Troika Music Festival: Scan, Indy Week

Troika 2010 in photos

Grayson Currin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:00:00 -0500

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Troika's hyper-local focus (Bryan Reed)

Bryan C. Reed — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:08:00 -0500

Above all, this year's Troika Music Festival felt less like a festival that happened to take place in Durham and more like one created specifically for Durham. This isn't to say that the festival wasn't welcoming—its embrace of all comers was apparent in the often larger-than-usual crowds greeting the festival's three-day pile-up of (mostly) local bands.…

Pieces of Troika (Ashley Melzer)

Ashley Melzer — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:07:00 -0500

I spent a lot of Troika Music Festival not thinking about music at all: I wrestled over the perils of eating food truck-inspired second dinners. I cursed my broken cell phone.…

Putting worry to rest at Troika (Spencer Griffith)

Spencer Griffith — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:07:00 -0500

Troika Music Festival had me worried, at least at first. I arrived at the free Central Park kickoff show—last year's co-bill between Megafaun and The Beast there remains a highlight—shortly before 9 p.m. on Thursday night to pick up my pass.…

Broad Street Cafe fights for volume

Rebekah L. Cowell — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:13:55 -0500

If it’s too loud, shut it down: Durham’s The Broad Street Cafe is collecting petition signatures in preparation for a hearing before the Durham Board of Adjustment Wednesday, Dec. 9, that could limit the venue’s late-night music.

Acting on complaints about noise coming from the venue first filed in March, the City investigated the cafe, which is open until 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, and determined it was in violation of its commercial zoning district.…

Red Collar: Distribution deal, red vinyl, Troika video

Bryan C. Reed — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:30:07 -0500

For Durham’s Red Collar, self-releasing its first full-length album, Pilgrim, in February was an impetus to take the show on the road and make a full-time go of rock ’n’ roll. The CDs were pressed and packaged, a publicity campaign was implemented and dates were booked. The band members packed into “Vandrew Blass,” the vehicle named for former keyboardist Andrew Blass.…

Troika's best year yet?

Grayson Currin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:35:01 -0400

Troika Music Festival unveiled the first draft of its schedule for its three November days of music in Durham this morning, and it looks like organizers have landed on the most closely curated pool of bands and bills since the festival's inception in 2002: All told, 71 acts will spread over eight venues (two of which remain unannounced) Nov. 5-7, and no more than four bands will play any venue on any night. In other words, lots of great bands will get ample set times.…