The Best Picture frontrunner tramplesover its “talkie” competition by breathing life into along-forgotten genre. If “The Artist” does win Best Picture at this year’s Oscars, it will be the first silent-film winner since 1929.
It’s apt that the first song on Gross Ghost’s Brer Rabbit is titled “Architect,” because after a few spins of this record, that term seems to describe the band members themselves.
It’s easy to meld a band’s image with its music. For Megafaun, it’s almost effortless — ask what the trio sounds like and you might hear “bearded.” Ask what it looks like and someone might respond with some variation of the word “folk.”
There’s the music, there’s your expectation of what the music will sound like, and then there’s that space in-between the reality and your prediction — sometimes a reservoir, sometimes a stream.
Whether you’re heading off to a job or a few months mowing your parents’ lawn, summer is still that time when things slow down to a beautiful, molasses pace.
Two years. That’s all it took for ALS, a disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, to rob Greensboro’s Tim LaFollette of his ability to speak, walk and use most of his muscles. In the face of a prognosis that’s decidedly terminal, the outlook isn’t good. But that’s not stopping the Often Awesome army, a crew of LaFollette’s friends, relatives and even strangers who have organized a benefit at Raleigh’s Kings Barcade tonight.
It’s hard to describe The Forms. Just look at the band’s reviews — critics’ descriptions range from math rock to post-hardcore. This week, vocalist and guitarist Alex Tween chatted with Diversions Editor Linnie Greene about genres, programming on the road and recording a baby grand piano from 100 yards away.
Dive’s got some tips on how to maximize your break, be it the best traveling records or easy day-trip or weekend destinations. So don’t be blue if there are no exotic beaches in your future. Even Chapel Hill can feel tropical when there aren’t midterms clouding your outlook.
If you’re catching a flick with the object of your affection or drowning your sorrows in a box of drug store chocolates, check out our picks for dates, movies and songs and wallow or swoon to your heart’s content.
Hutcherson-Riddle is one of the masterminds behind Moving Island, a new arts space that aims to unite art, technology and easy living through classes and events at a renovated warehouse in downtown Raleigh.
