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(03/15/12 3:42am)
No matter how much napkin you shove in your ear, the P.A. system at Chapel Hill Underground on Rosemary Street is still going to hurt.
Systems, Host, Grohg and O God the White Whale played the type of hair-raising hardcore Tuesday where the dynamic range varies between loud and very loud, and mid-tempo dredges build into walls of sound that punch through cones, domes and tweeters and into your face.
Maybe now’s a good time to invest in ear plugs.
(02/16/12 4:49pm)
In a dusty enclave at the end of the month, surrounded by stacks of comic book-filled cardboard boxes, Andrew Neal was sifting through forms and ticking boxes, readying the next order for Chapel Hill Comics on Franklin Street.
(11/15/11 9:36pm)
On the third floor of Kenan Music Building, next to classrooms filled with rows of digital pianos, students in Introduction to Music Technology meet with their laptops and headphones to compose a new type of music with a different type of piano.
(11/10/11 12:07am)
Call them beer snobs and they’ll likely agree — craft beer and homebrew enthusiasts are known for their discriminating palettes and particular distaste for corporate brews.
(11/03/11 1:25am)
Damian Hess’ qualifications in nerdom make him the stuff of Internet legends: He designed gorey.ttf, a typeface based on the handwriting of artist and writer Edward Gorey. He has asthma and was a web designer before he launched his full-time music career. But his crowning achievement comes as the pioneer of nerdcore, a slightly less serious subgenre of hip-hop that is perhaps the antithesis to big personas and overproduced egos.
(10/06/11 4:19am)
Stephen Murray, banjo player, guitarist and vocalist for Holy Ghost Tent Revival is playing with a few bandmates to support Mike Quinn at this weekend’s Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music & Dance. He recently talked to Diversions Editor Joseph Chapman about the group’s recent shake-up in its lineup, and its plans for the festival.
(10/04/11 9:28pm)
Last Thursday night, for the first time in my college career, I ventured to East Franklin Street to climb the stairs of Players and catch the opening night of the Southeastern Electronic Music Festival known simply as Signalfest.
(09/29/11 6:27am)
If you’ve always dreamt of making your own dubstep drop, don’t miss the tutorials going on Thursday and Saturday as a part of Signal Fest.
(09/22/11 5:03am)
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Four Walls of Raiford” tells the story of an innocent man charged with armed robbery escaping from the miserable Florida State Prison.
(09/13/11 10:22pm)
When Durham’s Megafaun played a set at a three-day music festival in England earlier this month, fans thought they were seeing the wrong band.
(09/12/11 6:27pm)
When it comes to university budgets in a struggling economy, the arts are among the first to go.
(09/08/11 6:14pm)
For the second year, the Hopscotch Music Festival is back in Raleigh. This year’s lineup is a smorgasbord of talent, with everything from hip-hop to chillwave on the schedule. The three-day event is the area’s biggest music festival, drawing audiences from far beyond the state for national and local acts alike.
(04/21/11 2:21am)
Last year’s Hopscotch Music Festival was a success by almost any metric.
(04/14/11 2:20am)
Jenks Miller and Heather McEntire of Mount Moriah are careful when clarifying the religious connotations of their band’s moniker.
(04/14/11 2:08am)
Record Store Day is one of the few days worth waking up at the crack of dawn. For musically minded folks, it’s like Christmas — special releases, in-stores and a gaggle of fellow audiophiles. Here’s Dive’s guide for this year’s local festivities.
(03/31/11 2:01am)
It’s taken over a year for local indie rockers Hammer No More the Fingers to find a home for its third album, Black Shark.
(03/24/11 2:30am)
Getting a younger audience to appreciate classical music doesn’t seem so outlandish with the advent of orchestral pop bands like Arcade Fire.
(03/03/11 4:13am)
Since the days of Superchunk and Archers of Loaf, indie rock has been the dominant sound coming out of the Triangle.
(02/24/11 4:16am)
By the time Chaz Martenstein, owner of Durham’s Bull City Records, arrives at work, he has braced himself for the inevitable.
(02/24/11 3:22am)
I was late. On the way to interview Jim Avett over a plate of Lexington’s famous vinegar-based barbecue, I had veered right when I should have veered left.