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Introducing the Independent Weekly’s Simple Music Video Series: Frank Fairfield-

The purpose of the Independent Weekly‘s Simple Music Video Series is to capture local and touring musicians who we feel are producing something special. The hope is to capture something very simple in order to mirror the experience of viewing a performance as if you were in a small crowd watching a quiet set.…
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WKNC Summer Interest Meetings and DJ Training! – NC State students can learn how to apply to train to be a DJ over the summer as well as learn how to become involved with the station in all other areas May 23 and May 24 from 5:30-6:30pm in Witherspoon Student Center room 201. – http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wknc881FmRaleigh/~3/_D2ZIGitRYs/

Yep Roc announces 15th-birthday bash-

To celebrate its 15th birthday this fall, local label Yep Roc Records is gathering the tribes in mid-October for a three-night blowout at Cat’s Cradle with Nick Lowe, Robyn Hitchcock, Dave Alvin, Fountains of Wayne, Chuck Prophet, Jon Doe, the Minus 5 and many other artists who have released records on the label in the past decade and a half.
The shows, set for Oct. 11-13, also will feature Liam Finn, The Sadies, Sloan, Cheyenne Marie Mize, Jim White, Eleni Mandell and others to be announced.…
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Dwarr lives!-

[Editor's note: Dwarr was set to play The Pinhook in Durham tonight, Wednesday, March 16. His entire tour has been canceled.]
ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, Durham bar The Pinhook will host the fourth and final gig of South Carolina outsider-metal outfit Dwarr’s first-ever tour.…
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“The Super Bowl of Bluegrass Music” — and “the Hopscotch”-

Denny Edwards dubbed it “the Super Bowl of Bluegrass Music.” Well, it (the World of Bluegrass) is coming to Raleigh in the fall of 2013, 2014 and 2015 — after which, maybe it’ll be permanent?…
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Special Recognition Local Lunch, May 18 – Friday, May 18, DJ Mollypop will serve up a local lunch full of gratitude. This special show will be from 11:30 a.m. until 1p.m., serving to thank those local bands and community members who have helped make this year at WKNC awesome. Be sure to tune in! – http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wknc881FmRaleigh/~3/s2g-Hq6YCEM/

The guide to the week’s concerts

Dwarr, Black Bananas, Caravan Of Thieves, Lilac Shadows, Jenny Besetzt, Savage Weekend, Pierced Arrows, Don’t, Class Actress, Penguin Prison, White Life, Cassis Orange, William Tyler, Hiss Golden Messenger, Damien Jurado, St. Vincent, Shearwater, more

This week’s guide contains: YES, PLEASE: Dwarr, Black Bananas, Caravan Of Thieves, Lilac Shadows, Jenny Besetzt, Savage Weekend, Pierced Arrows, Don’t, Class Actress, Penguin Prison, White Life, Cassis Orange, William Tyler, Hiss Golden Messenger, Damien Jurado, St. Vincent, Shearwater…
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http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-guide-to-the-weeks-concerts/Content?oid=3069017

Free Electric State’s Monumental Life

Dark, engaging and built on infectious rhythms, Monumental Life finally sounds like Free Electric State. (Custom Made Music)
by Corbie Hill
Bassist and vocalist Shirlé Hale and guitarist David Koslowski may have recently left North Carolina to return to Baltimore, but their band, Free Electric State, remains alive and well. Indeed, if their second LP, Monumental Life, serves as any indication, the Durham-born rock quartet may be doing better than ever before, even if its halves are now separated by a five-hour drive.…
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http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/free-electric-states-monumental-life/Content?oid=3069085

Live: Pipe and Archers of Loaf, in pictures-

Triangle indie rock legends Archers of Loaf and Pipe shared two local stages last weekend—Friday, May 11, in Saxapahaw, and Saturday, May 12, in Raleigh. Independent photographer Adam Kissick paid a visit to Kings in Raleigh to capture the bands in their return to action.…
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Tonight: Lee Ranaldo at Bull City Records-

