Being from Florida, summertime is my favorite time. I love it when it gets so hot and muggy that even the mosquitoes can't fly and your only refuge is a piece of watermelon, an ice-cold beverage and the music in front of you. My three favorite outdoor venues in the Triangle allow picnics and sell all of the best local brews. Read on for summer shows to look out for at The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA), Sarah P. Duke Gardens, and American Tobacco. North Carolina Museum of Art: [...]
This week on The Local Beat we only have one guest to welcome. At 6 p.m. Jeff Crawford of Arbor Ridge Studios is coming on to chat about a new project. In addition to being active in over five dozen bands (only a slight exaggeration) and heading popular local recording studio Arbor Ridge Studios, Jeff is also the music director at The Gathering Church in Durham. The Gathering Church has been meeting since 2009 at Creekside Elementary School and has become well known for its worship services with Jeff's musical talents taking stage. In 2010 the church [...]
Engine Room Records has released the third volume in their series of indie bands covering guilty pleasure tunes, and this time they're all taking on hair metal classics. How does it fare? Very, very well.
Of course you do! Four days of music, dance, art and education in the heart of North Carolina, what could be a better way to spend fall break? The Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is holding its Fall Festival October 6-9 in Chatham County. Over 60 bands, including Béla Fleck & The Flecktones , Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings , Donna the Buffalo , Brett Dennen , Sidi Touré , The Duhks , Rosie Ledet , Nawal , Preston Frank , Emmit-Nershi Band , Eilen Jewell , Toubab Krewe , Bearfoot [...]
Photos of The Old Ceremony from their performance at the Middle East Downstairs... Rooney , Eisley , and The Old Ceremony Wednesday, February 16 at Middle East Downstairs Photos by Renee Rorer The Old Ceremony: [...]
88.1 WKNC Pick of the Week 2/8/11, written by DJ Switch, WKNC deejay You never think your kid's ugly. Well, at least you never tell your kid you think they're ugly. My parents never did. They did say I have a face for radio, but I never quite got what that meant. Either way, there's no need to lie about the beauty of WKNC's Double Barrel Benefit compilation, because even though the student radio station put it together, it's a handsome piece of local music by all objective accounts. [...]
There's still time to get your own little piece of Double Barrel Benefit 8, while also supporting your local independent record store! Compilations are $7, and are now available at Schoolkids Records in Raleigh and Bull City Records in Durham. WKNC DBB 8 Compilation: 1. "Wherever" Inflowential 2. "Like a Camera" Kid Future 3. "Day That I Was Born" The Old Ceremony 4. "California" Luego 5. "May, June, July" Cassis Orange 6. "Hot Balloons" Yardwork [...]
So, this is the first of what will be a quarterly thing on Visible Voice...the seasonal mixtape. I plan to use these mixtapes as an opportunity to share some of my favorite new music. Great tunes by local or not-so-local bands that you should know and, in many cases, tracks that have not been officially or widely released yet. For this inaugural winter mix a cold, snowy Boston is my (our) backdrop and, fittingly for this time of year, many of the songs here evoke themes of reflection. During the cold winter months I find that [...]
[Welcome to Literary Frontier, FP's new weekly showcase of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Today we're thrilled to debut Django Haskins, a singer, guitarist, and prolific songwriter. This column is the first of three excerpts from The First Class Passenger, a biography of his great-grandfather.] PART ONE On 10 April 1912, slender, sandy-haired Karl Howell Behr, twenty-six year-old international lawn tennis star, boarded Titanic in Cherbourg, bound for New York. He [...]
[Today on Literary Frontier, we continue with an excerpt from a biography of Karl Howell Behr and his adventures aboard the RMS Titanic. Author Django Haskins is a singer, guitarist, and prolific songwriter. He's also Behr's great-grandson. If you missed last week's installment, here's Part One .] PART TWO As the lifeboat creaked its way down the edge of the great liner, first class passenger Dr. H.W. Frauenthal seized his last chance to join his wife. With two lifebelts wrapped around his [...]
