stuff to do, week of July 12, 2008
grady
grady at ibiblio.org
Sat Jul 12 13:23:01 EDT 2008
Saturday, July 12
Les Savy Fav (http://www.lessavyfav.com)
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham
This is another in the summer Music in the Garden series sponsored by
Duke Performances. It has been 4 years since Les Savy Fav graced the
Triangle (since they had to cancel last year's Troika appearance). I ran
into drummer Harrison Haynes at Branch Gallery, and he was concerned
that none of their fans would either hear about the show, or be able to
find it, but I think he underestimates Derm LSF fans.
But for the record: the show will be outdoors on the lawn behind the Nasher.
Saturday, July 12
Lud (http://www.ludland.com/)
Roman Candle (http://www.romancandlemusic.com/)
American Aquarium (http://www.americanaquarium.com/)
Red Collar (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
Future Kings of Nowhere (http://www.thefuturekings.net/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
The weeklong Club Is Open festival finally makes it home to Cat's Cradle
(the festival is an offshoot of the Cradle's monthly free local-music
series). You've got the summery pop of Roman Candle, the over-the-top
anthemic bar-rock of Red Collar, the acoustipunk of Future Kings of
Nowhere, and the greatest living band in Orange County, Lud. (yes, that
means I've never seen American Aquarium & thus can't pigeonhole 'em)
Saturday, July 12
Misty Lynn & the Big Beautiful
Matt Jones
Shannon Donavan
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
Saturday, July 12
des_ark (http://www.des-ark.org)
Hammer No More the Fingers (http://www.hnmtf.com)
Yardwork (http://www.myspace.com/wetdigitalredstorm)
Bull City Headquarters, Durham
This show will be timed to start after the Les Savy Fav show has ended
(and the audience has hightailed it back across town), so no need to
worry. des_ark are still one of the best bands I've ever seen, and if
you've seen 'em you've likely said the same. I got a text from Aimee
earlier today that confirmed she's bringing her new band with her
(including powerhouse Evan Rowe on drums), so you'll be a fool to miss it.
Saturday, July 12
Regina Hexaphone (http://www.reginahexaphone.com)
Pillow Fighter (http://www.myspace.com/joeseely)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
Saturday, July 12
Jimmy & The Teasers (http://www.geocities.com/booze1031/teasers.html)
Pinche Gringo (http://www.myspace.com/pinchegringoband)
The Barberries (http://www.myspace.com/thebarberries)
Echoes From the Vaults (http://www.myspace.com/echoesfromthevaults)
Reservoir, Carrboro
Sunday, July 13
Schooner (http://www.schoonermusic.com)
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham
Schooner put out an excellent album, "Hold On Too Tight," last year.
They seem to go on & off hiatus on a fairly regular basis, but they're
firing on all cylinders now (or so they tell me). Find out for sure:
4:00 p.m. 88.7 FM or wxdu.org.
Sunday, July 13
Ben Davis + The Jetts (http://www.lovitt.com/artists/bendavis.html)
Shakermaker (http://shakermaker.org/)
I Was Totally Destroying It
(http://www.reverbnation.com/iwastotallydestroyingit)
Aminal Music (http://www.myspace.com/theaminalmusic)
Salvo Hunter (http://www.myspace.com/salvohunter)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
The final night of the Club Is Open festival brings you the
sophisticated indie-rock of Ben Davis & the Jetts, the high-tech
indie/emo-pop of I Was Totally Destroying It, the warbly post-British
Invasion indierock of Shakermaker, and a couple of bands I've never
heard of.
Sunday, July 13
The Ergs (http://dorkrockcorkrod.com)
Hunchback
The Drowsies (http://www.drowsies.com/)
Whatever Brains (http://www.myspace.com/whateverbrains)
Bull City Headquarters, Durham
Sunday, July 13
American Aquarium (http://www.americanaquarium.com/)
Big Easy
Pour House, Raleigh
Tuesday, July 15
The Graves of Fairmount (http://www.myspace.com/thegravesoffairmount)
The Boy Bathing
Andrew Octopus (http://www.myspace.com/andrewoctopus)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
The Graves of Fairmount are a indie-rock band (major audible influences,
near as I can tell from their EP, anyway: Portastatic, Replacements,
Elliott Smith, Belle & Sebastian) that consist primarily of a single
guy, Paul O'Keefe, who moved here from Berkeley after a youth misspent
listening to Chapel Hill bandes like Superchunk.
Wednesday, July 16
Maple Stave (http://www.maplestave.com)
The Octobers (http://www.backinslacksrecords.com/octobers.htm)
Grappling Hook (http://www.myspace.com/torchmaraudersgrapplinghook)
Wembley (http://www.myspace.com/wembleystadium)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
This is a show & screening; here's what Nicole sent: "The Bars & Tone
Experiment is five short experimental films made by Durham filmmaker
Nicole Triche as a part of her thesis project for UNCG. Each film
features the music of a local band. The screening of the films will be
followed by performances from four of the participating bands."
Nicole has also been the Flicker organizer for the past few years.
Band-wise, you get two chances to see crackerjack drummer Evan Rowe, in
Maple Stave and Grappling Hook. Wembley is the current gauze-and-wobble
pop band from Neven Carswell (ex-Laramie UK). Films at 8:30, bands to
follow.
