Tangents Stories

Peter Gray: The darkness between us

Peter Gray has made an album that he doesn’t intend to play live. And he’s okay with that. The Charlotte-based musician spent three years on “The Darkness Closes In” with no intention of taking its thickly-layered rhythms and stylistic whiplashes on the road. For Gray, the album was a chance to throw his ideas onto a larger canvas of sound, and for the record say what he wished to be said. After years of playing with Benji Hughes and many others, “The Darkness Closes In” signals that Gray can

Mickey Gilley at Don Gibson Theater on July 29

I was all set for this show, but I couldn’t decide if my black cowboy hat would’ve clashed with my sparkly wrestling tights, or if my red cowboy hat would have blended with my wrestling mask. My grandfather El Santo (as far as you know) never had problems like this! I heard it was a great show. A living country music legend in Shelby, NC! Dang! Where were you? Where was I? Come back, Mickey. I’ve been looking for country music in all the wrong places, looking for music in too many pretty boy

Belle & Sebastian and Andrew Bird at the N.C. Museum of Art on July 31

A great show by two artists that I don’t see often enough. Listen to their music, and let the images tell the story. Belle & Sebastian Andrew Bird NC Museum of Art Raleigh, NC July 31, 2017