Delta Spirit loves what they do. They write hooky songs with basslines that make you want to shake your hips, and any band that even occasionally uses two drummers is bound to groove pretty hard. They were just flat-out fun last night, and even the normally stolid Chapel Thrill crowd really got into it. I…
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vacationer @ cat’s cradle
Reasons why I will go see a band live: I like them. Someone whose taste I trust told me I would like this band. A publicist I like asks me to shoot the show. A publicist in whose good graces I wish to stay asks me to shoot the show. A publicist I don’t know…
grant hart @ the cave
Dear 22 year old self, I know that, right now, you’re unhappy: you hate yourself, and your life, and you’re terrified about graduating and what the future is going to bring and all of that bullshit. The worst part is, self, that you don’t really have the words or the self-awareness to know all this,…
frontier ruckus @ local 506
Up front, I gotta say, what this show did was make me salivate for Frontier Ruckus’s new album. Last fall, Matthew Milia told me that their follow-up to Deadmalls & Nightfalls was going to be even more dense and complex, and it is, based on the new songs that they played last night, but it’s…
justin townes earle — nothing’s gonna change the way you feel about me now
Justin Townes Earle — Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now. Out 3/28, Bloodshot Records. When it comes to my favorite artists releasing new albums, I have two pre-release schools of anxiety: there’s the anxiety that this artist I love is going to make a super shitty album, and I am going…
the devil makes three @ cat’s cradle
After two shows, the Devil Makes Three are rapidly becoming one of my favorite bands to see live; I like their studio stuff, but their stage presence — unassuming until WHAM! they start really rocking — is a huge part of why they’re so great live. The harmonies, the thumping bass, the way they all…
christopher paul stelling @ nightlight
Shame on you, Chapel Hill. I know it’s spring break, I know people are thinking about the tournament and the basketball team, but that’s still no reason why the turnout for Christopher Paul Stelling, Cousins, and JPhono1 was so craptastic last night. None at all. CPS and JPhono1 are both amazingly talented, and so I…
gemma ray @ local 506
Gemma Ray has a voice like Polly Jean Harvey, plays guitar licks like Chris Isaak, and owns a pair of red vintage t-strap heels that I covet beyond belief. Also, her upcoming album Island Fire is going to be amazing and she absolutely slayed at the Local 506 last night, despite a tiny and polite…
flesh wounds @ all day records
I rarely understand what’s going on musically when Flesh Wounds play, and there’s a very real chance that I shall perish mid-job at some point when Montgomery cracks me in the skull with his guitar, but that just makes me love Flesh Wounds more. Full set here.
craig finn & some guns @ local 506
Craig Finn told what has to be the most Chapel Hill story ever last night before he got started on his set: he was excited to watch the Carolina/Duke game in Chapel Hill, but he didn’t realize you had to get somewhere three hours early to get a table. So he wandered around Carrboro, watching…
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