Remember those weeks last year when it seemed like I’d just moved into the Local 506 and was, say, sleeping in the bathroom after shows instead of going home, because I would just be back there the night after, and the night after that? This year has had less of that, because this year has…
Tag: show previews
race wars: touring out of my comfort zone
I met Euge, better known in the nerdcore hip hop scene as Adam WarRock, through shep., who got to know Euge through … comics? Baseball? I don’t actually know! But last year, Euge was touring comic book stores behind his (spectacular) debut LP The War For Infinity, and his first booking was Chapel Hill Comics…
carter tanton — freeclouds
As someone smart said to me this week, headliners get all the love; the War On Drugs is playing a highly publicized and anticipated show at Kings tonight (I will not be there … once again, car issues), but opener Carter Tanton is the one I’ve been paying attention to. Ex-Tulsa frontman Tanton has just…
hopscotch music fest 2011: a preview
Or, more accurately, my preview. The trouble with a great festival like Hopscotch is that I look at the schedule and get overwhelmed; there’s so much to see, I will probably just end up sitting on the sidewalk outside of Kings weeping from an inability to make a choice. I will, of course, be rockin’…
get out of the house
I’m about to embark on another crazy run of shows, and there’s always a million things in the Triangle that I’m missing, but what follows are shows I think are too good to miss: The Love Language w/ the Old Ceremony, Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw, NC, Friday May 27. The grand opening of Saxapahaw’s lovely new 700 person…
acrylics — lives and treasure
I saw Acrylics open for the Morning Benders just over a year ago; if fellow tour partner and opener the Miniature Tigers were the Morning Benders’ rock and roll side, Acrylics’ performance and their lovely debut album, Lives and Treasure, are much more closely aligned to the electronic, hollowly delicate side of last year’s stellar…
preview: hayes carll/jason isbell @ the lincoln
I haven’t seen either Hayes or Jason play in several years; Hayes because he wasn’t touring here, and Jason for a variety of other reasons, but they’re currently touring together in support of new albums and playing the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh on 4/19. Behind the jump, short reviews of both and some details about…
preview: paleface & mo @ the pour house
People intimately familiar with Paleface’s music are usually familiar with his background: Daniel Johnston discovered him, Beck was his roommate, Danny Fields molded him, and after having a huge influence on the New York City anti-folk movement and two major label releases, Paleface sort of fell away, self-releasing cassettes and albums until Concord’s Ramseur Records, home to weirdos…
preview: the dig & henry clay people @ local 506
Let me tell you what: take two bands, one whose name is a common verb, and the other whose name is two proper names and the word “people”, and you have two bands that are not the easiest to Google. Try to find information on Brooklyn’s power-techno-pop quartet the Dig, and what you get is…
what to do this weekend: october 1-4
Sure, there are weekends that shep. and I sit around the apartment and drink beer and moan that there’s nothing to do; but that’s usually untrue, there’s just nothing we want to do. October, though — October is a month of riches here in the Triangle, and I’m going to try and remind you of…
brand new kind of photography 