stuff to do, week of April 22, 2009
grady
grady at ibiblio.org
Tue Apr 21 23:59:31 EDT 2009
Wednesday, April 22
World Inferno Friendship Society (http://www.worldinferno.com/)
Stuck Lucky (http://www.stucklucky.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
Wednesday, April 22
Polynya (http://www.myspace.com/polynyapolynya)
Embarrassing Fruits (http://www.myspace.com/embarrassingfruitsband)
Veelee (http://www.myspace.com/seeveelee)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
Veelee are a duo which includes half of Opening Flower Happy Bird, but
which is very different from that band. Sorta hypnotic stripped-down
indie-pop with female vocals.
Embarrassing Fruits are riding a wave of positive reviews of their new
full-length, "Community/Exploitation."
Thursday, April 23
North Elementary (http://www.northelementary.com)
Wembley (http://www.myspace.com/wembleystadium)
Pistolero (http://www.myspace.com/pistoleroband)
The Popular Kids
Local 506, Chapel Hill
There'll be a limited-edition North Elementary/Pistolero split-7"
available at this show. Will also almost certainly be free copies of
either last year's awesome Wembley full-length debut, or whatever new
stuff they might've recorded since then. Crucial.
Thursday, April 23
Billy Sugarfix (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/billysugarfix.htm)
Hey Penny (http://www.myspace.com/heypenny)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
Billy Sugarfix's one-man show is something you'll really need to see to
comprehend.
Thursday, April 23
The Proclivities (http://www.myspace.com/theproclivities)
Becca Stevens
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh
Thursday, April 23
The Nothing Noise (http://www.myspace.com/thenothingnoise)
Harmute (http://www.myspace.com/harmute)
Animal Alphabet
Jack Sprat Cafe, Chapel Hill
Friday, April 24
Heather McEntire (http://www.bellafea.com/)
Adam Price
Eric Roehrig (http://www.eriechoir.com)
Lee Waters
Love House, Chapel Hill
This is "Music on the Porch II," sponsored by the Center for the Study
of the American South & assembled by Reid Johnson of Schooner. Eric
Roehrig (Erie Choir, Sorry About Dresden), Lee Waters (Lud, Work
Clothes, Panzer, Cobra Khan), Adam Price (Comas, Mayflies USA, Hundred
Air) and Heather McEntire (Bellafea, Un Deux Trois, Mount Moriah) will
take turns playing songs & talking about songwriting. Free, starts at
5:00 p.m.
Friday, April 24
The Rosebuds (http://www.therosebuds.com/)
Midtown Dickens (http://www.myspace.com/midtowndickens)
Lost in the Trees (http://www.lostinthetrees.com)
Golden Belt, Durham
This is a concert (the first formal music event at the new Golden Belt
mixed-use complex) & fundraiser for the Durham Arts Council. In addition
to the pure pop of the Rosebuds, the brilliant mongrel freak/folk of
Midtown Dickens and the emo-chamber-pop of Lost in the Trees, they'll
also have OnlyBurger, that burger truck you've been stalking all over
Durham for the past few months.
Friday, April 24
Mogwai (http://www.abandcalledmogwai.com/)
The Twilight Sad (http://www.myspace.com/thetwilightsad)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
Friday, April 24
The Jackets (http://www.reverbnation.com/TheJackets)
Gabriel Kelley (http://www.myspace.com/gabrielkelleymusic)
Robert Sledge and the Flashlight Assembly
Pour House, Raleigh
Friday, April 24
Kataklysm (http://www.kataklysm.net/)
Toxic Holocaust (http://www.myspace.com/toxicholocaust)
Trap Them (http://www.myspace.com/trapthem)
Coliseum
Napalm Death (http://www.myspace.com/napalmdeath)
Volume 11 Tavern, Raleigh
Friday, April 24
The Vibe Killers (http://www.myspace.com/vibekillers)
The New Heathens (http://www.newheathens.com/)
Spanking Charlene
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
This is the first night of the Slim's 10th Anniversary party weekend.
Saturday, April 25
Dillon Fence (http://www.dillonfence.com)
Katharine Whalen (http://www.mammoth.go.com/katharinewhalen/)
Jason Ross & Thomas Juliano
John Strohm (http://www.myspace.com/johnpstrohmmusic)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
Two labels were founded in the Triangle circa 1989. Both had names that
began with the letter 'M'. One, Merge, was founded by musicians,
initially just to release their own music, but went on to release
seminal indie-rock albums such as Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane
Over the Sea," Magnetic Fields' "69 Love Songs," and the Arcade Fire's
"Funeral." Still alive and kicking today, they'll be celebrating their
20th anniversary with a 5-day festival in July.
The other 1989 'M' label, Mammoth, was founded by a Duke MBA, and
released a wide variety of music from the very beginning, both local
(blackgirls, Vanilla Trainwreck, Dillon Fence) and non- (Blake Babies,
Dash Rip Rock, Joe Henry). Over the course of the next decade, they had
a pretty wild ride, releasing some brilliant records (a huge chunk of
Joe Henry's amazing '90s ouvre), some not-so-brilliant (Machines of
Loving Grace? Vowel Movement?) and some that more or less changed the
face of modern music, however temporarily (remember the Squirrel Nut
Zippers?)
