Naughty or Nice?

Feeling naughty? Don't give a flying fig about your waistline or cholesterol level over the holidays? Would you rather chew the fat than gnaw on a carrot stick? If holidays are about happily overindulging now and worrying about the bulge later, welcome to the club. And really, what screams overdoing it more than three pounds […]

The Profiler

The Suspect: Holy Ghost Tent Revival Indyweek.com says the band’s debut album So Long I Screamed has “…the mischievous air of a Mark Twain yarn.” Hailing from Greensboro, this band lists “lollygagging” as its main interest, but members don’t waste any time in bringing audiences out to the dance floor with their toe-tapping blend of […]

Smart Bets

Unsilent Night According to the event's website, "Unsilent Night is composer Phil Kline's free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs and mp3s, and played through a roving swarm of boom boxes carried through city streets every December." It debuted in New York in '92. Join the Asheville contingent on […]

“Silence is more powerful than all the noise in the world"

Chatham County Line has the instruments — banjo, guitar, mandolin and fiddle — and they do the gather-round-the-mic thing. In suits. But, despite the old-time influence and acoustic instrumentation, the Raleigh-based quartet isn't really a bluegrass band. "Through the years we followed our hearts, and realized there are a lot of other bands, like the […]