RTP-area local music and culture

[Elizabeth <eliz3333 AT yahoo.com>]

Hi,  
I went to this show...   I thought LPD was amazing, and heard that Veronique 
Diabolique was too (but sadly missed their set).  It seemed like LPD played 
more of their “hits” /catchier songs than usual (maybe because of the 
25th anniversary), but I'm not sure as I'm only still gradually taking in the 
range of their material.  They played Hellsville which was great.  Intense, 
so big.  Also played some great brand new stuff.  The songs with a slow 
buildup to huge intensity were amazing live – for a while the sound would 
be subtle, quiet, intricate, delicate and then somehow huge and catastrophic. 
 But without being forced or compromising the fluidity of the whole thing.  
Edward Kaspell was just awesome.  I don't know what to say.  Sometimes 
terribly dark but always very beautiful.  You can hear this in the recordings 
but stage presence live was extra powerful and raw.  He seemed to want to 
really share something with the audience, express things that were 
overwhelming. 
 Whether awful or good things, or maybe uncertain.  But at the same time 
protect people or something?  Give out a sense of calm.  Meanwhile there was 
this casual wit woven in...  Speaking of which Mr. Hornblower(?)- :) did some 
awesome stuff on the sax, holding back early in the show but later going off 
at just the right places (one time playing 2 at the same time back and 
forth).  Meanwhile with his familiar lighthearted attitude on stage.  The 
crowd was kind of small and slightly busy/ loud compared to their shows 
I’ve seen in the past, but that wasn’t too bad.  After the show I talked 
with Kaspell a little -- and listened to lots of other people talking to him 
for a long time going on and on you know -- and was struck by how modest and 
kind he was.  Just exuded a patience and thoughtfulness to everybody.   
(Extra cool considering the amount of touring they do).  Oh well, speaking of 
going on and on, I guess I will stop now. 

Eliza
  

dj golf <mcass AT mindspring.com> wrote: 
Anybody on the group go to this show?  Care to post a capsule review?

- dj golf was out of town


Fikri Yucel wrote:
> Bonjour mes amis,
>
> Your friendly neighborhood French Goths have the honor
> of opening for the Legendary Pink Dots, currently on
> tour celebrating their 25th anniversary. The Dots'
> sound can't be pinned down: psychedelic rock,
> industrial, experimental, synth-pop, avant-garde? Yes,
> to all of the above, and then some.
>
> As for Veronique Diabolique, well, we just keep it
> stripped down, strapped in, laced up, and smudged with
> black eyeliner. In French. And with fog.
>
> It's a good thing this show takes place the day AFTER
> the summer solstice (a.k.a. the first day of summer,
> the longest day of the year), since the solstice
> represents  a time to release the sadness, fears and
> pains from your life, a time for purification, and
> renewal. The sooner you can get THAT day behind you,
> the sooner you can go back to burdening yourself with
> more pain, and fear, and sadness, secure in the
> knowledge that from here on out the days can only get
> shorter, and the blackness of night longer and
> longer...
>
> Cat's Cradle Presents:
> The Legendary Pink Dots with Veronique Diabolique
> at Local 506: 506 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill
> Thursday June 22, show time 9:15PM
> $13 advance tickets; $15 day of the show
>
> http://www.catscradle.com/schedule.html
> http://www.local506.com/
> http://www.brainwashed.com/lpd/
> http://www.veroniquediabolique.com/
>
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Thursday, June 29
Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan (http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com),
Kolyma (http://www.myspace.com/kolyma), The Scholarships
(http://www.myspace.com/thescholarships)
Kings, Raleigh

The Scholarships are from Greensboro, and they include Chris
Clodfelter of Geezer Lake, and Sean Bowles, aka Anderson Airplane.
They are an indie-rock band.

Cantwell Gomez and Jordan make as much music as it is humanly possible
for 3 people to make; they are 100% efficient. They should serve as
model for our new political system, post-revolution.

Kolyma would like to participate in that revolution, preferably with
pitchforks & torches.



Thursday, June 29
Kerbloki (http://www.kerbloki.com/), Red Smokes White
(http://www.myspace.com/redsmokeswhite), Mingus Young
(http://www.mingusyoung.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, June 29
Regina Hexaphone (http://www.reginahexaphone.com), Ryan Pound
(http://www.pidgeonenglish.com/), Kaiser Cartel
(http://www.kaisercartel.com)
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh



Thursday, June 29
Cities (http://www.citiesmusic.com), Psychic Hearts
(http://www.myspace.com/psychichearts)
Reservoir, Carrboro



Friday, June 30
Ed Crawford
(http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/grandnationalnc/info.html), Don Dixon
(http://www.myspace.com/dondixonsmusic)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

UPDATE: Local 506 sez this is a nonsmoking show, so if you were on the
fence about going, get off it already.

Both Don & Ed are performing solo, near as I can tell. Don was a
founding member of the locally legendary Arrogance, who gigged around
the southeast for much of the 70s without ever managing to snag the
elusive brass ring; their soulful southern folk/rock/pop (on record;
live, they were more of a rockband) was never quite in the right place
at the right time, I guess. But if you ask any local musician over 40
who grew up around here, you'll get an Arrogance story.

You might also remember Don's stint in the 80s and 90s producing
records for little regional bands like Fetchin Bones, the Connells,
and REM. Now he's released his first solo album since 2001 or so.

Ed Crawford was known as ed fROMOHIO back in the 90s when he played
guitar & sang for the post-Minutemen band fIREHOSE. He moved to Chapel
Hill in the late 90s and put together a great country-rock band called
Grand National, but I haven't heard from them in what seems like ages,
so maybe they wrapped it up.



