The Out! Raleigh family friendly street festival will take place Saturday, May 4 on Fayetteville Street's City Plaza in downtown Raleigh. WKNC DJs Jacob and Benny Mac preview the third annual event with two members of the Out! Raleigh festival leadership team: Kellie Burris, Executive Committee & Vendor Relations, and James Miller, LGBT Center of Raleigh Executive Director. From the Facebook event page : Out! Raleigh celebrates North Carolina’s LGBT community, families, friends and supporters in a family-friendly atmosphere. The day-long festival will feature a main stage performance area for regional and local musical groups as [...]
Tonight on the Local Beat we are back to another jam packed program with several local bands releasing new albums. On Tuesday Durham band I Was Totally Destroying It released their sixth album, Vexations . The album has been streaming here all week in anticipation for their release party tomorrow evening at Motorco Music Hall in Durham and I must admit, I am quite smitten. We will be chatting with the members at 5pm today and while the group has been [...]
Here are a few MP3s of songs from some of the better albums released this week: Black Swan Runners – “West of Ten” from An Aside Ry Cooder – “The Wall Street Part of Town” from Election Special Eyes Lips...
Inspired by emotional turmoil, rebirth, and Stephen King's "Dark Tower", I Was Totally Destroying It return with a brand new album! Immediately following the release of Preludes in April 2011, IWTDI migrated to Minneapolis, MN to record Vexations at the legendary Flowers Studio with producers Joshua Cain (from Motion City Soundtrack. Credits include: Metro Station, Sing It Loud) & Ed Ackerson (from Polara. Credits include The Jayhawks, The Replacements). Vexations, is new territory for the group- a pseudo-concept album loosely based around Stephen King's Dark Tower series. The band is calling it their best [...]
John Booker, of Chapel Hill’s I Was Totally Destroying It, had about 35 songs and, much like any working musician, not much time to do anything with them. The story of Preludes begins here, before its time – six years before, to be precise. Originally planned to be material for a new I Was Totally Destroying It release, when the band decided to take a much more collaborative approach to their upcoming album (Vexations, due out sometime in 2012) Booker shelved most of the material, intending to save it for a future release or solo record, feeling it [...]
It's another flashback on "The Local Beat" Aug. 12 as we dive into the vault once again to uncover some great interviews from the past year. This week, however, we are not dropping too far back as we relive some interviews from the past couple of months. The first hour will be our interview with Kelly Reid and Suzie Hook from Sound Situations , recorded in June. Sound Situations is a fantastic new local music based interview and performance TV program on the Raleigh Public [...]
It's taken more time than usual, but it's finally ready... Blogophilia 28 represents tracks compiled from April through mid May, and was rendered down while finishing work in U.S., and traveling to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. That stated, the only real excuse for its delay is that I was pretty busy. Look for 29 soon! This is a mix where nearly all of the artists are new to the Blogophilia series. The only returnees are Vetiver and Starfucker. It's hard to believe we never had a Sebadoh track. Enjoy! Blogophilia 28 Promotional MP3s collected from blogs [...]
There is no question that Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun should be the headline here. TTM, TSS are a fantastic and steadily improving stalwart of the Atlanta music scene (though in my view talented and unique enough that we should expect them to transcend that - just sayin') and their latest, Wildfire , is more than ample proof of that earlier parenthetical point, but I did pick the latest from North Carolina's I Was Totally Destroying It as one of my favorite records [...]
I probably haven't been through as much music these last six months as in other years, but I do think I have spent more time with what I have heard. My favorites of 2011 didn't take much thought. All of these have been in regular rotation in the Ambler household. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean . This might be the most impressive record of the year. Sam Beam opened the late 70s AM songbook and picked some of the [...]
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 [...]
Record Store Day is here, and we're presenting this comprehensive guide with recommended limited edition vinyls, including singles, split singles, compilations, reissues, covers, EPs, unreleased tracks, and much more. So, far, we've posted a massive volume one of IRC's top RSD releases, followed by volume two, featuring recommended vinyl cover songs being released as singles, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 51 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by The Beastie Boys, Jane's Addiction, Kate Bush, Steve Earle, Low, Rox, Funeral Party, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and more! So much more! DATE: 04-14-11 WRITER: Don Loder How ya doin' junkie?! Sorry I'm text yellin' but I'm excited about this week, ya know? The SWAG gods blessed me wit' a fine, fat bag o' shit ta lay on ya per usual but, this week, yer gettin' some o' the finest shine from [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Dave Depper : "Oh Woman, Oh Why (Paul McCartney cover)" [mp3] Dave Depper : "Dear Boy (Paul McCartney cover)" [mp3] from The Ram Project (out May 3rd) search for more Dave [...]
Preludes offers a nice break from the typical sounds of a catchy, infectious pop band.
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It's no secret that Chapel Hill's I Was Totally Destroying It (IWTDI) is one of Deckfight's favorite bands. And I was first introduced to them by Brian Tucker who has kept a close eye on their rise, catching them at many weekend shows in North Carolina. Brian recently sent John Booker, one of the founders of IWTDI a few questions about their new album, Preludes which is out now from Greyday Records . [...]
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Frank Yang The what the what on this evening over here . The Strokes - New York's garage-rock kings return after a half-decade away with Angles and prove they're still capable of inducing a minor riot. There's interviews with the band at Exclaim and Spinner while Spin has excerpted a section of this month's cover story wherein Albert Hammond Jr talks about the extent of [...]
South by Southwest may be the rear view mirror, but there's still plenty of opportunities to hear new music. Case in point is this week's Friday Mixtape, which features brand new jams from the likes of Fleet Foxes, Fucked Up, Thurston Moore, Bill Callahan, YACHT, and more. Plus, courtesy of our friends at Cover Me , there are covers of everyone from Kanye West and Adele to Leonard Cohen and Broken Social Scene posted below. And we still have mentioned the remixes, as well as the mp3s from brand spakin' new acts worth knowing. So, yeah, South by Southwest, [...]
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mp3: I Was Totally Destroying It - "Regulators" John Booker of Chapel Hill's I Was Totally Destroying It told me once backstage (or uh, by the washing machines) at the Soapbox in Wilmington, NC of his abiding love of U2. I've never really heard it much on IWTDI stuff until the melodies lines on "Regulators." Somewhere in the past few years, they've traversed the boundary over from gummy pop-punk to stadium bombast. I'm not usually one for such measures, but "Regulators" is another solid from IWTDI, some of the most memorable and confident pop [...]
WKNC & TNN Present: I Was Totally Destroying It and The Future Is Me . As always the show is FREE, 21 and up, and starts at 10 p.m.!! The cheeseburgers are cheap and so are the local brews on tap. Come get heavy with us! YAY I Was Totally Destroying It is deliciously pop punk. If you haven’t heard them, check their website to listen to their songs. “My Favorite Haunt” has always been a favorite of mine. I Was Totally Destroying It is also an old time friend [...]
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