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With Organos, Maria Albani finally faces the crowd ... almost
"I get nervous about people judging how you look when you're doing something. I don't know if that makes sense at all."
By Grayson Currin | 3 Feb 2010

Gil Scott-Heron's remarkable new record, I'm New Here
Scott-Heron is the gruff-voiced griot and spoken-word poet who laid a good chunk of the foundation for what we know today as rapping.
By Eric Tullis | 3 Feb 2010

Instrumental duo Mountains serves as a reminder to listen again
It was clear that Mountains had been developing something special all along, something I'd missed because of a download.
By Grayson Currin | 3 Feb 2010

What Minor Stars do—heavy riff, thick-rhythm, somewhat psychedelic rock, with a gauze of reverb vocals inlayed against the monolith—they do very well.
By Grayson Currin | 27 Jan 2010

Fiddler Casey Driessen talks about the tradition of breaking traditions
The red-haired, red-shoed fiddler has recorded or toured with bluegrass heavyweights new and old as well as jam outfits, pop princes and country starlets.
By Spencer Griffith | 20 Jan 2010

Jon Shain
On bluegrass, blues, ballads and whatever else the Durham songwriter will (and won't) blend
By Grayson Currin | 25 Nov 2009

Bowerbirds and Megafaun tour America together and tell the tales
"We've seen really cool growth happen in both bands."
19 Aug 2009

How Chris
Bess is known for his versatility between keyboards, guitar and whatever percussion gear he can find; "short, little sausage fingers"; arranging; frugality.
By Grayson Currin | 22 Apr 2009

The unticketed event was a public exhibition of Avett artwork at the street-level Envoy Gallery and a closed-lip gig down below at the 150-capacity Home Sweet Home.
By Robbie Mackey | 1 Oct 2009

Women's Rock returns
For the second year, women—not girls—gather to form rock bands this weekend.
By Megan Stein | 22 Oct 2009

Arturo Sandoval and a Sin Miedo after-party
"This instrument is pain," said Cuban-born trumpeter Arturo Sandoval from the stage of the Jefferson Center in Roanoke last month.
By Sylvia Pfeiffenberger | 27 Mar 2009

The guide to the week's concerts
Cold Cave, Haiti Relief Benefit, Neil Hamburger, Retribution Gospel Choir, Caltrop, Hog, Galactic, Marco Benevento Trio, Tab Benoit, Chuck Brodsky & Angela Easterling, Jonathan Richman, Steve Winwood, NAPS
3 Feb 2010

Retribution Gospel Choir's
Alan Sparhawk on method, marriage and maybe Celine Dion covering Low?
By Grayson Currin | 4 Feb 2010

Old Bricks' debut LP, Farmers
This is how Old Bricks gets by: Put something down, get it out, move on—and do it all in a way that means you don't have to be tied to any one idea or item too long.
By Grayson Currin | 6 Jan 2010

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It was a very prolific, often profound and increasingly popular year for Triangle music.
16 Dec 2009

2009's Top 10 Triangle albums
It speaks to the strength of the bands in the Triangle that a few LPs we'd considered shoe-ins for this list appear nowhere here besides this sentence.
16 Dec 2009

2009's 40 essential Triangle tunes
Lifted from CDs, LPs, EPs, little seven-inch wheels of vinyl and the players of MySpace pages, these 40 tracks represent the best chunks of the Triangle's music scene this year.
16 Dec 2009

CyTunes launches with memories of Cy Rawls and hopes for cancer research
"There were bands he really liked, but Cy seemed to be a fan of music."
By Grayson Currin | 10 Dec 2008

Metaphors, memories and miscellany from South by Southwest
Private parties and public grackles: Austin in March
By Jesse Jarnow | 26 Mar 2008

Our searchable list of the Triangle's music venues
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