RTP-area local music and culture

[Kevin Grealey <kgrealey AT mckinney-silver.com>]

Pet Sematary.

Ross, when did you get so jaded?

kg


> From: James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:09:52 -0800 (PST)
> To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: Stuff to Do, Week of November 30, 2005
> 
> One thing is for sure.  When The Wusses take the
> stage, you'll forget all about shark jumping.
> 
> The Wusses, TONIGHT, Great Cover Up.  $5 plus free,
> all-you-can-inhale second hand smoke.
> 
> --- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> 
>> Errata:
>> 
>> 1) Ticonderoga, gentle men that they are, were
>> damn-near-destructified
>> by a month on tour, and thus will not be performing
>> on WXDU this Sunday.
>> This upsets me terribly, but I will soldier on.
>> 
>> 2) As has perhaps been mentioned here already,
>> RECESS is happening at
>> Nightlight Saturday night:
>> 
>> RECESS is a monthly night of local 'experimental'
>> music at Nightlight in
>> Chapel Hill.  This Saturday's show features:
>> 
>> David Nahm w/ Ben Spiker and Robert Biggers (of
>> Audubon Park)
>> Todd Emert (of Mowing Lawns, Inspector 22)
>> Rob Maggard (of Samuel Robison and the Crowd)
>> Matt Kalb (of Hotel Motel, Audubon Park)
>> Aaron Smithers (of Year of the Pig, Hem of His
>> Garment)
>> 
>> Show starts promptly at 10pm and will be over by
>> midnight.
>> 
>> 3) I'm pretty sure The Great Cover-Up jumped the
>> shark many years ago (I
>> dunno; I never manage to make it to all 3 nights, so
>> I probably missed
>> the exact moment), but if not, it sure as shit did
>> it last night, right
>> about the time "Joey Ramone" lit the pommel of his
>> sword on fire and
>> proceeded to blow fireballs into the air over the
>> audience. Guys, if
>> you're gonna play "Somebody Put Something In My
>> Drink" *and* "Merry
>> Christmas, I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight" you may as
>> well go whole-hog and
>> do "Pet Cemetery" as well. We were all rooting for
>> you (albeit in an
>> annoyed "how much fucking worse can this get?" kind
>> of way), and you
>> blew it.
>> 
>> Ross
>> 
>> grady wrote:
>>> 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 
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