RTP-area local music and culture

[keith <wardke1 AT yahoo.com>]

  Wednesday - 5/3 - Intro - No musical diktats.  Downtempo, broken beat, 
house and eclectics.  Music by Keith.  9p-midnight.  Helios, 413 Glenwood 
Ave, Midtown Raleigh
   
  Friday - 5/5 - Erectro/Lock - Cinco de mayo with a "sleazy rock, rawky 
electro, panty-peelin' mustaccio" feel.  This will get the indie rockers and 
everyone else dancing as tenacious dJs Burt Cocaine (aka Dj.exe), Ronnie 
Savage (aka Silvaback) and Lemmy Spreadum (aka Esotic) make a party of 
electro, disco-punk and rock.  Free.  10p.  Reservoir Bar, 100A Brewer Ln, 
Carrboro - http://www.rattmouth.com/DJ/erectrolock.jpg & www.reservoirbar.net

     
  Saturday - 5/6 - We All Love House - A happy return for house music this 
weekend for the headz, donnas and divas.  Deep, soulful, jazzy, funky and 
chunky for those who like to get down!  Hosted by Feinberg & Keith.  10p-3a.  
Aries, 400 W. Morgan St, Downtown Raleigh - 
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d123/wardke1/keithproof_2.jpg
  
Saturday - 5/6 - Deja Groove - What was that about a house music weekend?  
Feel this, downtown, dancing the night under one groove.  dJs LeMoore & 
Rosseau.  Kulture, 430 S. Dawson St, Downtown Raleigh - 
www.glamooreproductions.com 
   
  Monday - 5/8 - CoCo do Mundo - In the spirit of musical procreation, the 
Brazilian music night, CoCo do Brasil, has borne new tasty fruit.  It's 
international electro funkiness fusing Carlinhos Brown, Martin Solvieg, Joe 
Arroyo, Masters At Work, Zap Mama, Los Amigos Invisibles, Amr Diab, Thievery 
Corporation, Ketama and the likes.  Music by Keith.  7p-11p.  Red Room, 510 
Glenwood Ave, Midtown Raleigh - 
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d123/wardke1/CoCodoBrasil-April.jpg
 
  Tuesday - 5/9 - A Funky Farewell - It's one of those happy and sad moments 
turned into a Sleazy affair.  Laurin and sweetheart Jordan are moving on to 
bite the Big Apple.  But so you know, I'm talking about more than just a 
friend, because he's also's Sleazy McQueen, the dj and producer.  House music 
is the gig which has had him playing in Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Florence, 
London, and several tours of California.  As he says, "It's a unique mix 
house and funk that will make you smile and maybe even dance".  As a house 
music producer of early ’80s funk with strong roots in disco, soul, and Italo 
sound, he has signed tracks to so many labels including Icon Recordings, 
Greenhouse Records, Uncut Records, Bumpin City Records, Odds and Ends and 
more.  Best of all he has been responsible for a number of regular events 
held in the Triangle over 
the last six years which brought in djs from all over the country including, 
Mark Grant, John Howard, Rick Preston, Ken Christensen, Q-Burns Abstract 
Message, Robbie Hardkiss, Noel Sanger and many other regional and local 
performers.  This night celebrates with special guest Q-Burns and all of 
Sleazy's other dj friends from over the years.  He'll be missed.  9p-2a.  
Fuse, 403 W. Rosemary St, Chapel Hill - 
http://myspace-044.vo.llnwd.net/00692/44/01/692251044_l.jpg
   
