RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Friday, December 16
Olympic Ass Kicking Team [http://www.terryandersonrocks.com/], Kick
the Future, Shalini [http://www.interbridge.com/shalini/]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

I was gonna make a crack about it being Fogey Night at the Cradle, but
Shalini Chatterjee ain't exactly a fogey herself, although her long
association with Mitch Easter might make her an honorary member of
that club.

The Olympic Ass Kicking Team is fronted by Terry Anderson, who drummed
for 80s(-> early 90s) Raleigh band The Woods, whose capsule-story
always includes a sentence about how the Georgia Satellites recorded
Anderson's "Battleship Chains" (you remember that one, don'cha, the
one that wasn't "Keep Your Hands to Yourself"?)

Kick The Future were/are the solo thing of Arrogance's Robert
Kirkland.



Friday, December 16
Cities [http://www.citiesmusic.com], The Capulets
[http://www.thecapulets.net], Emergency Broadcast System
[http://www.emergencybroadcastmusic.com/], En Garde
[http://www.myspace.com/engardemusic]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is a free holiday party/showcase hosted by our friends at Yep Roc
Records, for whom Cities are recording a debut album for release next
spring. Cities are doing a moody post-Cure (OK, post-Interpol)
alt-britrock-influenced thing.

The Capulets, assuming they get big enough to draw comparisons, are
gonna draw a lot of Strokes comparisons, which is what happens when
you rock the kinda-thin guitars & the distorted phoned-in vocals.

En Garde feature the Sorry About Dresden rhythm section, plus
ex-members of the Scaries and Makeshift, all backing the songs of John
Booker, who usedta play bass for genius highschool mathrockers
Strunken White.



Friday, December 16
Fake Swedish [http://fakeswedish.4t.com/index.html], White Elephant
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh

Chapel Hill's Fake Swedish (who oughta be welcomed with open arms by
the Raleigh Rockers, given how they rock) may be too smart for their
own good; they've got the smarts & melodic sense of all that vintage
60s britrock: Kinks, Faces, the Stones when they were feeling
precocious. Plus a dose of Hendrix-style fuzz blowout.

White Elephant feature Johnny Dzubak (Leadfoot, Local 506 barman) &
Cam Weeks (the Comas, pickup drums for just about anybody else).



Saturday, December 17
Title Ceremony, Black Socks [http://www.myspace.com/blacksocks],
Alphas Wear Grey
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh



Saturday, December 17
Robo Sapien [http://www.gorobosapien.com/], des_ark
[http://www.des-ark.org], The Physics of Meaning
[http://www.thephysicsofmeaning.com/]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

des_ark these days is just Aimee, and she'll make you shut up & listen
as she hunkers down over the guitar & quietly sings her way through an
entire set of new songs written in the few months since Tim moved
away; they're some of the best she's ever written.

Robo Sapien make crazed goofy electro/hip-hop with a laptop & the vast
quantities of positive musical chemistry between Chad & Whitney. They
make people dance, *voluntarily* even.

Physics of Meaning are a member of the Bu Hanan collective, who
resemble those Elephant 6 folks both in their amorphous
member-shifting and their somewhat baroque approach to rockmusic.
They're a bit angstier than the Elephants, overall, however.



Saturday, December 17
Dom Casual, Straight 8s [http://www.straight8s.com]
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Dom Casual bring the fuzzed-out garage-surf; Straight 8s provide the
vintage-style rockabilly of the tattoos-and-driving-caps variety.



Saturday, December 17
Cyrus Hill, Kerbloki [http://www.kerbloki.com/]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

It's the Merch holiday party, and this year it's all about bratty
indierocker hip-hop, with Beasties-influenced ex-punks Kerbloki, and,
fresh off their wild success at this year's Great Cover-Up, local
Cypress Hill tribute Cyrus Hill.



Saturday, December 17
The Old Ceremony [http://www.theoldceremony.com/], snmnmnm
[http://www.snmnmnm.com/]
Wetlands, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, December 21
Evil Wiener [http://www.evilwienerworld.com/]
The Cave, Chapel Hill

It's the Evil Wiener Christmas Show! If you've never seen Santa play
the theremin, well, what are you waiting for? More to the point, if
you've never heard EW's "All Around The World," then you've missed one
of the 10 best Christmas songs OF ALL TIME, and continuing to deprive
yourself is like signing yourself up for a lifetime supply of lumps of
coal in your stocking.



Wednesday, December 21
DeYarmond Edison [http://www.dyemusic.com/]
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh

DeYarmond Edison are one of those bands who moved here en masse from
elsewhere. I used to be opposed to that whole idea, but that was
before I heard bands like Utah!, and Robo Sapien. So I'm withholding
judgement, and at present will merely congratulate them on making the
[admittedly easy] choice to leave Eau Claire, WI for here.



Thursday, December 22
The Greatest Hits [http://www.thegreatesthits.org/], The Dynamite
Brothers [http://www.dynamitebrothers.com/]
Kings, Raleigh



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