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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Stuff to do, Week of September 30, 2004
  • Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:32:49 -0400

Thursday, September 30
Shark Quest [http://www.mrg2000.com/merge/bio.html?id=sharkquest],
Mothlight, Kolyma
Kings, Raleigh

Kolyma are a new-ish project featuring Crowmeat Bob Pence, Russ De
Sena, Jenn Thomas, Mike Isenberg; this is their second show.

Mothlight are Nick Whitley and Danny Vaughn. Danny's about to depart
for the wilds of West Virginia, so this may be your last chance to
witness their peculiar, brilliant, locked-in-sync gtr-drums
blues-freejazz-freakout.

Shark Quest's new album, Gods and Devils, expands their
always-distinctive musical universe into about eight new dimensions,
thanks in part to Sara Bell's electric piano, and the addition [well,
a few years back] of guitarist Chuck Johnson.



Thursday, September 30
Language Arts [http://www.languageartsmusic.com], The Vivaldis
[http://www.thevivaldis.com], Silas Kath
[http://chubaski.tripod.com/]
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh





Friday, October 1
Pernicious Kniffs, Thee Lordly Serpents
[http://www.theelordlyserpents.com/], The Lobsters
The Cave, Chapel Hill

This is night one of the Spinns' "Blackbeard's Lost Weekend", a
three-night festival wherein The Spinns invite their favorite garage
bands they've met on tour up to Chapel Hill for a big
sleepover/rockshow at the Cave.



Friday, October 1
Cub Country [http://www.jadetree.com/bandpages/bio_cubcountry.html],
Schooner [http://www.schoonermusic.com], Hotel Lights
Local 506, Chapel Hill





Friday, October 1
Straight 8s [http://www.straight8s.com], Defilers
[http://www.defilers.net/], Malamondos [http://www.malamondos.com/]
Kings, Raleigh





Saturday, October 2
The Dynamite Brothers [http://www.dynamitebrothers.com/], The Experts
[http://www.expertsrock.com], Rock and Roll Summer
[http://www.rockandrollsummer.com/]
Ooh La Latte, Durham





Saturday, October 2
Maximus, New Planet Trampoline [http://www.newplanettrampoline.com/],
Jimmy & The Teasers [http://www.geocities.com/booze1031/teasers.html],
Taylor & the Puffs [http://www.skybucket.com/taylor/], Coffin Bound
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Night two of the Spinns' "Blackbeard's Lost Weekend" fest, featuring
garage bands from all over whom the Spinns met on tour & brought home
with them, like so many rabid stray kittens.



Saturday, October 2
Indy Music Awards [http://www.indymusicawards.com]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

With three stages & this many bands to see, you just *might* be able
to forget all about the weird closed nominating process, and the
unnecessary divisiveness of handing out "music awards" in a town whose
musical hallmark has always been mutual support & admiration between
bands.

Show starts at 6:00 on stages at the Cradle, the Artscenter & the
parking lot in between. Per the Indy, these folks are scheduled to
play:

Pura Fe
International Orange
John Howie Jr.
Katherine Whalen
Brown Mountain Lights
Nathan Asher
The Moaners
Samecumba
Shallow Be Thy Name
Go Machine
Brother Yusuf
STRANGE
The Cartridge Family
The Ghost of Rock
The Corey Parker Band
The Meek
Spectac
Kaze
DJ Forge
Shelly B and the Cadillac Stepbacks

And if somebody gets up onstage to talk between sets, just leave your
earplugs in; you'll be fine.



Saturday, October 2
The Nein [http://www.thenein.com/], Sorry About Dresden
[http://www.sorryaboutdresden.com], Audubon Park
[http://audubonpark.blogspot.com], Cold Sides
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Indie-rock show of the week; four bands committed to the neverending
project of taking the modern popsong structure and poking enormous
holes in it with whatever implements come to hand. If you're only
going to see one rockshow this year, then what the fuck is wrong with
you?

If you've already seen a few dozen rockshows this year, then this is
your baby, your best chance to walk away at 1:45 a.m., reeking, in
love with rockmusic again.

