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Downtown Fayetteville: The Theme Park The header for this story was inspired by something a friend who worked on restoring buildings in Fayetteville had once said to me. He had observed that what the historic society of Fayetteville demanded from Photo: Chris Chun business owners in James Johnson, order to maintain Editor that much desired historic appearance, had almost nothing to do with how the old downtown Fayetteville actually looked and everything to do with how the guys sitting in the seats of power wanted downtown Fayetteville to look. In doing so, he said, they had successfully created an image of Fayetteville as realistic as that of Disney World – progress be damned. I would like to see the following limitations go “the way of the Furby.”

1.) Sign Ordinances

Honestly, nothing quite ruins a picturesque postcard quite like flashing neon “Girls! Girls! Girls!” signs in the background. But our postcards should not get in the way of business owners trying to promote the businesses that people go downtown to attend.

The more limitations you put on business owners and how they can promote their businesses, the more setting up shop elsewhere begins to sound appealing.

Signs help a downtown seem alive and, when done right, bright glowing signs help make downtown Fayetteville feel safe. That well lit corner of Maxwell and Hay Street, with the Cameo, Rude Awakening and Beef O’Brady’s, feels

safer than standing directly in front of ordinances that got in the way of art the Fayetteville police department on was the Skateboard Tree. This was a tree any night of the week. just beside Double Decker Skatepark on Blount Street. Local skaters had 2.) Height Requirement decorated the tree with their retired Since the day God created good ol’ skateboards and wheels. The thing boys (shortly before He created sweet looked awesome and, at the very least, it tea and xenophobia), the good ol’ boy looked like something people would go committee has worked tirelessly to out of their way to drive to so as to have prevent their towns from failing to live their picture taken with it (and I know up to the standards raised by Mayberry. a number of people who did.) Sadly, it The problem here being, Mayberry (or didn’t last. It was considered an eyesore its real life inspiration, Mount Airy, by the standard of the art critics that North Carolina) had a population of work in City Hall, then labeled a “snipe about 8,000 people, whereas the ‘Ville sign.” By city definition, anything that has long since passed the 200,000 mark. is nailed to a post or tree qualifies as The gig’s up guys – we’re no longer a snipe sign (this should mean that small town America. If we expect our people with birdfeeders are reclusive economy to reflect our population, it is outlaws.) The city pressured the park to cut it down. time we start acting like it.

Building owners downtown should The above describes a blatant be given all the encouragement in the abuse of power by city government to world to create additions to our skyline. protect we the people (who gave them Investing in erecting buildings creates that power) from someone’s art. I don’t jobs – period. No, wait...Investing know about you, but I think we’re owed in erecting buildings creates jobs – a “free expression tunnel.” exclamation point.

A wall, a tunnel, a sidewalk or whatever, in which artists are allowed 3.) Art to paint to their hearts’ content, would One unfortunate casualty of be a great way for the city to encourage Fayetteville’s war on progress has been art, discourage vandalism and attract the arts. Art is the greatest visitor art lovers. Plus it would be the most magnet of all time besides maybe a accurate reflection of the actual giant ball of yarn. Technically that falls people of Fayetteville. I’ll take the under folk art, so I stand by my original real Fayetteville over the theme park point. Art means visitors and visitors Fayetteville any day. mean money for our economy, which means more jobs, which means we can all buy pin-wheel hats and live in a utopia.

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Fayetteville Feed Staff: I just wanted to tell you how much my daughters love reading Fayetteville Feed. They were so excited to find your table during the Dogwood Festival and thrilled to get new copies of the Feed! Especially since Autumn Nicholas signed their covers... They were completely stoked! Attached is a photo of my daughters and my niece enjoying the Rock Shop Stage performers and a little Fayetteville Feed. Thanks for helping to create hometown stars (like Autumn) for my daughters to look up to and encouraging a love of local hometown music in them!

Mary Beth Haire, via e-mail

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The Shop of Rock Shawn is one of the true saving graces of this town. I’ve been here since ‘97 and watched venues and scenes come and go.

When I worked retail, it was always a sincere pleasure to have Shawn pass out flyers about upcoming events in the early days of The Rock Shop and to see his passion and devotion to taking his idea and turning it into a hard rocking reality. Congrats to Shawn on this next phase! Fayetteville go here and spend ALL of your money!

Cal, via Web site The Rock Shop Music Hall will be a staple in the music scene in the East for years to come. No doubt, joining the ranks of such places like The House of Blues, and put North Carolina as well as Shawn Atkins (sic) on the minds of everyone in and around music ,and carry the Flag (sic) for our local music scene.

Thank You (sic) Shawn and the rest of The Rock Shop friends and family who helped make this happen. It is a privelage (sic) to say that we have (Evans City Saints), and will continue to step foot on the stage that is “The Rock Shop.”

Jacob Smotherman of Evans City Saints, via Web site your poor poor fayettevillians bashing everything hate gets ya nowhere shaun (sic) is a great guy viniie (sic) is a demon mike was a….blah blah blah get over yourselves if you have ever been a part of a real music scene like LA or nashville or ATL you would knoe (sic) it takes all kinds of venues to truly make a scene.. and if you have been out you would see a ton mof (sic) live music venues in fayettevill (sic) emany (sic?) of them pretty good, and they all deserve a hand up. as it is painfully obvious shawn gives a lot of money to the fayetteville feed which is why you can see his angelic? (sic) smile all over the zine but not a single picture of someone who doesnt (sic) spend thier (sic) ad money here. lighten up fayetteville broaden your horizons, fayetteville is not a two party town. the doghouse has great live music, big harry’s tavern, BS JONES, Via 216,Louis, olarry’s pub (sic), paddy’s, the treehouse,hooters even has live music, it’z, the big apple,\rwc (sic) uses live music, the crown has pulled in some great nationals… this town could be something great if all of you holy than thous (sic) got off your high horses and did cool things to improve the llifestyle of our scene we might actually have one.. funny things are being said about the rockshop (sic) and about jesters; before there was jesters there was misfits before there was the rockshop (sic) (which was a huskle (sic) hardware house thing) there was john j’s and before there was a rockshop (sic) music hall there was kings billiards…thank god the one thing you can count on in this world is change.

