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World Cafe Next: Loamlands

Raleigh-Durham punk Kym Register acknowledges guitar pop's allure in a project with Will Hackney.
Raleigh, N.C.'s Kym Register had a dilemma: When you're a committed member of the folk-punk scene, an outsider, a LGBTQ activist and a leader of the area's hip kids, is it cool to acknowledge the music that's in your heart — when that music is the guitar pop of bands like Fleetwood Mac that dominated your parents' record collection?

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