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Born and raised in Catawba County, musician Steph Stewart left North Carolina in quest of a music career. After returning to live in Carrboro, she met Bassist Nick Vandenberg, guitarist Mario Arnez, and fiddler Omar Ruiz-Lopez. The four formed a folk band and have since released two records.
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American Aquarium, an alternative country band, enjoys new success as front man B.J. Barham enjoys sobriety.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 6, February 2015,
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The Charming Youngsters band began in Greenville’s underground music scene back in 2007. Now, the band is based in Durham, but the members and their musical style has matured. This article highlights the band’s history, their current plans, and their uncertain future.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 50, December 2015,
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Thomas Simpson, Mark Connor, Robert Walsh, and Stuart McLamb formed the heavy metal band SOON after three years of living and barbequing together in Chapel Hill. Their debut album, Vol. 1, is slow, heavy, and crushingly loud.
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The Veldt is a longtime Raleigh cult favorite band. Racism and major-label expectations plagued The Veldt in the eighties and nineties, but music is finally catching up with the band’s mix of soul singing and shoe-gaze rock.
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Some Army is a psych-rock band based in the Triangle. In 2013, they launched an ambitious Kickstarter campaign to fund its debut record, One Stone and Too Many Birds. After three long years, the album will finally be released this week.
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Raleigh singer-songwriter Al Riggs is devoted to sharing North Carolina’s tough stories from a peculiar, necessary perspective. Since recording his first album at nineteen, Riggs has released sixteen more albums. His latest, Blue Mornings, may be his best, as Riggs deviates from the pent-up art rock of his past towards folk minimalism.
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Brice Randall Bickford and his wife, Lara Khalil, left their metropolitan lifestyles to go backpacking in South America. In 2012, they returned to Durham, North Carolina to record their album called Paro. The themes of the record reflect observations from the couple’s travels and the downfalls of a modern, advanced world.
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Alison McGhee and other tattoo artists at Glenn’s Tattoo Service in Carrboro are often asked to cover up old tattoos with new ones. For her new children’s book Tell Me a Tattoo Story, McGhee asked social media followers to post their favorite tattoo and tell the story behind it. Some of them were about tattoos that they regretted, either because the art was horrible or the sentiment behind it had changed.
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After battling rheumatoid arthritis, Greensboro guitarist Adam Joyce renews his musical mission with The Bronzed Chorus. Their new record, Summering, is the first full-length since 2009. The band will perform at the Pour House in Raleigh to celebrate its official Friday release.
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28819
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From social injustice to environmental damage, local designers in North Carolina are trying to make the world a better place. Local clothing companies, from Liberation Threads to TS Designs, highlight the environmental, ethical, and cultural arguments for local materials, production, and distribution in their mission statements.
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Steph Stewart and Mario Arnez are the duo, Blue Cactus, from Chapel Hill. Their music is a mix of classic country music, honky-tonk, and modern string instruments. Songs on their debut album explore heartbreak and hope with time-tested honky-tonk humor.
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David Holt, a folk musician from Alamance County, North Carolina, plays the banjo, slide guitar, and bones. The bones are the actual rib bones from a cow, and an ancient rhythm instrument. History and context are important to Holt, as his music is a form of storytelling.
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Pittsboro, North Carolina is smaller than Triangle cities, yet its handful of trucks thrive without crowds. Food trucks like Tacos Michoacan, Aromatic Roasters, and the Maple View Ice Cream Mobile Unit have regular clients on a regular basis. They gain small-town success by establishing and maintaining relationships, while serving consistent and authentic food.
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It's a different looking, small ribbed green pod that is edible. It's has a slimy-when-cooked-texture and might be the vegetable from another planet. But it has wound its way onto the palette of Southern eaters who devour it fried, raw, or in Brunswick stews and gumbos. It's okra!
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