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It came from Athens, Georgia

It stood shoulder to shoulder with anything out of New York — or Manchester, England, for that matter — and spawned a focus on local scenes. First Athens. Then Minneapolis, Seattle and Chapel Hill.

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Bombadil shakes the Wake in Winston-Salem

by Kaleigh Oleynik

While some art invites imagination, Bombadil’s music isn’t so polite. Without waiting for an RSVP from the audience, members of the Durham-based band simply kidnap the attention of anyone who happens to be within hearing distance the moment they start to play.

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Sixty Eight Seasons

“A woman, somewhat intoxicated, grabs the microphone and starts chanting ‘Sixty Eight Months! Sixty Eight Months!’ to the crowd. The first few times it was funny… but after the seventh or eighth time, we had to kindly let her know that it was not the name of our band.

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Rock-pop acts spring out of Greensboro’s Greene Street

Ailyne takes the stage at Greene Street dressed in headbands, skimpy, Day-Glo athletic shorts and tank tops. Their backs to the audience, the band members take shadowy forms as blinding lights beam into the audience and a recording of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” blares from the speakers.

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Bloc Party, New Kids on the Block release new CD’s

This coming Tuesday, one of dance floor/hip-hop’s most recognizable imprints gets squished through a modern day Play-Doh Pumper Number Nine with thick, slick, funky results. Back in the day, spotting the tasty Delicious Vinyl.

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Taking a listen

Boy, is this Charlotte lad young, but his direction is a lot more mature than most 20-year-olds trying to make it in music right now. However, I think that’s not saying nearly enough, because even if you take away his barely two-decade age, the music is still more than just “good enough.

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Festival revolves around film and music

Shalini Chatterjee spent the summer of 1989 hand painting animation cells at New York University. Nineteen summers later the former film student cradles an oversized videocassette inside her West End office and muses on the march of moviemaking technology.

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Resurrecting a lapsed church

This summer flower is wilting, says Kelly Cranford

This summer flower is wilting, says Kelly Cranford, showing just the slightest hint of a pout as she cradles her instrument in the back corner of one of the corrugated metal boxes that comprise at Secure Care Self Storage on Greensboro’s West Wendover Avenue.

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