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  • From: monsonia AT monsonia.com
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Stuff to Do, Tuesday March 14, 2006
  • Date: 10 Mar 2006 06:19:55 -0800

An addition for Tuesday, March 14:

We (Monsonia) are opening for A Northern Chorus at Bickett Gallery in
Raleigh.

http://www.bickettgallery.com
http://www.sonicunyon.com/anorthernchorus/

This is our first local show since October and our first show in
Raleigh (where Carter lives) since June! We've been working on new
music every week for months (now as a duo) and are excited to get back
out and rock. Hope you'll come check it out!

Andy and Carter
Monsonia
contact AT monsonia.com
http://www.monsonia.com
http://www.myspace.com/monsonia




grady wrote:
> In case you haven't looked at it in a while, I set up the music player (
> http://groovo.org ) to display the show info for each band/song as it's
> playing. Now if I could only convince the freaking bands to put MP3s on
> their non-MySpace websites so I can actually download/use them . . .
>
>
> Thursday, March 9
> Erie Choir ( http://www.eriechoir.com ) , Late Night Television (
> http://www.latenighttelevision.org/ ) , En Garde (
> http://www.myspace.com/engardemusic ) , Grammar Debate (
> http://www.myspace.com/grammardebate )
> Duke Coffeehouse, Durham
>
> Matt Kelley runs Route 14 records & plays in Late Night Television.
> All of this occurs in Philadelphia. Despite that, most of the other
> bands on Route 14 are actually broken-up Chapel Hill bands (Scaries,
> Strunken White, Sorry About Dresden), many of whose former members are
> in En Garde and Erie Choir.
>
>
>
> Thursday, March 9
> Mount Moriah ( http://www.myspace.com/mountmoriah ) , Marissa Nadler (
> http://www.marissanadler.com )
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Nightlight quoted the Wire:
>
> "Nadler first came to notice as one of the wildcards on last year's
> Tom Rapp tribute put together by Secret Eye, and as her inclusion
> there makes clear, she favours dark folk ballads that reach far into
> the blackest areas of space. Her debut album Ballads of Living and
> Dying is a beauty...The LP's back cover fearures some cryptic artwork
> that looks like a nod towards Current 93's epochal Swastikas for Noddy
> album, and references to other decadent fantasists and folkloric topes
> dot the record, culminating in her setting of Edgar Allen Poe's
> Annabelle Lee for acoustic and electric guitar. But it's her own
> compositions, with titles like "Stallions" and "Box of Cedar", that
> leave the heaviest afterimages in the air; beautiful hybrids of
> dark-hearted Bert Jansch-style folk, and drugged, weightless psych."
>
>
>
> Thursday, March 9
> Fashion Design ( http://fashiondesignband.com/ ) , Asobi Seksu (
> http://www.asobiseksu.com/ ) , Edie Sedgwick (
> http://www.ediesedgwick.biz/ )
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> One part Chapel Hill pan-continental echo/chorusy 80s-revivalist
> 4AD-rock; one part Brooklyn bilingual plush/swirly dreampop; one part
> transsexual Warhol-diva-channeling celebrity-tribute-singing global
> popstar.
>
>
>
> Thursday, March 9
> GoGoGo Airheart ( http://www.gogogoairheart.com/ ) , Jai-Alai Savant (
> http://savant.paintthesky.org/tmusic.html )
> Kings, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Friday, March 10
> Late Night Television ( http://www.latenighttelevision.org/ ) , Dirty
> Little Heaters ( http://www.thedirtylittleheaters.com ) , Grammar
> Debate ( http://www.myspace.com/grammardebate )
> Chaz's Bull City Records, Durham
>
> Chaz says the first band's on at 8:30, and he means it. Dirty Little
> Heaters are a fireball 2-piece from Durham; gtr/drums,
> blooz-rock/punk/soul/whatever. Right Up Your Alley, whatever it may
> be.
