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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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For the last decade, Southern Rail, The Station and the Tiger Room have served as a microcosm along Carrboro’s Main Street. The venue, which was built around a set of abandoned train cars, has been devoted to hosting music and serving Southern cuisine and drinks. However, the venue faces possible closure as the owners struggle with tax debt.
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Hank Williams has served as the doorman and bouncer for a long list of Raleigh restaurants, bars, and clubs. These days, he sits in the alcoves of the new dive bar Ruby Deluxe and near the elevated threshold of Capital Club 16, checking IDs and sometimes checking attitudes. Behind the scenes, he books some of the best heavy-metal shows in the Triangle.
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Three Lobed Recordings is a small independent label founded and operated almost entirely by Cory Rayborn, a business lawyer based in Jamestown, North Carolina. This weekend, Rayborn throws an all-day Sweet-Sixteen party for the Three Lobed. Many of the label’s standbys, including Bardo Pond and singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth, will be on hand, making somewhat rare appearances in support of the rare label.
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Ari Berenbaum is the owner of Ninth Street Bakery in downtown Durham. The bakery’s latest product is the Asiago scone made by hand by Maria Rivera and baked overnight by her husband Jose Cortez. For the past two weeks, every batch of scones has sold out.
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Wu Man plays the pipa, a four-stringed lute with an ancient Chinese lineage. Though she often plays traditional Chinese music, Man likes to add the pipa to unconventional settings such as bluegrass and the banjo. Man will play at Duke’s Baldwin Auditorium on April 8 in Durham.
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Eric Bachmann is a North Carolina indie rock icon and leader of the Chapel Hill band Archers of Loaf. After settling down, Bachmann created what is arguably the best record of his career. The album is a nine-song set titled Eric Bachmann, and was released in March.
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B.Good is a New England-based franchise that opened its second Raleigh restaurant downtown in mid-March. B.Good has counter-only service has relies on local food sources only. Half of the menu features burgers and fries, while the other features quinoa-based bowls and salads.
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Counting House is a vegan restaurant in Durham. Owner Josh Munchel applied the idea of Nashville’s notorious hot chicken to tempeh, the meat substitute made from fermented soybeans.
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Two music festivals, Moogfest and Art of Cool, asked the city and county of Durham for funding. Trouble to obtain these funds indicate the city’s pervasive growing pains and troubled efforts to build a cohesive vision for its own future. People are concerned that development will cause Durham to lose its diverse culture.
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Each season, Mystery Brewery in Hillsborough rotates its beers, offering a fleet of four new flagships every three months. For Mystery’s fourth birthday, owner Erik Myers, created a variety pack of Belgian beers made with yeast sourced from Belgium’s Westmalle Abbey. The beer labels were drawn by Durham artist Jamie B. Wolcott, illustrating the literary characters that lend many Mystery beers their names.
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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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Bill Smith is the legendary head chef at Crook’s Corner, the institution of classic Southern cuisine on the Carrboro-Chapel Hill divide. In the dozen years since Smith pioneered his honeysuckle sorbet, he has taught his employees how to pick the flowers. Now he is exploring how to preserve honeysuckles, in case they disappear in the future.
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This week, Moogfest will at last arrive in Durham after a year and a half of anticipatory debate, analysis, and excitement. The ambition of Moogfest 2014, and the financial flop that followed, helped push the event to Durham after failed investments. Organizers have since gained support by a local network of sponsors aspiring to develop the region's growing tech image.
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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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