RTP-area local music and culture

["country marxist" <countrymarxist AT gmail.com>]

Hey that was the month I moved to Chapel Hill! Now I remember the
reason, too: that Seventeen article! I also  remember Blue Green Gods
being on the cover of some indie rock mag. Seriously, though, you have
to scan that in for us. --Alec

ps hi mary!

On 7/20/06, Mary Brunnemer <marymarymb AT gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking through my magazines that I kept and all I can find is articles
> or small blurbs on individual bands in either Spin or Rolling Stone. So
> either I accidentally trashed it or I made this Rolling Stone issue up in my
> head (quite likely). But I did find an amusing copy of Seventeen magazine
> from July 1993 with a big spread on the CH/Triangle music scene.
> Unfortunately, it's not very informative if you're looking for any musical
> facts or deep insights on the scene at the the time. It's mostly a 4 page
> photo spread with very little text, but still entertaining if you were here
> back in the day, with photos and tiny blurbs on Vanilla Trainwreck, Finger,
> Superchunk, the Connells, What Peggy Wants, Flat Duo Jets, Queen Sarah
> Saturday, Sex Police, Dish, Motorolla and Dillon Fence. Otherwise, all I can
> find is some local paper articles. I guess I have more local paper archival
> stuff than national press, but if you're interested, you can see that stuff.
> I have more Archers stuff than anything else, and the only evidence I have
> of Big Record Stardom is a cool poster, some fuzzy memories, and a local
> Herald-Sun article.
>
> -Mary
>
> On 7/20/06, grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> >
> > Most of the national coverage in that era was in autumn '92, a couple of
> > months after the Big Record Stardom Convention (that was when the
> > articles in Spin, Details & Alternative Press came out, at least). I
> > don't think I've ever seen the Rolling Stone one, so Mary, if you *do*
> > still have a copy (or of anything else local-music-related), I'd be most
> > interested in seeing a xerox or a scan, as I've just cleaned out *my*
> > packrat pile of old music mags, with an eye towards scanning & posting
> > the salient bits.
> >
> > There *may* have been something in Rolling Stone earlier, but the 80s
> > attention, such as it was (there was *precious* little, beyond the odd
> > record review, in Spin throughout the 80s), would've probably been
> > mid-80s rather than late-80s, as that was sort of the valley between the
> > mid-80s and early-90s outside-attention-bursts.
> >
> > Ross
> >
> > >I think I just ran across this issue recently when I was cleaning out my
> > >packrat pile of old music mags. I think I kept the local music issues,
> > >but I'm not sure which ones. Let me check and see if I still have it and
> > >figure out if it's the same one you're looking for.
> >
> > >-Mary
> >
> > >askref AT duke.edu wrote:
> >
> > >I'm looking for a Rolling Stone article that was written in the late
> > >80's or early 90's about the Chapel Hill / Carrboro alternative music
> > >scene.  Does anyone remember this article and if so know when it was
> > >published?  Thanks!
> > >
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