Yet by 1998 they were a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Walt Disney
Corporation, and in 2003 Disney quietly killed Mammoth, folding it into
Hollywood Records (home of the Jonas Brothers).
The press coverage of Merge's 20th anniversary is going to be pretty
much wall-to-wall all year long. I'm guessing there won't be much
coverage of Mammoth (so far, they haven't even been footnoted in the
Merge articles I've read, even though it was Merge who actually released
the first SNZ 7").
And their only birthday celebration consists of this one-night-stand at
the Cradle, featuring a handful of folks once connected to the label.
Saturday, April 25
The Bronzed Chorus (http://www.myspace.com/thebronzedchorus)
Battle Rockets (http://www.myspace.com/battlerockets)
The White Cascade (http://www.myspace.com/thewhitecascade)
Jack Sprat Cafe, Chapel Hill
At least two of these bands, the Triangle's Battle Rockets and
Greensboro's Bronzed Chorus, are instrumental duos.
Saturday, April 25
Filthybird (http://www.myspace.com/filthybird)
Midtown Dickens (http://www.myspace.com/midtowndickens)
Auxiliary House (http://www.trekkyrecords.com/auxhouse.html)
Bull City (http://www.bullcitytheband.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill
This is a CD-release party for the latest installment in the
long-running, and utterly crucial, Compulation series. Local-music comps
have come and gone throughout the long history of the local music scene,
from the Mondo Montage and Comboland comps of the '80s, to the Pyloric
Waves, Wifflefist and Cognitive Mapping comps of the early-mid-90s, to a
whole host of one-offs that have come and gone over the past decade. But
no-one else has come close to matching the hit quotient of the
Compulation series.
And even a cursory glance at the tracklist
(http://www.poxworldempire.org/compulation3/) for this new edition
confirms that it'll be every bit as crucial as the first two.
Saturday, April 25
Killer Filler (http://www.myspace.com/killerfiller)
The Noseriders (http://www.myspace.com/thenoseriders)
The Surge (http://www.myspace.com/thesurgeinstro)
Atomic Mosquitos (http://www.myspace.com/atomicmosquitos)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
This is the second in a series of "Instro Summits" hosted by local
surf/garage/lounge act Killer Filler.
Saturday, April 25
American Aquarium (http://www.americanaquarium.com/)
Red Collar (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
Holy Ghost Tent Revival (http://www.myspace.com/hgtr)
Pour House, Raleigh
Red Collar are now a month or so into their great full-time indie-rocker
adventure, and are swinging back through town to recharge their
batteries before heading right back out onto the road again. They were a
top-notch rockband *before* spending a month on the road; I can't even
imagine what they're like now.
Saturday, April 25
Monsonia (http://www.monsonia.com)
Jew(s) & Catholic(s) (http://www.myspace.com/jewsandcatholics)
Death Came Down the Mountain
(http://www.myspace.com/deathcamedownthemountain)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
Saturday, April 25
The Yayhoos
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
Night two of the Slims 10th anniversary weekend.
Saturday, April 25
Goodbye, Titan (http://www.myspace.com/loudestsilenceever)
Bicycle Day (http://myspace.com/bicycleday1)
The Last Track (http://www.myspace.com/thelasttrack)
Reservoir, Carrboro
Sunday, April 26
The Spinns (http://www.thespinns.freeservers.com/)
Dirty Little Heaters (http://www.myspace.com/thedirtylittleheaters)
Pinche Gringo (http://www.myspace.com/pinchegringoband)
The Siberians (http://www.myspace.com/olafandthesiberians)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
Holy crap, it's a Spinns reunion! *And* sets by the current bands of two
of the three Spinns, plus Brooklyn's The Siberians. Garage-rock show of
the month, at least.
Monday, April 27
Dinosaur Jr (http://www.freakscene.net/)
Mike Watt & the Missingmen (http://hootpage.com/hoot_missingmen2006.html)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
I know I don't have to write any kind of blurb for this show, so I'll
just repeat what it said on the Cradle schedule, namely that you'll get
a free single (or a "digital download card," but where's the fun in
that?) at the door.
Monday, April 27
Hiss Golden Messenger
Muscle Babes
Daniel Francis Doyle
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
Tuesday, April 28
The Kills (http://www.thekills.tv/)
The Magic Wands (http://www.myspace.com/themagicwands)
The Horrors (http://www.myspace.com/thehorrors)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
Wednesday, April 29
Mr. Quintron (http://www.southern.com/southern/band/QTRON/)
Miss Pussycat (http://www.eccentricneworleans.com/mr__quintron.htm)
Psychedelic Horseshit (http://www.myspace.com/psychedelichorseshit)
Local 506, Chapel Hill
Last year, after a series of amazing benefit shows featuring many of the
brighest lights of North Carolina music, our friend Cy Rawls, weak from
chemo & from the brain cancer that would kill him soon after, told his
parents he was going to see some friends, and then went to the airport,
boarded a plane, and flew to New Orleans. To see Mr. Quintron.
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