Actually, you could walk away about 2 minutes after Audubon Park's
opening set & already be in love. David Nahm's pop songwriting is
peerless, and unlike too many other songwriters, he knows the best
gift to the songs is an uneven layer of squirrelly, scrabbling noise
smeared on top of them, guaranteeing they'll sound as fresh and new on
the hundredth listen as on the first.

I've forgotten why I'm play-feuding with The Nein, particularly since
they're actually four of the nicest guys I've met in the 12 years I've
lived around here. Not that that's any reason to call off a good mock
feud. Wankers.

Cold Sides have gone from conceptual two-man "quiet" four-track
side-project, to Brooklyn-topping post-Gang-of-Four punk/funk/disco
gods, to blitzed-out delay-pedal scree-loop-dub-ism, all in the space
of a handful of years. It's fair to say that anytime they've come
close to true mastery, they've preemptively moved on, and that's about
the only impulse I can think of that's really worth rewarding.

Sorry About Dresden make the kind of two-guitar indie-rock that would
make the young girls pee their pants if the young girls weren't all
stoned out of their minds, lying on the floor watching their teen
boyfriends play XBox & ignoring the Jay-Z on the stereo.



Saturday, October 2
Park Life [http://www.parklifeband.com/], Marat
[http://www.morisen.com/marat/]
Martin Street Music Hall, Raleigh





Saturday, October 2
Blackstrap [http://blackstrap.org], The Hurt [http://www.thehurt.net],
The Young Idea [http://www.theyoungidea.com]
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh

Blackstrap are Durham's own sloppy/trashy late-70s-California-style
punkrock explosion. Note to Eliza: when fratty dudes in sandals stand
down front leering, appropriate etiquette is to spit.

The Young Idea are a new three-piece sporting matching white shirts,
black ties, & Rickenbackers. Dunno what they sound like.



Saturday, October 2
Facedowninshit [http://www.buyolympia.com/crimethinc/plastic.html],
Pegasus, In the Year of the Pig
Nightlight, Chapel Hill





Saturday, October 2
The Frequency, Spader, Fashion Brigade
Kings, Raleigh





Saturday, October 2
Cerberus Shoal [http://www.cerberusshoal.com/], Micah Blue Smaldone
[http://www.micahbluesmaldone.com/]
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem





Sunday, October 3
The Spinns [http://www.thespinns.freeservers.com/], Dexter Romweber
[http://www.dexterromweber.com], Chrome Plated Apostles
[http://www.demonbeach.com], Killer Filler
The Cave, Chapel Hill

The final night of the Spinns' "Blackbeard's Lost Weekend" garage-rock
fest, featuring a lineup of local bands, including the Spinns
themselves, as well as Bad Checks side-project the Chrome-Plated
Apostles, and the original Chapel Hill garage-rocker Dexter Romweber,
with his current duo; his latest album, "Blues That Defy My Soul," is
as good and hard and fiery as anything he's ever done.



Sunday, October 3
John Wilkes Booze [http://www.johnwilkesbooze.com], Lion Fever
[http://www.dimmak.com/lionfever/]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill





Monday, October 4
Blonde Redhead [http://www.blonde-redhead.com/]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro





Monday, October 4
Bob Log III [http://www.boblog111.com/], Town Bikes
[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~larkis/town_bikes], Andy Mabe
[http://www.andymabe.com/], The Nighttrain
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem

Bob Log III was one-half of Doo Rag, who put on about the most
fucked-up-brilliant show I ever saw at the Duke Coffeehouse. The Town
Bikes are from Australia. Or was it New Zealand? Fuck of a long way,
in any case.



Monday, October 4
A Problem of Alarming Dimensions
[http://www.8088records.com/problemofalarmingdimensions/], Do Make Say
Think [http://www.cstrecords.com/html/domake.html], Man Man
Local 506, Chapel Hill





Tuesday, October 5
John Wilkes Booze [http://www.johnwilkesbooze.com], Lion Fever
[http://www.dimmak.com/lionfever/], Art Lord and the Self Portraits
[http://www.ideasforhousecrafts.com]
Kings, Raleigh





Tuesday, October 5
Cities, Proof, Spader
Local 506, Chapel Hill





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