Apart from this week being my birthday (C'est La Bri turns 21 on Saturday y'all!), it’s also another great week for spring shows in the Triangle. 4/17 (Wed): Bleached/Hunters/Gross Ghost at Pinhook 4/18...

While performing an incomplete version of what would become “Eyeoneye,” Andrew Bird remarked to the TED audience, “Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and...

Two years after their last release, Water For Mars, Florida hip-hop group CYNE is back with another album for hip-hop heads all over. Wasteland, Vol. 1 is definitely not your typical hip-hop album....

Hip-hop fans have been waiting. Ever since the split of North Carolina hip-hop group Little Brother, many have eagerly anticipated the moment when Phonte would step back in the limelight, grab the mic...

Real Estate has fallen into somewhat of a song-writing algorithm.  I’m assuming their music making process works something like this: Lead Singer, Martin Courtney puts together a few chords and...

It has been a long time since we have heard anything come from the local folk group Bombadil, which is really quite a shame. Maybe that is why I was so excited for the release of All That The Rain Promises,...

M83 does one heck of a job with their latest double disc album, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, which was released on Oct. 18.  Being their sixth studio album, and following behind such pivotal releases...

“This in no way a return to basics; it is an example of how to successfully tackle the complex.”If there was one thing Alan Palomo would have to answer to with his second album as Neon Indian,...

88.1 WKNC’s Pick of the Week 7/7Coming off of the success of his self-released debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago, Justin Vernon, lead singer of Bon Iver, had a lot to live up to. Where he could have...

88.1 WKNC’s Pick of the Week 4/13Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion was the apogee of 2009 music. The first time I heard the album, I was filled with absolute intrigue – complex...

88.1 WKNC’s Pick of the Week 4/6There are few bands as unique as local North Carolina legend Between The Buried And Me.Time has seen this band shift from a pure metalcore band into prog-metal masters....

88.1 WKNC’s Pick of the Week 3/30The San Francisco indie-rock band The Dodos released its fourth album, No Color, March 15. The duo Meric Long and Logan Kroeber teamed up with ex-member Keaton Snyder...