>
> T'other two bands are from Philadelphia, and whatever $ you toss into
> the hat will go to them for gas money. It's low-key and mid-fi and the
> best venue for seeing bands (and/or sitting on their laps, voluntarily
> or not) in Durham.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 10
> Velvet ( http://www.velvetpop.com ) , Japan Air (
> http://www.japanairband.com/ ) , Auto-Passion
> The Garage, Winston-Salem
>
>
>
> Friday, March 10
> Eyes to Space ( http://www.eyestospace.net/ ) , Veronique Diabolique (
> http://www.veroniquediabolique.com/ ) , Robo Sapien (
> http://www.gorobosapien.com/ ) , America's Next Top Models (
> http://www.myspace.com/americasnexttopmodels )
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Misfits, outcasts, nerds, dorks, people who like to play dress-up.
> Some or all of the above. America's Next Top Models are a Durham
> Supergroup: Anne Gomez (Cantwell Gomez Jordan), Joyce Ventimiglia
> (Holy Roman Empire) and Evan Rowe (Maple Stave). They wear elaborate
> costumes and play punkrock songs about the Bush Administration.
>
> Robo Sapien make laptop-hip-hop/electro-disco dance music with
> synchronized dance moves & the occasional odd hat. They make yr granny
> dance.
>
> Eyes To Space are total nerd-rockers who make songs about, um, space.
> And other nerd stuff.
>
> Veronique Diabolique are French-speaking Goths from Durham. So much
> patent leather, latex & eyeliner.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 10
> Patty Hurst Shifter ( http://www.pattyhurstshifter.com )
> Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
>
> Good old-fashioned bar-rock with two guitars and jeans and just the
> right mix of twang and bluster.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 10
> Edie Sedgwick ( http://www.ediesedgwick.biz/ ) , Praise the Beast (
> http://www.myspace.com/praisethebeast ) , AUM Rifle (
> http://www.theaumrifle.tk/ ) , Adam Lippman (
> http://www.myspace.com/adamlippman )
> The Werehouse, Winston-Salem
>
>
>
> Friday, March 10
> Spottiswoode and His Enemies ( http://www.spottiswoode.com ) , The Old
> Ceremony ( http://www.theoldceremony.com/ ) , Maxwell/Mosher (
> http://www.maxwellmosher.com/ )
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 11
> Can Joann ( http://www.canjoann.com/ ) , Wigg Report (
> http://www.synchronizedswim.org ) , The Fever (
> http://www.thefeveronline.com/ )
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 11
> The New Flesh ( http://www.angelfire.com/pro/thenewflesh/ )
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> The Nightlight website seems to think that Vincent Black Shadow are
> also playing, but both Kings and, apparently, VBS believe they're
> playing in Raleigh.
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 11
> Electric Sunshine
> Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 11
> Eyes to Space ( http://www.eyestospace.net/ ) , Dude Garden, Table,
> Vincent Black Shadow ( http://www.myspace.com/vincentblackshadowpsych
> )
> Kings, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 11
> AUM Rifle ( http://www.theaumrifle.tk/ ) , Adam Lippman (
> http://www.myspace.com/adamlippman )
> Bickett Gallery, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Sunday, March 12
> Men, Women & Children ( http://www.menwomenandchildren.com/ ) ,
> Metric ( http://www.ilovemetric.com/ ) , Islands (
> http://www.myspace.com/islandsareforever )
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
>
>
> Sunday, March 12
> Gerty ( http://www.gerty.org ) , The Rogers Sisters (
> http://www.therogerssisters.com/ ) , Celebration (
> http://www.beggars.com/us/news/?read=new-4ad-signing )
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> This will apparently be Gerty's last show as Gerty, before they spin a
> chrysalis of fine silk that they exude from their butts, and hole up
> inside it for 2 weeks, and then emerge as a whole new band called The
> Ex-Members. Got that?
