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(03/24/11 2:20am)
Chapel Hill band Wembley mixes up a rousing blend of classically trained indie pop on its second EP, You Are Invisible. The band is composed of four musicians whose skills, when combined, create a synchronized effort that translates into four stimulating tracks.
(03/17/11 3:03am)
On its debut EP, o0O0o0O0o, Oberhofer ties a strong knot with synth-pop and secures a promising future for a full-length debut. The band sets its sights on the horizon, outfitted with a colorful pop palette, its sails attuned for deeper seas.
(03/03/11 4:20am)
The King of Limbs is a raft afloat in a sea of homogenous vessels, inflated with hot air, reserved tunes, and a ballooned egoism — devoid of any real mass and asking to be popped.
(02/24/11 3:41am)
“My music used to get bad reception like Cricket phones/ Now there are bars everywhere like AT&T, homes,” raps Lex Jordan on “Tomorrow Comes,” the first song on Lexicon’s latest album.
(02/17/11 3:32am)
With acts like The Love Language and Megafaun, the area’s music scene has been breaching the national spotlight as of late, and it does not seem to be slowing.
(02/10/11 4:41am)
“Honesty with a groove” — Gilbert Neal describes his brand of contemporary, funkified acoustic rhythm and blues with this vague statement, drawing on appeal rather than truth.
(02/03/11 4:27am)
Akron/Family is delivering the first radically diverse folk album of the year with the release of S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT. This album balances innumerable influences from across the globe with the band’s folk-rock roots and odd personality.
(01/13/11 3:51am)
The sun is rising on the Decemberists again after several albums of sensational Broadway plots and operatic arrangements.
(12/02/10 4:02am)
If Gregg Gillis (a.k.a. Girl Talk) were to write his own music, it would sound a little something like Zoon Van Snook and its latest scatterbrained electro-ambient smorgasbord.
(11/11/10 4:56am)
Versatility is a key attribute free-lancers need to survive in the world. The Freelance Whales showcase versatility through an amalgamation of folk and electro-pop on its debut album.
(11/11/10 3:58am)
In this week’s Dive, we take a look at one of the finest dining traditions in the area — taco trucks. While these providers of meals on four wheels aren’t typically revered with the same respect as restaurants, we thought it was high time these paragons of cheap and tasty tortilla- wrapped fare received their due. Staff writers Rachel Arnett, Joe Faile and Jonathan Pattishall sampled various fare from Carrboro’s Captain Poncho’s, Taqueria Jalisco and Costa Azul. As patron Ryan Mills put it, “I want to spend my whole paycheck here, but I can’t because it’s so cheap.” As impoverished and constantly hungry college students, we couldn’t have said it any better ourselves.
(10/14/10 2:57am)
When the frontman of an established band starts a side project, it receives both criticism and praise from fans. Just ask Jack White.
(10/07/10 2:51am)
“Sorry, Earth” isn’t a destitute plug for environmental action — it’s the exuberant release from local rockers Wild Wild Geese. It’s Dinosaur Jr. meets the Triangle music scene, an innovative blend generating visionary music ingrained in distortion and anguish.
(09/30/10 3:49am)
When two people can produce a novel sound with apparent ease, it’s easy to fall head over heels with awe. Eternal Summers professes beachy daydreams of summer afternoons grounded in lo-fi simplicity on “Silver”.
(09/23/10 4:03am)
On Climber’s The Mystic, oddity is the record’s raison d’etre. From the bizarre, Dr. Seuss-like album art to a set of songs that bounces from one extreme to another, the band lets its freak flag fly.
(09/09/10 3:33am)
To some, a ‘majestic shredding’ would entail a sundown mincing of bills and credit cards. For others, it might signify the inaugural drop into a skate park vert ramp.
(04/15/10 5:03am)
When rappers aren’t cleverly or mockingly dissing inferior rappers or rhyming about bling, money, girls and drugs, what themes arrest their songs? Franklin Street is the extent of Allen Mask’s exposure to the concrete jungles that hip-hop came from, a rather domesticated area that lends to the innocent nature of his hip-hop. Mask, a senior at UNC, has created a distinct blend with Pilot Season that stirs up polished mixes of rap, jazz, rock and R&B. Mask spits about his aspirations, family, love and a “second-story diva.” They’re attention-seizing subjects until their chronic facades dwindle the album’s allure. But Mask puts a plethora of unusual instruments behind his rhymes. Violins add class. Saxophones jazz it up. Pianos root a polished eminence. And an appearance by UNC’s Clef Hangers takes care of the genre blending.
(04/08/10 3:21am)
Heavily riffed distortion. Sinisterly thrashing drums. Sweaty head-banging. Jorts-wearing metalheads classify metal music of days past. In The Year Of The Pig boldly defies this scene with its acculturation to Chapel Hill and its fuzzy alternative rock edges, all while keeping the amps blaring at 10.Lush distortion and guitar play that’s alternatively frenzied and luxurious create a fresh take on heavy rock, one that trashes traditional screaming and embraces a new form of charismatic solidity that falls somewhere between head nodding and neck straining. Glimpses of weighty metal flicker alongside catchy melodies, providing for a lighter, more personable album that still yearns to be cranked all the way up.Though the album consists of only five songs, the deceptive hour voyage through Jamón guides you through numerous about-face turns, creating what feels like many tunes within the listed five.
(04/01/10 1:29am)
As an aspiring Bodhicitta warrior seeks enlightenment through compassion and loss of physical self awareness, Ted Leo pursues and instills similar principles to his daily life. Leo, lead singer and guitarist of Ted Leo And The Pharmacists, is a Bodhicitta warrior in training, a quest which reflects these fundamental values in his music, most notably in his lyricism.“It’s about a Narragansett Indian in Rhode Island having a vision of the coming of the Viking ships,” said Leo about the cleverly named “Tuberculoids Arrive in Hop,” a song off his latest release The Brutalist Bricks. “It’s not meant to be a history lesson. It’s just something I wanted to write about.”But Indian traditions aren’t the only bent for Leo’s intensely witty songwriting. He says his collective will write about anything that comes across their creative pallet.
(03/18/10 2:37am)
Correction (March 28 10:59 p.m.): Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the date of the concert. It is at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. This story has been updated to reflect this correction. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.Making an honest living is a typical ambition of a ripe college graduate, but when it comes to Charlotte folk singer Anna Bullard, honesty is perpetuated through every facet of her music.“I write songs because I have no other way of expressing those feelings,” she said.A dedicated artist with high ideals, Bullard quotes author C.S. Lewis in regards to her musical persona and temperament: