RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

It's not too late to catch Lightning Bolt in winston if you start 
driving soonish:


Friday, May 20
Lightning Bolt [http://www.fortthunder.org/music/lb/], Bug Sized Mind, 
Hide and Seek [http://www.freewebs.com/hideandseeek], Calabi Yau 
[http://www.calabiyau.com/], MorMon
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem

This is the only regional stop for Lightning Bolt, who have a 
near-universal reputation for phenomenality, or something along those 
lines. Also on the bill, the freaky spazzcore-meets-Primus noise of 
Charlotte's Calabi Yau, plus W-S's MorMon, described by Werehousers as 
"amazing christian noise/performance metal."



Friday, May 20
Dean Fields [http://www.deanfields.com/], Nathan Asher 
[http://www.nathanasher.com], Scott Phillips
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh



Friday, May 20
The Cartridge Family [http://www.cartridge-family.com/], Southern Bitch 
[http://www.southernbitch.org/], Hearts and Daggers
Kings, Raleigh



Friday, May 20
Cool John Ferguson [http://www.musicmaker.org/artistroster/Cooljohn.htm]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Saturday, May 21
Dexter Romweber [http://www.dexterromweber.com], Zen Frisbee, The 
Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers 
[http://www.prayersandtears.com/], Evil Wiener 
[http://www.evilwienerworld.com/], Jule Brown [http://www.julebrown.org]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is a benefit for longtime local soundman Dave Schmitt, who like too 
many people in the local music community doesn't have health insurance, 
because the people who run this country think it's more important for 
insurance companies to get rich leeching off of our medical system than 
for everybody to have access to healthcare.

Anyway, so Dave needs some major dental work, and several of the 
countless (10s of 1000s, at least) bands he's worked with over the years 
are throwing this benefit to help out.

The show begins at 6:00 p.m. (really!) with Evil Weiner, their first 
show since bassist Groves Willer became a daddy. After that you've got 
the elaborate hyper-literate chamber-rock of PATOADS, plus Killer 
Filler, John Howie (do I even need to put $2 Pistols in these 
parentheses), Jule Brown, an incarnation of Zen Frisbee which is 
disclaimed as "lite" and I dunno what that means but even Lite Zen 
Frisbee is worth crossing town for; the New Orleans party-jazz of 
Countdown Quartet, and Dave's longtime friend and traveling companion 
Dexter Romweber.



Saturday, May 21
The Comas [http://www.thecomas.com], The Rosebuds 
[http://www.therosebuds.com/], Hopewell
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro




Saturday, May 21
Continent [http://216.117.191.68/continent/], The Kick Ass 
[http://bifocalmedia.com/ourbands/thekickass.html], Manamid 
[http://www.manamid.com]
Wetlands, Chapel Hill

Wetlands Dancehall is the new incarnation of what used to be called the 
Treehouse, which is on the ground floor of that multi-club building that 
houses Hell in the basement and Bub O'Malley's up-top, at the 
intersection of Henderson and Rosemary in Chapel Hill. They've installed 
a proper stage & PA and are having rockbands. Go figure.

So this is a joint CD-release party for Continent and the Kickass, who 
are either each releasing a CD, or are releasing a split CD together. 
Not sure which. Either way, Continent are heavy/sludgy in a divinely 
pulsing/propulsive kind of way. The Kickass are an instru-metal band 
with way too many cymbals, unless you like cymbals, in which case have fun.

Opening the show are Greensboro's Fugazi-influenced Manamid.



Saturday, May 21
Supersystem, Sentai, Spader, Fake Swedish 
[http://fakeswedish.4t.com/index.html]
Kings, Raleigh

Supersystem are apparently post-El Guapo & that's all I know about that. 
Fake Swedish are from Chapel Hill & I adore their brand of well-arranged 
smarty-pants 60s-style pop psychedelia.



Sunday, May 22
Art Lord and the Self Portraits [http://www.ideasforhousecrafts.com], 
Dan Deacon [http://www.dandeacon.com/], Nuclear Power Pants 
[http://www.bxxxxzt.com/]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Monday, May 23
Mobius Band [http://www.mobiusband.com/], David Karsten Daniels 
[http://www.davidkarstendaniels.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, May 24
Grey Daturas [http://www.greydaturas.cjb.net], The Butcherings 
[http://www.thebutcherings.com], In the Year of the Pig 
[http://www.southernloveprod.com/ityotp.htm]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, May 24
My Dear Ella [http://www.mydearella.com], Fashion Design 
[http://fashiondesignband.com/]
The Library, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, May 24
Caltrop, Chachalaca, Rockets and Mortar
Wetlands, Chapel Hill