  Also happening:
  Wed - 5/3 - Remix Project @ White Collar Crime (Raleigh) - 
www.theremixproject.com
  Thu  - 5/4 - Federal Soul w/Dj Marco @ Federal (Durham) - 
www.solidsoundsystem.com  
  Thu  - 5/4 - RAW w/LeMoore (house) @ Sushi Blues (Raleigh) - 
www.glamooreproductions.com
  Thu  - 5/4 - Captured By Robots @ Kings (Raleigh) - www.capturedbyrobots.com
  Thu  - 5/4 - Djs Joe Bunn & MarkT (hiphop/R&B) @ Bogarts (Raleigh)
  Thu  - 5/4 - 80s Night w/Merlin @ White Collar Crime (Raleigh)
  Thu  - 5/4 - Latin Night @ RedRoom (Raleigh) - www.trianglefiesta.com
  Fri    - 5/5 - Costa w/Keith, 6-10 @ Redroom (Raleigh)
  Fri    - 5/5 - First Friday ArtWalk w/DJ @ Artspace (Raleigh) 
  Fri    - 5/5 - Mosadi Music & Who's Bad @ Lincoln Theatre (Raleigh) - 
www.mosadimusic.com
    Fri    - 5/5 - Backyard Brawl/BBQ w/Ayes to Space, Physics of Meaning @ 
Local 506 (Chapel Hill) - www.local506.com & www.futurock.com
    Fri    - 5/5 - First Friday Latin Night @ Spice Street (Chapel Hill) - 
www.trianglefiesta.com
  Fri    - 5/5 - 5/7 - New Orleans JazzFest - www.nojazzfest.com
  Fri    - 5/5 - 5/7 - Southport Weekender (UK) - www.southportweekender.co.uk


  Sat   - 5/6 - Costamundo w/Keith, 6-10 @ RedRoom (Raleigh)
  Sat   - 5/6 - P.A.T.S Event w/Milagro Saints @ Porto (Raleigh) - 
www.portohome.com & www.southcone.com
    Sat   - 5/6 - After School Special w/dJs Uzi & Silvaback @ Fuse (Chapel 
Hill)

  Sat   - 5/6 - Djs Mooney & Merlin (hiphop/R&B) @ White Collar Crime 
(Raleigh)
  Sun  - 5/7 - Neu Romance @ Kings (Raleigh) - www.neuromance.org
  Sun  - 5/7 - Family (electronic/Dj night) @ West End Wine Bar (Chapel Hill)
  Tue  - 5/9 - Green Room (variety show) @ RedRoom (Raleigh)
  Tue  - 5/9 - Tequila Tuesdays w/Allwayz @ White Collar Crime (Raleigh)


                
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Wednesday, May 3
Shannon O'Connor ( http://shannonoconnor.com/ ) , Monsonia (
http://www.monsonia.com ) , On Three (
http://www.myspace.com/ericonthree )
Wetlands, Chapel Hill

Monsonia used to be a taut, mathy three-piece; now they're a
[presumably still taut, mathy] gtr/drums two-piece. I missed the debut
of the newly slim lineup, though, so I dunno.

On Three started as a side-project of ex-Fake Swedish guitarist Eric
Haugen, but with the demise of FS, they're his main gig now.



Wednesday, May 3
Erie Choir ( http://www.eriechoir.com ) , American Aquarium (
http://www.americanaquarium.com/ ) , Eef Barzelay (
http://www.myspace.com/eefbarzelay )
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Eef Barzelay is the frontman of the band Clem Snide, whom I wanna
characterize as one of those post-Joe Henry/Lambchoppy art-"country" /
slow-pop bands, but I'm not sure why I have that impression.

Erie Choir is the spare/mournful side-project of [not allowed to say
ex- or Hepler will GET me] Sorry About Dresden singer/guitarist Eric
Roehrig. I love Erie Choir.



Thursday, May 4
Dewayne Slightweight ( http://gaylordphoenix.com/ ) , Edie Fake (
http://gaylordphoenix.com/ )
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nightlight sez:

Dewayne + Edie swing our way to show, share + sell their new bookworks
"Gaylord Phoenix", "Foie Gras" and "Your Burrow Runs Deeper Than Your
Blade: a recipe for gay triumphant utopias" (the latter being a
picture book accompanied by music. "We want to read to you in secret
languages and be the Sunday comics for you; we want to show you a
picture and see what sound you make; we want to amplify the echo
inside a paper hut." Look for long beards and self-playing xylophones,
watch out for paisley patterns impaled on antlers, see a gay utopia
appear right before your very eyes.



Thursday, May 4
The Naturals, Mowgli ( http://www.myspace.com/mowglimowgli ) , The
Asexuals ( http://www.myspace.com/theasexuals )
Wetlands, Chapel Hill



Thursday, May 4
Eyes to Space ( http://www.eyestospace.net/ ) , Captured! By Robots (
http://www.capturedbyrobots.com/ ) , Experimental Dental School (
http://www.experimentaldental.com/ )
Kings, Raleigh

A couple of years ago, longtime local soundman and wrestling
aficionado Todd Goss told me that Captured By Robots was the best show
he'd seen in a half-dozen years. I'm still not sure what he meant by
that, but I'm pretty sure it means something.