Wednesday, July 16
Shakermaker (http://shakermaker.org/)
Birds & Arrows (http://www.myspace.com/birdsandarrows)
Theodore (http://www.myspace.com/theodoreacoustic)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
Wednesday, July 16
Polynya (http://www.myspace.com/polynyapolynya)
Nomo (http://www.nomomusic.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill
Wednesday, July 16
Future Kings of Nowhere (http://www.thefuturekings.net/)
Wilson the Rocker
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
Thursday, July 17
Lake Inferior (http://www.myspace.com/lakeinferiormusic)
Irata (http://myspace.com/iratalive)
Darwin Deez
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
Thursday, July 17
Brett Harris
Oscar Begat (http://www.reverbnation.com/oscarbegat)
Local 506, Chapel Hill
Brett Harris lives in Durham, and makes super-sunny, super-Beatley
piano-pop, with a strong clear voice & an ear for a hook. I heard the
last half of an interview with him on WUNC which just solidified my
impression that he'd appeared more or less from out of nowhere.
Thursday, July 17
Dirty Little Heaters (http://www.myspace.com/thedirtylittleheaters)
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh
This is the latest installment in Tir Na nOg's weekly WKNC-sponsored
local bands, local beers night. And the Dirty Little Heaters are a local
band who truly love their beers.
Thursday, July 17
Nuclear Power Pants (http://www.bxxxxzt.com/)
Lonnie Walker (http://www.myspace.com/lonniewalker)
B. B. Salmon
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
Lonnie Walker is, I think, a member of that Greenville musical axis that
also includes Future Islands -- I saw him play last month & he covered a
Future Islands song, in fact. Mostly my impression was of indie-rock
with a countryish twinge and a lot of words, kinda like later-period
Pavement. Great pop hooks and an excellent bassist, to boot.
Thursday, July 17
Minchia (http://www.myspace.com/minchianc)
Jokes & Jokes & Jokes (http://www.myspace.com/jokesjokesjokes)
Sic Alps (http://www.sicalps.com/)
Reservoir, Carrboro
Friday, July 18
Edsel 500
Sadlack's Heroes, Raleigh
Friday, July 18
The Scene of the Crime Rovers
(http://www.myspace.com/sceneofthecrimerovers)
Soundpainting Orchestra
CCB Plaza (aka The Bull's Balls), Durham
This Friday-evening event (6-9 p.m, to coincide with the 3rd-Friday
gallery walk) kicks off with a clothing swap-o-rama (complete with
onsite alteration stations), includes a visit by Durham's own
avant-garde itinerant marching band, the Scene of the Crime Rovers, at
around 7, and then finishes off with a Triangle Soundpainting Orchestra
performance at 8, accompanied by film projections by Durham artist Jim
Kellough.
All free, all outdoors in downtown Durham.
Friday, July 18
Caltrop (http://www.myspace.com/caltropband)
The Curtains of Night (http://myspace.com/thecurtainsofnight)
Diamond Studs (http://www.myspace.com/juanhuevos)
Local 506, Chapel Hill
This is a CD-release party for the new full-length from Caltrop, whose
massive sludge-metal anthems have a sense of inevitability and impending
doom about them, like living on the lower slopes of an active volcano.
Curtains of Night open with their gtr/drums wall-of-sound.
Friday, July 18
Dropsonic (http://www.myspace.com/dropsonic)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
Saturday, July 19
Kenny Roby (http://www.kennyroby.com)
Sadlack's Heroes, Raleigh
Saturday, July 19
Girls Rock NC Grand Finale (http://www.girlsrocknc.org/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
For the past several years, a bunch of dedicated and intrepid women
rockers have been taking time off from their jobs & lives to put
together a summer rock camp for girls in the Triangle. They do two
sessions, and this show is a showcase of the songs written, arranged &
performed by the girls in the older session, aged 10-17.
Every summer, without fail, this show is the best show of the summer.
The feeling of elation you get from watching all the girls onstage
rocking out is just indescribable, so I won't try. Just go.
Saturday, July 19
The Busy World (http://www.myspace.com/thebusyworld)
Elf Owl (http://www.myspace.com/ohelfowl)
Timbre (http://www.myspace.com/timbre)
Local 506, Chapel Hill
Local 506 owner Glenn Boothe emailed me out of the blue a couple of
months ago, solely to enthuse about Clayton's Elf Owl, as though he'd
been listening to her & just couldn't help himself. A quick trip to her
MySpace and I sort of get what he meant.
Saturday, July 19
The Cartridge Family (http://www.cartridge-family.com/)
Kennebec
Pour House, Raleigh
The Cartridge Family are a just plain great rock and roll band.
Sunday, July 20
Adam Arcuragi (http://www.adamarcuragi.net/)
The XYZ Affair (http://www.myspace.com/thexyzaffair)
Local 506, Chapel Hill
Monday, July 21
Future Islands (http://www.myspace.com/futureislands)
Ear Pwr (http://www.myspace.com/earpwr)
Rongorongo
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
Monday, July 21
Bear Colony (http://www.myspace.com/thebearcolony)
Local 506, Chapel Hill
Monday, July 21
Man Will Destroy Himself
Infernal Stronghold
Hip Cops
Nothing Is Over
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
Tuesday, July 22
Pacific Before Tiger
Olafur Arnalds
Gross Ghost
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
Tuesday, July 22
The Homewreckers (http://www.myspace.com/jackandjillhomewrecker)
Pink Flag (http://www.myspace.com/pinkflagnc)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
Pink Flag are a brand-new all-woman 3-piece with Betsy Shane (Lam! Lam!)
on guitar & vocals, and that's all I know about them.
Tuesday, July 22
Rat Jackson (http://www.myspace.com/ratjacksonmusic)
Tooth (http://www.myspace.com/toothrocks)
Tournament (http://www.myspace.com/tournamenttournament)
Local 506, Chapel Hill
Tooth are the best metal band in the Triangle, hands down. Rat Jackson
are working more of the snotty garage-rock angle.
Tuesday, July 22
Colossus (http://www.myspace.com/thecolossuswillcrushyou)
Bloodcow (http://www.myspace.com/bloodcow1)
Reservoir, Carrboro
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