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Haw River Rounders to play benefit for Haiti tonight

Lisa Sorg — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:19:56 -0500

Cary Moskovitz of the Haw River Rounders just announced the band is playing at the Blue Bayou in Hillsborough tonight at 8:30.

According to Moskovitz, the band will collect money to donate to Partners in Health, which has an office in Haiti and has been providing medical and food aid for the last 10 years.…

Live: Method Man & Redman tear it off

Spencer Griffith — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:18:07 -0400

Method Man & Redman, Ghostface Killah

Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh

Thursday, July 23

The silence that fell over the Lincoln after an enjoyable (though not spectacular) set from Brooklyn’s Duo Live was puzzling. With nearly a half-dozen DJs in attendance, it seems like someone would have been spinning records to keep the room buzzing during the 20 minute break before Ghostface Killah made his way to the stage.…

All Music Guide: Michael Jackson Dead Since May

Grayson Currin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:10:38 -0400

An ostensible mistake this morning on the venerable All Music Guide: Michael Jackson, dead since May 25, 2009.

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Tonight: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, wrestling with originality

Chris Toenes — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:12:54 -0400

The pockmarked path of devoting your new band to a vintage sound rides bumpy at best. It’s often a process of osmosis, though, that leads one band to sound like a whole bunch of older bands—less looking directly in the rearview mirror for something to recreate and more just playing some variation on what’s funneled into your mind.…

Bands return to Humble Pie; tonight, Peter Lamb & the Wolves

Grayson Currin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:38:43 -0400

Not long after moving to town, I remember seeing a particularly great set from The Countdown Quartet at Humble Pie, the longtime Harrington St. restaurant in Raleigh. In fact, my roommate and I have talked about Ray Duffey's drumming that night—in particular, the flawless swing he pulled from his pockets that night—ever since.…

Live: Viking Storm, pt. II: Prayers answered

Bryan C. Reed — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:40:23 -0400

Viking Storm, pt. II (Hammer No More The Fingers, The Future Kings of Nowhere, The Dry Heathens, Deleted Scenes, The Beast)

Duke Coffeehouse, Durham

Saturday, April 4

Hammer No More The Fingers could have been upstaged.…

Live: Viking Storm, pt. I: Tooth leaves an impression

Bryan C. Reed — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:41:31 -0400

Viking Storm, pt. I (Tooth, Caverns, The Bronzed Chorus, Pink Flag)

The Pinhook, Durham

Friday, April 3

Mere observation be damned.…

HNMTF Tour Diary #12: Detroit, MI

Guest Band — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:11:13 -0400

Tuesday, March 24

Detroit, Mich.

We're driving to Chicago right now. We've just finished listening to Stephen Colbert's audiobook I Am America & So Can You for the second time.…

SXSW09, Day 2: Another Pretty-Great British Band, The Wrens, Girls and Women (with no actual girls or women), and That Bizarre Feeling of Time-Space Compression [Eric Harvey]

Eric Harvey — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:33:34 -0400

Time and space are both weirdly compressed at South by Southwest, which you don’t realize until you’ve done the festival for two 12+ hour days. You see a dozen shows in a day at a half-dozen bars, and don’t have to walk all that far to see them.…

SXSW09, Day 1: Word on the street is you suck [Paul Thompson]

Paul Thompson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:57:25 -0400

During South by (look, that's what the cool kids call it), news ripples through Austin like taco wrappers in the breeze: Who's scheduled to throw down at the Fader Fort with whom, who's pouring the strongest margaritas gratis, just which Vivian Girl just ducked into that Portajohn yonder. So what was on everybody's lips Wednesday, as the tech geeks from SXSWi said their farewells to Austin and the, uh, tech geeks from the music portion of the program were ushered in?…