RTP-area local music and culture

["JoAnne Worthington-Fitzgibbon" <Joannespub AT msn.com>]

"Your Favorite Hero"
at Joe & Jo's Downtown

Saturday, October 15, 2005; 9 p.m.


Don't miss this pop punk band from Knoxville! This group has quite the 
following and is making their Durham debut at Joe & Jo's. As always, no cover 
- just great music. Check out their tunes at 
http://www.myspace.com/yourfavoritehero<http://www.myspace.com/yourfavoritehero>.

Joe & Jo's is located at 427 W. Main Street, Downtown Durham at Historic Five 
Points. 
688-3322



      

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Friday, October 14
The Physics of Meaning [http://www.thephysicsofmeaning.com/], Gerty
[http://www.gerty.org], Jett Rink [http://www.jett-rink.com/], Spader,
Robo Sapien [http://www.gorobosapien.com/]
305 South, Durham

This is called MARV FEST: Benefit for Lymphoma & Lukemia Research; the
full lineup also includes Eyes to Space and an outfit called Jew(s) &
Catholic(s).



Friday, October 14
Analogue, Maple Stave [http://www.maplestave.com], Noncanon
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is the latest installment in Local 506's "Local Bands Reunited"
series. Analogue were easily one of my favorite local bands of the
90s. They began in Wilmington but relocated to Raleigh & immediately
stunned anybody in town who cared about, well, a whole range of
things. Drumming, for one; Dave Cantwell played drums for Analogue,
right out front, flailing away with his soon-become-familiar mix of
precision and falling-off-stool. You've seen him do it in Cantwell
Gomez & Jordan. The difference? The average Analogue song was ~10
minutes long, and while everyone else in the band was playing
repetitive arpeggios or synth drones, Cantwell was more or less
obligated to thrash all-out the whole time.

At some point Dave left for [inter-]personal reasons, and while the
rest of the band soldiered on under the moniker Analogue II for
another couple of years (and one last excellent album), Analogue mkI
remained the gold standard. Don't miss this show.



Saturday, October 15
Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan [http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com], The
Sames [http://www.thesames.com], Schooner
[http://www.schoonermusic.com], Art Lord and the Self Portraits
[http://www.ideasforhousecrafts.com], Blackstrap
[http://blackstrap.org]
305 South, Durham

This is Night Two of Marv Fest, a fundraiser for Gerty singer Shirle
Hale-Koslowski's "2nd dad" Marv Savage, who helped put her through
music school, and who now needs a little help with his medical bills.
On the bill are Durham spirit-of-'80 punx Blackstrap; 21st-Century
composers' collective Pulsoptional; spazzcore-rockers Cantwell, Gomez
& Jordan; downstate highly-conceptual dance-pop-artists Art Lord and
the Self Portraits; echoey/chorussy 4AD-stylee 80s UK-revivalists
Fashion Design; greatest shoegazer band of all time The Sames; and
organic high-spirited mope-rockers Schooner. 7:00 p.m.



Saturday, October 15
Roman Candle [http://www.romancandlemusic.com/], Dexter Romweber
[http://www.dexterromweber.com], Countdown Quartet
[http://www.countdownq.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is a benefit for New Orleans; it kicks off at 8:00 with a
songwriters' roundtable featuring tons of local
songwriters/bandmembers, sitting onstage trading songs. Bands come
later. There is also an auction of art by David Solow, Phil Blank,
Ronnie Tomany, Lee Moore, and photographer Michael Traister.

Countdown Quartet often sound like they could be from New Orleans.
Dexter Romweber sounds like he could be from outer space, or the 50s,
or Chapel Hill, or The Cave, or all of those at once. Roman Candle are
from North Wilkesboro and they make great southern-inflected pop that
would make Ryan Adams cringe in mortified realization of his own
inadequacy, if he had the genes necessary to do that.



Saturday, October 15
Devendra Banhart
[http://www.younggodrecords.com/Artists/DevendraBanhart/], Bunny
Brains [http://www.thebunnybrains.com/]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

The members of Ultrabunny (formerly known as Bunny Brains '88) would
like you to know the following:

"Bobby Bunny and Malcolm Tent started BunnyBrains in 1988. Dan Bunny
(aka Eg the Poet) invited himself in as singer some time later. 16
years and 65 additional band members later, everyone had quit except
for the original 3, who due to artistic and personal differences had
separated into BunnyBrains 88, (original recipe) and Dan's solo act
going by the name The Bunny Brains (extra crispy). Both bands formed
from the same core unit which coagulated in 1988. Due to the
inevitable personality conflicts inherent in rock and roll, 2 bands
ended up being better than one. Both seem fairly real and neither
thinks you could handle a reunification."

Just so, you know, everybody's clear on that. Later in the same FAQ,
they also mention that the current Bunny Brains sucks, but then I
think they're probably pissed about something.

Devendra Banhart is some kind of dirty hippie. "The Hairy Fairy" is
his touring band, which may or may not include frequent collaborator
Andy Cabic, who is from Greensboro & used to be in the Raymond Brake.



Sunday, October 16
The Strugglers [http://www.thestrugglers.org/]
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

The Strugglers have a new album out, or appearing any day now
(CD-release is on the 21st at Local 506), and it's easily their best
yet. It's beautiful; bitter & sad & gorgeous in an understated way
(make that a Drag City way, I guess - the Palace/Smog comparison is
still a useful referent, although growing less useful daily). The
title track, "You Win," is the best thing they've ever done, a
dissection of a life wasted to ambition and overwork. But then they're
all great. These are the songs that Randy Bickford's voice, so wavery
yet strong, sounds as if it were born to sing. 5:00 p.m. 88.7FM or
www.wxdu.org.



Sunday, October 16
Lozenge [http://www.mylozenge.com], Cry & Swell, Crowmeat Bob
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

I went to college with Lozenge, although I believe they didn't become
Lozenge until post-graduation. They've actually been on hiatus for a
couple of years, and in the interim accordion/oboist Kyle Bruckmann
has occupied himself by furthuring the art of the avant-garde oboe &
making records with any/everyone in his adopted Chicago, from Jeb
Bishop to Smog.

They've got a new album out now, though, and this is what the NYTimes'
Jon Pareles had to say back in August:

"LOZENGE, a four-man band from Chicago, makes a clattery, distorted
racket on its fourth album, "Undone" (Sick Room). Cheap organ and
synthesizer, clanking percussion, clobbered drums and cranked-up bass
work up stop-start patterns that sound like progressive rock locked in
a dank boiler room.... Every so often, someone howls a line like "What
are we waiting for?" amid the din, or the music switches to a sardonic
oom-pah. All the lurching and buzzing is invigorating and hilarious,
unless you're prone to motion sickness."

They're every bit that weird/good live, too.



Monday, October 17
Black Dice [http://www.epitonic.com/artists/blackdice.html], Growing
[http://www.growingsound.com/], Nautical Almanac
[http://www.heresee.com/nauticallink.htm]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Monday, October 17
Richard Buckner [http://www.richardbuckner.com/], The Strugglers
[http://www.thestrugglers.org/]
Kings, Raleigh

See above (Sunday's listing) for the lowdown on the Strugglers & their
excellent new album "You Win."



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