Hopscotch Music Festival Guide 2010
Interviews, schedules, itineraries, essays...
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Thursday
Chapel Hill
Dark Water Rising, Lizzy Ross
While a student at Chapel Hill, Charly Lowry was a semifinalist on the third season of American Idol. A half-dozen...
Friday
Carrboro
Tama Hochbaum
In an Indy review of a 2007 Tama Hochbaum show, Amy White notes the underlying current of unease, writing,...
News
DOT to examine alternate routes for high-speed rail
New "hybrid" routes sketched by residents and a city councilor may offer salvation not just for the rail project but for the much-maligned Capital Boulevard corridor as well.Durham County
Somerhill to liquidate; artists' works protected
The gallery received approval to auction off what little it owns and close on Sept. 20, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge ruled Tuesday. Artists' consigned work that remains in the gallery is safe from creditors and will not be auctioned.
North Carolina
N.C. ramps up for wind energy
"If wind is to be a key element in North Carolina's long-term energy portfolio, it's time to develop the first offshore wind farm."
Columns
Goat Floats
Front Porch
The sky isn't falling
Having a sick chicken is the flip side of all these feel-good, life-in-the-country stories.
Music
Brooklyn Rider, three times
Essentially, this is the sort of group we spent 30 or 40 years of culture wars to win.Music Feature
After the death of her husband, Corinne Bailey Rae makes an album that captures life's mess
While pocked with regret, The Sea is not the grief-fest one might expect. Rather, it mimics real loss.
Food
The Pig, Chapel Hill's newest barbecue restaurant
Plus: Hoppin' John Cook-Off at Shakori Hills; Chef's Challenge for Meals on Wheels of Wake County
Film
Horny teens get a mockumentary in The Virginity Hit
The Virginity Hit is more or less not worth remarking upon.
Hopscotch Music Festival
Hopscotch Music Festival Guide 2010
Interviews, schedules, itineraries, essaysHopscotch Music Festival Guide
Interview: Public Enemy vs. Fucked Up
"I remember a time when I couldn't buy your record without my parent's permission. Now I play in a band that has a swear word for a name, and I'm on MTV and the radio."
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Interview: Raekwon
"Now I'm more of a political rapper slash gangsta rapper slash grown-man rapper. I can take it anywhere you want me to take it."
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Interview: Kylesa
As one of a diverse array of loud-and-heavy acts at Hopscotch, Kylesa is indicative of the festival's tendencies for boundary-bending metal.
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Interview: Tortoise and Broken Social Scene
For the six-person Broken Social Scene core, the Forgiveness Rock Record recording sessions with Tortoise's John McEntire were dreams come true.
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Essay: Lucero sophisticates
Lucero is one of the best and most complex bar bands in America. They transcend the genre, even.
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Essay: World samplers
How Panda Bear, Pictureplane and Javelin fit into the evolution of sampling
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Essay: Punk again
Punk rockers (like Fucked Up, No Age, Double Dagger and Brutal Knights) now seem poised for a rebirth.
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Day parties
The complete day parties schedule as well as Hopscotch's screening of the Animal Collective film Oddsac and the Artist & Author Series.
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Itinerary: Ashley Melzer
I'll be the one down in front, bouncing my head and beaming at the stage—until, of course, I make an erratic exit because, seriously, there is just too much to see.
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Itinerary: Grayson Currin
As the musicians I wanted in my city are playing the music that made me want them here in the first place, I'll be strapped with some sort of walkie-talkie, rushing about from club to club, making sure bands and fans are happy.
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Itinerary: Christopher R. Weingarten
This isn't Bonnaroo. Save the peace and love for a vegan sandwich at the Remedy Diner. Push. Shove. Go, go, go—and enjoy.
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Itinerary: Spencer Griffith
I trust that someone—possibly a local relative of Doc Brown—is working out the last few kinks in eliminating travel time between venues.
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Itinerary: Greg Lowenhagen
You will almost certainly have more fun than me this weekend, but that's OK. I'm behind the scenes. You are the scene.
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Arts
New Orleans transplants and other Triangle artists pay tribute on the fifth anniversary of Katrina
"It's one thing to have Time and National Geographic tell the story of Katrina, but it's another to tell it through the heart and soul and eyes of the residents who lived it."Reading
A terrifying global future in Gwynne Dyer's Climate Wars
If conflicts over scarcity spread to wealthier, more heavily armed countries, keeping the peace could get dicey.
Comedy
Demetri Martin talks about his inspirations
"If something doesn't work, it should be because of your choices and not because of the choices someone made for you."
Theater
Treme creator Eric Overmyer comes to Chapel Hill
Overmyer says he's skeptical about the power of television fiction to bring people around to reality.
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