stuff to do, week of December 14, 2007
grady
grady at ibiblio.org
Fri Dec 14 17:45:41 EST 2007
In addition to their big all-or-nothing Craigslist sell-off, the good
folks at 305 South are having a giant everything-must-go sale at the
store this Saturday: http://www.305southdurham.com/
Friday, December 14
Jon Shain (http://www.jonshain.com)
Mark Simonsen
The Cave, Chapel Hill
This is the early show.
Friday, December 14
Ghost to Falco (http://www.purevolume.com/GhosttoFalco)
Horseback (http://www.myspace.com/horsebacknoise)
Bull City Headquarters, Durham
Horseback make a massive drone. There are four songs on their 'Impale
Golden Horn' CD, each between 9 and 18 minutes long, and there was a
period, shortly after it came out, when I had to struggle to resist
playing more than one of them at a time on the radio.
Friday, December 14
Dom Casual (http://www.myspace.com/domcasual)
Fontana (http://www.myspace.com/fontana1)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
This is the late show. Fontana are from Durham; they're the ones with
the epic 9-minute track on that 'Rockin the Blocks' compilation, the one
that rhymes "axis" and "prophylaxis."
Also on the bill, the spooky stories and melancholy garage-pop songcraft
of Jamie McLendon's Dom Casual.
Friday, December 14
Hope for a Golden Summer (http://www.hopeforagoldensummer.com/)
Filthybird (http://www.myspace.com/filthybird)
Lovely Leaves
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem
First chance in a little while to see Greensboro's Filthybird, whose
'Southern Skies' is gonna be on my top-10 releases of 2007, easy.
Saturday, December 15
Roman Candle (http://www.romancandlemusic.com/)
The Old Ceremony (http://www.theoldceremony.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
You know that guy you work with, the one in his mid/late-30s, the one
who likes to talk about music, but who'll freely admit that he hasn't
really kept up since he got married & had some kids? The one who had
great musical taste when he was in college in the 80s? Send him to this
show; he'll love it.
Saturday, December 15
Sorry About Dresden (http://www.sorryaboutdresden.com)
Jew(s) & Catholic(s) (http://www.myspace.com/jewsandcatholics)
Fistfight (http://www.myspace.com/thisisfistfight)
Heavy Contact (http://www.myspace.com/heavycontact)
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem
Jew(s) and Catholic(s) make gtr/bass music (on CD, at least, the drums
are mostly a machine) that reminds me a bit of the brilliant '90s Chapel
Hill band Spatula. The singing (yeah, Spatula had singing too, early on)
is a bit more melodramatic, but the guitar rings, and when the bow hits
the bass you'll hear what I mean.
Sorry About Dresden were remarkably spry at their last "don't call it a
comeback" show a few months ago at the Cradle.
Saturday, December 15
Sequoya (http://www.myspace.com/sequoya)
The Scott Waite Debacle (http://myspace.com/scottwaiteisbenevolent)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
Note that this is a completely different lineup of Durham bands than the
one that was posted a week ago.
Saturday, December 15
Dan Bryk (http://www.bryk.com/)
snmnmnm (http://www.snmnmnm.com/)
The Never (http://www.trekkyrecords.com/never.html)
Local 506, Chapel Hill
This is a 10th-anniversary party for snmnmnm, who often remind me of a
bunch of 10-year-olds. With music degrees. Buncha other people from
local bands appearing out-of-band-context as well.
Saturday, December 15
Dirty Little Heaters (http://www.thedirtylittleheaters.com)
Pistolero (http://www.myspace.com/pistoleroband)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
The new Dirty Little Heaters had their debut last month at the Local
506, and they pretty much blew away the audience, the other bands on the
bill, and any last lingering memory of the old Dirty Little Heaters. New
rhythm section Rob Walsh (ex-Spinns) & Dave Perry (ex-Jett Rink, ex-Fake
Swedish) provide exactly the right boulder-rolling-downhill propulsion
for Reese McHenry's badass yowl.
Saturday, December 15
Greg Klaiber's Grabass Revue
Can Joann (http://www.canjoann.com/)
Fighting Poseidon (http://www.myspace.com/fightingposeidon)
Hell, Chapel Hill
Sunday, December 16
The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra
(http://www.trekkyrecords.com/xmasfront.html)
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham
The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra is basically everybody in all the Trekky
bands, combining and recombining into various smaller ensembles to
record their annual Christmas CD, and to perform at their annual
Christmas show at the Cradle (this year it's on Tuesday the 19th).
Get a preview at 5:00 p.m. at 88.7 FM or wxdu.org.
Monday, December 17
Blag'ard (http://www.blagard.com/)
Dr. Powerful (http://drpowerful.googlepages.com)
Dirty Money (http://www.dirtymoneyfl.com)
Reservoir, Carrboro
Tuesday, December 18
White Rook (http://www.myspace.com/whiterookband)
Hell, Chapel Hill
Last show ever for White Rook, or so says the Hell website.
