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7 Oct 2009

Ethnomusicologist Steven Feld and Ghanian drummer Nii Otoo Annan explore the natural and social motivations of music at Duke.
By Chris Toenes | 7 Oct 2009 (Music: Feature)

12 Aug 2009

Merge's 20th anniversary brought two late locals back to the stage ... but not for long
By Chris Toenes and Grayson Currin | 12 Aug 2009 (Music: Feature)

20 May 2009

Set against high-flying post-free jazz acrobatics, these numbers recall the mellow beauty of jazz's piano-led groups of the 1960s.
By Chris Toenes | 20 May 2009 (Music: Record Review)

6 May 2009

The North Carolina expatriates of Ear Pwr put a wide-eyed happy face on the glum mugs of a rock club.
By Chris Toenes | 6 May 2009 (Music: Feature)

15 Apr 2009

Organizers are chipping away at some of their ongoing goals to expand Signal beyond an annual festival and into an educational organization, promoting the music's history, artistry and advancement.
By Chris Toenes | 15 Apr 2009 (Music: Feature)

11 Mar 2009

Sohrab Habibion on finding a bands sound, finding a record label and enjoying platinum-studded denim
By Chris Toenes | 12 Mar 2009 (Music: Song of the Week)

25 Feb 2009

The conference will help inoculate poets from producing words "dropped careless on a Page," as the belle of Amherst put it.
By Chris Toenes | 25 Feb 2009 (Arts: Feature)

4 Feb 2009

This is a stunning document of Superchunk at a crucial time in its career and a crystalline early snapshot of its touring life.
By Chris Toenes | 4 Feb 2009 (Music: Record Review)

3 Dec 2008

The Reservoir has wooed the Go! faithful with cheap beer and a corner-bar atmosphere that's open to film screenings, sports watching and—of course—live music.
By Chris Toenes | 3 Dec 2008 (Music: Feature)

12 Nov 2008

Grails' six instrumental LPs in as many years are full of psychedelic curveballs and world-music nods; it's interesting to see how things so meticulously prepared in the studio will work on stage.
By Chris Toenes | 12 Nov 2008 (Music: Feature)

1 Oct 2008

What happened at the 506 last night wasn't what anyone expected.
By Chris Toenes | 1 Oct 2008 (Music: Live Review)

24 Sep 2008

Come the Freak On, a reunion festival born out of early-'90s Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla. bedrooms that produced many skewed pop songs, comes to Chapel Hill for the first time ever this weekend.
By Chris Toenes | 24 Sep 2008 (Music: Feature)

3 Sep 2008

Deloatch's roots come from singing at church as a girl, so her approach to jazz is a soulful one, connected to Ella Fitzgerald's crisp style and, as she dips into her lower register, blues singers.
By Chris Toenes | 3 Sep 2008 (Music: Record Review)

20 Aug 2008

Pianist Oscar Peterson, who Duke Ellington called the "Maharajah of the keyboard," is the subject of Deloatch's latest record.
By Chris Toenes | 20 Aug 2008 (Music: Feature)

6 Aug 2008

The first in an occasional series chronicling the efforts of a new Web site to support local music booster, Cy Rawls
By Chris Toenes | 6 Aug 2008 (Music: Cy Rawls)

30 Jul 2008

Extreme Animals acts like the kids we were warned we might become from playing too much Galaga, but that's not entirely why it's embraced making new music with old MIDI technology.
By Chris Toenes | 30 Jul 2008 (Music: Feature)

16 Jul 2008

Friends will gather to support Cy Rawls, a longtime area music supporter, critic and DJ who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor.
By Chris Toenes | 22 Jul 2008 (Music: Briefs)

9 Jul 2008

How three local bands are working to keep rising gas prices from silencing their sound on the road
By Chris Toenes | 9 Jul 2008 (Music: Feature)

18 Jun 2008

Get shit off your chest, and do it loudly.
By Chris Toenes | 18 Jun 2008 (Music: Feature)
The drift of these guitar voices becomes Miller's language here—a deliberate, if often stuttering, talk from some ghostly folk-blues mantra.
By Chris Toenes | 18 Jun 2008 (Music: Record Review)
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