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Grayson Currin ·
29 Jan 2010, 2:17 PM ·
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Yim? Jim? My Morning Jacket.
The grizzled bros of My Morning Jacket will play Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary April 30 with The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, after a tour-anchoring stop in New Orleans for Jazzfest. MMJ frontman Jim James (Yim Yames?) recently recorded two tracks for PHJB’s new album, PRESERVATION: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program. The nine-show run starts in Alabama and ends two weeks later in Ohio.
Live Actions: New Bills Koka Booth Amphitheatre, My Morning Jacket
Grayson Currin ·
13 Jan 2010, 3:09 PM ·
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N.C. State’s student-run radio station, WKNC 88.1 FM, announced the lineup for its seventh annual Double Barrel Benefit this morning: The vintage pop of Max Indian will headline the first night of the two-show weekend on Friday, Feb. 5, with The Light Pines, Veelee and Bellafea in the opening slots. Ex-Chapel Hill, current-Nashville album rock enthusiasts Roman Candle headline Saturday, Feb. 6, with The Tender Fruit, Midtown Dickens and Spider Bags opening.
This year’s Double Barrel represents a logical and somewhat necessary shift for the station, away from some of the bigger names that have headlined or opened in recent years—Birds of Avalon, Bowerbirds, Polvo, The Old Ceremony, Annuals, The Mountain Goats, Megafaun—and toward the Triangle’s rich crop of young but hitherto less nationally prominent acts. After all, Double Barrel has only presented six bands more than once in its seven-year run, so the pool is somewhat constricted.
But, Roman Candle excepted, what this lineup might lack in history it makes up for with plans and promise: Led by the yearning Southern warble of Christy Smith, The Tender Fruit, for instance, is currently cutting an LP with Megafaun’s Phil Cook. Veelee’s only get one self-released, three-song EP to its name, but the duo’s intricate, winding miniatures offer plenty of intrigue, and they’re set to record more this year. Same for The Light Pines, the doppelganger of The Love Language: Led by Josh Pope and backed by his fellow Love Language members, The Pines debuted with an ecstatic, engaging show in Portland, Ore., late last year for Musicfest Northwest. This will be their full-on local premiere. And they sometimes share members with Max Indian, who, like The Light Pines, are part of a Chapel Hill band network called Drughorse. And, as I said here, look for big things from that gangly collective in 2010.
So, yeah, no “stars” this year, but plenty of reasons to listen—and for cheap, too: Tickets are $7-$9 for each night, and the music starts at 9 p.m.
Live Actions: New Bills, News flashes Double Barrel Benefit, WKNC
Grayson Currin ·
13 Jan 2010, 11:35 AM ·
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So this makes Anna Kendrick who?
Raekwon the Chef was due at Lincoln Theatre Thursday, Jan. 14, while American Idol ex Elliott Yamin was expected at Cat’s Cradle on the same date. They’ve both canceled their appearances. No reason has been given for the missed gigs, but if you’ve seen Up in the Air, perhaps Raekwon is Vera Farmiga to Yamin’s George Clooney? Scandalous.
Live Actions: New Bills, News flashes Cat's Cradle, Lincoln Theatre
Grayson Currin ·
11 Jan 2010, 2:33 PM ·
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Cat’s Cradle announced two big bookings this afternoon: The Carrboro club presents the mighty harpist Joanna Newsom at Carolina Theatre Thursday, March 25, just ahead of her appearance at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tenn. A little more than a month later, Beach House and Washed Out will play the Cradle itself, on May 1. These announcements suggest being patted lightly on the face by tiny, soft kitten paws.
Live Actions: New Bills Beach House, Cat's Cradle, Joanna Newsom
Grayson Currin ·
4 Jan 2010, 9:46 AM ·
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Oh, oh, Wilco
The Chicago six-piece Wilco will perform a concert we’re hoping they call Wilco (The Show) Saturday, March 27, at 8 p.m., at Durham Performing Arts Center. The $35 tickets go on sale Friday, Jan. 8, at 10 a.m. The show, Wilco’s first performance in the Triangle since a stop at the much-larger Koka Booth Amphitheatre in 2008, is not only a major booking score for the starting-to-look-a-lot-less-like-Branson DPAC, but it also represents a promising level of teamwork between regional concert promoters: Cat’s Cradle is co-presenting the show.
“With the help of legendary club promoter Frank Heath of Cat’s Cradle, Wilco is coming to the intimate and acoustically great setting of DPAC,” said DPAC GM Bob Klaus in a press release. “We’re excited to host this very special American band and again have the chance for audiences to discover what makes DPAC one of the best places for concerts in America.”
Before you go shooting your Wilcowad, though, keep in mind that the second installment of Knoxville’s excellent Big Ears Festival brings Joanna Newsom, Terry Riley, Andrew W.K., DJ/rupture, The Ex and (gross) Vampire Weekend to the state to the west the same weekend. Hmm: Being there, or here? And with that unnecessary pun, goodbye.
Live Actions: New Bills DPAC, Wilco
Grayson Currin ·
2 Dec 2009, 12:03 PM ·
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More than a decade ago, but—see?—young.
