by Andrew Hibbard on September 29, 2009
We tweeted this a couple weeks ago, but Piedmont is hosting a dance party at 10:30 p.m. this Friday, Oct. 2. But this isn’t just Piedmont filling the George’s late-night void. No. There’s some musical oomph behind this event in the form of the event’s disc jockey, known as DJ Blowing Rock. Who is that, [...]
by Andrew Hibbard on January 4, 2009
Raleigh’s News & Observer ran a couple stories in today’s paper expanding on some things we’ve been covering on our blog. First, they posted a brief story about Harrison Haynes and Casey Cook’s drum performance “LRLL RLRR” that included a video.
They also have an interesting profile of the man behind the forthcoming Full Steam Brewery, [...]
by Andrew Hibbard on December 20, 2008
As mentioned earlier, Harrison Haynes and Casey Cook took to the street-front windows of Branch Gallery Outpost to perform “LRLL RLRR” for two hours Friday night. The event served as a sort-of capstone to Cook’s Boom Boom Crash, which closes tonight.
The performance drew attention to a lot of aspects of drumming that usually go unnoticed, accomplishing [...]
by Andrew Hibbard on December 17, 2008
Lots of news about Durham’s celebrated Branch Gallery. First, Branch Outpost, a satellite space located at 111 Orange Street in Durham, now has a blog.
The blog’s first post concerns an exciting event announcement featuring Casey Cook, the artist behind Branch’s current exhibition “Boom Boom Crash,” and Branch co-founder and Les Savy Fav drummer Harrison Haynes. The [...]