Eyes to Space are nerd-rock from Chapel Hill; Experimental Dental
School is crazy spazzcore from the West Coast.



Thursday, May 4
Bartender Olympics ( http://www.local506.com )
Local 506, Chapel Hill

I'm not sure how many different events are involved in the Bartender
Olympics, but I *do* know that it includes sets by a wide variety of
pick-up bands assembled from the staffs of all the various local
watering holes. To wit:

GENEROUS WHORES (The Cave)
vs
SPIDER BAGS (Fuse)
vs
NEW GRANADA (Local 506)
vs
TOMMOROW (Nightlight)
vs
AMISH JIHAD (Reservoir)
vs
WHITE ROOK (Shorty's)
vs
THE BIG BIRDS (Talullas)



Friday, May 5
Transportation ( http://www.myspace.com/transportation ) , Eyes to
Space ( http://www.eyestospace.net/ ) , Nathan Asher & the Infantry (
http://www.nathanasher.com/ ) , The Physics of Meaning (
http://www.thephysicsofmeaning.com/ )
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Four-way bill of ambitious local rock, presented by WXYC's Backyard
BBQ local-music show. Transportation may be stuck in the 70s, but it's
the old, weird 70s where yr older brother's record collection (Queen,
Bowie, early Billy Joel, Badfinger) defined a space very different
from what you were pulling in on that AM radio.

Nathan Asher & the Infantry keep winning songwriting contests, the
kind that are judged by people who like songs that meld a good
"classic" rock sound with a fuckload of words, people who think rock
songwriting peaked with whichever 70s Springsteen album is yr fave.
And it may well have, and if that's yr feeling, then you'll love
Nathan Asher, because they come off like the maybe trying-too-hard
bastard children of Springsteen and Smith [Patti].

Physics of Meaning are a Bu Hanan Records band (like their labelmates
Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers). They're fronted by
violinist Daniel Hart, and they make intensely personal chamber-rock
that might come off slightly overwrought if you're past the age of,
say, 30.

Eyes To Space are hardcore nerds who make proggy synth-rock about
science [fiction] and space and stuff.



Friday, May 5
Bellafea ( http://www.bellafea.com/ ) , DeYarmond Edison (
http://www.dyemusic.com/ ) , Bowerbirds (
http://www.myspace.com/bowerbirds )
Kings, Raleigh

Bowerbirds are the new hush-pop outfit of Phil Moore (ex-Ticonderoga);
the songs I've heard are lovely. Bellafea are a gtr/drums duo from
Chapel Hill; their songs tend to dodge in-and-out between pop and
something ever-so-slightly more avant (long pauses, typewriter
interludes, or just a jarring juxtaposition of sweet & staccato).
Should be familiar territory to Blonde Redhead fans, let's say.



Friday, May 5
DJ Nasty Boots, Randy Garcia ( http://www.randygarcia.com ) , Recompas
( http://www.recompas.com/ )
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nightlight sez: "NOPHI RECs heads bring either individual
electroacoustic sets or combined freejazz/noise/garage improv,
ensconced in dance sounds rocked by Nasty Boots and friends."



Friday, May 5
Mortar and Pestle ( http://www.trekkyrecords.com/mortar.html ) ,
Lemuria ( http://www.lemuriapop.com ) , Kind of Like Spitting (
http://www.hushrecords.com/kols.html )
The Flying Anvil, Greensboro



Saturday, May 6
Bang! Bang! ( http://www.bangbangband.com/ ) , Dirty Little Heaters (
http://www.thedirtylittleheaters.com )
305 South, Durham

Reese Gibbs of the Dirty Little Heaters emailed me all distraught the
other day because she'd heard a rumor that the Spinns had broken up
(have they? I hope not). They are/were her favorite band. Her own band
is a stripped-down gtr/drums two-piece that may not live in the same
mid-60s garage as the Spinns, but definitely lives on the same gritty,
slightly run-down garagerock street.



Saturday, May 6
Future Islands ( http://www.myspace.com/futureislands ) , Clik Clak
Kings, Raleigh

Future Islands sprung fully-formed from the ashes of Art Lord and His
Self-Portraits, and that's all I know about them. I expect it'll be
odd danceable synth-rock, but without quite so much back-story.



