Ryan Bingham is an Oscar and Grammy-winning, Americana musician. With an energetic new album, Tomorrowland_, Bingham has shows lined up across the country including on stop at The Lincoln Theater in Raleigh tonight.
Pickwick is a neo-soul and blues band that still maintains some of its folk roots. With a powerful new album, Can’t Talk Medicine, the group is busy touring the country and will be stopping by Local 506 tonight.
Major Lazer Free The Universe ?? Electronic Free The Universe is the second full-length album from Major Lazer, an ambitious project from DJ and producer Diplo.
The Flaming Lips The Terror ?? Psych rock Over the years, The Flaming Lips has asserted itself as acid-bubblegum rock royalty, with brilliant psychedelic instrumentals and deliciously bizarre emotional depth.
Staff writer Charlie Shelton asked Iggy Cosky of The Lollipops more about the recording process and changes on the band’s newest release Your Royal Masochist & The Love Crusades.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito ???1/2 Alternative rock The theme of Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ new album, Mosquito, is finding release, as if you’re being dropped in the middle of a jungle — concrete or tropical — with all these bugs or people chasing you relentlessly.
Oblivion ??1/2 Tom Cruise once again proves he is at his best in a solo action role. “Oblivion,” directed by Joseph Kosinski, utilizes Cruise in the best way and is so visually breathtaking that you almost forget how convoluted the plot is.
Analog Rascals No Linger in the Past ??? Alternative hip-hop Chapel Hill’s Analog Rascals is definitely more than some goofy college hip-hop group, and its latest album No Linger In the Past is full of memorable choruses and humorous, nonsensical lyrics.
Time Was, the third and most recent release by Lungfish frontman Asa Osborne’s solo project, Zomes, shifts and fades like a foggy sea. Its diverse sounds and melodies blend in and out of a crackling haze to create an achingly beautiful ocean of noise. Dive Verdict: ???1/2
The Lollipops is a Raleigh pop band with catchy melodies and fuzzy rhythms on its outer shell, but a dark and sinister core underneath.
Today, one of North Carolina’s most popular music festivals is taking its show on the road — literally.
Forget sex. Broad-range “happiness” is what really sells. And if you beg to differ, then “No” should be next on your must-see list. Dive Verdict: ????
As the sun sets over Durham this summer it will be the gardens, rather than the hills, that come alive with the sound of music.
This weekend’s food blog has to do with what keeps most of us students functioning, despite numerous sleepless nights of homework or debauchery. It’s the miracle beverage, the elixir of life: coffee.
On The Road ??? To create a film adaptation of any popular work of literature is to risk controversial feedback; to create a film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s unprecedented and generation-defining novel is to risk complete failure.
Friday, April 19 TOW3RS/Estrangers/Cassis Orange Kings, Raleigh Doors: 9:00 pm / Show: 9:30 pm, $6 Carrboro’s TOW3RS return after a brief hiatus to lead this jam packed local bill.
The Shouting Matches Grownass Man ???? Blues Rock The members of The Shouting Matches don’t take themselves too seriously.
The Milk Carton Kids The Ash & Clay ????1/2 Folk It isn’t often that one hears an album that makes them fall in love with a genre all over again.
Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam has sifted through many different styles and influences beginning with his first album in 2002. Since then, he’s collected all of these varieties together to blend a soothing, yet expansive new album, Ghost on Ghost. Dive Verdict: ????
Season of 1000 Colors crams some differing styles within its 33 minutes, and the result is a diverse, pleasant — but not terribly original work. Dive Verdict: ???
