RTP-area local music and culture

[Bob Wall <bob.wall AT earthlink.net>]

...and from our rock neighbors in Greensboro:

Saturday night in Greensboro:
The Semi-Annual Cover Band Extravaganza:
(proceeds go to the Guilford County Animal Shelter)

NAKED RAYGUN
FUGAZI
SUICIDE
JAWBOX
MY BLOODY VALENTINE
THE REPLACEMENTS
DINOSAUR JR.

All bands are comprised of your friends, and current and ex- members of 
your favorite local bands throughout the last decade. Including, but not 
limited to: Disband, Manamid, Health, Malabaster, Taija Rae, All 
Astronauts, Mercury Birds, Volunteer, Dawn Chorus, Kudzu Wish, 
Myyyyyyythmaker, Fist Fight, Teratoma, Tell a Sad Story, Midget Bar 
Mitzvah, and Acrobatics Macrocosm.

The show starts PROMPTLY at 8:00pm
at
THE FLYING ANVIL
219 W. Lewis St
Greensboro

grady wrote:
> 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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