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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 October 14, 2004
  • Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:49:13 -0400

Not listed below: Smiths Cover Band (as seen at last year's Great Cover Up--top-notch, let me tell you) vs. Cure Cover Band, Ooh La Latte, Saturday night the 16th.

Also: the Noam Chomsky documentary "Manufacturing Consent" at Kings on Tuesday night.

Stuff that *is* listed below:


Thursday, October 14
Gogol Bordello [http://www.gogolbordello.com], Clang Quartet
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Gogol Bordello are some kinda Russian-expat trash-rock from NYC, I think; Clang Quartet is one-man avant-garde Christian performance-percussion from Greensboro, and is liable to be one of the most compellingly strange things you'll ever see.



Thursday, October 14
Fairburn Royals [http://www.fairburnroyals.com/], The Quarantines [http://www.freelon.com/quarantines/main.php]
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh



Thursday, October 14
Red Skeleton, Manamid [http://www.manamid.com], Xtreme Badasses
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Red Skeleton make the thick guitarry indie-rock early-90s style, with vocals that mope & plaint in a vaguely Bachmann/Mascis way.

Manamid are from Greensboro and are the culmination of multiple collective decades shoveling shit in the punkrock trenches, including time spent in Rights Reserved, Eagle Bravo, Sclix!, Rebar, and I'm forgetting a few others, I suspect.



Thursday, October 14
Apple Juice Orchestra [http://www.pidgeonenglish.com/bands.php]
Kings, Raleigh

Shall we expect bold political statements of opposition to the war?

"I think people would respond if someone came out in a serious way with a statement against the war." - The Apple Juice Kid



Friday, October 15
Spader, Art Lord and the Self Portraits [http://www.ideasforhousecrafts.com], Strange [http://www.thisisstrange.org]
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh

For a guy with giant chin-strap muttonchops, Greenville's Art Lord sure uses a lot of chirpy keyboards, and he sure sings kinda twee. It's an odd combination, but not uncompelling.

Strange are a giant black-canvas-swathed tower of booming echoey UK-psych/doom-invasion revivalism, summoning up vague recollections [in me at least] of Jesus & Mary Chain, Psychedelic Furs, the Birthday Party, and yes, even the [pre-Electric] Cult.



Friday, October 15
Transportation
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Transportation have largely abandoned the almost obsessive instrument-switching that marked their early shows, but they're still all over the place, genre-wise. Their hearts are rooted firmly in 70s glam/art-rock of the Badfinger & Queen variety, but there's enough latitude there for them to be able to careen from sweetly-harmonized ballad to hardrock anthem in the space of about 4 seconds. And yes, they're tight enough to pull it off; in fact, they're one of the half-dozen or so best live bands in Chapel Hill.



Friday, October 15
The Dynamite Brothers [http://www.dynamitebrothers.com/], The Bloodthirsty Lovers, Fake Swedish [http://fakeswedish.4t.com/index.html]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Bloodthirsty Lovers are the current band of David Shouse, ex-Grifters, who were an object of obsession for more than a few college-radio DJs around here back in the mid-90s.

Dynamite Brothers staked a persuasive claim to the local freakout-blues/backwoods-boogie turf early on, and then upped the ante by taking stabs in the directions of country & R&B on their 2003 debut, "Clap Along With."

Fake Swedish once sent me an email in which they compared themselves to Steppenwolf, but as I for some reason still haven't seen them, I can't report on the veracity of that claim. I'm guessing it was meant partly in jest, but one never knows.



Friday, October 15
Sentinel [http://www.march-of-the-sentinels.com/], Phon, Can Joann [http://www.canjoann.com/]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Friday, October 15
Japancakes [http://www.onlineathens.com/rockathens/bands/japancakes.shtml], Ahleuchatistas [http://www.ahleuchatistas.com/go.php], Magicicada [http://www.magicicada.com/]
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem



Saturday, October 16
Strange [http://www.thisisstrange.org], Mission of Burma [http://www.missionofburma.com/]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

In some very real sense, Mission of Burma may have singlehandedly invented the weirdly pained, hollow, crashing, disillusioned-and-disturbed sound of American postpunk, and then neatly exhausted its creative possibilities over the course of 2 singles, an EP, an LP and a posthumous live album, all in the space of 4 years. I've managed to misplace my copy of their new album, ONoffON, without ever knowingly having listened to it, but the party line is that this is the rare giants-of-amerindie reunion that's actually worth a shit. I have violated my personal rule against ever attending such reunions & actually bought a ticket in advance, so for once here's hoping that the conventional wisdom is accurate.



