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Reviews & Trends

Music Review: The Beast's "Guru Legacy"

By Elizabeth Byrum | August 25

With a seamless fusion of jazz and hip hop, and an affinity for social awareness, The Beast certainly grabs the Bull City by the horns and electrifies ...

Music Review: Katharine Whalen & Her Fascinators' "Madly Love"

By Linnie Green | August 25

There’s the music, there’s your expectation of what the music will sound like, and then there’s that space in-between the reality and your prediction ...

Music Review: Amor de Dias

By Tariq Luthun | May 17

Sometimes, life calls for slow, melodic theme music to accompany you along your days — the key word being sometimes. The union of Alasdair MacLean ...

Music Review: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

By Tariq Luthun | May 15

It’s been almost 20 years since they made an album together, but the original members of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones seem to have not lost any of ...

Music Review: Zoon Van Snook

By Joe Faile | December 1

If Gregg Gillis (a.k.a. Girl Talk) were to write his own music, it would sound a little something like Zoon Van Snook and its latest scatterbrained electro-ambient ...

Music Review: Pascal Pinon

By Elizabeth Byrum | December 1

Considering the harsh winter for which Iceland is named, the country sure knows how to churn out heartwarming tunes. In this vein, the young Icelandic ...

Movie Review: Love and Other Drugs

By Rachel Arnett | December 1

Zoloft, Prozac, Viagra, and Anne Hathaway’s shaky Parkinson’s-ridden body knocking over one of her several prescription bottles — a more apt title ...

Music Review: Junip

By Linnie Greene | November 17

The Scandinavian landscape is like a page out of a Brothers Grimm tale. Apparently, so is its music. Junip, comprised of Swedes José Gonzalez, Elias ...

Music Review: Tim Kasher

By Elizabeth Byrum | November 17

Perhaps it’s a jaded marriage in his past, the subsequent divorce or general satirical feelings about the institution of marriage that inspired Tim ...

Music Review: Puritan Rodeo

By Allison Hussey | November 17

The phrase “puritan rodeo” is a paradox if there ever was one. “Puritan” evokes a picture of someone straight-laced and uptight, while “rodeo” ...

Butterflies, signed to Chapel Hill label Trekky Records, will release “Residual Child” this Saturday at Cat’s Cradle, supported by fellow local heavyweights The Strugglers, Erie Choir, Cassis Orange and Wes Phillips. Courtesy of Trekky Records/Butterflies.

Music Review: Butterflies

By Anna Norris | November 17

The biggest difference you notice about Butterflies’ Residual Child is how much of a stark contrast it is to bands like Arcade Fire and The National, ...