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the old owner of jesters mike was not a musician ha (sic) was a business man and a poor one at that (sic) but to bash the new owner come one (sic). as for shaun (sic) he has had people play there who never got paid a cent… before there was the huske hardware house open mic nights (remember shawn adkins there?) there was the answers band…and where did they get to open for nationals at???

JESTERS>> (sic)..hhhmmmmmmm (sic – editor’s note: how do you misspell “hmm”?) get out of your microcosm (editor’s note: and yet you spell “microcosm” correctly) fayetteville and uplight (sic) your sight and your spirits! changes are coming!

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Mike Ness, via Web site Somewhere in the wordgasm above, Mike Ness raised a point or two we’d like to address...

Mike makes the claim that everyone covered in the FEED advertises with us … Lets take last month’s issue. We cover The Rock Shop’s grand opening – the Rock Shop, does in fact advertise with us – Mike’s theory is holding strong so far. Okay, after that, we have a story on the Carolina Chocolate Drops – they do not, nor have they ever advertised with us, nor has their label, Nonesuch Records. Hmm. Still early, so that might have been an accident. Okay, artist Sean McDaniel – not an advertiser.

Nephilym, not an advertiser. Colt Ford – no checks from him either.

Here is the short and simple of it: we are a music and arts magazine. The Rock Shop announces that they are opening up a music venue which can cater to more than 1,000 people, with a grand opening featuring some of the area’s biggest artists – obviously, this is huge news.

The best way to get coverage for any event is to send us a press release.

There are literally hundreds of shows that happen every month – we can’t

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cover them all – and so if we are going to cover it, we require frequent communication (we have short attention spans).

Email our editor, jjohnson@fayettevillefeed.com.

even lived in L.A. IT SUCKS!!! Fayetteville has a lot to offer if you get OVER yourself, quit being a SNOB, go out and get in the mix.

Mike is right. There is no healthy music scene unless multiple music venues exist. Many of the venues listed by Mike were inconsistent music venues or places that simply hosted open mics. We’d love to see these venues put on event shows and would love more venues to encourage variety in the type of performances they host. If and when they do, we’ll be awaiting their e-mails.

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(The following are responses we’d received from March’s column, “The Vice,” by Dawn Elizabeth.)

Thank you FEED…THANK YOU!!! I am so sick of hearing people WHINE about how bad this town sucks. I’ve Toured (sic) all over the country and guess what??? There are ALOT worse places than Fayetteville!!! Life is what you make it and your surroundings are only a small reflection of your OWN attitude towards life. If you have a “shitty” attitude odds are your gonna view the world as, well…shitty. you (sic) would think that everyone that comes here complaining comes from somewhere glamorous like L.A. New York or Miami, odds are they don’t, and guess what??? I’ve been to ALL those cities, I

Great Article! Fayetteville is an up and coming fantastic town!

Growing up in Miami, FL, and then moving here in 1988 (now retired military), Fayetteville IS the quintessential small town America with wonderful Americans living and working here. The town is booming with growth and more and more social things to do everyday (sic). The military acquiesces into civilian life here after they retire, their children are born here, and we all now call it home! It takes a while for any young man or woman coming from any part of the U.S. to adjust to a new location. However, its (sic) not the new location with problems.

The hometowners’ of Fayetteville are honest, down-to-earth Americans who are simply awesome. All I can say to anyone coming to Fayetteville for/from the military, as I did over 21 years ago, welcome to a great place to live and stay ... 1.5 hours to the beach - 3 hours to the mountains or Charleston, SC - 4 hours to Savannah, GA - 5 hours to Atlanta, GA or Washington DC. Stop and smell the roses ...

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Last month... in the column “A Fail of Two Cities,” editor James Johnson expressed concern with the lack of involvement by Fayetteville’s young community in their local government.

Johnson then requested that FEED fans attend the city’s council meeting and have their picture taken with one of the area’s local politicians. Local public servant, and apparent shameless opportunist, Phillip Gilfus sent in photos of himself with the FEED in hand, while accompanied by his paralegal Sarah Larson, and legal assistant Jennifer Conley (he neglected to include the traditional kissing a baby shot.) Sure, Mr. Gilfus, who is running for County Commissioner, is essentially looking for some kind of free advertising for his campaign - but you’ve got to admire his gumption.

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Story by Jaymie Baxley | Photos by Raul Rubiera Jr

It’s approaching midnight at The Cave in Chapel Hill and barely an inch of floor space remains in the tiny underground (literally) venue. The night’s headliner, Dark Water Rising, is wrapping up a particularly fiery set and the audience is hanging on every note. At the conclusion of the band’s final song, front woman Charly Lowery flashes a quick, bemused smile to the crowd. She looks kind of familiar and her voice seems a little too seasoned to belong to the leader of an upstart, indie-rock band from Robeson county.

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In 2004, singer/songwriter Charly Lowry was a season three, semi-finalist on American Idol. While she would like to keep her involvement with the show dissociated from her current band, Dark Water Rising, she still entertains fans’ inevitable questions about the experience.

“I get the usual questions. ‘How was Simon?’ ‘will you audition again?’” Lowry explained. “I understand that it’s

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a pretty big deal for people around here.”

“During American Idol, people would focus on my accent and I would go ‘I don’t want you to focus on that, I want you to focus on my singing,’” she added. “Now, It’s like ‘I don’t want you to focus on American Idol, I want you to focus on Dark Water Rising.’”

