Album Review: Imperial Teen - Feel the Sound

In 2007, Imperial Teen addressed the obvious on The Hair the TV the Baby and the Band: it’s different being an adult in a rock band. Five years later, the band gets over its mid-life crisis and makes a statement with Feel the Sound.

Opening track “Runaway” is the gateway drug to the rest of the album. Nearly all of the other tracks are growers. It takes a few listens to appreciate the slightly obscured vocals and the slow simmering fuzz of songs like “Hanging About” and “The Hibernates,” but “Runaway” is an instant hit.

Spiritualized announces North American tour, coming to Carrboro

Acclaimed British psychedelic rock band Spiritualized will release their seventh full-length album Sweet Heart Sweet Light in the U.S. in April and will hit the road in May to support it.

The tour will stop at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro on Saturday, May 12. Tickets will go on sale on Thursday, February 2 via Etix for $18.

Check out the song "Soul on Fire" from Spiritualized last album, Songs in A&E, below.

Jeff Mangum revisits Neutral Milk Hotel classics in Chapel Hill

Monday night brought the once reclusive Jeff Mangum, songwriter and mastermind behind the band Neutral Milk Hotel, to Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall for a solo acoustic performance of some of his former band's classic songs.

Mangum started the set with "Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2" and the raucous "Holland, 1945" and proceeded to play the majority of the band's classic 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. The show also included "Little Birds," featured on a 7" with the recently released deluxe edition of the Aeroplane.

Ben Folds returning to Raleigh with NC Symphony

It's shaping up to be a busy year for Ben Folds. He's in the studio through March with bandmates Robert Sledge and Darren Jessee working on a new Ben Folds Five album, due out as early as this spring with a tour to follow. But before that, the piano meister is returning to the Triangle for a pair of dates with the North Carolina Symphony.

Folds will take the stage with the symphony at Meymandi Concert Hall on March 22 and 23 for what is being advertised as two different concert programs to put an "epic twist" on selections from his 15-year career.

Feist expands 'Metals' tour, coming to Raleigh

Canadian singer-songwriter Leslie Feist, aka Feist, has announced new North American tour dates following last year's release of Metals and has added the Triangle to her schedule.

Feist will play Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium, presented by Cat's Cradle, on Thursday, May 3. Tickets go on sale this Friday, Feb. 3, with a presale beginning Wednesday, Feb. 1, via the venue box office and Ticketmaster.

Click through to check out Feist's latest video for "The Bad in Each Other" and a list of tour dates.