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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 July 15, 2005
  • Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:39:33 -0400

Don't forget the opening on Sunday night at Fuse for the Dixon Family show, featuring painting & sculpture by Laird, Kevin *and* their mom, Beverly. Elsewhere:


Friday, July 15
The Venables [http://www.myspace.com/thevenables], Fake Swedish [http://fakeswedish.4t.com/index.html], The Cartridge Family [http://www.cartridge-family.com/]
The Cave, Chapel Hill

The Venables are the Early Show (7:30ish); they include former and soon-to-be-again Triangle resident Phil Venable, and [at least sometimes] various current/former members of the $2 Pistols, whom Phil used to manage. Despite that, Phil says they sound like Husker Du. I didn't get a chance to ask him if that would be SST, or Warner Bros.

The late show is Chapel Hill's Fake Swedish and Raleigh's Cartridge Family.



Friday, July 15
Clang Quartet
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh

Clang Quartet is the one-man mostly-percussion noise-art ensemble of former Geezer Lake drummer Scotty Irving (although, as he recently pointed out, he's been Clang Quartet for a lot longer than he was in Geezer Lake at this point. Plus nobody younger than me remembers Geezer Lake anyway, sadly.). He'll bang on anything, and it's all for the greater glory of Jesus Christ. Really.



Friday, July 15
Nathan Asher & the Infantry [http://www.nathanasher.com/], TV Knife [http://www.myspace.com/tvknife]
Kings, Raleigh

Nathan Asher & the Infantry are the bastardly young stepchildren of that chick in your art class who really really identified with Patti Smith, and John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.

TV Knife have (had?) an MP3 on their website, "Monster," that totally channeled Sweet and/or Slade in the best possible way.



Saturday, July 16
Can't [http://www.irfp.net/], Pykrete [http://www.bullfightparty.org/cirox/pykrete], Jason Crumer [http://www.dadadrumming.org/jasoncrumer/]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Ryan went a little nutso describing this one:

"Jessica Rylan is a Boston sound artist who designs and builds her own modular synths. Jessica is also Can’t. She sings pretty songs through boxes that cause the sound of her voice to scatter and flutter all over the place, often while demonstrating some of her amazing dancing skills. The effect is probably my favorite performance I’ve seen here in the past year … One gets the distinct impression that she causes dozens of meaningful crushes every time she plays.

Pykrete is Chuck Johnson’s increasingly compelling & restless electronic music project. At the last basement party at 401 Pritchard (and also at a show at 506 apparently) he and Robert Biggers caused a totally unselfconscious, sweaty bodies-on-bodies freak-out RAVE dance party. DJ Nasty Boots & Juan V play my favorite dance records ever. The Crumer sets I’ve seen usually make me happy to be alive, despite being another year older – PLUS this is his first show since "quitting noise" some time ago. Tonight is all about the abolishment of the ego. I’m very excited about this show because it’s my first birthday party since I turned five. Love, Ryan"



Saturday, July 16
Gerty [http://www.gerty.org], The Sibling Project
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh



Saturday, July 16
Fashion Design [http://fashiondesignband.com/], The Experts [http://www.expertsrock.com], Sold
Blayloc, Durham

Blayloc is the latest once-more-into-the-breach Durham club/[restaurant? so I've heard] to dip its big toe into the nasty shark-infested waters of Live Music In Durham. It's at 108 Morris Street, which I believe makes it that big been-all-different-names club space just across the side parking alley/lot from the Durham Arts Council building on Morris (which also puts it just across the bank parking lot from Joe & Jo's). You'll find it.



Saturday, July 16
des_ark [http://www.des-ark.org], Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan [http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com], Manamid [http://www.manamid.com], Maple Stave [http://www.maplestave.com]
Wetlands, Chapel Hill

Wetlands is above Hell and below Bub O'Malleys, at the intersection of Henderson & Rosemary on the East End of downtown Chapel Hill.

Cantwell Gomez & Jordan and des_ark are two of my current five-fave-bands in North Carolina; Cantwell Gomez and Jordan have a song called "For des_ark," so I think we're all in agreement on this, actually.

Manamid are from Greensboro and they're all veterans of a variety of other bands, including Rebar & Eagle Bravo. Last time I saw Manamid, they were making muscular postpunk with a definite Fugazi influence, but more lyrics about Pegasus.

Maple Stave are from Durham, and they make music that sounds a lot like that stuff we used to call "mathrock."



Saturday, July 16
Maria Taylor [http://www.saddle-creek.com/bands/mariataylor/], Statistics, Taylor Hollingsworth [http://taylorhollingsworth.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Sunday, July 17
Kudzu Wish [http://www.kudzuwish.com/]
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

Kudzu Wish are half-Greensboro, half-Chapel Hill, and they make muscular, slightly nerdy political-as-personal post-whatever vaguely emo-ish (hey, they care, OK?) rock that I used to compare to At The Drive-In, but they don't exist anymore (and they don't sound a thing like the Mars Volta, sorry Karen) so I guess Kudzu Wish won that round. This will be the 2nd time they've played on WXDU, and their first time in our newly spacious (we threw out the skanky couches) lounge/"performance space." 5:00 p.m. 88.7 FM or www.wxdu.org.



Sunday, July 17
Can Joann [http://www.canjoann.com/], Erie Choir, Schooner [http://www.schoonermusic.com]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is the commencement of a grand experiment, involving live rock at the Local 506 being carried, presumably over The Internet, to WXYC and from there out to your tender ears via the radio or whatever other technology you use to hear WXYC. Or you can just go to Local 506 and hear it directly, as well as see it & smell it. That last may be the deciding factor for many of you.

