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The Pride of Kinston, NCnew
On the tour kick-off, Parker filled the 1,000-seat room with people he grew up with, their children and grandchildren, and folks who've simply read about him in the Kinston Free Press as the local hero who's spent the last four decades touring alongside James Brown, George Clinton and Prince.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
02-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Maceo Parker
Down by Avalon: Simple, Precise Popnew
Frontman Alan Martin considers life and love with energy inherited from singers like Van Morrison, Ray Davies and Paul McCartney.
Tags: Down by Avalon
The Mountain Goats Flex Their Rangenew
Heretic Pride isn't the band's best record by a Bethesda mile. But, perhaps more than any other, it is uniquely capable of articulating what they do so well.
Tags: Heretic Pride, The Mountain Goats
Michael Holland Goes Traditionalnew
Apropos of its title, Simple Truths and Pleasures is full of characters looking for a little relief and maybe a little joy but never expecting too much.
Transistor Sun Winks as it Nodsnew
After all, Transistor Sun is about celebrating old habits -- loving, starting over, having fun, playing rock that splices from Cheap Trick, Guided by Voices and KISS -- all over again.
Tags: Transistor Sun
Sleepsound's Radio Readynew
Sleepsound's pleas recall the grandeur of a low-budget Snow Patrol or The Fray and the empathy invitation of a Nada Surf chorus.
Tags: Leaves Change, Sleepsound
Peters Holsapple and Lang Talk Inspirationnew
On Broad Street Cafe's stage Saturday night, Peter Holsapple and Peter Lang could not have been more different.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
01-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Allen Boysnew
N.C.'s only touring Sacred Steel band builds on traditions of faith and family.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
01-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Allen Boys
We Resolve ... 2008new
The wishes and New Year's resolutions of some of North Carolina's musicians. Includes Tift Merritt, Scotty Irving, Roman Candle and more.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
12-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Big Billsnew
In North Carolina's growing Triangle and a financially shrinking music industry, can mid-size rock clubs survive?
Tags: concerts
Yup, It's a Yep Roc Christmasnew
The debut Christmas compilation from Yep Roc Records successfully captures the range and fiery spirit of its label: Collecting new Christmas cuts from a dozen Yep Roc bands, Oh Santa! is alternately cranky or sentimental, thoughtful or whimsical and reverent or mischievous.
Reunited Blind Melon Reminisces About Its Time in Durhamnew
Guitarist Christopher Thorn remembers an idyllic winter in Durham the year before Blind Melon's debut album and its slightly psychedelic hit, "No Rain," made them famous.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
11-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Blind Melon
Juan Huevos Creates Classic Street-Story Hiphopnew
Juan Huevos -- the outlet of Jon Gregory, a 28-year-old white dude with a killer moustache -- raps about falling off bar stools, turning Friendster photos into late-night pornography and wanting to quit bad jobs.
Tags: Juan Huevos, MC People Magazine
Buck 65 Supposes He Makes Hip-Hopnew
Ever since the press and the public caught wind of Buck 65, aka 35-year-old Richard Jerfry, in the late '90s, his identity -- that of a white rapper from Nova Scotia -- has been his onus.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
11-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
There's Troika; Where's 305?new
Troika Music Festival advances without 305 South, the venue that hosted the two biggest shows of last year.
Tags: concerts