I got the following from ex-El Sucio/current Continent frontman Sam Taylor:

"caltrop is the new band that i'm in that includes myself & jason 
(drums) from continent, murat (bass) from el sucio, & adam (guitar) from 
pegasus.

chachalaca is my brother joe (guitar) from capsize 7/lystra, billy 
buckley (bass) who was in cobra kahn, & saula finau on drums (badass 
drummer).

rockets and mortar, all i know is that dan from sentinel is in the band.

this is the first show for caltrop and the first show for chachalaca and 
the second show for rockets and mortar and it will thus probably be 
short sets all around but good nonetheless (we might get a 4th band)."



Tuesday, May 24
Monade [http://www.toopure.com/monade/], The Zincs 
[http://www.ohiogirl.com/ohiogold/goldbandzincs.htm]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Monade is the side-project thing of Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab, just 
so's you know.



Wednesday, May 25
Crowmeat Bob presents Death Jazz
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh

The word on this (and we're pretty sure it's this week, like for real):

Come one, come all. Bring the kids. Another must-see insanely special 
Wednesday event featuring touring musicians in two sets of music. Witness:

1st set:
Katsuyuki Itakura - piano (Japan)
Michael Thomas Jackson (Winston-Salem)
Bruce Eisenbeil - guitar (NYC)
Brian Osborne - percussion (NYC)

2nd set: Pulsoptional
You of course know puloptional as the Durham composers' collective 
consisting primarily of Duke music grads. (http://www.pulsoptional.org/) 
We will be improvising together.

Jennifer Fitzgerald - piano
Marc Faris - electric guitar
John Mayrose - classical guitar, electric bass
Tom Limbert - percussion
Todd Hershberger - bassoon, alto sax
Carrie Shull - oboe, english horn
Crowmeat Bob - alto sax, bass clarinet, trombone

Always within reason. Always within reason.



Wednesday, May 25
The Backwards [http://www.thebackwards.sk/]
Kings, Raleigh

The Backwards is the Czech Beatles Tribute. No, really.



Wednesday, May 25
n0 things, Country Bears, Chromelodeon [http://www.chromelodeon.com]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nightlight sez:

"n0 things is a new slayering (???) group w/the ex-bassist & ex-drummer 
of Liars, + Christian Daustresme from Get Him Screw Him. Tribal drums, 
clanging guitars, no jamming, a 4/4 dance beat for like two seconds 
before switching to something else entirely different - Rocking stuff!!! 
Country Bears are pretty heavy fast local rock dudes and they tear it 
up. Chromelodeon might cover the music from Ninja Gaidan II if you ask."



Thursday, May 26
Andrew Bird [http://www.andrewbird.net/], Antena
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, May 26
Schooner [http://www.schoonermusic.com], Casting Company
Fuse, Chapel Hill



Thursday, May 26
Valient Thorr [http://www.valientthorr.com/], Electric Sunshine
Kings, Raleigh



Friday, May 27
Richard Buckner [http://www.richardbuckner.com/], Anders Parker
Kings, Raleigh



Friday, May 27
Summer Set [http://www.summersetworld.com ]
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh

Bitter irony, of course, is that I'm going to be in the Wilmington area 
while Summer Set, my current favorite Wilmington band, is in Raleigh 
playing this show. They're one of this fascinating new school of NC 
bands(along with Schooner & Asheville's Wayne Robbins & the Hellsayers) 
who manage to shoehorn countryish sounds, like steel guitar, into 
pop/rock songs and somehow make it sound fresh and exciting.



Friday, May 27
We Vs. The Shark [http://www.myspace.com/weversustheshark/], Kudzu Wish 
[http://www.kudzuwish.com/], Country Bears
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Friday, May 27
Dynasty Electric Duo [http://dynastyelectricduo.com/], Gold Streets, The 
Dynamite Brothers [http://www.dynamitebrothers.com/]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Saturday, May 28
Work Clothes [http://www.bullfightparty.org], Billy Sugarfix 
[http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/billysugarfix.htm]
The Cave, Chapel Hill

This is the Late Show at the Cave (10:00pm rocktimeish). I don't know 
whether Work Clothes have corralled their sometime-bandmates John 
Harrison & Clarque Blomquist for this one, but you're in for a treat 
either way. Lee & Jenny make weird lovely quiet songs about strange 
things & when they're just two, they're quiet as little demented mice; 
when they're four, they're quiet just long enough to get you off-guard 
and then ROAR.



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