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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 November 30, 2005
  • Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:24:35 -0500

Wednesday, November 30
Amish Jihad, Caltrop
Reservoir, Carrboro

Reservoir is where Go! used to be, and although they are
strictly-speaking still Just A Bar, they've been having rockshows more
& more frequently. It nearly always seems to involve the owners and/or
friends of the owners, so perhaps they're Just A Bar until somebody
they know wants to play, which is a damn convenient way to avoid
having to throw away 100s of unlistened demo-CD-Rs.

But so anyway, Amish Jihad are the More Metal spinoff of the Scaries.
Caltrop are heavy/sludgy/Sabbathy & feature ex-members of El Sucio and
the Ladderback.



Thursday, December 1 - Saturday December 3
The Great Cover-Up [http://www.kingsbarcade.com]
Kings, Raleigh

This is the 7th-annual Great Cover-Up, which (as always) involves
local bands performing short sets of covers of their favorite bands.
In essence it's closer to the "Great Tribute-Up," because each band
covers a single other band, and they're welcome (and indeed
encouraged) to tart it up with wigs and costumes and fake moustaches.

Over the past few years a trend has developed whereby the local
"bands" aren't local bands at all, but are instead just accretions of
otherwise-unrelated local musicians, assembled solely for the purpose
of playing the Cover-Up. This is, strictly-speaking, a Bad Thing, but
considering that some of my personal faves over the past few years
have been such bands (Big Black or Jesus Lizard, anyone?), I guess I
should just shut up & enjoy it. Good enough.

The lineup is always kept semi-secret, and this year I actually
haven't heard Thing One about who's covering whom on which night, so
you're just gonna have to turn out for all three nights
(Thursday-Saturday).



Thursday, December 1
The Apes [http://www.selfstarterfoundation.com/apes.html]
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham



Thursday, December 1
Snatches of Pink [http://www.snatchesofpink.com/], Elevator Action
[http://www.elevatoractionband.com/], The Sammies
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Friday, December 2
Deadboy & the Elephantmen [http://www.deadboyandtheelephantmen.com],
Summerbirds [http://www.summerbirds.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Friday, December 2
Nathan Asher & the Infantry [http://www.nathanasher.com/], Eyes to
Space [http://www.eyestospace.net/]
Wetlands, Chapel Hill



Saturday, December 3
des_ark [http://www.des-ark.org], The Strugglers
[http://www.thestrugglers.org/], Buried Beds
[http://www.buriedbeds.com/]
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh

des_ark at present is just Aimee Argote and her guitar, although last
month it also included Drunk Girl's unearthly keening. Lately Aimee
has taken to swearing up & down that she prefers playing with just her
acoustic guitar & no amplification, to which I'm compelled to respond:
Remember the stairwell scene in Animal House.

The Strugglers's most recent album, "You Win," should be
required-listening for anybody interested in the current state of the
alt-alt-alt-country/bummer-folk movement (think Drag City, Palace,
Smog), and for anybody else who admires a devastating song
well-delivered.

Randy says his friends the Buried Beds are like "Karen Carpenter
fronting Low." Holy moly.



Saturday, December 3
Low Skies [http://www.lowskies.com/]
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham



Saturday, December 3
The Cartridge Family [http://www.cartridge-family.com/], Watershed
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Sunday, December 4
Ticonderoga [http://www.ticonderobics.com/]
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

Ticonderoga are from Raleigh, and among their many accomplishments,
they successfully pull off the switching-instruments thing to further
their program of everchanging subtle variations in tone from
song-to-song. Their music can be identified vaguely as
"post-Pavement," primarily via the lackadaisical vocal styleee, but
instruments & arrangements have their own nervous twitch-folk energy.
Their new "Heilig-Levine LP" is one of my faves of 2005, and my
experience of their live shows to date would indicate that their
live-radio set might still hip you to why. 5:00 p.m. 88.7FM or
www.wxdu.org.



Sunday, December 4
Eugene Chadbourne [http://www.eugenechadbourne.com/], Malachy Papers
[http://www.malachypapers.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Eugene Chadbourne is a national treasure (the only one currently
living in Greensboro? I'll have to mull that one for a while); for the
past 30+ years he's been investigating the overlap between the various
American Indigenous Musical Styles--jazz, bluegrass, country--and
doing his damnedest to increase the amount of overlap. He's entirely
likely to veer from a sort of 21st-century-classical minimalist bleat,
into a few bars of a Merle Haggard cover, into some free-jazz skronk,
and back to the bleat. Or he may just give you 45 minutes of his own
investigations into the American Music of his mind, or 45 minutes of
bare-bones-beautiful Phil Ochs covers.



Sunday, December 4
The Strugglers [http://www.thestrugglers.org/], Bibis Ellison
[http://bibisellison.elektrikcoma.com/], Buried Beds
[http://www.buriedbeds.com/]
Wetlands, Chapel Hill

In case you missed 'em at Bickett Gallery last night, local
Drag-City-ish heirs-apparent the Strugglers, plus their pals the
Buried Beds, ID'd as "Karen Carpenter fronting Low."



Monday, December 5
Rogue Wave [http://www.roguewavemusic.com/], Mazarin
[http://www.mazarinband.com/], Tennis and the Mennonites
[http://www.tennisandthemennonites.com]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

We love Tennis and the Mennonites; they are a sub-Mason-Dixon version
of an artschool band, with all the additional weirdness that might
imply.

Rogue Wave are the latest Sub Pop Thing, whatever that means.



Monday, December 5
Torche [http://www.myspace.com/Torche], Ruscha
Wetlands, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, December 6
The Experts [http://www.expertsrock.com], Veronique Diabolique
[http://www.veroniquediabolique.com/]
Wetlands, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, December 7
Xiu Xiu [http://www.epitonic.com/artists/xiuxiu.html], The Dead
Science [http://www.thedeadscience.com/], Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan
[http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com]
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham

The last time I saw Cantwell Gomez & Jordan, it was in a cramped
record store in Durham, and they were positively deadly: I thought
bassist Anne Gomez was going to split into 400 shards from all the
internal tension she was carrying. Instead she just played 15 times as
spazzily-aggressively as she usually does, which put her about 87
degrees above the top of that particular scale. It was phenomenal, and
you can only hope that whatever got into them that night is still
stewing somewhere inside.



Wednesday, December 7
Vampire Lezbos, Chest Pains
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, December 7
Chris Brokaw [http://www.chrisbrokaw.com/], American Analog Set
[http://www.americananalogset.com/], Fan Modine
[http://www.grimsey.com/fanmodine.html]
Wetlands, Chapel Hill



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