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Grayson Currin ·
1 Oct 2009, 12:00 PM ·
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Cherry Bounce, the downtown Raleigh music festival launched in 2008 by local marketing and media consultants Greg Behr and Billy Warden, has unveiled its second annual lineup. Though last year’s rain-beleaguered Cherry Bounce put bands on a stage in front of Raleigh Times Bar on Hargett St. for only two days, this year’s bill stretches to seven nights and visits six downtown clubs before ending with another free show on Hargett St.
The lineups are largely local, with the notable exception of Sunday night’s opening night headliner, Atlanta songwriter Angie Aparo, and the final night’s headliners, Chicago’s mash-up bros The Hood Internet (guess Girl Talk was busy) and Man Man. (After you book Islands for year one, Man Man just makes sense, right?) Three media presenters—New Raleigh, NBC 17’s Music.MyNC.com and WKNC 88.1—will host one night of the festival each in a club. New Raleigh’s Friday night looks like a fantastic bender (with bar-rockers The T’s and bawdy bro The Infamous Sugar), while WKNC’s is essentially a great Local Beer, Local Band installment with Gross Ghost and Free Electric State, plus Asheville’s The Poles. The best bill, though, belongs to Music.MyNC.com: Veelee, Americans in France and Gray Young are among the best new bands at work in the Triangle, and they’re totally worth your Tuesday night. Most of the club shows will carry the usual nominal cover ($5), though the finale, as well as the shows on Monday and Thursday, are free.
The diffuse booking strategy for this year’s Cherry Bounce is certainly interesting, especially given the competition it will face: The N.C. State Fair runs nearby during the entirety of the series, which also comes just two weeks in advance of this year’s strongly booked and curated Troika Music Festival in Durham. In fact, this year’s Troika does an especially good job of creating interesting bills around a sound and an idea, while little ties these Cherry Bounce shows—or the week, for that matter—together from one end to the other, except the snappy insignia up top. Raleigh Wide Open IV (this year, in conjunction with City Plaza’s opening) and Art Raleigh should help foster a crowd for the last night, at least.
In any case, yeah, I’ll probably go see Man Man for free downtown. Continue reading »
Live Actions: New Bills Cherry Boune, Music.MyNC.com, New Raleigh, Raleigh Wide Open, WKNC
Grayson Currin ·
10 Jun 2009, 5:59 PM ·
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Wish we coud have gotten this Tweeter in on the conversation...
[Published simultaneously with New Raleigh.]
In two months, Concord, N.C. quartet The Avett Brothers will release I and Love and You, their sixth studio album and first for American Recordings, the Sony imprint run by production mogul Rick Rubin. A major label, a major project, a major timeline: After more than a year in the making, I and Love and You is now in its final stages of completion, having gone through recording in studios on two coasts, mixes by multiple sets of ears and—finally—a series of mastering attempts that try to render the record ready for what’s likely to be an enormous audience.
On Monday afternoon, a not-quite-finished copy of the album arrived at the offices of the Independent Weekly in Durham. Later that night, Independent Weekly Music Editor Grayson Currin and New Raleigh Downtown Editor Jed Gant gathered in Raleigh to listen to the work-in-progress for the first time and offer their instant impressions via their personal Twitter accounts. We’ve gathered those moment-by-moment tweets into roughly edited form, presenting them as a generally obnoxious, sometimes humorous and fairly informative guide to what you’ll expect when the band drops its major-label introduction August 11.
Just to be clear, both listeners love the record and, 48 hours later, consider it to be the most evolved and perhaps best work by the band yet. Also of note: The title track, “Kick Drum Heart” and “It Goes On” might make this band awfully famous.
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New Music New Raleigh, The Avett Brothers
Grayson Currin ·
15 Apr 2009, 10:53 AM ·
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That's what we'll all do when Bono comes to town, goddammit.
Briefly: Ben Folds, Girl Talk, etc; Lonnie Walker, Annuals & the Coug; big shows; Robert Sledge’s new flashlight; no way to Natalie Portman; Mann’s World on New Raleigh Continue reading »
Briefly A Rooster for the Masses, Annuals, Ben Folds, Cougar Magnum, Girl Talk, Lonnie Walker, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, New Raleigh, Steely Dan, Steve Miller Band, U2
Grayson Currin ·
20 Feb 2009, 3:09 PM ·
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—N.C. Symphony releases a record; Menconi on the downtown amphitheater; Odessa and Hot Releases; Manchild 4 Continue reading »
Briefly Branford Marsalis, Brian Walsby, Hot Releases, N.C. Symphony, New Raleigh, Odessa Records, The Kingsbury Manx
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