>
>
>
> Sunday, March 12
> Measles Mumps Rubella ( http://www.measlesmumpsrubella.com/ ) , Shock
> Cinema
> Wetlands, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Monday, March 13
> The Whole World Laughing ( http://www.myspace.com/twwl ) , n0 things (
> http://www.myspace.com/nothingsnyc ) , Knife Skills (
> http://www.knife-skills.com ) , The Post Office Gals (
> http://www.thepostofficegals.com/ )
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> Show Of The Week. n0 things contain a former Liars rhythm section, and
> they're working in the same kinda brutalmentary spazz-rock vein; plot
> it somewhere between the 1st and 2nd Liars albums in terms of
> rock-ability.
>
> Knife Skills are doing the big-bassed punk/funk "angular" thing.
>
> The Post Office Gals are good old-fashioned one-minute-song
> thrash/grind / scream-spazz-falldown freakouts.
>
> The Whole World Laughing are Dave Cantwell on bass-tar (Razzle,
> Cantwell Gomez Jordan) and Scotty Irving on drums (Geezer Lake, Clang
> Quartet). Video [*> http://www.trianglerock.com/video <*] here
> somewhere.
>
>
>
> Monday, March 13
> The Washington Social Club ( http://www.washingtonsocialclub.com ) ,
> Red Collar ( http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic )
> Reservoir, Carrboro
>
> I utterly adored the Washington Social Club's first set of demos,
> which seemed to channel that great nervous Modern Lovers/Feelies
> energy that flows through so much of my favorite rockmusic. Their
> subsequent album was somewhat less exciting; it featured many of the
> same songs, but somehow lacking the electric buzz that I'd gotten off
> the demos. And the newer songs were a little more danceable, a little
> more brit-poppy.
>
> So I can't decide: Do I post one of the songs from the [*>
> http://mp3.groovo.org/3pm/washingtonsocialclub-a_dancing_song.mp3 <*]
> old demo to the [*> http://groovo.org <*] music player, or do I go
> with [*> http://mp3.groovo.org/3pm/washingtonsocialclub-Monuments.mp3
> <*] something from their upcoming album, even though I like it less,
> since it's presumably more representative?
>
> Red Collar are from Durham, and singer Jason Kutchma's voice has a
> strained hoarseness that I for some reason associate with montages of
> people building things out of steel, preferably with lots of sparks
> flying.
>
>
>
> Monday, March 13
> TV Knife ( http://www.myspace.com/tvknife ) , Portable Folk Band (
> http://www.portablefolkband.com )
> Bickett Gallery, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Tuesday, March 14
> Cul de Sac ( http://people.bu.edu/nsmith/culdesac.htm ) , Glissade (
> http://www.myspace.com/glissade ) , Circle
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Tuesday, March 14
> Edith Frost ( http://www.edithfrost.com ) , Silver Jews (
> http://www.weeblackskelf.co.uk/cordsuit/ )
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
>
>
> Wednesday, March 15
> Dr. Robert's Health Jazz ( http://www.retroactivedynamics.com )
> Kings, Raleigh
>
> Bob says:
>
> "I can't tell you about the blue rose. Except that it involves Carrie
> Shull on oboe and english horn and Chris Eubank on cello and bass
> (both of whom you might remember from the March 3rd Recess,
> coincidentally enough), and Dan Hall (The Old Ceremony, Countdown
> Quartet) on drums."
>
>
>
> Wednesday, March 15
> Jaafar, Mike Clark Trio ( http://www.mikeclarkmusic.com/ )
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Wednesday, March 15
> Second Husband, The DMV
> Bickett Gallery, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Thursday, March 16
> Future Kings of Nowhere ( http://www.thefuturekings.net/ ) , Charles
> Latham ( http://www.myspace.com/sircharleslatham )
> Joe & Jo's, Durham
>
> Charles Latham is a singer-songwriter of the antifolk school, whatever
> that means. I think it means having a normal level of sincerity, as
> opposed to the severe surplus carried by the regular-type folkies.
