Friday’s show at the 506 was a lovely evening full of jangly indie rock from the Sea & Cake and Butterflies, and absolutely staggering dreamy instrumental post-rock from Chicago’s Brokeback. Warm and comforting in the best way. Full set here.
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girl in a coma @ local 506
Science has not yet found a way to rock illness away, but I am sure that some diligent grown-up punk with a PhD in biology is working on it. And if science could rock a sinus infection away, the band to do it would be San Antonio’s Girl in a Coma, who did their best…
unguarded
Two from a new long-term collaborative project. Into it.
wild flag @ cat’s cradle
I can’t summon words for how powerful it was to stand at the edge of the Cradle stage and watch these four amazing women rock the place to the ground. They were fierce and frenetic and they were so fucking good, they are all such great musicians, and it was a pleasure and a privilege…
liam finn @ the casbah
I like to be up front with you guys, you know that: a few years ago, I picked up Liam Finn’s debut album, I’ll Be Lightning, because he was Neil Finn’s son, and I do love me some Crowded House. Happily, Liam is just as talented as his dad, in completely different ways, and so…
onward soldiers @ festifall
I have this theory that the reason the Triangle music scene continues to proliferate as it does, with both tons of bands and tons of good bands, is because for 30 years parents have taken their small children to see excellent local bands play at free street festivals, so 30 years of small children have…
hopscotch music fest day 2
Full set is still here and still being updated.
active child @ local 506
Shot for Speakers in Code last night. Probably the first and only time there will ever be a harp on the 506 stage. Full set here.
boulder acoustic society @ deep south
I had the pleasure of going out to Raleigh to see my favorite klezmerpunkamericana band, Denver’s Boulder Acoustic Society, last night. With a huge sound, a practically punk rhythm section, and an accordian, BAS really, really don’t sound like anyone but themselves. Their set in Raleigh swung from gorgeous bluegrass waltzes to raving klezmerpunk fusions…
hoots & hellmouth @ the pour house
The first time I saw Philadelphia’s hard-rocking, green-living, roots rockers Hoots & Hellmouth, they were touring without a drummer; just two stomp-boxes, four tambourines, and a mandolin that somehow manages to transcend stringed instruments and become percussion. (God, isn’t it wonderful, how the mandolin can do that? It’s one of those instruments that, when played…
brand new kind of photography 