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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 February 25, 2006
  • Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:49:54 -0500

I found out after doing this that there *is* another show in Durham tonight, at Joe & Jo's, with the Dirty Little Heaters. 5 shows in Durham in one night. Huh?

Saturday, February 25
Nola, Homemade Knives
Chaz's Bull City Records, Durham

Chaz's Bull City Records is on the 2nd floor of the same strip of
buildings where Cosmic Cantina is (Perry St, I think it's called, just
off 9th St in Durham). Chaz has been going all-out to host shows since
he moved here & opened up his shop a few months ago, and he's done
wonders for Durham's live-music-town-ness.

I dunno Homemade Knives, but Nola are from Raleigh & they make good
twangy-drawly country-rock.



Saturday, February 25
Spader, Hide and Seek [http://www.freewebs.com/hideandseeek], The
Capulets [http://www.thecapulets.net], Vuokko
[http://www.vuokkodesigns.com/]
305 South, Durham

I heard a rumor at breakfast today that the folks at 305 South may
have finally done something about the [lack of] heat situation, which
was the only thing left between them & total world domination, or at
least Durham domination.

This show isn't the 4:20 Saturday Metal Matinee (they're having one of
those today too), it's a night show that'll apparently commence around
9:00-ish with a "special performance by the artist Vuokko."

Spader are from Raleigh & they bring the pealing pulsing echoey
dancepop. Capulets are also from Raleigh (or maybe Garner! we can
hope), and they make retro-power-pop Strokes-style. Hide and Seek are
from Winston-Salem and they are fucking
[http://www.ibiblio.org/ch-scene/video/hideandseek-small.avi] nuts.



Saturday, February 25
The Sames [http://www.thesames.com], Schooner
[http://www.schoonermusic.com], Tricky the Cosmonaut
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham

This is a "Faschingsparty," which is a sort of German Mardi Gras,
according to the folks at the Coffeehouse. I think Tricky's Mark
Riebold is German (or in any case they were sporting some bitching
East German police hats at their last show), but I dunno what the
connection is between Schooner, the Sames, and Deutschland. Not that
one is necessary. Be mindful that the Sames have declared their
intention to break up at some point soon, so any/every precious Sames
show could be their last.



Saturday, February 25
Viva La Venus, The Cartridge Family
[http://www.cartridge-family.com/], New Town Drunks
[http://www.thirdmind.org/featured_artists/NTD/index.html]
Kings, Raleigh



Saturday, February 25
Big Pretty & The Red Rockets [http://www.bpandrr.com/], Count
[http://www.countk.com/], Electa Villian
[http://www.electavillian.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Saturday, February 25
Unholy Crusades, Stolypins, Hellrazor, Apotheosys
Wetlands, Chapel Hill



Sunday, February 26
Dirty Little Heaters [http://www.thedirtylittleheaters.com]
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

The Dirty Little Heaters are an all-powerful all-woman gtr-drums
two-piece from Durham. Melissa whacks the crap out of the drums &
Reese shouts & bellows & rips through an average of 3 busted guitar
strings per show. They rule. 5:00 p.m. 88.7 FM or
www.wxdu.org



Sunday, February 26
Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan [http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com],
Dynamite Club [http://www.dynamiteclub.com/], Cheap Heat
Chaz's Bull City Records, Durham

Cantwell Gomez and Jordan are my favorite band -- they're chaotically
spazzy yet infernally tight, and they fling themselves headlong into
the massive sonic messes they make. Joyful noise indeed.

Dynamite Club are from NYC or some Asian country, or both, and they
make spazzmo free-jazz-punk in their tighty-whiteys.

Cheap Heat are Dave Heller & Jenny Greer (ex-Analogue, ex-Sweet
Militia) teamed up with lanky local drummer Rob Koegler.

Shows at Chaz's start around 9:00 and they're pass-the-box for gas
money for the outta town bands.



Sunday, February 26
Kitty Box & the Johnnys, Whiskey Backwash, John Saylor
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Sunday, February 26
The Spinns [http://www.thespinns.freeservers.com/], Colonel Knowledge
and the Lickety Splits, The Valentines
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Sunday, February 26
Phon, Belong [http://www.carparkrecords.com]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nightlight sez:

"New Orleans duo Belong have a new record out on Carpark. Think loud,
dreamy, distorted melodic ambient, etc. Phon rep from Raleigh, NC, and
spit forth beauticious psychedelic drones influenced by virtually
everything from their virtual laptops."



Sunday, February 26
Tiger Bear Wolf, Colossus, Strikeforce Diablo
[http://www.noidearecords.com/bands/strikeforce.php]
Wetlands, Chapel Hill

Tiger Bear Wolf are from Greensboro; they make 2-gtr/bass/drums
dual-bellowing-singer ROCK in the classic Greensboro
postpunk-meets-Southern Rock style. One of those bellowing guitarists
is Noah Howard, who played guitar (but never sang) in Strunken White.



Monday, February 27
Mutemath [http://www.mutemath.com/], Vedera
[http://www.weareveda.com/]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Monday, February 27
45 Grave [http://www.dinahcancer.com/dc45g1.htm], Blood Red River
[http://www.myspace.com/bloodredriver]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

I didn't pay that much attention to the early/mid-80s LA scene, but I
do remember 45 Grave from their contribution to the "Return of the
Living Dead" soundtrack (that record completely changed my life when I
was in middle school). They made sorta metal-tinged gothic psycho-punk
that was mostly a showcase for frontwoman Dinah Cancer.