Durham Performing Arts Center announced this morning that British singer-songwriter David Gray will perform at DPAC Friday, April 9. Tickets ($25-$60) go on sale next Friday, Dec. 11, but, more important than the show itself, is Gray’s youth, at least relative to many of the other musical acts booked in the city’s 2,700-seat theater. Since opening in December, the core of DPAC’s musical bookings has been a stable of aged heroes and icons—B.B. King, Roger Daltrey, Leonard Cohen, John Prine, Willie Nelson. There have been exceptions of note (Ben Folds, Maxwell, Indie. Arie), but Gray’s youth and my suspicion that Gray, who’s slipped well out of the mainstream since his stateside hit “Babylon,” from 1999’s excellent White Ladder, won’t fill all of those seats are good signs for DPAC’s booking future: They’re looking to be more than a hall of legacy, even if it means landing artists who’ve met some share of apathy in America.
Live Actions: New Bills David Gray, DPAC
Grayson Currin ·
12 Nov 2009, 4:54 PM ·
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Dank lil tent outside of Raleigh's Hibernian
The word is that Chapel Hill’s The Love Language and Durham’s The Foreign Exchange have been practicing feverishly (and with many cans of the Bull) this week for tonight’s Red Bull Soundclash, during which both bands will cover songs by their counterpart and offer themed rearrangements of their own material. Reggae The Love Language? Cockrock The Foreign Exchange? That’s the sort of stuff you can expect from two of the Triangle’s best bands at 8 p.m. beside The Hibernian on Glenwood Ave.
“Outside?” you might be asking. “But what about this weather?”
Don’t worry, says Audrey Adair, a communications specialist with Red Bull. Yesterday, the stage crew erected a large tent—the type of thing you’d see at a mid-sized wedding or a South by Southwest day party—around the stages. Adair says the space should hold between 700 and 800 people for the concert, which will go on as planned, despite what’s happening outside of the white plastic walls shown at right. Doors open at 7 p.m. The music starts at 8 p.m. and is set to end around 10:15 p.m. DJ Lord of Public Enemy spins. It’s free, but—given that 412 people have already RSVP’d on Facebook—you had best get there early. And don’t forget Tigallo’s Two Step Thursday across Glenwood after the concert.
Oh, and my prediction as to which band will handle the challenge best? The Foreign Exchange, without apologies.
Live Actions: New Bills, You Should Do This The Foreign Exchange, The Love Language
Eric Tullis ·
29 Oct 2009, 12:26 PM ·
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Settle? Who? Me?
On Monday, UNC’s Carolina Union Activities Board made the last-minute announcement that hip-hop artist Fabolous will headline its Homecoming 2009 concert Sunday, Nov. 1, at Memorial Hall. Now, just days later, two members of Student Congress are questioning the decision to bring Fabolous. Last year Gym Class Heroes and The Avett Brothers co-headlined the homecoming concert on separate dates, but this year, after a failed attempt to get Kid Cudi and Girl Talk to co-headline the concert, the CUAB had to “settle” with Fabolous as the only headliner. The night before he performs at UNC, Fabolous will also be in Greensboro, N.C. on Halloween night, performing alongside Gucci Mane, OJ Da Juiceman and Nicki Minaj for NC A&T’s Homecoming Concert. Convenient, huh? Continue reading »
Live Actions: New Bills Anoop Desai, Fabolous, UNC
Spencer Griffith ·
28 Oct 2009, 4:40 PM ·
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“As my children get older, I started thinking about what I was going to leave behind or pass on to them—how they’re going to remember me,” says Tofer Moran, graphic designer, father of two and singer/guitarist of Durham’s Proud Valletta. “I hoped to leave behind a sort of anthology of music for or inspired by my sons as a kind of patrimony,” Moran continues. “Music is something that can live on, hopefully, long after I’m gone, and it’s my hope that they’ll be able to have some of my music to mark the days we have together.”
With his wife Vye Moran on percussion and vocals, childhood friend Paul Boccaccio on accordion and pals Brentley Cobb and Andrew “Shoe” Shoemaker adding a host of stringed and percussive sounds, Tofer Moran began crafting uncomplicated indie folk with simple melodies and shanty qualities suggested by the rickety foundations behind the nautically inspired tales. Borne out of Dapper Dandy and The Good Day Sirs!, a project involving the Morans and Boccaccio that recorded a “folk-opera retelling of the Pied Piper story” as Reckoning, its sole release, the new outfit borrowed songs from the old and began busking outside the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
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Live Actions: New Bills, You Should Do This Proud Valletta
Grayson Currin ·
21 Oct 2009, 3:50 PM ·
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This picture is worth so many words.
After playing the Cherry Bounce Music Festival finale in front of Raleigh Times Bar Saturday night, Chicago mash-up duo The Hood Internet will head to AhPeele, the design and screenprinting studio of Adam Peele, to play into the late night. Yes! Sputnik will begin the party at midnight, and The Hood Internet will take over around 1 a.m. and go until people ask them to stop. I’ll stick around until they sample Sunn O))), for sure.
In what we’re told is unrelated news, The Hood Internet will now play after the more popular Man Man Saturday, pushing their set time until 9: 30 p.m. They’ll also join Galactic at Cat’s Cradle Sunday, Oct. 25.
Live Actions: New Bills Cherry Bounce
