Student DJs to play tonight at Mixology
When Taylor Gerkin came to college, he liked playing music — but he had never tried his hand at disc jockeying.
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When Taylor Gerkin came to college, he liked playing music — but he had never tried his hand at disc jockeying.
With her violin in hand, musician Alicia Best brought the rich, haunting tones of Appalachian folk ballads to Franklin Street for the first time on Saturday night.
Christmas isn’t here quite yet, but the feeling is certainly in the room.
Flesh Wounds gets down and gritty in Abrasions, Abcesses, and Amputations with hard rocking rhythm chords, pounding drums and distinctive blues riffs to add character to every song.
Silent films are back in vogue, and a German music ensemble is adding a new twist to them.
Dirty Projectors’ latest EP, About to Die, is a short and sweet refresher course on the group’s sophisticated weirdness.
Waumiss is not lacking in experimentation on its second album, Subtle for Flames. The record treats listeners to a host of eccentric noises and introduces music lovers to an enticing string of instrumentation. Stationed in Carrboro, the band consists of a husband and wife team and a third member that joined the duo after its self-titled first release.
Good Luck by Animalweapon is like jumping into a fantastical indie electronic video game. Level one, the first three tracks of the record, are the introduction. They’re the training section before you’re sent off into the real sound of Animalweapon.
Ben Harper By My Side 4.5/5 stars
Ben Gibbard is the guy you actually want bringing his guitar to the bonfire. Gibbard’s debut solo album Former Lives has the mellow guitar chords and storytelling pace that makes the record elementally superior.
CORRECTION: Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this story said Matthew E. White was born in the Philippines and raised in Richmond, Va. in the 1970s. White was not born in the Philippines and was raised in the Philippines and Virginia in the 1980s. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.
Bat for Lashes The Haunted Man
Every week, Medium will post a story or review from the vault, #tbt style. This week: a Future Islands Q&A from former Assistant Diversions editor Elizabeth Byrum. Originally published on the Diversions blog on Oct. 31, 2012, this Q&A is in anticipation of the Future Islands' 1000th concert this Sunday.
Kendrick Lamar wants you to hop in the van. His major label debut, good kid, m.A.A.d city dropped and exploded onto the hip-hop scene last week, causing frenzy in the best way possible. Picture being able to listen, think and bop your head at the same time. Well, you can.
Mac Demarco Mac Demarco 2 3 stars Rock
It might be fall, but Carrboro’s T0W3RS is holding on to every last ounce of summer spirit with its effervescent latest release, the WYATT EP.
On 2010’s The Monitor, New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus established itself as one of the more difficult indie bands to pin down. Too ethereal and ambitious to be considered pure-blooded punks, but too raw and boisterous to subscribe to any post-punk subgenre. For all intents and purposes, Titus Andronicus blazed unexplored, genre-bending trails.
The 14th installment in the Mountain Goats’ intimidating discography, Transcendental Youth is another exercise in poignant storytelling that should fit well among the band’s best.
Fall always blows in abruptly, with too many chilling, rainy days that make it hard to get out of bed.
Muse has officially left this galaxy in its sixth album The 2nd Law, which is stocked full of out-of-this-world bass-heavy guitar tones and vocalist Matthew Bellamy’s invigorating falsettos.