The Collective is a television program devoted to bringing the “Triangle” (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Carborro, and surrounding areas) the latest in independent music programming. We air on Carolina 24 (Time Warner Cable channel 24) – Mondays and Fridays at 9:30pm, Wednesdays at 10pm, and Thursdays at 8:30pm.
Our main focus lies in showcasing music videos from national and local recording artists. We have received videos from numerous local producers, as well as from labels such as Merge Records, Barsuk, Matador, Xl, Beggars, Saddle Creek, K Records, Lookout! Records, and more. We air to the potentially 600,000 + cable subscribers in the coverage area, so if you are interested in having your videos seen on the show, please email us
We are always looking for new material. It can be live footage, interviews, old or new videos, simply put we are trying to provide entertaining and quality programming while enhancing the music scene here in NC. Unfortunately you just don’t see these videos on the tv anymore and The Collective is devoted to bringing you the best in local and national independent music videos.
The Current Playlist is below, and some extras:
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Tahiti Boy & the Palmtree Family – “1973″
Emiliana Torrini – “Jungle Drum”
Old Time Relijun – “Wolves & Wolverines”
Mogwai – “Bat Cat”
Mixel Pixel – “At the Arcade”
It Hugs Back – “Work Day”
Jennifer O’Connor – “Always in Your Mind”
Magistrates – “Make This Work”
EXTRAS
Tahiti Boy & the Palmtree Family
Think of a family picture where the Kinks, Paul McCartney or Brian Wilson pose against the lush background of Michel Legrand’s garden, with Vampire Weekend occasionally poking a head. Tahiti Boy shoots the whole scene and each song is like a pop gem. As you’re sitting back and about to relax the pastoral and always-moving 1973 gets hold of you at a restless pace.
(mp3) That Song
Emiliana Torrini
Following on from her critically acclaimed sets ‘Love In The Time Of Science’ and her first for Rough Trade ‘Fisherman’s Woman’, the forthcoming ‘Me And Armini’ (released 8th September) sees her working once again with her long time producer / collaborator Dan Carey. The results are destined to be one of the albums of 2008.
‘Me And Armini’ is a hugely ambitious and aspirational pop record with Emilana’s soaring voice centre stage, bolstered by a rich gamut of musical styles. From the summery skank of the title track to the surging, breathless ‘Jungle Drum’ (released 29th September), the spine-tingling ‘Big Jumps’ and the cave singing of ‘Gun’ this is a truly fantastic album.
(mp3) Me And Armini
Old Time Relijun
These songs are at once autobiography, dream diary, and new myth – politically and sexually charged manifestos for alchemical revolution from a fully realized band, whose conceptual roots dig down as deep as their music. Old Time Relijun songs embrace life in all its joy and terror- birth, death, awareness, experience, love. Live or recorded, they don’t shy away from confronting the monsters that lurk deep in the shadows. At the same time, we hear a band that takes sheer vibrant delight in playing and being alive.
(mp3) Indestructible Life!
Mogwai
Mogwai’s sixth full-length CD The Hawk Is Howling contains all the extremity and dynamics you know and love, but with a more curious array of rhythms and melodies, hinting a bit more than previous records at both their electronic and metal influences. Additionally, with only two songs under the five-minute mark, this is maybe their most “cinematic”-sounding record to date (which is saying something).
Coming to Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle April 24th.
Mixel Pixel
R. Corradetti, M. Kaukeinen, Ms. Kaia Wong, Snee…Mixel Pixel is a three-piece band from originally from Wilmington, Delaware. Their influences include psych-folk music such as The Byrds, Pink Floyd, and Love, Lo-fi music such as Daniel Johnston, and Beck, and experimental electronic artists Bruce Haack and Laurie Anderson.
Mixel Pixel began loosely as a home recording project in 1997 when songwriter Rob Corradetti began making tapes on a 4 track he purchased while working on a farm in rural Minnesota.
In 2007 Mixel Pixel toured with long time heroes Of Montreal. They have also shared the stage with Man Man, Chromatics, Extreme Animals, Chairlift, Grand Buffet, Ra Ra Riot, Grizzly Bear, We Are Wolves, and Pit er Pat.
(mp3) Sinking Feeling
(mp3) I See You In The Mirror
In Concert: May 20th @ 8:00P @ Night Light Chapel Hill, NC
It Hugs Back
You may have come across It Hugs Back before. Fueled by an irrepressible love of music, the foursome have been gigging around town this last year,
effortlessly picking up fans like Rob Da Bank (“…One of my favourite bands of 2007”).A shining testament to the art of growing and honing talent the old-school and evolutionary on-the-road way, It Hugs Back have perfected their luscious atmospherics of My Bloody Valentine-esque layered soundscapes and early 90’s pop-hearted indie melodies coupled with deliciously unleashed guitar noise (“…The band’s not afraid to plug in and turn it up, creating voluptuous rumpus” – Artrocker).
Now signed to Too Pure (aptly home of the loud and the beautifully crafted: Future Of The Left, Scout Niblett, Stereolab), It Hugs Back are in the studio mixing tracks for their forthcoming debut album (due out later this year).
(mp3) Work Day
(mp3) Now + Again
Jennifer O’Connor
10 reasons why you should forget everything you’ve heard about female singer-songwriters and slap on the new JENNIFER O’CONNOR LP, Here With Me…by Gail O’Hara
1. THE NEW ALBUM
The brand spanking new Jennifer O’Connor LP, Here With Me, is here. It was produced, recorded and mixed by John Agnello (Sonic Youth, The Hold Steady, Dinosaur Jr.) in 12 very productive days at Headgear in Brooklyn in March 2008. Basic tracks – including vocals – were recorded live. It will be released on Matador Records on August 19, 2008, and it will bring the Brooklyn musician to the mass audience she so completely and utterly deserves.“I try to make each record better than the one before,” says Jennifer. “I was also going for a more cohesive ‘band’ sound and I think we achieved it. Since we made the record so quickly there’s a real sense of urgency and immediacy in the recording.” – continue reading…
(mp3) Here with Me
(mp3) “Valley Road ‘86”
Magitrates
Hailing from in and around the UK area of Essex, Magistrates have quickly become one of the most talked about new bands around. Forming in 2007, their ethos so far has been strictly DIY, with debut single ‘Make This Work’ recorded in guitarist Mark Brandon’s bedroom on an old school 16-track and its accompanying video shot in the very same bedroom and directed by Mark’s brother.
Within these ordinary surroundings, the hugely ambitious Magistrates are making extraordinary music. They’re as likely to cite Prince and Michael Jackson as influences as they are Talking Heads and Bowie and they’ve taken the best bits from these most glittering of inspirations and come up with something truly distinctive and original.
(mp3) Make This Work
Hope you enjoyed the latest episode of The Collective. If you are a muscian, represent a musician, or are friends with musicians…let’s see your/their work on the show…
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