Despite the warm reception for her solo outing, Lowry desired a more robust sound she felt could only be achieved

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through the support of a dedicated band.

Shortly after her stint on American Idol, Lowry founded the small, independent record label Greensky Records with her college friend and music producer Aaron Locklear. Her first effort under the Greensky imprint, the Brownskin E.P., was released to regional acclaim in the summer of 2006.

church _ resulting in a fiery mixture of old timey gospel and indie-rock.

Last June, just as Dark Water Rising were beginning to find their bearings, the band was suddenly blindsided.

Lowry was experiencing kidney failure, the result of a decade long bout with IgA Nephropathy and according to doctors, dialysis was imminent. In a rare case of divine intervention or stroke of luck, depending on one’s perspective, Lowry was contacted by the relatives of a recently deceased cousin whom she had never met. His family wanted to donate his kidney to her.

“I was placed on the national list but I only stayed on for 47 days. Usually people have to wait two or three years,” said Lowry. “I never had to go on dialysis.”

Rising returned more impassioned than ever and began a rigorous touring schedule that often found the group bouncing from one corner of North Carolina to the other over the span of a night. This is a pretty common practice for a band with an established following and the financial backing of a larger record label, not so much for an up and coming local outfit just approaching their second year of being active.

“I played in a cover band called Mr. Coffee and the Creamers and the members of that band were from all over the triangle, so I made a lot of connections with bands and venues around the state,” said Lowry.

“We want to reach as many people as possible,” added Aaron Locklear. “Even if it means driving a few hours every night.”

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Lowry and Locklear enlisted the aid of guitarist Corey Locklear, bassist Eric T. Locklear (no relation) and backing singers Ciera Dial and Brittany Jacobs to form Dark Water Rising. With the exception of Lowry, each of the group’s members were professed musical novices.

Without any other reference points, the band decided to draw inspiration from its members’ lone shared influence _

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After Lowry’s operation, Dark Water

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Last month, Dark Water Rising was among seven artists handpicked to perform during the grand opening of the new Rock Shop Music Hall. The band’s performance garnered much praise from the audience, with a number of the event’s 900+ attendees declaring it the night’s best.

“They delivered more so than any other band that night,” said Music Hall patron Bruce Horne. “I can’t wait until

they come back.”

Unsurprisingly, the band didn’t stick around Fayetteville long enough to bask in the fanfare and were already traveling to another show by dawn the following morning.

Currently, the group is putting the finishing touches on their self-titled debut album, which was recorded at EMMR studios in Winston Salem.

“We recorded it over three

weekends,” said Aaron Locklear. “It was definitely a learning experience for us, being our first time in a professional studio environment.”

The band intends to release the album by the end of July.

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Story by James Johnson | Photos by Raul Rubiera Jr

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anny Hirajeta’s one bedroom apartment may at first glance seem like a shrine to preadolescence with its abundance of comic book action figures, 1980s movie posters and colorfully designed skateboards. However on closer inspection, one realizes that these are not the signifiers of a man stuck in the past, but rather an artist fixated on his future.

Hirajeta is the creator, writer and illustrator for the independent graphic novel, “The Sinner and The Saint Remix Paradise: Vol. 1,” which can be purchased online at Amazon. com, or at a Barnes & Noble near you. Volume 2 should be in stores sometime this year.

The novel tells the story of nice guy Robert, a full-time student, and his roommate Danny, a part-time thief with delusions of grandeur, who, for some unexplained reason, have become the target of demon possessed strippers, black Madonnas and voodoo (so basically it’s Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple” with a twist.)

“I actually wanted to draw comics since I was in the 7th grade,” said Hirajeta. “I saw some Jim Lee comics and it really inspired me.”

Though born and, for the most part, raised in Fayetteville, Hirajeta spent five years, from 1995 to 1999 (he missed out on the boy band craze) in the country of Japan, where he was formerly introduced to the genre of manga (and its animated cousin, anime.)

“I fought so hard not to be suckered into that stuff, I was desperate,” admitted Hirajeta. “Don’t get me wrong, there is some amazing manga out there, but a lot of it is crap, and I didn’t want to have anything to do with that. But when you’re in Japan, it is kind of impossible to resist, so eventually I gave in.”

Honing his talent has opened a number of doors for Hirajeta, who has seen his art used for everything from skateboards to the promotional campaign for the Cumberland County Library’s annual Librari-Con (an event in which he is a featured guest.)

One of the most successful uses of his talents however, has been as the official artist for Fayetteville’s own Rogue Roller Girls Roller Derby team.

“He does all our flyers and has just been amazing,” said Darci Kearn (or as she’s known in the rink: TriixE Titanium.) ”Usually what happens is, we’ll come up with an

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This is his normal state of mind.

Rogue vs Dominion flier, copyright 2010 D. Hirajeta

SSREMIX “Premythology” cover, copyright 2010 D. Hirajeta

The Lovers, copyright 2010 D. Hirajeta idea and we’ll bounce it off of him. He has always done such a fantastic job. We’re really impressed with his work.”

The arrangement has worked to benefit both parties, as it exposes new communities to Hirajeta’s work every time the Roller Girls travel for a bout.

“Other teams will see our flyers and approach us, asking about him,” Kearn explained.

Hirajeta has been enjoying the work, having even considered sneaking a roller derby girl into his own comic series.

“You know, I’m getting kinda good at drawing roller girls,” joked Hirajeta.

For now, Hirajeta has a laundry list of commissioned art ahead of him and even some new novels in mind. He hopes to stay in Fayetteville noting that the city is particularly good for artists due to its low cost of living.

“Many of the cities I’ve lived in before, like Los Angeles, were nearly impossible _ I was feeding my cat Cheerios,” said Hirajeta.

