Carolina Symphony perform since I was a child. Having grown up in Cary, it was an annual tradition for the fourth-grade kids to head to Meymandi Concert…
Live: At The Ritz, age hasn’t devalued Mint Condition
Mint Condition The Ritz, Raleigh Friday, October 9, 2015 It still surprises me when concertgoers don’t understand encores. Friday night’s nearly sold-out Mint Condition concert inside The Ritz in Raleigh spotlighted a few of those folks. One such woman stood next to me for the entire night as she swayed and sang along to the…
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Live: Father John Misty twists, shouts and settles down at The Ritz
Father John Misty The Ritz, Raleigh Tuesday, September 29, 2015 In front of a flickering neon heart emblazoned with the cursive words “No Photography,” Father John Misty knelt with his back arched Tuesday night, crying out “Save me, white Jesus!” while he filmed himself with an audience member’s smartphone. He had casually plucked it from…
Live: Jill Scott owns up to her womanhood in Durham
Jill Scott Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham Thursday, July 30, 2015 43 years seems like a decent time period in which to judge whether you have become or are still on your journey to becoming the person you want to be—to becoming your own hero, an exemplar of your species. But as Jill Scott pointed…
Live: Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson shake down 1999
Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh Sunday, July 26, 2015 Sunday night at Raleigh’s Red Hat Amphitheater, Billy Corgan seemed at peace. Out on a run of summer dates with former rival Marilyn Manson, the notoriously cranky Smashing Pumpkins frontman gazed thoughtfully between songs at the sizable crowd, even though he offered few…
Live: A Punch-up at the art museum
Punch Brothers NC Museum of Art, Raleigh Thursday, July 16 How do you write critically about a band you think makes almost no bad moves? This is a question I often consider with Punch Brothers, the Brooklyn-based quintet that merely appears to be a bluegrass outfit. They meld bluegrass with classical, country, rock and jazz…
Live: Kid Rock, Foreigner and a night of folly in Raleigh
Kid Rock, Foreigner Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh Saturday, July 11, 2015 The devil came down from Detroit, and he was looking for a sucker to scam. On Saturday, Kid Rock found more than 20,000 of them in Raleigh at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre. But how exactly does one businessman from Michigan repackage a culture not his…
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