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  • From: "Jeremy Blair" <jerblar AT gmail.com>
  • To: "RTP-area local music and culture" <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Stuff to Do, Week of February 16, 2006
  • Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:26:13 -0500

The player is great. I listened to it whilst cleaning the kitchen this
morning. I think this is my new Saturday morning routine, so my wife is
happy about it also. Thanks.

On 2/18/06, Steven Keith <skeith AT capstrat.com> wrote:
>
> Brilliant idea. Thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of grady
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 5:41 PM
> To: RTP-area local music and culture
> Subject: Re: Stuff to Do, Week of February 16, 2006
>
> I'm playing with something that, if I recall correctly, will make a lot
> of y'all happy. It's a flash-based audio player loaded with all the mp3s
>
> I could find by the bands playing this week (the ones listed on
> trianglerock.com, at least). It's linked from the very bottom of the
> frontpage at trianglerock.com, or you can get to it directly here:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/ch-scene/audio/
>
> Once I'm happy with it, it will be easily findable/linkable from various
>
> points on trianglerock.com, so don't worry too much about bookmarking.
>
> Try it out, see what breaks it, etc.
>
> It used to resize yr browser window, so as to make it easier for you to
> drag it off to one side & keep it going while you browse, but I decided
> it was less-evil to leave it alone & let you resize, or multi-tab, or
> whatever. It's your browser.
>
> xo
>
> Ross
>
> p.s. BANDS: If you don't make your MySpace MP3s download-able, then (a)
> you suck (;-)) and (b) I can't include them in this doodad. Your call.
>
> grady wrote:
> > This weekend is the Nevermore Film Festival at the Carolina in Durham;
>
> > lots of crazy new horror, both Asian & American. Check out
> > www.carolinatheatre.org.
> >
> > Rockwise:
> >
> > Thursday, February 16
> > Jon Shain [http://www.jonshain.com], Stillhouse
> > [http://www.stillhousetheband.com/]
> > Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
> >
> >
> >
> > Thursday, February 16
> > The Ghost of Always [http://www.theghostofalways.com/], The Miss Fits,
> > Network Of Terror [http://www.networkofterror.com/], Map Says We're
> > Fucked
> > Marvell Building, Durham
> >
> >
> >
> > Thursday, February 16
> > Bibis Ellison [http://bibisellison.elektrikcoma.com/], Sand Cats
> > [http://www.tigerbeat6.com/cex/sandcats], Lexie Mountain Boys
> > [http://www.myspace.com/mountainlex]
> > Reservoir, Carrboro
> >
> > Roby Newton used to live here; she sang & played keyboards for
> > Milemarker. She set her arms on fire. Now she's half of Sand Cats,
> > along with her man Rjyan Kidwell, a.k.a. Cex.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thursday, February 16
> > Remora [http://www.silbermedia.com/remora/], Veronique Diabolique
> > [http://www.veroniquediabolique.com/], Plumerai
> > [http://www.plumerai.com/]
> > Kings, Raleigh
> >
> >
> >
> > Friday, February 17
> > Gerty [http://www.gerty.org], Dirty Little Heaters
> > [http://www.thedirtylittleheaters.com], Midtown Dickens
> > Duke Coffeehouse, Durham
> >
> > Every single person in all three bands is celebrating his or her
> > birthday tonight. How is this possible? The Rhythm Method, natch.
> >
> > Gerty[!] are an electro-pop trio who're far more "rockin" now that
> > they've added ex-Butchies drummer Melissa York. They make people clap
> > their hands over their heads like they're at Live Aid. Voluntarily.
> >
> > Dirty Little Heaters are a two-piece (gtr/drums) who I'd compare to
> > all the best moments of all the best riot grrrl bands if I thought
> > you'd take that as the compliment it would be. I can't be sure about
> > y'all, though, so I'll just call 'em great pummelling blues-rock.
> > ([http://www.trianglerock.com/video/] video here)
> >
> >
> >
> > Friday, February 17
> > Patty Hurst Shifter [http://www.pattyhurstshifter.com], The Strugglers
> > [http://www.thestrugglers.org/], Dexter Romweber and the New Romans
> > [http://www.myspace.com/dexterromweber]
> > Local 506, Chapel Hill
> >
> > Patty Hurst Shifter have a brand new CD out; they make
> > southern-inflected bar-rock with a literate streak. Their drummer gave
> > me my first buzz haircut back in the 90s, for which I probably still
> > owe him a beer.
