Thee Dirtybeats’ name promises music that’s edgy and heavily rhythm driven. The Chapel Hill band’s debut self-titled album achieves that in its grungy and aggressive instrumentation, but consists entirely of covers of 1960s songs with more guitar solos.
It’s hard to think of a band that better embodies the sound of North Carolina than the Red Clay Ramblers. The bluegrass group celebrates the state in its 2009 album, Old North State, but its fiddle-driven folk and songs about barbecue have been oozing the traditional sound for 40 years.
A drummer with a broken wrist became an unexpected asset for the Lizzy Ross Band. The impairment was the catalyst for UNC graduate Lizzy Ross and her bandmate Drew Daniel to work harder on perfecting each note of their new CD.
For Felony Fame, it started on the school bus. Riding to school with his headphones on and writing lyrics with a pen and paper, he taught himself to rap.
Wayne Pein was biking in the right lane Martin Luther King Boulevard Monday when a truck passed him via the right turn lane.It’s unclear who started the altercation — but a few minutes later, he and the driver, Kevin John Mitchell, were yelling at each other on the side of the road.
Living with more than three friends might not be the party it seems — especially when town law requires one of you to move out. Junior Winn Wright said goodbye to three roommates Monday after they moved out as a result of Chapel Hill’s Land Use Management Ordinance.
A stranger knocked on the window of the Beta Theta Pi house basement just after lunch Monday. When he came around to the door, he told the cook he was there to do work on the house. He grabbed her and pulled her into a bathroom before she could confirm his story
After the closing of the only Chapel Hill history museum, the town is evaluating how the building will be used — and how to preserve the town’s history without it.
One man has already received life in prison for the death of former student body president Eve Carson — but the fate of his co-defendant is undetermined.
As complications with a federal financial regulations agency thicken, Carrboro will turn to the “next most local” bank as its official depository. After receiving an “Order to Cease and Desist” from the Office of Thrift Supervision on Nov. 23, Chapel Hill-based Harrington Bank likely won’t have the approval from the agency it needs to be chosen as Carrboro’s official town bank by its Dec. 31 deadline.
A fire at Farrignton Lake Apartments Saturday caused $1.3 million in damage. Two UNC football players were among those displaced.
