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you could try  also www.enon.tv


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From: "grady" <grady AT ibiblio.org>
To: "RTP-area local music and culture" <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:54 PM
Subject: Stuff to do, Week of March 3, 2005


> Thursday, March 3
> Enon [http://www.seethrubroadcasting.com/enon/], Swearing at Motorists 
> [http://www.swearingatmotorists.com/]
> Duke Coffeehouse, Durham
>
>
>
> Thursday, March 3
> Uncle Woody Sullender [http://www.deadceo.com/unclewoody/], Cantwell, 
> Gomez, Jordan [http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com], Spacelab
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Uncle Woody Sullender lived here for a while, probably while attending 
> UNC, during which time he made a lotta noise of various types & planted 
> the seeds of his Dead CEO label before packing up & moving to Chicago 
> along with all the other noise-lovers. Now he's touring around the country 
> with his banjo and a cellist, presumably to hide behind while playing the 
> banjo.
>
> Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan are a "power trio" in the tradition of great 
> "power trios" throughout history. Spacelab involve a lot of hunching over 
> consoles, and minute adjustments of knobs.
>
>
>
> Thursday, March 3
> King of November, Fashion Design [http://fashiondesignband.com/]
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> Fashion Design are young & sassy and Britdrone-influenced and not above 
> utilizing echoey devices. King of November is apparently a side-project of 
> Fake Swedish guitarist Eric Haugen.
>
>
>
> Thursday, March 3
> Continent [http://216.117.191.68/continent/], Cheers To No Tomorrow, Joe 
> Taylor
> The Treehouse, Chapel Hill
>
> The Treehouse is the sometime-meatmarket bar on the ground floor of the 
> building that also houses Hell and Bub O'Malleys. No word yet on whether 
> this new Thursday-night indie-rock thing is a replacement for the karaoke, 
> or a supplement, or what. Either way, it's a little scary.
>
> Continent are from Raleigh & they include former members of the spazz-core 
> band The Ladderback and the 90s-era sludgecore band El Sucio. They're 
> pretty fucking massive.
>
> Cheers to No Tomorrow is the side project of Fin Fang Foom bassist Eddie 
> Sanchez. Joe Taylor was in the Chapel Hill band Capsize 7 back in the 90s, 
> and more recently was half of the duo Lystra.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 4
> The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers 
> [http://www.prayersandtears.com/], Nathan Asher & the Infantry 
> [http://www.nathanasher.com/]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> If anybody tries to convince you that irony killed the local music scene, 
> you need look no further than this lineup for refutation. Although I 
> actually don't know how seriously Prayers and Tears prime-mover Perry 
> Wright takes himself & his project; maybe he just really digs a long 
> phrase.
>
> Nathan Asher, on the other hand, is, as they used to say on the 
> playground, serious as a heart attack. Serious about politics (he's 
> somewhere on the left); serious about human relations (he's in favor); 
> serious about the power of music to change peoples' lives for the better. 
> Serious, as well, about his love & admiration for, apparently, Bruce 
> Springsteen and Patti Smith. Or perhaps it's just that everybody that 
> earnest winds up sounding like this.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 4
> Tigersaw [http://www.tigersaw.com], Lazarus, Castanets, The Strugglers 
> [http://www.thestrugglers.org/]
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Dunno about anybody but the Strugglers, but what I know about the 
> Strugglers is that they're a drop-dead gorgeous slow-folk/country-core 
> setting for frontman Randy Bickford's cracked-voiced songs of loss, 
> longing & dissociation. Their "Fair Store" EP was one of my faves of 2004 
> and the promise of a new Strugglers full-length in 2005 is one of the 
> things getting me through this fucking endless freeze we're under.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 4
> Jett Rink [http://www.jett-rink.com/], Art Lord and the Self Portraits 
> [http://www.ideasforhousecrafts.com], Pykrete
> Martin Street Music Hall, Raleigh
>
> It's about damn time for a new Jett Rink record, and I'm not gonna say 
> anything else about 'em until I hear one.
>
> Art Lord and the Self Portraits are *another* weirdo "concept" band from 
> Greenville; singer Locke Ernstfrost is the Art Lord, and his band of 
> clones of himself are collectively his Self Portraits. And they play 
> minimalist Casiotone dance-pop. With big muttonchop sideburns.
>
> Pykrete is the minimalist bleeps-and-scrapes electro-noise project of 
> Chuck Johnson, who has worked in many guises over the years, most recently 
> as one of the guitarists of Shark Quest.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 4
> Fashion Design [http://fashiondesignband.com/], Dynasty Electric Duo 
> [http://dynastyelectricduo.com/], Spader
> Duke Coffeehouse, Durham
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 5
> Hotel Motel [http://www.hot-mot.com], Calabi Yau 
> [http://www.calabiyau.com/], The Whole World Laughing, Royal Bangs 
> [http://www.theroyalbangs.com/]
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Hotel Motel are even more confounding, in their own way, than their sister 
> band Cantwell Gomez & Jordan. The songs are generally only a couple of 
> minutes long, but after hearing a couple of them I find myself wanting a 
> good hour or so to think about them. But the bastards keep right on 
> playing more.
