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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Stuff to Do, Tuesday March 14, 2006
  • Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:56:33 -0500

OK, so what's bugging me about this show, and why I didn't post it (well, I would've posted it anyway had I known/remembered the Monsonia thing, which I forgot about) is that neither one of the Northern Chorus websites mentions this show. All they mention are shows in Canada, which is where they're from. I don't necessarily doubt that it's happening, but for fucksake, what is up with a band who logged into MySpace as recently as yesterday, and has tour dates listed for late March in Canada, but somehow forgets to mention that they're driving like 1200 miles south to play an art gallery in Raleigh next week?

monsonia AT monsonia.com wrote:
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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