AltWeeklies Wire
City Lights and 'Another Country'new
Tift Merritt gets a second chance on her third album.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
03-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Another Country, Tift Merritt
Bold Betty Davisnew
In a rare interview, '70s funk goddess Betty Davis talks about growing up in North Carolina.
INDY Week |
Chris Toenes |
03-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Betty Davis
Unique, Even in New Orleansnew
Long before the storm started pushing toward the Gulf Coast, though, Mr. Quintron and Miss Pussycat had carved out their own divot of hyper-reality in that New Orleans neighborhood.
INDY Week |
Chris Toenes |
03-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Whiskeytown's 'Strangers Almanac' Gets Double-disc Reissue Treatmentnew
Talking with Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary and Phil Wandscher.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
03-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Strangers Almanac, Whiskeytown
Sightings Sounds Like the End of Everythingnew
When Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road inevitably becomes a major motion picture, Brooklyn noise-rock trio Sightings should compose the score.
INDY Week |
Roque Strew |
03-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sightings, Through the Panama
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
Five Words with Henry Rollinsnew
Sticking it to the man is still acceptable.
INDY Week |
Rich Ivey |
02-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Henry Rollins
Lucas Abela Bleeds Musicnew
Abela, performing as one-man noise band Justice Yeldham, uses glass as an instrument. By set's end, it's in innumerable shards beneath his bare feet, mixing with the blood that pours down his face and from his mouth.
INDY Week |
Roque Strew |
02-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Justice Yeldham
Ari Picker Is Mastermind of Lost in the Treesnew
Lost in the Trees isn't a conventional band with several members who compose the music together and then perform it. Rather, it's self-contained, meaning that Ari Picker can always form new ensembles to play the music he's already written. Picker is the mastermind and constant of Lost in the Trees; everyone else helps him fulfill his vision.
INDY Week |
Kathleen Gordon |
02-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lost in the Trees
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
Heavenly Staircasenew
Regina Hexaphone's Sara Bell looks back on a decade with a band she never thought she could lead.
INDY Week |
Chris Parker |
12-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Regina Hexaphone
Hisham Mayet Travels the World Seeking Ecstasy in Soundnew
In what his label, Sublime Frequencies, calls "folk cinema," Mayet aims to capture the personal essence and rituals of cultures, from the Bori cult dance ceremony to the ancient mystical gatherings formed around centuries-old Moroccan trade caravans.
INDY Week |
Chris Toenes |
12-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hisham Mayet
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