Sunday, May 7
Anathallo ( http://www.anathallo.com/ ) , Nola
Kings, Raleigh

This is the 5:30p.m. matinee show, so all y'all who claim to be too
old to stay out late: put up or shut up. Nola are a countryish/rockish
band from Raleigh, and their "Hey Hey" is one of my fave local songs
of 2006.



Sunday, May 7
Kingsbury Manx ( http://www.thekingsburymanx.com/ ) , Leels (
http://www.screwmusicforever.com/leels/ )
James C.Wallace Parking Deck Plaza, Chapel Hill

Clarque Blomquist of the Kingsbury Manx/Shallow Be Thy
Name/ex-Floridian sent this along:

Free Matinee Concert, Kingsbury Manx & Leels. sunday may 7, 7:00pm at
the James C.Wallace Parking Deck Plaza, Downtown Chapel Hill (above
the parking garage on Rosemary St. across from Hell/Wetlands, behind
the post office) Plus! The folks from the HI MOM present "Best of the
Fest from 2005", their favorite short films from last year's festival.
Bring : beach chairs, blankets, cusions, etc.



Monday, May 8
Flicker ( http://www.chapel-hill.nc.us/flicker )
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Flicker is the semi-regular/bimonthly local short-film festival that
has been happening in & around Chapel Hill for the past 11 years or
more. This installment is extra-special; here's the lowdown from the
Flickerpeople:

The next Flicker film screening will be May 8th at the Cat’s Cradle
in Carrboro.  This is a special screening entitled Bars and Tone.
This screening will feature Super 8 shorts made by local filmmakers
using the music of local bands.  Some of the filmmakers who are making
music videos for the show include Jim Haverkamp, Joyce Ventimiglia,
Nicole Triche, and Jason Middleton.  Bands such as The Octobers,
Slim’s Dill Pickle, Cantwell Gomez and Jordan, Two If By Sea, and
Maple Stave will be featured.  The doors will open at 8pm with the
show starting at 8:30pm.  Tickets are only $3.  Flicker is a
bi-monthly film festival that was started in 1994 to showcase shorts
shot exclusively on film.



Monday, May 8
Bibis Ellison ( http://www.myspace.com/bibisellison ) , Jon Auer (
http://www.jonauer.com/ )
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Jon Auer is in the Posies, and thus is also in that recent
resurrection of Big Star; he's doing a solo tour in support of a
recent solo album.



Tuesday, May 9
Mogwai ( http://www.abandcalledmogwai.com/ ) , Jack Rose (
http://www.vhfrecords.com/jackrose/ )
Lincoln Theater, Raleigh



Tuesday, May 9
Vibrant Green ( http://vibrantgreen.iuma.com ) , Alvarez Painting (
http://www.trekkyrecords.com/alva/index.html )
The Library, Chapel Hill

This is a Trekky Records showcase. Trekky was started a few years back
by some Chapel Hill teens (some of them are in Alvarez Painting);
they've already put out more CDs than a lot of other local labels, and
some of them are *still* in high school (or if they've graduated, it
was only in the past year or so). The two bands confirmed as I'm
writing this are Vibrant Green (the on-again, off-again band of the
three Tunnell brothers, who're difficult to describe effectively) and
Alvarez Painting, who make a sort of warbly indie-rock that sounds
equally influenced by emo and Polvo, but in a completely different way
than Strunken White did.



Wednesday, May 10
The Greatest Hits ( http://www.thegreatesthits.org/ ) , Dirty Johnny
and the Make-Believes ( http://futureperfectmedia.com/dirtyjohnny.htm
)
Kings, Raleigh



Thursday, May 11
Fin Fang Foom ( http://www.lovitt.com/artists/finfangfoom.html ) ,
Tiger Bear Wolf ( http://www.tigerbearwolf.com ) , The Rosebuds (
http://www.therosebuds.com/ ) , tommygun ( http://www.tommygunrock.com
)
The Flying Anvil, Greensboro

The Flying Anvil is the big new club in Greensboro that's being booked
by Andrew Dudek of Gate City Noise; he actually moved his store into
the club, in fact. Or something like that. This is night one of their
Grand Opening, and I guess it's indie-rock night. I probably don't
have to explain the Rosebuds to anybody reading this, but I would like
to mention that if you're the pop-hating sort who gave up on them
after their first album, due to there being too many hooky catchy
songs, you actually missed out on a much darker, richer, more brooding
2nd album. Of course, there were still a metric ton of catchy hooks,
so maybe it's just as well.

