Reaching the Rock
By Robert Kelley | April 30, 2001Smart is chic. The hottest bands today are displaying an intelligence that just a few years ago would have gotten them bound and gagged with flannel and tossed into the dumpster of the local TCBY.
Smart is chic. The hottest bands today are displaying an intelligence that just a few years ago would have gotten them bound and gagged with flannel and tossed into the dumpster of the local TCBY.
Robert Kelley's tenure as music editor is over. Gone will be his lovingly crafted missives about obscure bands that may or may not ever hit mass consciousness.
Because I felt bad about all the hate mail I received about my review of Aerosmith's Just Push Play [not Just Press Play, like Robert said the first time], I decided to try to understand how in the...
ore than 40 years ago, a white boy from a working-class southern family picked up a guitar and started playing the music of black artists like Chuck Berry. He was enormously successful.
he "neo-soul" movement has been in full swing for a few years, but now Durham is getting in on the action-in a big way. YahZarah, a Durham resident and former NCCU student whose debut album, Hear Me..
Some things get better with age, like wine. Others get worse, like sushi.
In the face of declining revenues and refusal by administrators to restructure a $650,000 lease plan with the University, owners of the Hideaway are signaling that the campus bar may close its...
Music publications around the world have taken to ridiculing Daft Punk's new album, Discovery.
I stood in line outside of a coffeehouse last Friday in Austin-I got used to standing in line that night.