At 10 p.m. on a Friday in March, in a converted downtown Raleigh warehouse, Matthew Sherman is mingling with local artists and running soundboards. He wears a black T-shirt imprinted with a woman in a ...

Richie Budd’s politely wary about my request to record our interview. This reticence seems ironic, considering that his oeuvre — both as a solo artist and with the Denton-Brooklyn collective Good/Bad ...