Tiger Bear Wolf are a burly Greensboro band, who used to sound like
one of those central-NC post-hardcore bands sitting in with Motorhead,
and now sound more like one of those central-NC post-hardcore bands
sitting in with Raging Slab.



Thursday, May 11
Old Time Relijun ( http://www.krecs.com/OldTimeRelijun/ ) , The Whigs
( http://www.thewhigs.com ) , Grasshopper
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Friday, May 12
Neil Diamond All-Stars, New Town Drunks (
http://www.thirdmind.org/featured_artists/NTD/index.html )
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Friday, May 12
Hotel Lights ( http://www.hotellights.net/ ) , Can Joann (
http://www.canjoann.com/ ) , Shakermaker ( http://shakermaker.org/ )
Kings, Raleigh



Friday, May 12
The Physics of Meaning ( http://www.thephysicsofmeaning.com/ )
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh



Friday, May 12
Olympic Ass Kicking Team ( http://www.terryandersonrocks.com/ )
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Friday, May 12
Bad Checks ( http://demonbeach.com/checks.htm ) , Ghost Writer (
http://www.ghostwriterband.com/ ) , Dexter Romweber and the New Romans
( http://www.myspace.com/dexterromweber )
Local 506, Chapel Hill

The Bad Checks dug it out of retirement for a show last month at
Kings, and now they're apparently on a roll. They've been making
boozed-up psychobilly/punk around these parts since the VERY early
80s, and they haven't lost their edge (nor Hunter Landen, their
frontman, his propensity for falling down onstage).

Dexter Romweber and the New Romans is Dex's large band setup,
featuring drums, add'l percussion, keys, horns, bass, and multiple
guitars. They're huge, and tight, and just all-around amazing. Don't
miss this. (Video [*> http://www.trianglerock.com/video <*] here, see
for yourself.)



Friday, May 12
Caltrop ( http://www.myspace.com/caltropband ) , Year Future (
http://www.myspace.com/yearfuture ) , Autocode
Wetlands, Chapel Hill

Caltrop feature ex-members of El Sucio & Continent. They're
ultra-heavy sludgy Sabbath/droney thunderousness.



Saturday, May 13
Direct Control ( http://www.deepfrybonanza.com/directcontrol/ ) ,
Street Sharks ( http://www.myspace.com/streetsharsk ) , Government
Warning ( http://www.myspace.com/governmentwarningrva ) , Pedestrians
( http://www.criminaliq.com/ ) , Wasted Time (
http://www.myspace.com/wastedtimesucks )
Chaz's Bull City Records, Durham

Punk Rock. Note that last time I looked, the thing actually said
"Direct Control -or- Government Warning."



Saturday, May 13
Straight 8s ( http://www.straight8s.com ) , The Crimson Spectre (
http://www.slavemagazine.com/crimsonspectre/ ) , The Tremors (
http://www.tremorsrockabilly.com/ ) , The Goons (
http://www.thegoons.com/ )
The Garage, Winston-Salem

This is billed as The Greasers vs. The Punks, with the Tremors & the
Straight 8s (both rockabilly trios in that neotraditional
standup-bass/drums/hollowbody guitar style) as the Greasers, and the
Goons & the mighty Crimson Spectre as the Punks.



Saturday, May 13
Roman Candle ( http://www.romancandlemusic.com/ ) , Thad Cockrell (
http://www.thadcockrell.com/ ) , Keegan DeWitt (
http://www.keegandewitt.com/ )
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Thad Cockrell makes heartbreaking/heartbroken country music; he used
to live here but last year decamped to Nashville, a town which he's
much too good for. Roman Candle are the Matheny brothers, who grew up
in North Wilkesboro; they make light breezy pop that shows just enough
roots/country influence to make it more interesting than most light
breezy pop. Keegan DeWitt is a friend of theirs, but his site breaks
my browser so I don't know the details.



Saturday, May 13
Leadfoot ( http://www.leadfoot.net/ )
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh


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