“That’ll teach you the meaning of being a starving artist.”

SSREMIX “Paradise” cover, copyright 2010 D. Hirajeta

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hough Fayetteville has produced several notable estimates that he has hand distributed hundreds of free copies hip-hop talents over the last year (including of Man Cave Music. breakout artists such as J. Cole, Cardiact and “Whenever we pass out a CD we always say two things: Klassified), backpacker hip-hop remains ‘please listen to this’ and ‘if there’s something on this that you something of an oddity to our city. “Backpacker” don’t like or would want changed, call us and let us know’,” he is a term widely used to describe a particular strand of socially said. “I have yet to receive a single phone call.” aware indie hip-hop, characterized by its rejection of material The band intends to record their first full length album excess, emphasis on intellectualism and use of unorthodox, over the summer. Regardless of what occurs after that, the often heady, beats or samples. group insists that they will remain true to their humble origins.

Rapper Ezzie B. and producer B. Doom of Prosthetik “If this goes anywhere, I’ll be wearing the same s**t I’m Intelligentz are poised to become Fayetteville’s pilgrims to this wearing now,” proclaimed B. Doom. oft-maligned sub genre.

“Where I come from, it doesn’t matter how much money Ezzie B. (real name: Ezra Baptiste) was born in Haiti but you have, it’s all about your name,” added Ezzie. “At the end of moved to America when he was nine years-old due to harsh the day, my bank balance can look like a phone number but I’m boyhood circumstances. not in this for the money.”

“I’m left handed and, in Haiti, it is seen as kind of demonic While they may not have wealthy aspirations, the group to be left handed, so I would receive severe beatings in school. I openly admits that they do have an agenda of sorts. would come home and my hand would look like Hellboy’s,” he said.

“Eventually my dad got tired of me coming home with broken fingers, so he said ‘we’re going to send you to the United States.’”

Ezzie’s partner, producer B. Doom (real name: Bryson Dumas), originates from Canton, Ohio where he attended a performing arts school and studied various classical instruments, including the clarinet and alto saxophone.

“I began to play music on any instrument or device From Left, B. Doom and Ezzie B. squinting something fierce.

I could get my hands on,” B. Doom said. “As a producer, I don’t really want to be “We sat down one evening to try and come up with a lumped into a category based on what programs or tools I use. name for the band and we tossed around some pretty bogus I remember being stationed in Iraq and playing with an old names,” explained Ezzie. “Then I thought about what we are school Playstation game console with MTV music generator doing, ‘prosthetic’ pertains to something that’s man created, and making fire.” ‘intelligence’ is something that you can possess...We want our The two became acquainted, like many friends in music to make people smarter.”

Fayetteville, while serving in the military.

“We just added in the crazy letters to make ourselves seem “We were in a tent and I asked this other (Ezzie B.) soldier harder,” joked B. Doom. standing at my 3 o’ clock to listen to a beat I had just made. I pressed the headphones to his ear, he went ‘that’s nice!’ and “We’re going to take this as high as it will go,” declared Ezzie. “I want people to be able to hear our music and be able then he started rapping over it,” recalled B. Doom.

According to Ezzie, this spontaneous action marked the to take something from what we’re saying.” first time the budding emcee had ever rapped. The duo later You can listen to the Man Cave Music E.P. in its entirety for bonded over their shared appreciation of hip-hop luminaries free at: http://www.myspace.com/prosthetikintelligentz1.

Mos Def and J Electronica and decided to start making music together.

The group’s debut E.P., Man Cave Music, was recorded over three months in B. Doom’s home studio. Since March, Ezzie

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t is a sunny Wednesday morning and alternative rocker Erik Smallwood is sitting just outside the Rude Awakening Coffee Shop on Hay Street, nursing a scratchy throat while local film maker Tony Murnahan sets up for what was supposed to be a simple video shoot. Though still getting over a weekend of nonstop performances, Smallwood is in his usual high spirits, he takes a sip of his honey laced tea then perks up at the sight of two middle-aged black women in the distance. He begins strumming his guitar while mouthing, “watch this,” then begins singing a near perfect rendition of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 classic, “Let’s Get it On.” Both women light up, one of them silently mouths the lyrics to the song as she passes. Smallwood’s voice waivers and he stops mid-note, laughing at himself.

“Too early to be singing that high,” Smallwood jokes. “Now you know why it is so hard to get me to sing in the mornings. I’m just getting over playing in bar after bar.”

If Smallwood’s dance card seems unusually inflated, it isn’t by accident.

Despite seemingly coming out of nowhere, the 26-year-old Smallwood has had an active music career for some time now. Smallwood’s musical career began in his hometown of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, population 12,846. Despite its size, Shoals is said to be famous for its contributions to popular music, most notably being the home of FAME Recording Studios, which had served as a studio for Aretha Franklin, Lynyrd Skynrd and The Osmonds.

Smallwood first began to play music in church, forming a Christian rock band called Salvatron at the age of 13 (an age in which adding the word “tron” to the end of anything automatically made it seem cooler.)

The band lasted almost seven years, and helped Smallwood develop a confidence on stage.

“I remember being like 16, 17 years old, and we’d be playing in front of six to 7,000 people for some local festival,” Smallwood said. “That really forced me to get comfortable real fast.”

Despite the relative success of Salvatron, Smallwood’s music career didn’t kick into high gear until about two years ago, when on a whim Smallwood followed a friend’s advice and moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was told he would find a lively music scene and plenty of opportunity. As it turned out, he was told right. Smallwood quickly found himself becoming a fulltime working musician, playing gig after gig every weekend, until eight months ago when Smallwood said that he became burned out on doing shows and began to long for a steady 9-to-5 job. Smallwood moved to Fayetteville to pursue a job opening as a worship leader at a church in town. The job, unfortunately, fell through; however it gave Smallwood a much needed breather before finally deciding to return to his first love.

