A non-comprehensive list of songs that stuck with us this year, with releases from Triangle artists like Reese McHenry, Jooselord, Tre. Charles, Joseph Decosimo, and more.

Little Gem brings sprightly cocktails and a music-infused ethos to the suburbs of Chapel Hill.

Published this spring by Fantagraphics, "Precious Rubbish" harnesses peppy midcentury design to tell a harrowing story of family dysfunction in rural Texas.

From The Rock Wall, an ongoing project of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center, is a vast repository of oral histories from Chapel Hill and Carrboro's historically Black neighborhoods.

A chronological journey through the Triangle releases that stuck with us this year, including Sonny Miles, Magic Tuber Stringband, Fancy Gap, XOXOK, and many more.

The Durham cellist gave up a career in classical music for a life in free improvisation. Sometimes that looks like using the cello as something between an inner dowsing rod and a form of ESP.

Talking with Reid Johnson about the 20th-anniversary reissue of 'You Forget About Your Heart.'

"Jesus Piece," XOXOK's lush debut, has a distinctly old-school feel that wouldn't feel out of place on the Foxy 107 radio Keenan Jenkins grew up listening to.

The museum made the announcement in a late August press release introducing Carolyn Allmendinger, its longtime Director of Education and Interpretation, as interim director.

Returning fourteen years after the last album, Bats & Mice's sound is intact but respectably matured—the band delivering the goods without trying to squeeze back into the skinny jeans.