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27045
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Each year, INDY compiles a list of favorite local LPs and Eps. Among the twenty-five best albums of 2015 are music by Phil Cook, Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, Earthly, Boulevards, Des Ark, and See Gulls.
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27025
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Café Helios closed abruptly in 2014 after twelve years in business, but has reopened as part of Raleigh’s downtown revival. Helios serves as a coffee shop and restaurant during the day and as a bar at night. Their menu’s specialty is breakfast, featuring the egg-mustard-and tomato signature croissant called The Early Rise.
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27217
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The Avett Brothers, a popular band from Concord, North Carolina, released their fourth record called True Sadness. The album is different from their usual bluegrass rock sound, demonstrating how the band has grown as musicians. In a recent interview, the band discussed how they don’t take a public stand on political state issues they aren’t qualified to speak on.
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27702
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The way the North Carolina State Fair spends its budget on music acts is explored. The fair will spend $420, 000 dollars for the 2014 fair and the projected earnings after all eleven acts perform is presented.
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23233
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Greg Hatem, who many say is the godfather of downtown Raleigh's renaissance, claims that the downtown area has become unlivable because of the increase in bars and an influx of young college students.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 5, February 2015,
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27716
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Raleigh’s Van Alston is a 2014 Indie Art Award winner. Alston operates Slim’s in Raleigh and The Cave in Chapel Hill. His bars are places where musicians can get experience and a paycheck no matter how many listeners how up. Alston only collects 15% of ticket sales from acts after the musicians have received an guaranteed initial payment. The former tour manager and history teacher enjoys helping artists start their career and is willing to take a risk to support them that others are not.
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Formerly an Asheville music festival, Moogfest relocated to Durham in 2015. In late 2015, festival organizers announced the roster of over 100 acts for the May 2016 event and the two dozen venues. Many are hopeful that the festival will utilize the Durham downtown while maintaining the character of the festival.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 49, December 2015,
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27203
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Scott Wilson started Sunni Sky’s Homemade Ice Cream fourteen years ago in Harnett County. The ice cream shop is named after his two children Sunni and Skylar. Wilson received national media attention for his Cold Sweat ice cream made from a fiery mix of three peppers.
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27188
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Piedmont is the revitalized Durham restaurant where Greg Gettles has served as executive chef for the last year. His restaurant’s pretzels are the most popular item on the new bar snacks menu. The pretzels are served with a fondue based on a reduction of Mother Earth Brewing’s Weeping Willow Wit and local cheeses.
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The Durham News’ resident whitesplainer, Bob Wilson, finally called it quits. Wilson had reasonable moments during his tenure, but when he addressed race relations, he served as a reminder of systems and stereotypes that are best left behind. In response to Black Lives Matter protestors, he argued that African-Americans simply needed to stop shooting one another.
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28119
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A Triangle area music expert discusses how a regional mass transit system would improve the area’s music scene. Concert goers and musicians tend to not go to events outside their own cities or town’s because the traffic in the area makes trips inconvenient. With a better transit system, musicians and listeners would go to more concerts and collaborate more, allowing the area music scene to grow.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 25 Issue 10, March 2008,
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9211
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William Henry Curry is in his twelfth season as conductor of the North Carolina Symphony. He was resident conductor of the New Orleans Symphony before coming to Raleigh and has also conducted in St. Paul, Baltimore, Indianapolis, New York, and Houston.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 28, July 2007,
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27973
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Chris Tamplin is the winner of a 2010 IndyWeek Triangle Art Award. Tamplin has spent the past four years booking bands for the Local Band, Local Beer nights at Tir na nOg in Raleigh. Tamplin introduced listeners to local bands free of charge and still paid the artists to perform. His work fostering the careers of local acts is well-remembered.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 29, July 2010,
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27153
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Marisa Brickman is the new director of Moogfest, the music festival which was originally located in Asheville but relocated to Durham. Brickman has helped build an extensive, cross-discipline network to support the festival’s restart. Moogfest is meant to explore how technology is impacting music, art, and the way we think about ourselves.
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27130
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After House Bill 2, the discriminatory legislation against the LGBTQ community, concert promoters worried that artists would cancel tours to North Carolina. The Shakori Hills Grass Roots Festival issued a statement that disavowed the bill by restating the festival’s purpose. No one cancelled and musicians, such as Brett Dennen, donated money and stage time to local groups supporting transgender rights.
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