As if starting his career from scratch, Smallwood began building a Fayetteville following by playing one or two songs at the Monday open mic nights at The Coffee Scene on Morganton Rd. “I knew he was a talent the moment I saw him perform,” said artist Neil Ray, who serves as one of the emcees at the Coffee Scene’s open mic

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night. “I knew he had a style about him that was definitely his own … his voice is great and his originals were so soulful and warm. I knew whatever was in Smallwood’s future would be great.”

Ray wasn’t the only person who saw greatness in Smallwood. Since he began performing in Fayetteville again, he has earned gig after gig at Paddy’s Pub, the Rock Shop, Angry V’s, and even many venues outside of town. Smallwood is currently working on an album of his original music that he will record with his touring band, which consists of drummer Justin Holder, bass player RoSean Alexander and lead guitarist/ synth player/piano player, Ryan Gustafson.

“I’ve been working on this thing forever now. It has just been a pain in the butt, due mostly to trying to finance it on a starving artist’s salary...Yeah, I know, does it look like I’m starving?

Not really. But still, I am really looking forward to this album coming out. I think people will really like it...I will tell you straight up that the reason I respect the Fayetteville music scene more than anywhere else is because they love original music. In Raleigh or Chapel Hill, if they don’t know you, they don’t wanna hear you unless you are doing covers.”

E.P. or not, Smallwood’s first love remains the act of live performance and the back and forth energy that can only be gleaned from an audience.

“Sometimes it is a bit more fulfilling ...I just like to have fun and I know a lot of artists are really, really serious. There’s nothing wrong with being serious about being an artist, but you should know to let loose sometime,” said Smallwood.

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Story by James Johnson | Photo by Raul Rubiera Jr

Despite having only been officially playing together since November of 2008, indie rock band Doc Aquatic have managed to create a set list of more than 20 songs, gain a passionate following throughout North Carolina and secure regular gigs at some of North Carolina’s highest profile venues, including The Soapbox in Wilmington and The Cave in Chapel Hill.

However, what is most surprising about the Boonebased indie foursome isn’t where they’re going, but where they came from: Fayetteville. And on May 28, 9 p.m. at The Coffee Scene on Morganton Road, the boys are coming home, with opening act from fellow Fayetteville native, folk singer Manquillan Minniefee.

Fayetteville, the city that has become best known in the music community for exporting some of the heaviest rock this side o’ Metallica, may just as well have helped give birth to North Carolina’s next great indie band (Avett Brothers be warned).

Doc Aquatic consists of vocalist/guitarist J.C. Hayes, bass player Charles Gately, drummer Zach Hayes and guitarist/pianist Adam Grogan, all of which (with the exception of Greensboro native Grogan) hail from the All-American city of Fayetteville. The band formed shortly after Zach and Gately joined Zach’s brother, and fellow Terry Sanford graduate, J.C., in Boone to pursue their education. Growing up in Fayetteville, J.C. had always felt that the music he loved was never fully represented in the city he called home. As a result, he waited until he had moved for college before embracing his talents.

“I was kind of envious of towns that offered good indie music scenes,” explained J.C. “… I felt discouraged as a songwriter growing up in Fayetteville, because there was nowhere to play that was a good outlet for our style of music. We’re not really heavy metal by any means, but that was all that was offered there.”

Once formed, the band, which is named for the 118th hobo listed in author John Hodgemen’s book, “The Area of My Expertise,” almost instantly began writing and recording music. But it was through being discovered by the popular New York-based jazz trio,

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The Mumbles, when Doc Aquatic began to take flight.

“We’d never met them before, but we got a message from their booking agent asking if we’d like to play a show with The Mumbles the next time they came through North Carolina,” said Gately. “We did the show and made friends with them, and since then they’ve had us perform with them in all their North Carolina shows.”

“We learned a lot from them, and we’ll be playing shows in New York later on in the year,” said J.C. “Their music is really different from ours. They aren’t like a normal band - they have their own sound.”

The feeling is obviously mutual.

“We’re always looking for good bands, people who have a good vibe,” said The Mumbles vocalist and keyboard player, Keith Burnstein. “They’re great guys, as ’bout as nice as could be, and we love their music. It is like the highlight of our trip. They’re excellent people.”

Though The Mumbles had opened doors for the fledgling band, it was Doc Aquatic’s fans that rolled out the welcome mat during their Wilmington performances.

“The Soapbox invited us back any time we wanted to come play,” said Grogan. “Apparently we attracted the biggest audience they’d seen in a month - plus we kinda have an alcoholic following, so they bought plenty of drinks.”

Despite the band’s success outside of Fayetteville, they hope their upcoming show at Fayetteville’s Coffee Scene will net them a large audience in an area where they are still mostly unknown. More importantly, the boys of Doc Aquatic are looking forward to finally being able to play in front of their families and friends.

“I’ve always wanted to do a show on the old Rowan Street stage,” said Gately. “We’d do the show for free. It is just a dream venue, and it would nice for our families to see us.”

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This month the FEED decided to do something slightly different with our music review page, by reviewing local artist releases. If you have an album that you would like to see reviewed (be forewarned, we hold all albums to the standard of national releases, as they are all competing for the same money), then email us at JJohnson@FayettevilleFEED.com.

Review: Hello | Artist: The Clean Escape Review by Tyreese Jackson Hello, the debut E.P. from Fayetteville’s The Clean Escape, is a surprisingly polished collection of merely serviceable alternative pop songs.

On early band staple, “Afraid”, vocalist Jonny Ray makes working class concerns, including not getting paid or losing a girlfriend after a fight, sound like possibilities of apocalyptic proportions.

Ray finds the latter of these possibilities realized on the forgettable “Better To Lose It “, but is determined to press on. Both songs are equally banal, but “Afraid” at least offers a catchy chorus.

