Music
With the second Horseback LP, Jenks Miller tethers hellish vocals and aggression to an overfed serpentine blues guitar and hushed majesty.
18 Nov 2009
The full-length debut from this Chapel Hill duo plays like a scrapbook chronicling the love and lives of a young husband and wife.
7 Oct 2009
Without sacrificing their sense of spontaneous fun, Midtown Dickens has started to take their music a bit more seriously. As a quintet on their sophomore effort, they play better, sing better, say better.
26 Aug 2009
Recorded at home in Chapel Hill by Alexander Holt Iglehart and Jenni Snyder before the band evolved into a five-piece, this is a gorgeously blurred folk record.
12 Aug 2009
The first time I saw Bombadil, they almost blew me away. That is, I nearly needed to leave the room because I disliked the young quartet onstage so very much.
8 Jul 2009
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Instead of confining themselves to one set of genre conceits, Aminal mixes and matches, touching on art rock, garage, roots and pop across the eminently listenable 10 tracks.
6 May 2009
This album is not particularly revolutionary or revelatory. It's just a 25-year-old with a broken heart and a hangover writing songs good enough to make you care.
1 Apr 2009
Just as Soft Dick City feels spontaneous in its noise and spittle-lipped in its urgency, the subsequent Mt. Whatever 7" feels self-assured and somehow meticulous in its relative professionalism.
25 Feb 2009
Walk on Thin Air is an instantly memorable record with plenty to discover and ponder with repeated listens.
18 Feb 2009
The third edition of this annual Triangle treat is perhaps the series' most varied offering yet.
17 Dec 2008
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