Saturday, October 16
Honored Guests [http://www.thehonoredguests.com/], North Elementary [http://www.northelementary.com], The Rachel Nevadas [http://www.therachelnevadas.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Saturday, October 16
The Keep [http://www.purevolume.com/thekeep], Punos [http://www.punos.com/], Sedona [http://www.sedonarock.com/]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Saturday, October 16
Confessor [http://www.confessorband.com/], Transient, Widow
Martin Street Music Hall, Raleigh



Sunday, October 17
The Sames [http://www.thesames.com]
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

The Sames are from Durham, and have either never written a bad song, or they're just exceptional self-editors. Of course, that may explain why they've only released one 5-song EP and a couple of one-off compilation or demo tracks over the past 4 years. But I swear, I've seen them at least once every few months throughout that whole time, and I haven't heard a clinker yet. They've long since outgrown whatever early tendency they had to meander and/or drone, and now deliver a near-perfect combination of pop songwriting and dangerous two-guitar wall-of-thrum/buzz/howl noiseplay that is virtually unstoppable.

But don't take my word for it. 5:00 p.m. 88.7 FM www.wxdu.org



Sunday, October 17
Schooner [http://www.schoonermusic.com], Conshafter [http://www.conshafter.com/], Kudzu Wish [http://www.kudzuwish.com/]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

This is the $2 5pm-midnight "sunday showcase" that usually features around 7 bands. I dunno from half of them ("Closer 2 Home"? "The Motion"? "Thunderlip"?), but starting at 8:00 you've got the weirdo drone-pop of Raleigh's Schooner, and then at 10:00 the spasmodic scream-jerk punk anthems of Greensboro's Kudzu Wish. In between you get Richmond's Conshafter, which apparently contain some UNC alums, but that's all I know about that.



Sunday, October 17
Kenny Roby, Barn Burning [http://www.barnburning.net/], Reverend Glasseye [http://www.reverendglasseye.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Monday, October 18
Flicker [http://www.chapel-hill.nc.us/flicker]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

The Flicker folks have barely caught up on their sleep after hosting last month's full weekend of 10th-anniversary mayhem & already they've assembled 90 minutes or so of brand-new super8/16mm underground/homemade cinematic weirdness. Doors at 8:00, first film at 8:30 or so, guarantee of at least 5 minutes of transcendence in there somewhere. What more do you want for your $3? What's that? How about a Halloween costume contest with prizes from VisArt and, yes, Wootini? Consider it done.



Monday, October 18
The Young Idea [http://www.theyoungidea.com]
The Cave, Chapel Hill

The Young Idea are a three-piece with matching white shirts, black ties, and sunburst Rickenbackers, and although that's all I know about them, that may be enough for a Monday night at the Cave, yes?



Monday, October 18
Blackstrap [http://blackstrap.org], My Little Phony, SheMamas [http://www.purevolume.com/shemamas]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, October 19
International Orange [http://www.intlorange.com/], Stelvio, The High Strung [http://www.thehighstrung.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Although I'm somewhat baffled by the attention garnered of late by International Orange, I *can* speak up firmly in favor of Stelvio, which is the new solo thing by former Mercury Dime frontman Cliff Retallick. Mercury Dime always sort of wandered between Billy Joel-influenced American Rock and something like roots-rock, but Stelvio is at least 85% weird obsessive bedroom-recorded orchestral synth-art-pop, with timbres and vocals on some tracks reminiscent of Leonard Cohen. It's captivating in that one-guy-alone-at-home kind of way, at least on record; I have no idea how it'll come across live.



Wednesday, October 20
Valient Thorr [http://www.valientthorr.com/], Lacoste, Gemini, Plate Six [http://www.platesix.org/]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, October 20
Jett Rink [http://www.jett-rink.com/], Radio 4 [http://www.gernblandsten.com], The Last Vegas [http://www.thelastvegas.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, October 20
The Firebird Band [http://www.thefirebirdband.com/], Life at Sea [http://www.lifeatsea.com/], Kerbloki [http://www.kerbloki.com/], Low Flying Owls [http://www.lowflyingowls.net/]
Kings, Raleigh



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