Combining food and art may seem hedonistic at first, but the newest exhibit at Golden Belt provides a social critique of the North Carolina agricultural system and the migrant farm laborers who...
Journalist Deena Stryker’s poignant collection of photographs spans only two years but captures slice-of-life moments during the upheaval and uncertainty of the Cuban Revolution.
Devil recently possessed theaters as the newest motion picture to be loudly stamped with the now dubious brand of M. Night Shyamalan.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops pursue an intriguing, almost paradoxical aim: to play in the traditional Piedmont folk style as modern musicians.
Weezer’s newest release and their first on Epitaph, Hurley, can’t help but stand out due to Jorge Garcia’s beaming face on the cover.
When, in 20 years, we look back on the Walkmen, Lisbon will probably occupy something of a holding pattern in their discography.
John Hughes would be proud: Easy A both subtly and obviously resembles his Brat Pack movies of the 1980s.
Here’s an example of a controlling market share: When Charlie Poole’s recording of “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down” was released in 1925, it sold 100,000 copies.
Superchunk has been a fixture in the indie-rock scene for almost two decades. The release of Majesty Shredding ends their longest hiatus yet, nearly a full half of their existence.
A disembodied squid tentacle turns the knob on an old AM radio. A song comes on.
I’m fascinated by Justin Bieber. Or the idea of Justin Bieber.
Collaborating with other artists for the first time, Xaviera Simmons blended both visual and musical art forms in her latest project.
The Triangle has no shortage of indie-rock bands, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a group that’s had more of an effect on the local and national music scene than Chapel Hill mainstays Superchunk.
“Strangers don’t kill strangers; strangers give each other blow jobs.” Or at least, that’s Matt’s (Matt Bennett) mantra as he convinces himself to go meet a random stranger for sex.
Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax’s 1961 release of southern field recordings, Sounds of the South, is an eight-disc extravaganza of delta blues, gospel and southern folk music entrenched in a rich...
“Welcome to fabulous/Las Vegas/Give us your dreamers, your harlots and your sins/Las Vegas/Didn’t nobody tell you the house will always win?”