Elsewhere, a series of overly sentimental metaphors about shoes and painting nearly derail “Before I Found My Throne“ but luckily, the song recovers halfway through and transitions from a clumsy ballad into something a little more graceful. “Oh,

Love” has the opposite problem as it recalls Pinkerton era Weezer in the beginning but then takes an ill advised detour into progressive rock territory near the end.

Review: Me Believes In Me | Artist: Prosthetik Intelligentz

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It’s obvious that The Clean Escape have high art ambitions but too often they end up sounding like a second rate Warped Tour band.

An exception being the brief but lovely “Hello,” (for which the E.P. is named) a winning foray into electronic music that recalls the Postal Service. The song has insane potential, however, is not reflective of the band’s overall sound.

Hopefully, “Hello” is an indication of things to come from the band.

Overall, the E.P. is a highly polished outing, that proves the band capable of producing passable music, but fails to make the case for their originality.

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Me Believes In Me is the debut E.P. from Fayetteville band Prosthetik Intelligentz, who, like Blackalicious and Little Brother before them, create polite but adventurous hip-hop.

An infectious sample drives the standout “Diddy-Dum-Dum,” elsewhere the excellent “Don’t Stop” nods subtly to hip-hop’s disco origins. Producer B. Doom’s sample selections are inspired and Haiti-born rapper Ezzie.

B is a talented lyricist, prone to playful couplets like “I’m so excited like a sailor

getting shore leave/ And I just bought a whip that’s capable of warp speed.”

If Me Believes In Me is any indication of the quality to follow on the band’s first album proper, than Prosthetik Intelligentz could potentially open the floodgates for forward thinking hip-hop artists in the area.

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

by Seth Grahame-Smith

Book review by Tasina N. Ducheneaux I’m not even sure where to begin.

In a lot of ways this is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. BUT. I am a big vampire mythos fan…so in a lot of other ways, this book was just freakin’ awesome. I will start by warning you that if you are not a vampire fan, don’t even bother with this book _ it is probably not for you.

Also, if you don’t like “fictionalized” versions of history, run away. As should be obvious from the title of the book, Grahame-Smith has re-imagined our 16th president and his life story in terms of a quest against the evils of vampires.

If you paid the slightest bit of attention in history class, you know the basics of the Honest Abe tale: born in poverty, split some logs, self-educated, a lot of personal loss, became a lawyer, became a politician, became president, freed the slaves, shot, etc. This book tells Abe’s tale based on newly discovered secret journals that give the real motivation for all that Abe did in his life _ to rid the United States of Vampires.

Abe learns about the existence of vampires as a young boy. He is griefstricken by the death of his beloved mother from a mysterious illness. His father drunkenly confesses that he borrowed money from a vampire loan shark and when he couldn’t repay, the vampire took the payment in blood _ literally. Abraham is shocked and furious with his father and vows revenge against all vampires. He sets about trying to strengthen himself physically (enter obsessive log-splitting) and educating himself on how to best kill the vamps.

When Abe tries to kill an old-lady vampire who is in the midst of a child abduction, he is almost killed in the process. He is saved by another vampire named Henry. At first Abe is repulsed to be in the presence of a minion of evil, but Henry convinces him that not all vampires are the same and

If he were a babe, he’d be called “Babe-raham Lincoln” - Wayne’s World.

bright matches to blind and disorient the blood-suckers. He then starts traveling around looking for vampires to kill. Sometimes Henry sends him letters pinpointing specific vampires who are part of the take-over cabal.

One piece of horror that Abe discovers is that the entire institution of slavery was created and supported with the help of vampires. They wanted a source of food that would be questioned by no one. Southern vampires would buy the old, weak and unwanted slaves and then have feasts in secret locations.

This knowledge is what causes Abe to become a passionate abolitionist and thus become of a part of the events leading to the Civil War. (Because...you know...buying and selling human beings for slavery, tearing apart families, and suppressing and abusing an entire race of people isn’t so bad, but eating them is a no-no? Really a weak and kind of offensive way to phrase this horrible bit of American history.) Of course Abe’s assassination was all part of a vampire plot, but ultimately his fight to rid America of a vampire plague wins out in the end and Abe lives on forever _ in some form or another.

As I said I like vampire stories and thought this tale was a good addition to the genre. If you’re not a vampire person, give it a try anyway. It’s well written, amusing and just kind of fun.

I give this an enthusiastic five stars.

that he wants to aid Abraham in his quest. Henry teaches Abe the history of vampires (driven out of Europe, perhaps cursed beings of Satan, perhaps just another species), how best to kill them (beheading, fire, stake to the heart), what myths are wrong (garlic just makes you easier for a vampire to smell, vampires can get used to sunlight but have to wear shades), etc. By the way, vampires don’t sparkle prettily in the sunlight _ take THAT “Twilight” fangirls...really wanted to see Abe open a can of whoop-ass on Team Edward.

Henry tells Abe that he doesn’t think vampires should wantonly kill the innocent, that vampires are trying to L★ ★ ★ ★ ★ take over the country and make it a Run out and buy this book vampire paradise and that there are immediately or you’re an idiot. other vampires who are aligned with Tasina likes to read. Tasina is also quite this cause.

Abe befriends Henry and learns all critical. You can reach Tasina at tasina72@ he can from him. He creates for himself yahoo.com. a vampire-killing costume. Picture the cool “Matrix” duster with loops and pockets for axes, stakes, and super

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Splinter Cell: Conviction Stealth Gaming + “Bourne” Action Game review by D’Juan Irvin | Screenshots: Ubisoft Picking up three years after “Splinter Cell: Double Agent,” “Splinter Cell: Conviction” is both a departure from the original “Splinter Cell” formula and a continuation of it.