> Anyway. He moved here recently from the UK (he's not a Brit, so don't
> get yr hopes up) and put out an excellent CD called "Pretty Mouth."
> Plus he tells me that he's got a band, so you don't have to suffer
> more than a moment or two of "solo dude with guitar"-ism.
>
>
>
> Thursday, March 16
> Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (
> http://www.tomlab.com/front/index.php?action=artist_detail&artist_id=4
> ) , Donkeys
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Thursday, March 16
> Strange ( http://www.thisisstrange.org ) , Darkmeat / Vomit Lasers
> Family Band ( http://www.myspace.com/darkmeats ) , Vicariously Through
> Cats ( http://www.myspace.com/vicariouslythroughcats ) , The Ginger
> Envelope ( http://www.myspace.com/thegingerenvelope )
> Reservoir, Carrboro
>
>
>
> Friday, March 17
> Tiger Bear Wolf ( http://www.tigerbearwolf.com ) , Red Collar (
> http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic ) , Like a Bear (
> http://www.myspace.com/likeabear )
> Chaz's Bull City Records, Durham
>
> Chaz's Bull City Records is up on the 2nd floor, there on Perry St.
> next to Cosmic Cantina. Red Collar are from Durham; you can tell they
> dig Fugazi but to my ears the music comes out sounding a bit more
> working-class, a bit more from a "rock" background than from "punk."
>
> Like a Bear and Tiger Bear Wolf are both from Greensboro; dunno what's
> up with that whole bear thing. Tiger Bear Wolf are 2
> vox/2gtrs,bass,drums; they do the by-now-classic Greensboro thing of
> fusing postpunk furor with elements of Southern Rock.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 17
> North Elementary ( http://www.northelementary.com ) , Matt Pond PA (
> http://www.mattpondpa.com/ ) , Youth Group (
> http://www.youthgroup.com.au/ )
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
>
>
> Friday, March 17
> Clang Quartet, Mowing Lawns ( http://www.dyss.net/mlawns.html ) ,
> Jackie-O Motherfucker ( http://www.roadcone.com/artists/jomf.shtml )
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Nightlight sez:
>
> "Oregon 's famous improv collective mashes together members and
> influences, free jazz, noise rock, graffiti, space rock, folk music,
> Xeroxed art, the list goes on . . . Results are enchanting. Mandatory
> show. Clang Quartet is Jesus by way of Prurient and Einsturzende
> Neubeutan, Mowing Lawns bring classic rock through a purple lens of
> black magick and incense . . ."
>
>
>
> Friday, March 17
> Fin Fang Foom ( http://www.lovitt.com/artists/finfangfoom.html ) ,
> Jett Rink ( http://www.jett-rink.com/ )
> Reservoir, Carrboro
>
> This is Ben's last show on guitar with Jett Rink, before he takes off
> for NYC. The rest of the band is being quiet about their future
> post-Ben; on the one hand, they've lost & found a guitarist before &
> could theoretically do it again. On the other hand, they've already
> lived through this once & who knows whether they want to again. The
> thing you learn around here, though, is that any band could break up
> at any time, so you're better off treating every show like the last.
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 18
> Goner ( http://www.gonertheband.com/ )
> Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 18
> Strange ( http://www.thisisstrange.org ) , Darkmeat / Vomit Lasers
> Family Band ( http://www.myspace.com/darkmeats ) , Vicariously Through
> Cats ( http://www.myspace.com/vicariouslythroughcats ) , The Ginger
> Envelope ( http://www.myspace.com/thegingerenvelope )
> Kings, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 18
> The Dynamite Brothers ( http://www.dynamitebrothers.com/ )
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 18
> Transportation ( http://www.myspace.com/transportation ) , Red Smokes
> White ( http://www.myspace.com/redsmokeswhite )
> Wetlands, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
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