Published by A Loud Arcane Toad December 13th, 2007
in Raleigh and Music.
In a series of blog posts, drummer and cartoonist Brian Walsby spiels about the Raleigh hardcore punk scene of the 1980s. Fodder from a book project destined never to become an actual book, these posts include relatively recent interviews with some of the folks involved, as well as quaint interviews from that hoary age before Nirvana, iTunes, and Myspace. It’s interesting reading, although we would have preferred more in-depth reportage on the era of Robert Stewart as COC vocalist. If you weren’t there, well, you missed it. What’s next? The digitization of complete runs of Death Skate and Southern Lifestyle?
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Published by Robert E Leebowitz December 12th, 2007
in Raleigh, Music, RDU and Chapel Hill.
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These two videos are great documents of an earlier time in the Triangle. The first is a 1984 documentary filmed by Alan Hervey, a rising junior at Enloe High School at the time. The next is a local news feature about Triangle Rock becoming the “Next Seattle” in the early 90’s and features Steve Noble, later of Inside Edition fame.
We bore personal witness to both of these phases in Triangle history and these videos are probably of more interest to us than most, especially the 1984 documentary. Both reminded us of some forgotten moments and faces and are a testament to the concept that a large stock of cheap housing near universities can create student ghettoes that teem with creativity. Continue reading ‘How North Carolina Lost Its Punk Accent’
A recent N&O article featuring design prof emeritus Wayne Taylor should be required reading for the “Mah proppity val-yews” crowd. For many folks who own only one house, crazed property values are not desirable. Nor are they desirable for folks who own zero houses, but have rented *I*T*B* their entire lives. Everybody, owner and renter alike, needs four walls and a roof.
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