> >
> > Dex Romweber was half of Flat Duo Jets for a big chunk of the 80s and
> > 90s. Their last album, "Lucky Eye," was a blissful blast of horn-laced
> > R&B&rock&roll, but Dex never really got to front a band like that
> > until last year, when his friend Dave Schmitt helped him put together
> > his New Romans.
> >
> > The Strugglers put out one of the best albums of 2005, "You Win." They
> > make slow-burning depressive quavery-voiced art-country-folk that more
> > than lives up to the Smog/Palace comparisons it tends to get.
> >
> >
> >
> > Friday, February 17
> > Joe Romeo [http://www.myspace.com/joeromeomusic], The Weight
> > The Cave, Chapel Hill
> >
> > Joe Romeo used to sing & play guitar for the recently-departed Fake
> > Swedish. This is his first "solo" show (I think he's put together a
> > band he's calling the Orange County Volunteers).
> >
> >
> >
> > Friday, February 17
> > Maxwell/Mosher [http://www.maxwellmosher.com/]
> > Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
> >
> >
> >
> > Friday, February 17
> > L in Japanese [http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/L_in_Japanese/],
> > Kerbloki [http://www.kerbloki.com/], Social Memory Complex
> > [http://www.myspace.com/socialmemorycomplex]
> > Reservoir, Carrboro
> >
> >
> >
> > Saturday, February 18
> > Acariya [http://www.myspace.com/acariya], Black Ritual
> > [http://www.myspace.com/blackritual], Headbelt
> > [http://www.myspace.com/headbelt]
> > 305 South, Durham
> >
> > This is the weekly Metal Matinee (real metal this week), which
> > commences at 4:20 every Saturday at 305 South. N.B: if you plan to do
> > any shopping at the Electric Blender, get there early--their winter
> > hours are 12-5 and they close at 5:00 whether the rest of the building
> > is overrun with teen metalheads or not.
> >
> >
> >
> > Saturday, February 18
> > Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan [http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com],
> > Ahleuchatistas [http://www.ahleuchatistas.com/go.php], The Nethers
> > [http://www.netherscomputer.com/]
> > Bickett Gallery, Raleigh
> >
> > Ahleuchatistas are from Asheville; they make spazzmo freakout music
> > that's like Cantwell Gomez & Jordan played backwards at double speed.
> >
> >
> >
> > Saturday, February 18
> > Pyramid, The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers
> > [http://www.prayersandtears.com/], Nathan Asher & the Infantry
> > [http://www.nathanasher.com/]
> > Lincoln Theater, Raleigh
> >
> > Nathan Asher and PATOADS frontman Perry Wright have both managed to
> > retain a level of earnest sincerity that yr average indie-rocker lost
> > by age 14, and that seems to resonate with a whole clutch of young
> > rockfans who find most local indie-rock offputting.
> >
> > Asher's Infantry are a big rock band in the classic E-Street style,
> > although Nathan manages to cram about 3x as many words into a song
> > than Bruce does.
> >
> > Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers write intensely
> > personal-seeming songs about failed relationships and the struggle to
> > find one's place in the universe; I get the feeling that a lot of it
> > is "fiction" in the same way that so much of the Mountain Goats ouvre
> > is "fiction," which is to say simultaneously entirely and not-so-much.
> > Mtn. Goats and PATOADS have toured extensively together lately, in
> > fact, although I should clarify that sonically they're nonsimilar.
> >
> > Pyramid are from Charlotte, and had a great song on Compulation Vol.
> > 2, but I've never seen them.
> >
> >
> >
> > Saturday, February 18
> > des_ark [http://www.des-ark.org], The Physics of Meaning
> > [http://www.thephysicsofmeaning.com/], Pattern is Movement
> > [http://www.patternismovement.com/], The Silent Press
> > [http://www.thesilentpress.com/tour/]
> > Duke Coffeehouse, Durham
> >
> > The Physics of Meaning are a Bu Hanan band, which means they're part
> > of a Chapel Hill-based collective who record together, playing on each
> > other's records & in each other's bands onstage. Other Bu Hanan
> > artists include Kapow Music, David Karsten Daniels, and probably their
> > best-known band, the Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers.
