Music
"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."
18 Nov 2009
"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."
18 Nov 2009
Can a band that was never exactly cool suddenly presage the new hipsters?
11 Nov 2009
Josh Johnson (aka Pinche Gringo), the co-founder and curator of Blackbeard's Lost Weekend, helps us run down some of Friday and Saturday's highlights.
11 Nov 2009
Without question the festival's best booked, curated, organized and publicized effort yet, Troika in 2009 puts many of the better bands in the state in the same town for three days at a price that's laughably reasonable.
4 Nov 2009
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Stream and/or download a song from each of the bands performing today at Troika, plus read the day's Artist Spotlight for The Dry Heathens
4 Nov 2009
Stream and/or download a song from each of the bands performing today at Troika, plus read the day's Artist Spotlight for Birds of Avalon
4 Nov 2009
Stream and/or download a song from each of the bands performing today at Troika, plus read the day's Artist Spotlight for The Love Language
4 Nov 2009
A fixture of the Chapel Hill scene for two decades, Billy Sugarfix produces a public access video show called The Sugarfix Mix while cobbling together a diverse living as a substitute teacher, a caterer and a serenade writer for hire.
21 Oct 2009
There's often some special energy between band members that's utterly lost when only one tries to put it to tape by himself. May these five frontmen continue to avoid it.
21 Oct 2009
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