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, Sep 19, 2012
Live review: Mary J. Blige/D'Angelo, Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (9/16/2012)
by Mark Kemp
Hip-hop soul collided with neo-soul in University City Saturday night.
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, Sep 19, 2012
Are the Avett Brothers America's last great rock band?
The folk-rock band has "enough ambition to make even their failures interesting"
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, Sep 5, 2012
The difference between soul food and Southern food
"It's just poor-folk food," my mom told me.
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, Sep 4, 2012
Obama versus Romney: Who might have a better iPod playlist?
by Kimberly Lawson
In which an editor and a reporter debate over the musical choices of the candidates.
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, Sep 4, 2012
Video: Searching for healthy food during the DNC
by Kimberly Lawson
Or, our editor in chief goofing off during yesterday's CarolinaFest in downtown Charlotte.
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, Aug 15, 2012
The most destructive sort of 'progressive' political statement one could make
The plight of today's undocumented immigrants should not be compared to that of Africans kidnapped into the Transatlantic slave trade
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, Aug 14, 2012
So long, old buddy: SXSW creative director Brent Grulke dies at 52
by Mark Kemp
He not only gave South by Southwest its reputation as an influential quality music event, but he was a friend to many.
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, Aug 10, 2012
Sebadoh at Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill (8/11/2012)
by Mark Kemp
Lou Barlow's old band defines the scrappy, emotionally raw indie rock of the '90s .
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, Aug 9, 2012
Ray Wylie Hubbard at the Double Door Inn tonight (8/9/2012)
by Mark Kemp
Lone Star storyteller has inspired legions of fellow Texas songwriters including Hayes Carll and Ryan Bingham.
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, Aug 8, 2012
Spoken-word poetry doesn't get the attention that spoken-word politics does
And that's a shame
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, Aug 2, 2012
Thornton Dial and the Rev. Howard Finster
Is it primitive art? Visionary folk art? Is it naïve art? Outsider art?
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, Jul 26, 2012
Meet your neighbor, Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara
The elitism in our music scene is a little out of proportion
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, Jul 20, 2012
It wasn't God who made Kitty Wells famous...
by Mark Kemp
Country music's first female megastar, who died earlier this week, made her name with a proto-feminist anthem.
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, Jul 18, 2012
Creative Loafing's Soundboard is back
by Kimberly Lawson
While some readers trashed our decision -- and CL -- others made some valid points.
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, Jul 18, 2012
Soundboard returns
We listened to our readers
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, Jul 16, 2012
Chuck Prophet brings San Francisco love letter to Charlotte (7/18/2012)
by Mark Kemp
Paisley Underground-era singer/songwriter announces last-minute date at the Double Door.
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, Jul 14, 2012
Balsa Gliders at the Visulite Theatre tonight (7/14/2012
by Caroline Pate
The Gliders rock the indie spirit of Guided By Voices under the influence of the Silos.
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, Jul 11, 2012
Two polar opposite stories by one writer
Writer paints the seriousness of America I Am with the same rich brush strokes she uses to get across Blowfly's profane humor
by Mark Kemp
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, Jul 6, 2012
Creative Loafing
wants to know: Do you want Soundboard back in print?
by Kimberly Lawson
The move of the concert listings to the Web edition has proven to be quite controversial.
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, Jul 4, 2012
Image
The power of words
People are not "illegals," and we will not be defining them that way.
by Mark Kemp
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