> >
> > What they all have in common (apart from long names) are elaborate
> > chamber-pop/laptop arrangements (Physics of Meaning frontman Daniel
> > Hart is a violinist & has played with Polyphonic Spree) and a lotta
> > songs with a lotta words about life, the universe, and everything.
> >
> > des_ark is currently just Aimee, although she just spent a few days on
> > the road with the Bu Hanan folks, which I think means they're now
> > required to sit in with her. (I actually saw Daniel sit in on violin
> > for a few songs with her last year, and it was beautiful.)
> >
> >
> >
> > Saturday, February 18
> > The Moaners, Red Smokes White [http://www.myspace.com/redsmokeswhite],
> > Spider Bags
> > Local 506, Chapel Hill
> >
> >
> >
> > Sunday, February 19
> > 100 Yorktown [http://www.geocities.com/onehundredyorktown/], Teenage
> > Prayers [http://www.teenageprayers.com/]
> > The Cave, Chapel Hill
> >
> > I got an email from a VP at some Clear Channel subsidiary, wanting me
> > to promote this Teenage Prayers show, either via the web or the radio.
> > She made a point of telling me that she was emailing me as a fan of
> > the band, and not as a VP at some Clear Channel subsidiary.
> >
> > They own how many radio stations, Clear Channel, and their execs can't
> > even figure out a way to sneak their fave bands onto the air? I don't
> > know if I should be appalled or impressed.
> >
> >
> >
> > Monday, February 20
> > Richard Buckner [http://www.richardbuckner.com/], Doug Gillard
> > [http://www.douggillard.com/]
> > Local 506, Chapel Hill
> >
> >
> >
> > Tuesday, February 21
> > Social Junk [http://socialjunk.net/], Pedestrian Deposit
> > [http://www.freewebs.com/monorail/pd.html], Brian Miller & Kevin
> > Shields [http://www.deathbombarc.com/brianandkevin.htm]
> > Nightlight, Chapel Hill
> >
> > Nightlight sez:
> >
> > "Hot touring noise from CA. Pedestrian Deposit is one of the harshest
> > live acts in the US, brutal cuts and intensity worth your while. Brian
> > and Kevin even things out with some good times fall-down-and-laugh
> > noise-stylings."
> >
> >
> >
> > Tuesday, February 21
> > The Eames Era [http://www.theeamesera.com/], A Fir-Ju Well
> > [http://www.afirjuwell.com/]
> > Kings, Raleigh
> >
> >
> >
> > Wednesday, February 22
> > Fluff Chick [http://www.duke.edu/~alangley/fluffchick2.htm]
> > The Cave, Chapel Hill
> >
> > This is the early show (7:30ish, maybe?) and the front room of the
> > Cave is nonsmoking. They're probably not even gonna charge you money
> > to get in the door. If you've fallen out of the habit of going to
> > rockshows, here's a good opportunity to get back on that particular
> > horse, nearly painlessly.
> >
> >
> >
> > Wednesday, February 22
> > Heads on Sticks [http://www.thisisstrange.org/]
> > Bickett Gallery, Raleigh
> >
> >
> >
> > Thursday, February 23
> > Sweater Weather [http://www.sweater-weather.com], The Naturals, Mowgli
> > [http://www.myspace.com/mowglimowgli], Saunter
> > [http://www.sauntermusic.com/]
> > Local 506, Chapel Hill
> >
> > Sweater Weather make long multi-partite indie-chamber-pop songs, *and*
> > they're apparently popular with the UNC students, which means you can
> > hit this show for the musical and/or the anthropological.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thursday, February 23
> > Sword Heaven [http://www.swordheaven.org]
> > Nightlight, Chapel Hill
> >
> >
> >
> > Thursday, February 23
> > Chachalaca, Grasshopper
> > Kings, Raleigh
> >
> >
> >
> > Thursday, February 23
> > Can Joann [http://www.canjoann.com/], A Rooster for the Masses
> > [http://www.myspace.com/aroosterforthemasses]
> > The Library, Chapel Hill
> >
> > A Rooster for the Masses are from Raleigh; they make moody
> > Brit-influenced dance-pop that sounds like it stems from that same
> > uneasy period in the early 80s that found Gang of Four experimenting
> > with disco, and Joy Division morphing into New Order in the wake of
> > Ian Curtis's suicide. Politics and disco, morbidity & synth-pop.
> >
> >
> >
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