>
> Calabi Yau are from Charlotte, and they make seriously fucked-up 
> spizzle-rock--lots of strings scraping over other strings, and some 
> nonstop demented yapping way in the background somewhere. There were 
> moments of their first album that sounded like Primus's Les Claypool on 
> massive quantities of the *wrong* medication, but I try not to hold that 
> against them.
>
> Hotel Motel's Anne Gomez described The Whole World Laughing like so:
>
> The Whole World Laughing - Dave "wine in a box" Cantwell on bass and 
> Scotty "I am absolutely positive Jesus likes heavy metal" Irving on drums. 
> Do you need anything more?
>
> Nightlight says this of Royal Bangs: "expected to 'infuse some spunk and 
> personality into the rotting corpse of rock.'"
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 5
> The Trousers, BQs, Kung Flude [http://www.kungflude.com/]
> Kings, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 5
> Indie-Rock Karaoke
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Monday, March 7
> Neva Dinova [http://www.nevadinova.com/]
> Duke Coffeehouse, Durham
>
>
>
> Tuesday, March 8
> Lou Barlow [http://www.loobiecore.com/], David Karsten Daniels 
> [http://www.davidkarstendaniels.com/]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> Lou Barlow: played bass on the first two Dinosaur Jr records (and will be 
> playing bass with Dinosaur Jr again, apparently, as they reunite in 
> conjunction with Merge's reissue of the aforementioned albums); was/is a 
> significant percentage of Sebadoh; made forty billion dollars after his 
> side-project with John Davis, Folk Implosion, got hugely popular thanks a 
> song on the Kids soundtrack; put out his first proper solo album on Merge 
> last year.
>
> David Karsten Daniels is part of that Texas-expat Bu Hanan Records posse, 
> along with Kapow! Music, Prayers and Tears, and Go Machine.
>
>
>
> Tuesday, March 8
> Spader, Everything Now! [http://www.everythingnowmusic.com/]
> Martin Street Music Hall, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Wednesday, March 9
> Breaker!Breaker! [http://www.breakerbreaker.org/], Boyzone 
> [http://kodakculture.org/katherine/boyszone], Planecrash
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> When in doubt, quote the club website: "B!B! are popminded discopulsing 
> rainbow children who seem to be having a LOT OF FUN in all their videos. 
> The last time Boyzone played the following things happened: bodies on top 
> of bodies, floor-writhing, umbrellas capes, flagellation, enormous 
> mystical tattoos, instruments becoming unplugged, lots of confusion. 
> Planecrash = thugged-out karaoke punk."
>
>
>
> Wednesday, March 9
> Ambulance, LTD [http://www.ambulancenyc.com/], VHS or Beta 
> [http://www.vhsorbeta.com/], Robbers on High Street 
> [http://www.robbersonhighstreet.com/]
> Duke Coffeehouse, Durham
>
>
>
> Wednesday, March 9
> Bettie Serveert [http://www.bettieserveert.com/], Schooner 
> [http://www.schoonermusic.com]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Thursday, March 10
> Goner [http://www.gonertheband.com/], Timonium 
> [http://pehrlabel.com/artists/timonium.htm], Glissade 
> [http://www.myspace.com/glissade]
> Martin Street Music Hall, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Friday, March 11
> Jule Brown [http://www.julebrown.org]
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> This is the early show (7:30); no word yet on whether the Jule Brown 
> Psychedelic Light Show will be out in full force for this one.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 11
> Oxes [http://www.brownpants.com/oxes], More Dogs, Man Man 
> [http://www.wearemanman.com]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> Oxes are boys in jumpsuits with wireless guitars who run frantically 
> around the club playing frantic math-metal and colliding with people & 
> things. Man Man are from Philadelphia and work the inscrutable / bizarre / 
> animal-masks / noise / spazzout angles.
>
> More Dogs are from Baltimore & are friends of our Secret Ex-Pat Baltimore 
> Correspondent, who said of them 2 years ago, upon the occasion of their 
> first show here, "Thinks Enoish spreads with Vandyke Parks' niblets of 
> Americana (especially some vaguely Eastern European or Greek bubbles here 
> and there) along side some solid rock music and there you go."
>
>
>
> Friday, March 11
> The Comas [http://www.thecomas.com], Ticonderoga 
> [http://www.ticonderobics.com/], Vietnam, Bellafea 
> [http://www.bellafea.com/]
> Kings, Raleigh
>
> This is CD-release time for Ticonderoga, whose website was sadly too 
> technically involved for my limited abilities; all the songs seemed to 
> play at once, or perhaps it was the same song playing multiple times with 
> varying amounts of delay. It was scary.
>
> The Comas are, on record, a much bigger louder more-overdriven alt-rocky 
> buzzsaw of a psych band than they were a few years ago. I missed them at 
> the Cradle recently but the consensus was positive.
>
> Bellafea have a new EP out this week as well, and Heather has been 
> practicing her dancing just for you.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 11
> Billy Sugarfix [http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/billysugarfix.htm], 
> Essie Jain [http://www.essiejain.com/], Secret Boyfriend
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
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