Wednesday, December 19
Portastatic (http://www.portastatic.com)
The Moaners (http://www.themoaners.com/)
Sweater Weather (http://www.sweater-weather.com)
The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra
(http://www.trekkyrecords.com/xmasfront.html)
Hammer No More the Fingers (http://www.hnmtf.com)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
This is the now-annual Trekky Records holiday party, featuring the
Trekky Yuletide Orchestra (essentially everybody in every band on the
label), plus a ton of other local bands and fractional bands, all taking
turns playing short sets of holiday music. Skim the video page
(http://www.trianglerock.com/video) for footage from last year's show,
from folks like Ben Davis, Prayers and Tears of ADS, and Mountain Goats.
Here's the full lineup of this year's show:
The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra
Portastatic
Annuals
Ivan Rosebud
The Moaners
Midtown Dickens
I Was Totally Destroying It
Hammer No More The Fingers
Schooner
Robo Sapien
Sweater Weather
Proceeds benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Wednesday, December 19
The Scott Waite Debacle (http://myspace.com/scottwaiteisbenevolent)
Skywire (http://www.myspace.com/skywire)
Derrick Acker (http://www.myspace.com/derrickacker)
Marvell Building, Durham
Wednesday, December 19
Western Civ. (http://westerncivrock.com)
The Longships (http://www.myspace.com/thelongships)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
Western Civ. moved here not too long ago from Alabama. Between them &
fellow Alabaman Jerstin Crosby (Tennis & the Mennonites), there's now
apparently enough of a critical mass of Alabamans to draw the attention
of other itinerant Alabamans, such as The Longships, who might otherwise
have driven right by on 40/85 without even slowing down.
Thursday, December 20
Calico Haunts (http://www.myspace.com/calicohaunts)
Gambling the Muse (http://www.myspace.com/gamblingthemuse)
Brandon Herndon
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
Thursday, December 20
Lam! Lam! (http://www.myspace.com/lamlamband)
Virgo 9
Somebody Sam
Broad Street Cafe, Durham
Friday, December 21
Jule Brown (http://www.julebrown.org)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
This is the early show, with the beautiful demented blues-drone of Jule
Brown.
Friday, December 21
Jeffrey Dean Foster (http://www.jeffreydeanfoster.com/)
Don Dixon (http://www.myspace.com/dondixonsmusic)
The Garage, Winston-Salem
Friday, December 21
Dexter Romweber (http://www.dexterromweber.com)
Jimmy & The Teasers (http://www.geocities.com/booze1031/teasers.html)
Sister Fanny
Pneurotics (http://www.myspace.com/pneurotics)
Local 506, Chapel Hill
The 506 website lists this as "Christmas Jam 2007," so consider
yourselves warned.
Friday, December 21
DJ Nasty Boots
Southern Man
Black Congo (http://www.myspace.com/blackcongonc)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
The earlier part of the evening is a free Nightlight holiday party (come
out & grill Alexis on all the changes afoot); the later part is the the
return of the semi-prodigal Nightlight founder Isaac Trogdon's Southern Man.
Friday, December 21
Evil Wiener (http://www.evilwienerworld.com/)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
What's that you say, there's a holiday upon us? Must be time for an Evil
Weiner show, then. The Weiner boys have allowed themselves to become so
associated with various holidays that you may even have forgotten that
frontman Billy Sugarfix is a bona-fide popsong-writing genius. Be sure
to request one of his secular classics, like "Silver Dollars" to remind
yourself.
And don't forget to listen to their classic Christmas single
(conveniently streaming from MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/evilwiener)
for the holidays) 'n' brush up on the words to "Secret Santa" so you can
sing along.
Saturday, December 22
Accelerators
Hideaway BBQ, Raleigh
Gerald Duncan's Accelerators were one of the great regional success
stories of the mid-80s, at least from where I was sitting in Upstate
South Carolina (both Gerald and then-guitarist Brad Rice were SC boys
who'd moved to Raleigh & made good). The reality was a little more
down-to-earth (and sadly predictable): a strong debut on local label
Dolphin, a couple of follow-ups on Profile Records . . . but then
Profile closed its doors, the band found itself homeless, and eventually
broke up.
Or rather went on extended hiatus, broken briefly a few years ago by a
resurrection, a new album, and then another period of dormancy.
This year they released a career-spanning retrospective, Road Chill, so
if you haven't met 'em yet, now's yr chance.
Saturday, December 22
Ghost to Falco (http://www.purevolume.com/GhosttoFalco)
Secret Boyfriend (http://www.myspace.com/scrtboyfriend)
Horseback (http://www.myspace.com/horsebacknoise)
Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III (http://corneliusv.podomatic.com/)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
Horseback is Jenks Miller's [sometimes-] pastoral-drone outfit; their
album "Impale Golden Horn" is one of my faves of 2007.
Saturday, December 22
The Loners (http://www.demonbeachrecords.com/loners.html)
Suburban Sweethearts
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
The Loners are the Triangle's leading purveyors of stomp-n-shout
gtr/drums garage-rock.
Sunday, December 23
Big Fat Gap (http://www.bigfatgap.com/)
Jeff Crawford
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
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