AltWeeklies Wire
The Accidental Fortune of Lizzy Ross' Read Me Out Loudnew
"It's the first chance I've had to really express the music the way I hear it in my head. And it's also the most accurate representation of what the band really sounds like and a representation of where I want to go as an artist."
INDY Week |
Ashley Melzer |
12-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: lizzy ross, read me out loud
Five Words with Southern Culture on the Skids' Rick Millernew
We caught up with the SCOTS frontman to discuss his band's history with fried chicken and what some folks call rednecks.
INDY Week |
Spencer Griffith |
12-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
North Carolina is an Inexplicable Hotbed for American Idol Heavyweightsnew
What unites Fantasia, Scotty and Clay also unites them with a lot of other artists in these parts, historically and now.
Allergen-Safe Soup From Holiday Leftoversnew
Soups are forgiving vessels for holiday leftovers. You can add or subtract vegetables and spices, use broth or water and decide the amount of meat to include.
INDY Week |
Joyce Clark Hicks |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Two Glimpses Into the Often Overlooked Musical Diversity of Durham, N.C.new
Two music scenes thrived under (most of) our noses in 2011 -- a vivid belly dance picture and accompanying Middle Eastern and Arab live music both sacred and secular, and a young, eclectic jazz scene that increasingly makes its digs in downtown Durham.
Tags: Durham Music
The Year in Music 2011new
Musically, in the Triangle, there's an awful lot that we don't get to every week. At the close of this year, we check a few of those pockets.
Tags: Year in Music 2011
To the End of Hawaii with George Clooney in The Descendantsnew
Director Alexander Payne—who has married and divorced since Paul Giamatti sipped wine in his last film, Sideways—now presents a character who enjoys redemption only once his wife is brain-dead and on a ventilator.
Captain Kirk Takes the Bridge of the Hurricanesnew
Or, why you should start watching a last-place team
Tags: Carolina Hurricanes, Kirk Muller
Kooley High's David Thompsonnew
As it relates to Kooley High, hang time means relevance and continued musical growth—two things they accomplish here, even if the crew is a little fragmented. (Mecca Records)
T0W3RS' Summertimenew
In the 10 minutes of their debut EP, Chapel Hill's T0W3RS suggest a special, multivalent magic. (Diggup Tapes)
Tags: Summertime, TOW3RS
After a Series of Strokes and Surgeries, Reese McHenry Survives and Bloomsnew
"Seems to me that she had a lot of energy building up while she was sick and was just not physically able to do all the things her spirit wanted to do. Now that she's better, all that kinetic energy is being released and she's super creative." — Spider Bags' Dan McGee
INDY Week |
Corbie Hill |
12-08-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Reese McHenry
Jeff Hart's Ghosts of the Old North State (Singles 1991-2011)new
Built on a base of country twang but finished with touches of British Invasion rock, '60s garage pop, '70s Laurel Canyon, North Carolina bluegrass and jangle pop, Ghosts reveals Hart as an equally fine collector and creator. (Bombay Records)
Tags: compilation album, Jeff Hart
Gratitude in the Face of Crueltynew
Occupiers protesting the crimes of global capitalism found fellowship with a group of transgender activists and allies: a vivid prompt of solidarity and the potential of conjoined political energies.
Tags: #OCCUPY, transgender activists
To the end of the world with Lars von Trier in Melancholianew
Melancholia is a lingering, thorny, beautiful experience that makes our doomed planet and our fickle lives richer for the tiny amount of time we're here to appreciate them.
Werner Herzog's Riveting Death Row Docnew
Herzog's fervent fans surely rushed out to see Into the Abyss over the weekend, but for those who need coaxing, let me urge you to do the same in the limited time left for this title.
