[photo courtesy of Joshua Trupin ] If you can tell much about someone from the friends they keep, then Mount Moriah has everything going for them. We saw the band open for The Rosebuds last month, the band has been joined at times by Brad Cook and Phil Cook from Megafaun and by Daniel Hart (who seems to play with only the best ), and Mount Moriah will soon tour with The Hold Steady's Craig Finn. But friendship aside, what really separates this band [...]
A Kite and Its String created with Google Maps Featuring three large universities (UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State, and Duke U.) and 10 other colleges and community colleges, the cities of Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Durham form "The Triangle" area of North Carolina. For many years, the Triangle region has served as a hot bed for indie rock, and is often underrated when compared to the likes of Athens and Austin. Like these other southern university cities, the Triangle is famous for a confluence of music styles [...]
Mount Moriah is the bibilical mountain range associated with Abraham's binding and nearly successful sacrifice of Isaac on a peak. As the story goes, angels intervene, as Abraham's fear of God was tested that day on the mountaintop. While Genesis typically alludes to a specific peak, today Moriah is associated with the actual range of Jerusalem. Much like this collection of peaks stretches together to offer an iconic image of loyalty, sacrifice, and spirituality, the aptly titled "supergroup" Mount Moriah is a melting pot of stellar musicians [...]
I've been checking out the moody americana rock of Mount Moriah . The band's self titled debut record is due out April 12 on Holiday for Quince Records . The band is from North Carolina and seems to relish it's connection to rural America. Yet on record the band is not simply acting out some retro fantasy or worse yet becoming some kind of mealy mouthed freak folk outfit (even if the beard suggests otherwise). In fact I hear much more Rilo Kiley in the lead singer's vocals than say Gilian Welch. And [...]
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