RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

I think the Details one was actually also circa '92, simply because I 
remember it, and I was neither a big Details reader nor one who paid 
much attention to the Triangle prior to '92. Wasn't it the one where the 
writer went to Pinehaus (aka Wifflefist central) in Raleigh & was 
infatuated with Kathy Poindexter? Or am I thinking of a different one? 
Perhaps Details was actually giving the Triangle more press than anybody 
else.

Generally speaking, Triangle attention Round One (or round X, if you 
like) was post-Athens/REM, so mid-80s, and Round Two (or X+1) was 
post-Nevermind. The coverage in the late 80s/very-early 90s was, to the 
best of my limited ability to research, primarily the odd little feature 
or review of Snatches of Pink or the Veldt, as those were two local 
bands actually attempting to push beyond whatever local underground-rock 
ghetto everybody else was living in.

I re-read the Spin piece (Nov '92, I think it was) the other day (writer 
stays at the "Polvo house," decrees Chapel Hill unready for superstardom 
due to lack of a discernible trademark "Chapel Hill Sound," enjoys Polvo 
& Superchunk, and gets the legendary "this is the Chapel Hill Sound" 
beer opened in his face. Which nameless scenester will take credit for 
that one?). I have the Alternative Press one in a box somewhere. Will 
dig it out soon enough. Along with Hepler's requested Sony Free, though 
I doubt I'll have the energy to scan alla that.

Ross

Nathaniel Florin wrote:
> I dug this bit out of the prototype ch-scene FAQ
> (remember that?) that Grady posted on Dec 12, 1994.
> It's easily found in Google. 
>
> > More to the point, 
> > we figure that if magazines like Spin, Details, 
> > Option, Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, and 
> > Seventeen can spew about what's going on here, 
> > we should seize our chance at equal time via 
> > the Infobahn. 
>
> So in late-1994 we clearly believed there had been a
> significant Rolling Stone article, but I'll be damned
> if I remember it.
>
> I more remember the Details one from 1990(?), which
> listed Raleigh as one of the top scenes in the nation,
> and sold it by mentioning nothing but things in Chapel
> Hill. Things were very indistinct at that point.
>
> Nate
>
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