It’s the evolution of “Splinter Cell.” Sam Fisher, no longer a member of Third Echelon, is on a mission to find the person that killed his daughter _ and he’s extremely pissed.

The official end of “Splinter Cell: Double Agent” left Sam an enemy of the state. Now, without the Third Echelon rules to tie his hands, he has become brutal. You’re made well aware of this within minutes of starting the game during an interrogation that shows us a few of the upgrades. The most obvious during this sequence _ Sam does what it takes to get information. Vicious attacks that break his informants’ heads through sinks, urinals and stall doors are the standard here, and Sam looks completely comfortable.

While this “Splinter Cell” is faster and more vicious than any of the previous installments, you can still play the game as fast or as slow as you want. You can either run and gun “Bourne Identity”-style or you can take it slow, classic “Splinter Cell”-style.

Rather than having a meter to tell you whether or not you’re hidden in the shadows, you’re reminded by the color of the game play. If the screen is black and white, you’re hidden. If the screen is in color, you might want to find some shadows. This can be a bit jarring at times, especially in areas where you bounce in and out of light, but you get used to it.

One of the most controversial new features for the “Splinter Cell” purists is mark and execute. With M&E, a melee kill unlocks the ability to mark as many enemies as your weapon allows (up to four with pistols and three with submachine guns and assault rifles based on the current weaponry.) If all enemies are in range, initiating it starts a short action sequence where Sam stylishly and silently executes headshots on each one.

It’s easy to see how gamers would be upset with this feature, considering how easy it is to do. You can clear out a room of five enemies in seconds. Some say that it cheapens the game-play, but I respectfully disagree. If we’re playing the game as the king of all that is badass it’s only fair that you act as such.

The biggest problem overall with M&E and the game as a whole is that there isn’t a way to hide the dead guys laying around on the floor after you’ve had your way with them. If you’re trying to sneak into a base of enemies, leaving “dead guy surprise” cake isn’t the best option. Wouldn’t you agree?

Still, my biggest disappointment is the amount of racket caused by the enemies once you’ve been spotted. Not only are

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they loud about trying to find you, they’ll regularly taunt you by calling you out by name. They’re calling out the world’s best secret agent and taunting him. If that’s a good idea, I’m the next attorney general.

Not content to have only a single-player campaign? There is a co-op campaign with its own characters and locations completely independent of the single-player campaign.

That’s not where the multiplayer action ends though, as there are four other modes. ‘Hunter’ tasks you with eliminating all enemies, ‘Last Stand’ lets you defend an objective against waves of enemies, ‘Face-Off’ is a battle between players with bots thrown in for good measure and ‘Infiltration’ tasks you with eliminating all enemies without being detected.

All these modes are fine and good, but the most glaring and sorely missed multi-player mode is any iteration of the spies versus mercenaries game-play mode. For the uninitiated, spies versus mercs was a mode pitting acrobatic and tranquilizer weapon-carrying spies versus the assault rifle and grenade-packing mercs in objective based games.

This has been a standard since 2004, but for some reason Ubisoft decided to scrap it. One on one (with bots) may be intimate, but without a more thorough competitive multiplayer option, I have doubts that this game will keep gamers busy beyond a few hours of play.

I’ve got to say, I was mostly impressed with this latest outing of “Splinter Cell.” While it’s not the slow-paced stealth game as it was in previous years, it’s broken out of the shell with style. If you’re looking for a stealth game that still has the action-packed moments of a “Jason Bourne” movie, you’ve found it. “Splinter Cell: Conviction” is well deserving of your time.

L★ ★ ★ ★ ★ D’Juan Irvin is the owner and Editor-In-Chief of GAMINGtruth. com, where he and his staff write regularly about gaming and the gaming industry.

Paddy’s guide to:

Supporting Your Town

by Paddy Gibney The majority of the great things that have happened to me in my life came about in two ways; I tripped up and fell into them or I got dragged into them kicking and screaming. Examples would be: learning how to masturbate, being with a woman for the first time, expressing myself to those I love (and dislike), performing music for a living, owning a bar, having a relationship with God and even the decision to emigrate to America when I was 18. I have been in Fayetteville for the majority of the 23 years I have spent in this amazing land.

My soccer coach loaned me a guitar when I was a sophomore in college and here I am many years later still playing an instrument and singing silly songs that for some reason people continue to come out and support (which has a great deal to do with my dear friend and colleague Bill Ayerbe.)

To be honest, we first developed an audience in Wilmington. Fayetteville slowly followed thanks to the patient support of friends who have long since abandoned us in large numbers from the time we flew the nest. In subsequent years we developed fan bases in Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte and Charleston, South Carolina. Throughout those times we met many people with varying opinions of Fayetteville. Most of these opinions were negative, however many of these people had never even visited here. Fayetteville has come a long way in the past 20 years. The folks behind downtown development are heroes in my opinion, just like our military (whom without we wouldn’t have a country, much less a city.)

Many attempts have been made to change the perception of Fayetteville to our neighbors. Examples include; the proposed Diversity Tower. Noble intentions I’m sure were behind it, but the cost could never be justified in a place where so many gaping holes were needed to be filled that would cost much less. For instance, whatever happened to the horse-mounted police officers that used to patrol downtown? Phased out due to budget restrictions I guess. That’s sad because it was a wonderful thing to see downtown for old, young, locals and visitors alike.

Another example was the Festival of Flight in 2003. It was to be a celebration of the centennial of flight, something that is commemorated on every automobile license plate in the state. Of course, the Wright brothers first did their thing in Kitty Hawk, a considerable distance from our home town of Fayetteville. The original projections for this ‘festival’ were that one million people would be attending. I remember thinking, “Where are one million people going to sleep in this town?” Also, “Where will one million people take a sh*t?!” The end result was unfortunate and embarrassing although those with noble intentions should be commended.

