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'Take a Stand' conference to engage arts, policy
By Kathy Zhou | February 14, 2013"Everybody should be able to have the same opportunities for beauty, passion, community.”
"Everybody should be able to have the same opportunities for beauty, passion, community.”
Yannis Philipakkis is a bad-habit, animal-like-you, cowboy with a broken crown.
It’s mind-boggling that such distinctive tracks could be composed of automated instruments all played by one brilliant musician.
The full scope of m b v’s greatness will only be known as a new generation of fans and incipient artists are exposed to and invigorated by its presence.
Their performance illustrates the growing coalescence of traditional Chinese and Western classical influences.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra are difficult to define and they like it that way.
Local Natives are in the midst of a new maturity.
Composed of a few pop songs and whale-noise tracks, the album is left swimming in a sea of ambient pop-less pop.
“He can actually talk to ten-year-olds and make them understand what it means to die.”
The Music Tapes will pitch a circus tent inside of the Coffeehouse, within which they will host a night of music and entertainment.
Home, Nosaj Thing’s sophomore LP, is a reflection on the impermanence of sound.
Brokeback and the Black Rock is so well-crafted that it stands on its own without verbal explanations.
Pop has a kind of disdain attached to it, especially within the chillwave community.
Imagine Christopher Owens, serenading 16th-century Florence, making references to some yet-to-exist NYC punk life, and you’ll get something like Lysandre.
The show will benefit North Carolina’s chapter of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL).
Rocky's versatility on this album is unparalleled.
The album sounds like a standard Yo La Tengo record, though they seem slightly less inspired.
It’s hard to talk about the history of the Duke Wind Symphony without mentioning Paul Bryan.
Lady from Shanghai, even for its strangeness, is strange in ways that have become common.
Music Editor Dan Fishman spoke with Lost in the Trees' Ari Picker to discuss Friday’s show, his thoughts about the Triangle music scene and his favorite music of 2012.