Chapel Hill favorite Trekky Records will be hosting a label showcase at Carrboro’s Milltown this coming Sunday, Sept. 27 with quieter sets from members of five Trekky bands:
Quoth the press release: “Many will be playing new songs that aren’t quite ready for the full band, some will be playing embarrassing covers from our high school bands. A quiet celebration of the past, present and future of Trekky Records.” Check it out. Sunday, Sept. 27, 7 p.m. Milltown. Oh. And it’s FREE.
After the Yo La Tengo show last night, Midtown Dickens played an intimate house show in Durham with Box Elders that was, per the usual, delightful. Check out the videos below for a glimpse of what you missed (or didn’t if you were lucky enough to be there).
Sian Alice Group is making a stop at the Coffeehouse tonight at 9 p.m. with Polite Sleeper and Distrails on their across-the-pond tour. I caught up with vocalist Sian Ahern of the group, interrupting a visit with her friend, before the band left to talk about their new album and more.
What was different about your approach to this album as compared to the first?
The difference in approach, I think, was purely just experience. There wasn’t a different approach. We did everything really the same way, which is go in, experiment and stick to the same rules. There wasn’t a real change of heart or intention. We were all just really excited about the fact that we’d been given the chance to do it all over again. I suppose we were more excited and less scared and we actually knew more about what we were doing. It just became more fun and more and more enjoyable. There weren’t any new rules and strong changes or anything.
Do you have a clear idea of what the album will sound like when you finish?
Actually, no. For the two albums so far, no. They’re fairly experimental. Although we know, I suppose, what we don’t want them to sound like, and that’s too formulaic or really sticking to trend or genre. Why give yourself those boundaries? It’s not particularly what we’re into. The music we listen to is so varied, and we just want to have fun and see what comes out. So no, there aren’t really intentions. (more…)
Video produced by Lawson Kurtz and Chase Olivieri/The Chronicle.
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof told a packed Page Auditorium that women’s rights is the issue of the 21st century Sept. 17. His visit to the University was the first stop on his tour to promote his new book “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.”
Unequal access to health care, food and education has crippled developing countries and left the world short of about 100 million women, Kristof said.
Telling stories of sex trafficking, physical abuse and mental neglect, Kristof illustrated his emotional and often disturbing anecdotes with photographs of the women of whom he spoke.
Kristof followed his lecture with a question and answer session and a book signing. The first 200 audience members to arrive received free copies of his book, and more were available for purchase.