Near as I can tell, Dinah's the only one left, but I haven't really
invested a lot of time in checking it out.

Blood Red River are a gothic surf-instrumental type band from Durham;
this is their first show.



Monday, February 27
Clang Quartet, Boyzone [http://kodakculture.org/katherine/boyszone],
Ariel Pink [http://www.arielpink.com/]
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham

Ariel Pink is an art-damaged low-fi 70s-pop-replicating weirdo from
the west coast. He claims to dislike touring & on this tour is
attempting to liven things up by recruiting random bands from each
town to back him up onstage. I'm not sure whether Clang or Boyzone are
that band, or if there's gonna be an additional surprise waiting for
us.

Clang Quartet is Scotty Irving, who a long time ago played drums for
the great Greensboro band Geezer Lake, and now plays for Benjomatic &
The Whole World Laughing. When he's not busy with his main gig, that
is, as Clang Quartet, his solo percussion-and-noise tribute to the
life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

Boyzone is primarily Ryan (of Nightlight) rolling on the floor
screaming, although the rules of Boyzone are that anything can
happen.



Monday, February 27
Savage Knights, Kenosha Kid [http://www.kenoshakid.com/]
Kings, Raleigh

Crowmeat Bob says:

"Jazz music. KK is this guy Dan Nettles from Athens, GA. He's gonna
have a sort of local pick-up band doing his compositions, I believe
featuring Brian Donohoe and Christopher Thurston. You ever done the
Kenosha Kid?"

Savage [k]Nights is one of Bob's many bands, featuring 2-saxes
(sometimes morphing into guitars)/bass/drums in a sort of pulsing
nearly-funky skronk-drone.



Monday, February 27
Cities [http://www.citiesmusic.com], Rahim
[http://www.rahimrahim.org/], Cataract Camp
Reservoir, Carrboro



Tuesday, February 28
Of Montreal [http://www.angelfire.com/ga/ofmontreal/], The M's
[http://www.wearethems.com/]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Tuesday, February 28
Schooner [http://www.schoonermusic.com], Eagle Seagull
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Schooner make sometimes-breezy mope-pop that's lush without being
plush; it luxuriates in its melancholy, you know?



Tuesday, February 28
New Town Drunks
[http://www.thirdmind.org/featured_artists/NTD/index.html], Midtown
Dickens
The Library, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, March 1
Ester Drang [http://www.esterdrang.com/], The Prayers and Tears of
Arthur Digby Sellers [http://www.prayersandtears.com/], Kapow! Music
[http://kapowmusic.net]
Wetlands, Chapel Hill

Introspective-yet-gigantic whyarewehere?-rock from a couple of Bu
Hanan Collective bands, plus midwestern friends-of-theirs Ester
Drang.



Wednesday, March 1
Kenny Roby, Barn Burning [http://www.barnburning.net/]
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Kenny Roby is from Raleigh & makes American Music that draws equally
from Southern Gospel, Springsteen, Doug Sahm & the Meters, although
when he's playing solo (as he may or may not be doing -- he's lately
got a new album out called "The Mercy Filter" and a more-or-less
steady band to go with it) it's a bit more stripped-down and the
heartache shows through.



Wednesday, March 1
DeYarmond Edison [http://www.dyemusic.com/]
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh

You can learn far more than you probably wanted to know about recent
Wisconsin-to-Raleigh transplants DeYarmond Edison
[http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28075] here, in
Grayson Currin's massive Indy profile. There is much discussion of the
confluence of influences brought by the members (rockers, music
majors, jam-banders, Minimalists) that makes up the band, but he never
quite explains why their most recent album sounds like Bruce Hornsby.
I couldn't quite translate the code, so I'm not sure if you're gonna
get serious out-there collective improv (or Godspeed-style drones), or
just an extended homage to the Grateful Dead's perennial live fave
"drums-and-space". Not that there's necessarily much distance between
those.



Thursday, March 2
Wigg Report, Water Callers, Maxwell/Mosher
[http://www.maxwellmosher.com/]
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham



Thursday, March 2
The Subways [http://www.thesubways.net/us/flash.php], The Shys
[http://www.myspace.com/theshysmusic]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, March 2
Reid Johnson, The Vints, Kevin Wolfe
Kings, Raleigh



Thursday, March 2
Spider Bags
Fuse, Chapel Hill



Friday, March 3
Gorman St. Sluts, Limbo
Chaz's Bull City Records, Durham



Friday, March 3
snmnmnm [http://www.snmnmnm.com/], Peelander-Z
[http://www.peelander-z.com/p-z_e/home_e.html], A Rooster for the
Masses [http://www.myspace.com/aroosterforthemasses]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Peelander-Z are a cartoon-rock band from Japan, whatever that means.
The Japanese rockers are inscrutable even to themselves, I think.
snmnmnmn are a cartoon-rock band from Chapel Hill. They have a tuba.
They make nerdy rock that's like what one might imagine would issue
from a union of They Might Be Giants and Weezer, if one were the sort
to be scared of such a union.

A Rooster for the Masses are from Raleigh & they make echoey
early-80s-style UK-influenced dance-pop.



Friday, March 3
Recess [http://www.dyss.net/nightlight/]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Recess is Nightlight's monthly improvy/noisy/different invitational
evening, wherein local musicians do short sets of music that's
[generally/supposedly] different from what they're doing the rest of
the year.



Friday, March 3
Conshafter [http://www.conshafter.com/], The Capulets
[http://www.thecapulets.net], Billionaire Boys Club
Kings, Raleigh



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