Before his opening performance for M. Ward tomorrow at Duke University’s Page Auditorium, Sonic Youth guitarist and sometimes-singer Lee Ranaldo has a treat for the rest of Durham: He will perform solo material tonight at 6 p.m. at Bull City Records. The event is free.…
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Local Beat Recap 5/11/12 – Jack the Radio joined us on the phone for a brief moment to chat about their brand new album, Low Country, and promote the album release party tomorrow afternoon at Big Boss Brewery. – http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wknc881FmRaleigh/~3/hsUaergfFJ8/

Live: Esperanza Spalding, just enough-

Esperanza SpaldingCarolina Theatre, Durham May 9, 2012
Esperanza Spalding makes an audience genuinely happy. Her music and the spirit of it are infused with a 20-something-year-old’s truth serum, which shows up in the form of between-song monologues about young love in the present day, and tender reconnection with pre-colonial ancestry.…
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With Tutankhamen, 9th Wonder wants you to buy the beats-

Unless you’re an aspiring emcee looking for some quick beats to rhyme over, it might be hard to wrap your dollar bills around any legitimate hip-hop producer’s instrumental releases. Many of us don’t have any use for background boom-bap without vocals, anyway.…
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The woebegone wonders of Spiritualized

Like a blues musician slowly giving himself to good gospel, Jason Pierce has long used his music to strike a balance between malevolence and romance, to establish a framework in which addiction and death and pain become avenues to transcendence.
by Grayson Currin
Sometimes it seems that Jason Pierce—the frontman and founder of melodramatic baroque-rock enthusiasts Spiritualized—makes albums so he has a vehicle for another inevitably sad story. With drugs to his left, God to his right and some mixture of a choir, an orchestra and a Britpop band at his back, Pierce has spent the last two decades making records that attempt to beat back the torment of existence.…
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http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-woebegone-wonders-of-spiritualized/Content?oid=3065147

M. Ward brings his friends to a new solo record

To record A Wasteland Companion, M. Ward made stops at eight studios in Austin, Los Angeles, Tucson, Omaha, New York and even Bristol, England. And at every stop, he called his friends in town to join him for a session.
by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
The songwriter M. Ward doesn’t keep a journal. But A Wasteland Companion, the new album by the itinerant musician released last month by Merge Records, serves as a travelogue for the last few and very busy of years of his life.…
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‘Baudelaire in a Box’ comes to the Triangle-

In the spring of 2010, Chicago-based artist and theater wiz Dave Buchen executed the first edition of Baudelaire in a Box. He and his songwriter friend Chris Schoen adapted some of the notable wine poems of famously macabre 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire, setting them to music and illustrating them with scrolling images that played within a series of boxes.…
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Waiting for the Pirate Party while Bob Mould, David Cross help raise $18,000 for Coalition to Protect NC Families-

When I arrived at the Haw River Ballroom Sunday night for a concert benefit to fight Amendment 1, all that remained of Saturday’s river celebration, the annual Haw River Festival, was a collection of multicolored fabric streamers that hung, Christo-like, from the bridge that crosses the river just upstream of the mill.
The light shed by the setting sun was very pretty.…
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Proud to call him Lumbee: Willie French Lowery, 1944-2012-

Lauded Lumbee songwriter, artist, husband and father Willie French Lowery passed away May 3 at the age of 68. Lowery’s legacy includes more than 40 years worth of music, shaped by Indian, African, and European American traditions alike.…
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Foreign exchange: UNC Beat Lab curriculum to be taught in Goma, DRC-

May 13th is UNC’s graduation date, which makes it an appropriate day for the UNC Beat Making Lab to release its free compilation. These 13 tracks—which draw samples from a wide variety of North Carolina acts—represent the final project from a course on beat-making taught by The Beast emcee Pierce Freelon and Chapel Hill producer extraordinaire Stephen Levitin— better-known in music circles as the Apple Juice Kid.…
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Acclaimed Cellist Ben Sollee to Interview on WKNC May 10 – Genre-spanning cellist Ben Sollee will be interviewing and performing live on WKNC Thursday, May 10 from 1 p.m. until 1:45 p.m. before his show at Kings the same evening. Be sure to tune to hear about biking, Appalachia, playing with Bela Fleck, and all things Ben Sollee. – http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wknc881FmRaleigh/~3/DtXjIJN9cgY/