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The Brute Choir: Palace Music’s Viva Last Blues 30th anniversary

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Post date August 21, 2025
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Palace Music's Will Oldham

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Tara Jane O’Neil Interview: “I open the doors and see what comes through”

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Post date April 26, 2024
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Tara Jane O'Neil

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Tags Alvvays, Hand Habits, LA Takedown, Marisa Anderson, Meg Duffy, Ordinal Records, Retsin, Rodan, Sheridan Riley, Tara Jane O'Neil, The Naysayer, The Sonora Pine, TJO, Walt McClements

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Everything Changes: Rodan’s Rusty 30th anniversary

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Post date April 4, 2024
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Rodan (photo: Ewolf)

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Along the Ramparts: In Conversation with Early Day Miners’ Daniel Burton

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Post date March 20, 2024
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Early Day Miners

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Tags Arcade Fire, Ativin, Bark Psychosis, Ben Swanson, Blue Nile, Brian Eno, Brian [Sampson, Bruce Springsteen, Cat Power, Chris Carothers, Chris Swanson, Christa Blackwood, Crain, Dan Matz, Daniel Burton, Daniel Lanois, Darren Gray, Early Day Miners, Enkindle, Eyehategod, Falling Forward, Grain, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Jason McNeely, Jeff Massey, Jimmy Buffett, Martin Sprowles, Matt Sklar, MetroShifter, Michael Stipe, Monroe Mustang, Pines of Rome, Quintron & Miss Pussycat Happy Talk Band, R.E.M., Rodan, Rory Leitch, Rough Trade, Secretly Canadian, Sinead O’Connor, Solid Brass Records, Special Interest, Stars of the Lid, Steve Shelley, Talk Talk, The Pilot Ships, Thou, Unwed Sailor Julie Doiron, Western Vinyl, Windsor for the Derby

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Engine Roar: In Conversation with June of 44’s Jeff Mueller

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Post date May 11, 2022
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June Of 44 (photo provided by the artist)

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Enablers’ Output Negative Space 15th anniversary

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Post date October 1, 2021
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Enablers

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Tags Charles Bukowski, dAVID hAND, Emma Ruth Rundle, Enablers, Holy Sons, Human Worth, Joe Goldring, June of 44, Kevin Thompson, Lancashire & Somerset, Low, Neurot Recordings, nick cave and the bad seeds, Pete Simonelli, Rodan, Slint, Steve Von Till, Tom Waits

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Polvo: a buyer’s guide and look into the bipolar world of the underground touchstone

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 3, 2020
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Polvo (photo credit: Michael Galinsky)

We put one of Chapel Hill’s greatest exports under the microscope, assessing their era-defining body of work.

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Tags Ash Bowie, Bob Weston, Brian Quast, Dave Brylawski, Explosions In The Sky, Fugazi, Game Theory, Pink Floyd, Polvo, Primavera Sound, R.E.M., Ravi Shankar, Rodan, Slint, Sonic Youth, Steve Popson, The Cheery Valence, Vanilla Trainwreck