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Lori Napoleon, also known as Antenes, uses old telephone switchboards as instruments in her latest album The Exchange. The switchboards were converted into working modular synthesizers, and will be featured in conjunction with the art gallery The Carrack and Moogfest’s Hacking Sound Systems series in Durham.
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Grimes, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Mykki Blanco are three modern Moogfest artists who wrestle with the memory of nostalgic nineties music and modern-day sounds. These musicians remix mid-nineties rap, grunge rock, and pop to create new forms of electronica music.
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Daniel Hart is a musician who lived in Chapel Hill from 2002-2009, crafting gorgeous songs with his band The Physics of Meaning. His more recent work has included composing music for ads and short films, but this year Hart wrote the score for Disney’s remake of the 1977 movie Pete’s Dragon. This is Hart’s biggest project featuring the largest orchestral ensemble with which he has ever recorded.
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Shelby, located in Cleveland County, is home to country musicians Don Gibson and Earl Scruggs. Recently, museums were opened in the two’s honor thanks to a project called Destination Cleveland County. The project was successful, and the two museums give Shelby some tourism.
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27465
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One More Wish, a boy band of the 1990s, has rebranded themselves as 1MW. The band is reforming to do a tour of North Carolina venues when other bands are pulling out because of House Bill 2.
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Music Makers Relief Foundation is a nonprofit record label dedicated to promoting forgotten blues, gospel, soul, and country artists. Founder Tim Duffy looks specifically for musicians who have the closest connect to the earliest forms of the blues. The label helps promote the artists, rebuild their careers, and pay the artists for their talent. All this is in effort to make sure the artists talent is known and lives on beyond their life and local area.
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Dave Rose is a music industry executive in the Raleigh area working for Deep South Entertainment. The former musician is profiled and discusses the mistakes artists can make and how those mistakes affect careers. His new book is written as a guide for young musicians offering caution about starting a career in music given the uncertain financial success.
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John Darnielle and the Durham-based band the Mountain Goats are profiled. Darnielle’s history is explored, including his time as a poet, nurse, author, and blogger. Darnielle’s difficult abusive childhood and his famous Durham home are described as well. Additionally, the band’s history and what they represent for fans is also explored and their success on Durham’s Merge Records is noted.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 14, April 2011,
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Ten years ago, Local Band Local Beer was started to pair local musicians with breweries in Raleigh. The music series was free but its organizers recently announced that they would begin charging an admission fee. The fee is meant to compensate the musicians fairly.
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Rodney Finch and Zenaida Reyes are notable electronic musicians in the Triangle who have propelled their reputations into a new music scene. The two musicians integrate hip-hop and bass music to form a signature sound.
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Kym Register and her band Loamlands has a new record featuring the song Sweet High Rise. Register wrote the song in protest against to the forthcoming high rise development by the Pinhook music club in Durham. Register has become one of the strongest forces standing up for the Durham community.
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Mary Lattimore is a harpist from western North Carolina who has collaborated with a variety of musicians on recordings and in live performances. Her recent work is a solo album called At the Dam. The album features music she wrote as she traveled around California and Texas, funded by a 2014 Pew Fellowship grant.
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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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The Nile Project is a collective of musicians from countries along the Nile River. The project aims to highlight issues of water use around the globe and to find better ways of managing water resources. North Carolina State LIVE is bringing the Nile Project to Raleigh for a week of programming that includes a concert, a documentary screening, discussions, and a culminating festival.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 34 Issue 9, March 2017,
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Musicians struggle to make money through streaming platforms, such as Spotify and Pandora, but the same platforms offer other opportunities for artists to build their careers. For Raleigh musician Al Riggs and many of his peers, online platforms are easy ways to get their music heard without the hassles of a record label.
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