Hyped as a return to old form, Guero, Beck’s eighth album and his first since the less eclectic, beautifully melancholic Sea Change, is filled with the hip-hop grooves, samples, and ironic...
Kinks-worshipping guitar rock. High energy live shows. Tubas. The formula for the Chapel Hill-based rock band SNMNMNM is one that is slightly off-kilter. “People give a lot of attention to...
When American Music Club dissolved ten years ago, the band had just reached the height of its career.
Over the last few years, a once dismal rock music scene on Duke’s campus has begun to come into its own.
Alright, so I’ll come right out and say it: I didn’t like Antics the first time I heard it.
“It was just about as informal as it gets,” says Caitlin Cary of the formation of Tres Chicas, the Raleigh-based country trio she founded with fellow musicians Lynn Blakey and Tonya Lamm.
When indie rock legend Lou Barlow announced that a band called The Arcade Fire would be following his solo act one summer night in Chapel Hill, his tone was one of disbelief: "I heard their sound...
An egg--quaintly simple, pleasantly symmetrical. A small crack appears. Suddenly it is broken in two, a hollow inside exposed. Then gone, as if it were never there to begin with. .
At around 5 p.m. on a Wednesday, I find myself sitting in the main office of Merge Records. It is a small office, inhabited by six employees.
Air's Talkie Walkie is an album that comes with much expectation and uncertainty.