[Today on Literary Frontier, our third and final excerpt from a biography of Karl Howell Behr, survivor of the RMS Titanic. Author Django Haskins is a singer, guitarist, and prolific songwriter. He's also Behr's great-grandson. In case you missed them, check out Part One and Part Two .] PART THREE For those in Titanic 's lifeboats, the hours passed slowly in a freezing daze. The starry sky was vast and brilliant but, in the absence of a moon, provided almost no [...]
Rooney Announce February Headlining Tour With Eisley New Single "Not In My House" Impacts Radio February 8 Rooney announce a February headlining tour in continued support of their most recent release, Eureka . Buy CDs, MP3s, more: Rooney on Amazon.com Rooney on Amazon.co.uk The [...]
It's Scarf Season With the sudden snap in the air today, we broke out our scarves and Urban English Major jackets to keep warm for a cool autumnal weekend of much madness. *Tonight (Friday), we welcome Artifice Magazine to New York. The Chicago-based literary journal is now on a national tour to celebrate the publication of their second issue. The first issue looked like The Black Album. The new issue looks like The White Album. Future issues may resemble The Green Album, The Blue Album, or perhaps even [...]
The Old Ceremony (Django Haskins second from right) At the tender age of 18, I saw Django Haskins sing and play guitar with his college band in a beer-soaked frat house basement. We became friends later that year outside the East Asian Studies building where I studied Japanese and he studied Chinese. Since then, Django has moved from New Haven to Hangzhou to Brooklyn to Chapel Hill, performed hundreds of shows nationwide, and recorded eight albums, most recently with The Old Ceremony , whose new record came out last week. [...]
Going down, down, down As we discovered this week, there's more than one way to go down. Watch Listen Love. (No commas) *Vampire Weekend is now covering Bruce Springsteen's classic "I'm Going Down" from Born in the U.S.A. All the way to the Garden State! Maybe we will see VW next time at the Jersey Shore, whence we sent our own Greetings from Asbury Park on Sunday. *Too bad this duo beat them to the punch. [...]
Here are two .mp3s by two bands/artists who are both playing tonight, right down the street from each other. If you are in Raleigh, be sure to check out the Lump Gallery benefit happening tonight with Organos , which is the solo project of Schooner bass player Maria Albani. There will also be a DJ set by Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, and a video/performance from Neill Prewitt (Yuxtapongo) with guests. This track is from her new CD, "The Limbs." "Lazy Lessons" by Organos [...]
[Today on Literary Frontier, our third and final excerpt from a biography of Karl Howell Behr, survivor of the RMS Titanic. Author Django Haskins is a singer, guitarist, and prolific songwriter. He's also Behr's great-grandson. In case you missed them, check out Part One and Part Two .] PART THREE For those in Titanic 's lifeboats, the hours passed slowly in a freezing daze. The starry sky was vast and brilliant but, in the absence of a moon, provided almost no [...]
[Today on Literary Frontier, we continue with an excerpt from a biography of Karl Howell Behr and his adventures aboard the RMS Titanic. Author Django Haskins is a singer, guitarist, and prolific songwriter. He's also Behr's great-grandson. If you missed last week's installment, here's Part One .] PART TWO As the lifeboat creaked its way down the edge of the great liner, first class passenger Dr. H.W. Frauenthal seized his last chance to join his wife. With two lifebelts wrapped around his [...]
Last week, no less a musical luminary than Prince declared, "The Internet is completely over." He went on to explain, "The Internet is like MTV. At one time MTV was hip, and suddenly it became outdated. They just fill your head with numbers, and that can't be good for you." Apparently, in the year 2010, the best way to distribute music is through $312 shows at Las Vegas Casinos (the wit involved in deciding on this particular price is less inspiring if you're poor). And yet, those of us in the [...]
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