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As Horseback, Chapel Hill's Jenks Miller looks to avoid easy definitions and answers
"It seemed to me there was this potential crossover between textural noise music, which has an ecstatic quality, and black metal, which has similar traits, even though they're dressed up very differently. I wanted to figure out the ways that metal and drone fit together."
By Marc Masters | 18 Nov 2009

Playfully serious, Thee Tom Hardy offers area hip-hop new verve
"If some other white kid is trying to position his place in a hip-hop culture that you want to be in, you're gonna get mad. You wanna be the coolest white boy in the room. Always."
By Eric Tullis | 18 Nov 2009

Dynamite Brothers' Again
This long-time-coming second release is for those who like their moods swinging and who find focus vastly overrated, as horns, hazy female vocals and quite possibly the spirit of Curtis Mayfield in action-soundtrack mode make cameos in this shifty mix.
By Rick Cornell | 18 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

Steve Earle
After the first show of a solo tour in Massachusetts, Earle talked candidly about Van Zandt and the troubles of his own mind.
By Grayson Currin | 3 Jun 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 Love Language
Stu McLamb talks shitty sounds, Bon Iver trumpets and how his old band resembled The Strokes
By Spencer Griffith | 20 Aug 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
Free Energy, Holly Raleigh Christmas, Amanda Palmer, The Monologue Bombs, Heavy Trash, Elliott Brood, Filthybird, The Pneurotics, Pariah Piranha, Ah Holly Fam'ly, John Cowan Band, Larry Keel & Natural Bridge, The Jake Leg
18 Nov 2009

Derek Trucks Band's
Derek Trucks on inspirations sweet and soulful, Bob & Mavis, and the tragic final days of Clarence Gatemouth Brown
By Rick Cornell | 28 Oct 2009

Horseback's The Invisible Mountain
With the second Horseback LP, Jenks Miller tethers hellish vocals and aggression to an overfed serpentine blues guitar and hushed majesty.
By Robbie Mackey | 18 Nov 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

The Year in Music 2008: Used guitars
We sat Max Indian and Brooks Wood Band at the same dinner table and asked them to think out loud about the costs and benefits of being a band right here, right now.
By Grayson Currin | 10 Dec 2008

The Year in Music 2008: Discography
This list gathers the year's work by bands from the Triangle or regional acts who consider this area their second home.
10 Dec 2008

The Year in Music 2008: Tracklist
Tracks 1-10 (A-Ch) of the Triangle's 40 best songs of 2008
10 Dec 2008

Our searchable list of the Triangle's music venues
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