AltWeeklies Wire
No Grammy, but Eric Church is still our ‘Homeboy’new
You could say that Eric Church's North Carolina homecoming went a lot like the lyrics to his recent No. 1 country single "Drink In My Hand." He filled it up, he threw down and, judging from the careful attention he paid to the red Solo cup full of whiskey on his mic stand, he likely got a little hungover.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
02-27-2012 |
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Tags: Eric Church
Jeff Mangum Thrills Chapel Hill Crowd
It took some coaxing from the unassuming Jeff Mangum before the murmur of voices was mildly audible, and it wasn’t until nearly the end of his set that his hundreds of new back-up vocalists actually raised their voices to meet him.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
02-16-2012 |
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Tags: Jeff Mangum
Paying Respect to the Queen of Soul
She sang at Obama’s inauguration. She sang at King Curtis’s funeral. She even sang at Wrestlemania in its golden years, but after a lengthy wait and serial cancellations, Aretha Franklin finally came back to sing for North Carolina.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
02-16-2012 |
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Tags: Aretha Franklin
Get to know this guy A$AP
By about 12:10 a.m. early Saturday morning at Greene Street Club, the scene on stage had essentially crumbled. What was at one time a sold-out hip-hop show by one of the brightest up-and-coming rappers out there had become an unidentifiable onstage cluster of iPhone documentarians, dumbfounded security, a few random dudes smoking kush, and the show’s headliner hovering in the mix. Dirty South hip-hop is legendary for shows like this, but that it was Harlemite A$AP Rocky is what makes it all the more curious.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
02-16-2012 |
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Tags: A$AP
The Passion of the Whites
“I can’t half see straight,” Mamie White declared the moment after being handed a microphone Friday night at Johnny & June’s Ultra Saloon. “I’m just kiddin’.”
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
02-16-2012 |
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Tags: The Whites
My Morning Jacket Buck Rock Traditionnew
Twenty years from now, when classic-rock radio is still on an endless rotation of Steppenwolf and Deep Purple and My Morning Jacket is a nostalgia-fueled arena headliner without a nationwide FM presence, the cold reality of obsolescence might finally dawn upon the rockists of yore. Since their earliest years, the Louisville band have possessed all the makings of what made the Allmans, CCR and Led Zep so great: tunes that latch on immediately and don’t let go, audacious ideas about the conventions of American music, massive guitar solos and, of course, lots and lots of hair.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
12-22-2011 |
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Tags: My Morning Jacket
Hall & Oates: Guilt, Pleasurenew
In a more reasonable world, no one would ever have to closet their love of Hall & Oates.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
12-14-2011 |
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Tags: Hall & Oates, Guilty Pleasures
High Point honors Coltrane, Lupe rocks a fiasconew
In one corner, the inaugural John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival experienced a healthy turnout and relatively smooth production in High Point’s Oak Hollow Park on Saturday.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
09-07-2011 |
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Archers of Loaf on Point in Homecomingnew
Archers of Loaf were never, ever going to be confused with a “cool” band in their heyday. They were the kind of band you sat in a beanbag chair with massive cans on your ears and blared because there were better things to do than having an afterschool job.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
08-24-2011 |
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Codeseven, Hopesfall Bring Ziggy's back, Bignew
The nebulous mood behind the band’s latter era work was reflected in Jenkins every move; he writhed around the stage during the industrial breakdowns of “The Devil’s Interval”
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
08-12-2011 |
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YES! Weekly does the Big Easynew
Party bands blare out of the Bourbon Street tourist traps practically around the clock.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
07-28-2011 |
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Taylor Swift Show is Worthy Spectaclenew
Scrawled down her left arm in thick, black felt pen during a June 30 performance at the Greensboro Coliseum, Swift brandished a lyric from the Ingrid Michaelson tune “Breakable,” itself released only a few months before Swift’s debut album.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
07-08-2011 |
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Switchblade 85 Rides the Swell at CFBGnew
The show they played was the release party for the latest issue of Shuffle magazine, but in a lot of ways, it was also like a home game for Switchblade 85.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
06-23-2011 |
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New Primus Sucks Just as Much as Old Primusnew
If there are people who deny the moon landing simply because they can’t fully comprehend such an occurrence, they might as well say the same about Les Claypool’s bass playing.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
06-08-2011 |
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Tags: Les Claypool, Primus
MerleFest 24 in Reviewnew
The 88-year-old living legend made his usual rounds, though it still felt like his sets were fewer and farther between than in years past.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
05-04-2011 |
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