The point of this banter is twofold. Change has to come from within. As the air hostess says, “put the oxygen mask on you before attending to others.” We who live here must change. Try to support this young city and those who are doing good things for its future.

Try to shop in town, especially if the price difference is minimal. Incidentally, without naming names, I have it on good authority that there is an elected member of our city council who bought a luxury vehicle in Chapel Hill several months back because it was $100 less than what it cost here at a dealership in Fayetteville. Think about that for a moment...That’s a sad fact Jack!

I recently stumbled into another great thing: the Fayetteville Feed. This endeavor has not been undertaken with profit in mind, rather it has been a labor of love. Please give us a chance Fayetteville. Please help some young people make a difference that is good and positive. Embrace our endeavor. It will make you proud one day. I promise you!

Paddy Gibney is the owner of Paddy’s Pub and can be found there reveling and singing most any evening. He can be contacted at www.paddygibney.com.

The Vice by Dawn Elizabeth

Q: I’m a young, dude hot looking for a relationship with an older woman. Older are women more mature, won’t be crazy and will understand the things that girls my age won’t. When I talk to older women, it’s like they are more experienced and will know how to treat me and understand me. Where can I go to find older women who won’t look at me like I’m still in high school and treat me as serious boyfriend material ? ~Cougar Hunter

A: This isn’t a personals ad, Cougar Hunter, so you don’t have to sell yourself to me. I’m going to require photo proof of ‘hot and young’ from now on though. Who calls themselves that?

Have some modesty. All women regardless of age dislike arrogance in a man. Don’t try to say it’s confidence because a confident man wouldn’t have had to put it out there. There’s your first lesson ... in life.

But what you’re really looking for is a chick who will be too busy to notice your indiscretions.

Let me translate your “criteria:” 1.) Won’t be crazy and will understand things girls my age won’t = will feel so lucky at their age to have someone as young and hot as me in their lives that they won’t want to mess it up by digging through my stuff and looking for proof I’m creeping.

2.) It’s like they are more experienced = I want to have amazing sex with a woman who will know more since she’s been around longer.

3.) Who will know how to treat me and understand me = I am looking for my mother.

You sound like a kid in high school looking for a teacher to break the rules for you. That right there is the reason you should probably stick to chicks your own age until you are mature enough to understand that all women are girls. You might think that older women won’t give you crap for being an ass, but the truth is Ms. Robinson knows that guys like you are a dime a dozen and will kick your bum to the curb. Snagging a “cougar” is easy. But you will never tame her and it takes a real man to handle her.

So, forget about chicks for the time being and grow up, get some mileage on your life experience and come back when you are ready to be a man to any woman, regardless of their age.

Dawn Elizabeth is a writer, photographer, columnist and avid Facebooker who has an opinion on everything and insists on sharing it with everyone. Dawn can be reached at dawne@fayettevillefeed.com, contactdawn@aol.com or on Facebook.

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Voluntary Censorship

Last month, I spoke at length with local hip hop duo Prosthetik Intelligentz about a bothersome trend amongst our area’s Photo: Albert Stichka hip-hop artists: that Jaymie Baxley, is the voluntary Head Correspondent application of the iconic “parental advisory” label. The infamous black and white sticker was introduced in 1985, after Tipper Gore’s paddle ball was confiscated by an orderly in her nursing home. She decided to take her frustrations out on the music industry.

The intention of the sticker was to limit the circulation of albums featuring lyrics deemed “explicit” by a committee consisting of those two cynical old muppets that hang out in the balcony and berate everything they don’t understand. It was, in essence, a form of passive aggressive censorship.

Predictably, the sticker popped up in some pretty dubious places. Frank Zappa’s 1986 instrumental album, Jazz From Hell, was famously saddled with the sticker despite being a wholly instrumental work and thus containing no lyrics that could be interpreted as “explicit.” Today, national recording artists operating under the watchful eye of major labels don’t really have an option. They have

to include the sticker on the cover of their album if they want the physical copy to be distributed through big box retailers like Best Buy or Target, two of the last places on earth where people actually purchase physical music. Local artists, however, don’t have family friendly corporations breathing down their necks and have the luxury of releasing albums with cover art unblemished by an ugly barred rectangle.

So, why then do our local artists insist on placing the label on their album and mix tape covers?

Is it because they feel that the sticker lends authenticity to their product? I sure hope not. The “parental advisory” warning is a dated relic from the CD era.

It’s an antiquated symbol that most listeners immediately associate with the 90’s.

It carries absolutely no significance in today’s digital music market, where album covers are usually reduced to tiny thumbnails in iTunes. At that scale, it’s hard enough to decipher what’s going on in the cover without an annoying label obstructing things.

Okay, so that’s out.

Perhaps it’s because artists are concerned that adjusted listeners won’t give the record a chance without the sticker?

Well, unless you want your fan base to consist exclusively of 12 year-old boys (the only type of people genuinely excited by the

prospect of naughty words), I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

Alright, so that’s out, too.

Maybe local artists wish to avoid scrutiny should their album fall into the hands of an impressionable youth with sue-happy parents?

Fair enough. But, the last time I checked, R rated DVDs don’t come wrapped in tinted cellophane. The inappropriateness of a film’s content is indicated by a subtle icon on the back of the film’s case. Also, I understand this is sort of a cliché point but, aren’t vivid sex and grisly murder scenes in film more traumatizing than the occasional utterance of an “F” word? “Parental advisory” advocates used to argue that young folks are more influenced by music than film, but when you measure last year’s movie ticket sales against the combined billboard numbers from the past five years, it’s painfully obvious the tables have turned.

Local artists, I implore you, don’t endorse a dated symbol of passive aggressive censorship if you don’t have to.

Jaymie Baxley can be contacted at jbaxley@ fayettevillefeed.com.

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