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Music Review: Midtown Dickens
By Elizabeth Byrum | Apr. 4, 2012Returning home can be the most rewarding and reflective of journeys, as it’s often a means of coming full circle.
Read More »Returning home can be the most rewarding and reflective of journeys, as it’s often a means of coming full circle.
Read More »In some ways Brooklyn-via-Columbia, Mo., indie rockers White Rabbits have the sounds of their musical affiliates permanently embedded in their music.
Read More »As Bowerbirds, Beth Tacular and Phil Moore have crafted delicate, captivating folk songs that make the heart swell.
Read More »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.
Read More »Considering the importance of collaboration for many local musicians, a mixture is the perfect way to describe the community of artists, genres and bands that comprise the Trekky Records family.
Read More »When Matt Park’s former group Veelee disbanded, Park retreated and did what he knew best in order to handle the situation: kept making music.
Read More »J. Capri, the newest addition to the Triangle’s almost-underground hip-hop club, is quick to recognize the strength of the region’s growing scene.
Read More »If anyone can make a compilation of traditional hymns and rework them into folk songs, Jeff Crawford is the right man to do it. As music director of The Gathering Church in Durham, Crawford combines his experience as church music director with his presence in the local music scene as a producer and musician to render a new album that seamlessly combines tradition with variation, the old with the new.
Read More »For former Carolina Chocolate Drops founding member Justin Robinson, it’s the intersection of various instruments, a bluegrass background and a bit of Gothic-sounding folk that makes it hard to define his latest endeavor of Justin Robinson and the Mary Annettes.
Read More »On Normal, Charleston trio Run Dan Run creates an album that embodies elements of indie rock with a vengeance. The group’s sophomore release may draw heavy comparisons to the work of Broken Social Scene, but it manages to harness some of its own creativity.
Read More »Mike Wallace of Estrangers and Drag Sounds plays at Krankies with Estrangers.
Heather McEntire of Mount Moriah performs with the band at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.
