AltWeeklies Wire
Barren Girls' Hell Hymnsnew

This four-song debut EP, every bit a punk record, preserves a rookie band's steady first steps.
Beloved Binge's Pocketsnew

They might've left town for a while, but Pockets proves Beloved Binge kept pace with Durham.
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Spider Bags' Shake My Headnew

At its foundation, Shake My Head is a collection of straightforward bar-rock songs. Walking (well, staggering) rhythms lend a vintage R&B swing behind overdriven guitar lines that mine '70s rock and pop.
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White Cascade's EP2new

Raleigh trio White Cascade is following that painful rule of creativity—cheerily discarding the past to try something new.
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The Body & Braveyoung's Nothing Passesnew

For the first 27-and-a-half of its 35-and-a-half minutes, Nothing Passes sounds almost exactly like what one might expect from a collaboration between The Body and Braveyoung.
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