jeremymlange:

Come out tomorrow night to show support for the Farmer Veteran Project and Vittles. Phil Cook plays music, we screen films, you have a good time.
http://www.daylightmag.org/news/2012-daylight-and-vittles-are-hosting-bbq

hometapes:

We’re standing on the edge of August, but there’s still some summer left in the tank. Today we’re downright stoked to announce our return to the Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, NC! It’s our home away from home. Next week, we’ll be joining Hometapes official festival performers All Tiny Creatures, The Caribbean, and Family Dynamics — and we’ll be hosting our second Friend Island NC alongside our native friends Trekky Records. In addition to  a striking roll call of sponsors, two rad venues, and secondary performances from our Hopscotch artists, we’re revealing the highly-anticipated solo appearances of two men you may recognize: Matthew White (Fight The Big Bull, Spacebomb Records) debuting the earth-shaking music from his upcoming album and Sunless (a.k.a. Adam of Hometapes) performing for the first time in a decade.

Hometapes’ FRIEND ISLAND and Trekky’s DAY-DREAM Present..

The Blount Street Block Party!

• Saturday September 10
• 11am-5:30pm
• Tir Na Nog & The Pour House
• 218-224 S. Blount Street, Raleigh, NC
• FREE!

Kicking off at 11am with free breakfast at Tir Na Nog!

• Satisfy your oral fixations with treats from CRUMB. 
• Cold brewed iced coffee and hand brewed hot coffee at the Chemex, provided by Joe Van Gogh. 

Be the first in the Triangle to try New Belgium Brewing’s Fat Tire in a can! We’re premiering it, and for only $2.50 each, all. day. long.

Hometapes’ FRIEND ISLAND @ Tir Na Nog:

• 4:00 | All Tiny Creatures 
• 3:00 | The Caribbean 
• 2:00 | Family Dynamics
• 1:00 | Matthew White 
• 12:00 | Sunless

Trekky’s DAY-DREAM @ The Pour House:

• 4:30 | Midtown Dickens 
• 3:40 | Butterflies 
• 2:50 | Daniel Hart 
• 2:00 | Embarrassing Fruits 
• 1:00 | Brice Randall Bickford 

Check out / download / share the poster(by Shaun Sundholm)

RSVP on Facebook.

megafaun:

Hey everyone! We hope you get a chance to check out this next jam from our new record.  It’s called “State/Meant”, and we should probably come clean about the fact that this is the only song on the record that uses Philly’s banjo. ;)  Enjoy! 

State/Meant by Megafaun via Hometapes

hometapes:

MEGAFAUN: album cover, track list, and first single from Megafaun

The first song you reveal from an album — from a band like Megafaun, from an album like Megafaun — says something. How do you tune the world to Phil Cook, Joe Westerlund, and Brad Cook, to the vastness of their minds, to the sheer nature of time? 

MP3: Megafaun “These Words”

Process, songcraft, and toss-and-turn emotion collided when Megafaun’s Joe Westerlund looped together field recordings from his travels in Bali and rural North Carolina: a round-robin of gamelan, ambient sounds, frogs, and cicadas underpin a hauntingly indelible piano melody and a hypnotic beat. Then there are the voices.

This song stopped us dead in our tracks, encapsulating the Megafaun we know and the Megafaun we’ve yet to hear. In between? Well, that’s Megafaun, out September 20, 2011. 

The cover art was created by none other than Aaron Draplin.

Check out the premiere on Pitchfork this morning.

And talk about premieres:

We are excited to announce the first child of Megafaun’s Phil Cook and his wife Heather, born last night in Durham, NC!

Megafaun Megafaun

1. Real Slow
2. These Words
3. Get Right
4. Hope You Know
5. Isadora
6. Second Friend
7. Resurrection
8. Kill The Horns
9. Scorned
10. Serene Return
11. You Are The Light
12. State/Meant
13. postscript
14. Everything

View the album teaser video right here.

Megafaun will be released in Europe in September by Crammed Discs.

LIVE! from Trekky House II: Phil Cook & His Feat (by Trekky Records)

TO BE, RATHER THAN TO SEEM “It’s about dismantling all the things we put on that keep us from being who we truly are. The best trait of North Carolina’s people is the genuine quality they possess.” - Matt Stevens (via 50 and 50 - GALLERY)

Valerie Chiang from Raleigh, NC.

The Last One. Legendary moonshiner Popcorn Sutton, from Maggie Valley, North Carolina,
makes his final run. (via SuckerPunchPictures)

NY Times giving the Triangle some more love… Y’all don’t even know. Read it here. Also, that’s Rock Paper Scissors, where they shaves lines in my head and trims my rat tail all nice like. Represent.

Raleigh Denim: Handcrafted in North Carolina by Sarah and Victor Lytvinenko. (by David Huppert)

The Southern Culture Society’s Carolina ‘Shinefest is coming July 31st to Madison, NC. I’ll be picking up some tips for building my home still.