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Downtown Durham Rocks:  Hot New Acts at a Hot New Venue, Friday 9/30
For Immediate Release:  Contact Morgan Guyton, 919-309-0969

The Blayloc Cafe, downtown Durham's hot new music venue at 108 Morris
Street, will be the site of a must-see show on Friday, September 30th.
Chapel Hill's favorite "sing-along drinking song" band, The New Town
Drunks, will be accompanied by rising stars Starting Tuesday and the
Junior Varsity Superheroes, as well as phenomenal singer-songwriter Amy
Cross.  Opened just as the much-loved Ooh Lah Latte was closing down
this summer, Blayloc has started to draw impressive numbers and to
light a new spark of hope for the pro-downtown Durham cultural
movement.

Heading up the show are the New Town Drunks, who have been described as
everything from "Puerto Rican garage rock" to "Southern-friend
Flamenco."  Southeast Performer Mag gives them "a thumbs up for being
so delightfully wild and crazy."  Members of the notorious Third Mind
Collective, the New Town Drunks often bring wild-card elements into
their act such as mock beer commercials and other pranks.  Their
performance is guaranteed to be sexy, silly, and (of course) drunk.

Starting Tuesday has developed quite a buzz throughout North Carolina
over the past few years, playing such reputable venues as the Cat's
Cradle in Carrboro, the Greene Street Club in Greensboro, and the
Evening Muse in Charlotte.  Starting Tuesday has a sound that combines
vocals reminiscent of British-pop band Travis with gentle, delightful
rhythms that recall the Red Hot Chili Peppers.  Their lyrics combine
wisdom with hopefulness, making each listening experience a "rescue
remedy" for the ears and soul.

The Junior Varsity Superheroes are the newest group in the bunch.
Playing out only since June, they are just starting to establish
themselves, gaining invitations to last month's Troika Music Festival
and the upcoming festival in Carrboro.  The Superheroes bring to the
stage a funky new wave mix that sometimes goes metal, a result of the
underlying tension between the pop and hair band genres they grew up
with.  Expect soaring synthesizers, thrashing guitars, sweaty dance
beats, and outrageous costumes.

Launching the evening will be Amy Cross, who has been building a
reputation as one of the premier piano-playing vocalists in the
Triangle.  While she plays lightly enough to allow for background
conversation, the dynamics of both her fingers and voice are enough to
bring even the rowdiest Franklin Street bars to complete silence.

Event promoter Morgan Guyton states, "This blending together of genres
and styles, while certainly eclectic, would make for a great bootleg
mix tape.  You should come not only because it's great music, but
because it's happening in downtown Durham."

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