Bryan Reed ·
9 Jul 2009, 11:35 AM ·
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Tonight @ Players
The second-annual The Club is Open Festival began Tuesday night with a pre-fest party and a triple-bill at The Reservoir. Like last night’s Hammer No More The Fingers show at the newly repurposed Players on East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, that gig was free.
But the shows tonight (Aminal, The Dry Heathensand On The Beach at The Cave), Friday (Red Collar, The Loners, Rat Jacksonand A Rooster For The Masses at Local 506) and Saturday (American Aquarium, The Future Kings of Nowhere, Flithybird and Nathan Oliver at Cat’s Cradle) are not. The paltry cover charges ($5, $7 and $8, chronologically) aren’t meant to line the pockets of club owners, promoters or musicians, though: All proceeds from this year’s festival will benefit The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University and CyTunes.org—all in memory of the late local music champion Cy Rawls.
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General Notes, You Should Do This Cy Rawls, CyTunes, The Club Is Open
Eric Tullis ·
24 Feb 2009, 8:03 PM ·
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On the Triangle’s preeminent hip-hop message board, “The Lawn,” local rapper/producer K-Hill recently voiced his opinion regarding the lack of coverage that I’ve been giving to North Carolina hip-hop in the music pages of the Independent Weekly. The comment stemmed from a thread announcing a show featuring local R&B songstress Keisha Shontelle. “Who the fuck is Keisha Shontelle?” I asked, jokingly. In essence, I was suggesting that, given Shontelle’s relative disappearance from this music scene lately, I wasn’t even sure if I remembered her anymore. But I did.
Hey, it's a tiny violin!
“Ask Grayson,” K-Hill responded. “He actually writes about the other movements that reside in N.C. Take that one however you want to.” Continue reading »
General Notes 9th Wonder, K-Hill, Keisha Shontelle, Kooley High, Little Brother, The Foreign Exchange, The Lawn, WXDU
Grayson Currin ·
4 Feb 2009, 10:07 AM ·
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So, welcome back. We took some time off from Scan Version 1.0 last May, concentrating instead on developing more online music content over at the Independent Weekly’s mothership, thinking about that mothership’s 25th anniversary, and—in general—trying to make the music section of the print version of said mothership more comprehensive than ever.
Missions accomplished (we think), we’re back with a new design and new content, and excited to be here. The Triangle’s online music community has grown by leaps and bounds since we last spoke, from Jedidiah Gant’s updates at New Raleigh and David Menconi’s increased presence with his On the Beat blog to Karen Mann’s bountiful work at Mann’s World and Kim Gray’s voice in Durham on Quick, Like a Bunny (Let’s hope she ends this unofficial hiatus soon, huh?). Jake Seaton is doing great video work at Music.MyNC.com, and 30threads.com is around these days, aggregating it all. Hell, Ross Grady even has a Facebook application.
What are we doing here, then? The answer’s still a bit malleable, but in this space you’ll find a lot of the following and, let’s hope, more: concert reviews not long after the show ends and a chance to comment with your own thoughts on what you saw; live videos of bands you like or bands we think you should like; breaking news on the music scene, including concert bills that have just been announced; tour diaries from your favorite local acts; and studio diaries from the same. Look for downloads, and please do enjoy the streaming music player to the right. We’ll be updating that often with our favorite new local (and, occasionally, national) tracks. In short, we’ll offer content that no one in the Triangle is offering.
You’ll recognize many of the names writing here from our print edition, but we’ve added a few online specialists this time around. If you’re interested in contributing, e-mail me, Grayson Currin, at gcurrin@indyweek.com, and we’ll talk about how you can help.
Thanks, and see you up top in a few.
General Notes Mann's World, New Raleigh, News & Observer, Triangle Rock