Actually, since writing the above I've been informed that commencing at 7:00 p.m. there will be free BBQ from Chapel Hill's Barbeque Joint, which serves the best eastern-NC-style pork BBQ in the 5-county area, IMHO. THAT should be your deciding factor, right there. By the way, the show starts at 8:00, and the first hour (performance/interview with Erie Choir) is the portion to be broadcast live.



Sunday, July 17
Bringerer, Sin Eater, Kaiser Cartel
The Cave, Chapel Hill

The more I hear the new Bringerer CD, the more I like it; it redraws the half-hidden connections between Cheap Trick, Brian Eno, and 21st-Century indie-rock in a way that sheds positive light on all three.



Monday, July 18
Teenage Fanclub [http://www.teenagefanclub.com/], The Rosebuds [http://www.therosebuds.com/]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

"She wears denim whereever she goes, says she's gonna get some records by the Status Quo." Ohhh, yeah. Ohhh, yeah. I have vague-but-fond memories of listening to Bandwagonesque, but to discover that Teenage Fanclub are still around *and* signed to Merge is about as weird as, well, um, I don't know. It's weird, OK? It'd be like discovering that Erectus Monotone were alive and well and living in Chicago & had a record out on Bloodshot.



Tuesday, July 19
The Spinns [http://www.thespinns.freeservers.com/], Coffin Bound
Local 506, Chapel Hill

I got an email the other day from our old friend Russell Holbrook, who used to live here & played guitar for Choose Your Own Adventure. He's lately moved back to the Atlanta-Athens Axis (memo to whomever: ask him about the Georgia Guidestones - http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm), and he's playing drums with Coffin Bound, whom he describes as "dark, minor chord, garage-blues-whateveryoucallit."

The Spinns also play garage-blues-whateveryoucallit, with a whole lot of pounding and strumming in the downward direction.



Tuesday, July 19
Neal Medlyn [http://nealmedlyn.com/], Boyzone [http://kodakculture.org/katherine/boyszone]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Our friends at Nightlight make a point of attempting to describe the weird-ass shit they're booking in terms we can all understand, and we love them for it, because we love the weird-ass shit, but sometimes it takes a good description to get us out of the house on a school night:

"Funnyman Neal Med is a performer from NYC whose work has appeared at PS122, Ars Nova (where his successful Lionel Richie Opera Recently played, Fez (Neal Medlyn, the Paris Hilton of Performance Arts), Knitting Factory, Here Arts Center, etc. He has had sex with more than seven people worldwide, and released things like books and records that you can purchase on CD OR Cassette. Tonight he’ll be playing and singing pop songs and running amok. Precious! Boyzone will try to warm the crowd up with their fledgling style of primitive techno dance music."

I don't know if that helped or not.



Thursday, July 21
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE [http://www.neoism.net]
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh

tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE is a legendarily obscurantist filmmaker / conceptual and/or noise and/or mail artist / troublemaker / adherent of Neoism, which gets more confusing the more you read about it, so just go read about it & forget about me trying to describe it [http://www.neoism.net/]. He may or may not be detailed here: http://www.kentbye.com/tent_default.htm

This show may or may not be a screening of his recent film (which I can't find in any of his own copious online filmographies, but who's counting?) "Story of a Fructiferous Society," which is described as "86 minutes of "an ecstatic kabbalist's eruption of language" -- an experiment combining word games, performance art, philology and sensory overload. NOTE - This show isn't for the kiddies or passive adult viewer." 8:00 p.m.



Friday, July 22
Pedestrian Deposit [http://www.freewebs.com/monorail/pd.html], Oscillating Innards [http://www.iheartnoise.com/innards], American Band
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Before I commence with the obligatory cut-and-paste from the Nightlight website, let me just remind you briefly how lucky we are to have the kids at Nightlight, with their obsession with hellacious noise. How many Chapel-Hill-sized towns are there in America? And how many of them have comfy book-lined beer-and-brownie (and sandwiches if you get there early enough) -serving venues showcasing all manner of hellacious noise and bizarro performance art 2-3 times a week? This is a labor of love, folks, and while I'm consistently amazed at how many people show up for these shows, it's nevertheless not really a profitable enterprise. So love it while it lasts, and hopefully it'll last a little longer.

Right, on to the cut-and-paste: "Pedestrian Deposit has apparently been putting out harsh noise releases since he was thirteen (he was home-schooled). The last disc I heard, “Volatile” was awesome, cut-up, screwy stereo-panning, echoing brutality. He’s touring from CA w/ Oscillating Innards, and we’re so pleased they’re coming here. AMERICAN BAND is the awaited collaboration between Jason Crumer, Matt (from Air Conditioning), and a Southern gentleman named Lee on power-tools."



Friday, July 22
Veronique Diabolique [http://www.veroniquediabolique.com/]
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh

If you ask the members of Veronique Diabolique "Why? why a French-speaking Goth Band from Durham?" they will merely smile and reply "Why not?"



Friday, July 22
Regina Hexaphone [http://www.reginahexaphone.com], Hard Times Family
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Friday, July 22
Electric Sunshine, Dude Garden, Choosy Beggars [http://www.thechoosybeggars.com]
Kings, Raleigh



Saturday, July 23
Arrogance [http://www.arrogance.us/], The Backbeat
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



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