Music
For all its wandering, Bio Ritmo's stable core remains artisan salsa. Music for the dancefloor, yes, but more than ever, Biónico is also salsa for your headset.
5 Nov 2008
All-girl band in an all-guy metal universe they might be, but guitarist Nora Rogers and drummer Lauren Fitzpatrick render the gender card irrelevant about half way through the first song on their debut.
1 Oct 2008
On their debut LP, Monsonia almost always charges ahead at the perfect moment, launching itself from sinister brooding into visceral demands.
27 Aug 2008
Four releases from local artists reconsider the state of physical media and the assumption that "all noise sounds the same"
2 Jul 2008
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The nine songs of this handmade, spraypaint-and-magic marker EP are irrefutable folk gems.
4 Jun 2008
On this remix, The Rosebuds remained a rock-based band, but added heavy disco and new wave inflections.
7 May 2008
CG&J's second full-length—and first for Durham imprint 307 Knox—isn't a breakthrough as much as it is a boiling distillation of the music they do best.
2 Apr 2008
IV is an exceptionally eloquent love letter to roots music, one written with appreciation for the past and big plans for the future.
5 Mar 2008
One of the best introductory EPs released in the Triangle this decade, the eponymous Wood Ear gathers six tracks from Durham songwriter Nate Tarr recorded nearly two years ago.
30 Jan 2008
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