Friday, June 30
Opening Flower Happy Bird
(http://www.myspace.com/openingflowerhappybird), The Amoeba Men
(http://www.cnprecords.com/the_amoeba_men.htm)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Opening Flower Happy Bird are 1/2 from Carrboro, 1/2 from Richmond.
Drums, guitar, keyboard, laptop & singing, all in service of some
decidedly low-fi catchy-but-wistful pop. Their new full-length CD is
excellent, though not as demented as their first EP.



Friday, June 30
Kenny Roby (http://www.kennyroby.com), Shannon O'Connor
(http://shannonoconnor.com/), Leah Magner
(http://www.myspace.com/leahmagner)
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh



Friday, June 30
The Greatest Hits (http://www.thegreatesthits.org/), The Sammies
(http://www.myspace.com/thesammies), Tiger Thief
(http://www.tigerthief.com/), Brent Jordan
(http://www.myspace.com/brentjordanmusic)
Kings, Raleigh



Saturday, July 1
Dirty South Street Rock Fest II
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Big ol' dirtypunkrock fest featuring the following bands:

THE ANTAGONIZERS
LABOR FORCE
SAB GREY
VANGUARD
TOMMY GUTLESS
AGGRO VATORS
CHARM CITY SAINTS
SMASHED POINTS
STRAIGHT LACED



Saturday, July 1
The Moaners (http://www.themoaners.com/), Robo Sapien
(http://www.gorobosapien.com/), Dirty Little Heaters
(http://www.thedirtylittleheaters.com), Midtown Dickens
(http://www.myspace.com/midtowndickens), DJ Kommittee
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

This is a benefit for badass drummer Melissa York (ex-Team Dresch,
ex-Butchies, ex-Gerty, currently Ex-Members), whose neck got all
fucked up. Was it from all the rocking? All the rest of us who're
known to head-bob (or headbang) sure as shit hope that major surgery
isn't the inevitable result, but in any case, Melissa went under the
knife & is currently recovering. This is a benefit to help her retire
the inevitable debt that results from Major Neck Surgery ($3000
sponges & shit like that). Goes without saying that it's all George
Bush's fault, but we're gonna have to deal with that problem later.



Saturday, July 1
WE JAM ECONO: Story of The Minutemen
The Flying Anvil, Greensboro

This is a screening of the so-great-it-made-me-cry Minutemen
documentary. If you're in Greensboro, or if you didn't see the thing
when it screened at Local 506 a few months ago, then you gotta see
this. Or, since it just came out on DVD, I guess you could rent/buy
it, but you'll miss the Minutemen tribute band that's playing after
the movie at the Anvil.



Saturday, July 1
The Whole World Laughing (http://www.myspace.com/twwl), In the Year of
the Pig (http://www.southernloveprod.com/ityotp.htm), The Upsidedown
Stars (http://www.rabbot.net), It's Reigning Men
(http://www.myspace.com/itsreigningmen)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

This is an alternate Melissa York benefit show, in case you want to
give money while listening to a massive wall-of-overamped-sound from
the brilliant In The Year of the Pig, and the super-duo The Whole
World Laughing (featuring Dave Cantwell of Razzle & Cantwell Gomez
Jordan, and Scotty "Clang Quartet" Irving). This may well be the show
of the week, if you believe that it's important to physically feel the
music you're hearing.

Update: Also on the bill, It's Reigning Men, the long/free-form
wall-o-noise duo featuring Independent Weekly music dude Grayson
Currin.



Saturday, July 1
North Elementary (http://www.northelementary.com), Spider Bags
(http://www.myspace.com/spiderbags), The Rose Marie
(http://www.myspace.com/ryanleedunlap), Secret Language
(http://www.myspace.com/secretlanguage), Simple
(http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomsimple)
Wetlands, Chapel Hill

Big show featuring current/former members of various local bands
(well, mostly North Elementary), showing off their latest incestuous
recombinations. Near as I can tell/crib from John Harrison, it breaks
down like this:

Spider Bags (Members of Kingsbury Manx, ex-North Elementary)
North Elementary
Secret Language (From NYC/ex-North Elementary)
The Rose Marie (Ryan Lee Dunlap, Jen Richelson, Betty Rupp, John
Harrison
Simple (members of North Elementary, Pleasant, Casting Company - debut
show)



Sunday, July 2
America's Next Top Models
(http://www.myspace.com/americasnexttopmodels), The Shondes
(http://www.myspace.com/theshondes), Beloved Binge
(http://www.myspace.com/belovedbinge)
Chaz's Bull City Records, Durham

Beloved Binge moved here from Seattle to escape the rain. (uh, oops).
That's all I know about them.

America's Next Top Models are a Durham supergroup, including members
of Holy Roman Empire, Maple Stave, and Cantwell Gomez and Jordan. They
make overtly political no-wave "rock" music. With costumes. They will
make you truly appreciate this year's Independence Day. Or else.



Sunday, July 2
Aceyalone (http://www.catalystclub.com/bios/aceyalone_bio.html), Ugly
Duckling (http://www.freshmode.com/), Procussions
(http://www.theprocussions.com/), Diverse
(http://www.chocolateindustries.com/diverse/index.php)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Sunday, July 2
The Coughs (http://www.myspace.com/coughsbitch), Bret Gand is Dead
(http://www.myspace.com/bretgandisdead)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Monday, July 3
Dustheads (http://www.myspace.com/dustheadsnyc), Odessa Five
(http://www.myspace.com/odessafive), Concrete Bombers
(http://www.myspace.com/concretebombers)
Chaz's Bull City Records, Durham



Monday, July 3
Clang Quartet (http://www.myspace.com/clangquartet), Danielson
(http://www.danielson.info)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Is Danielson the face of new sincere religious indie-rock, or an
elaborate decade-long art-project, or both? Either way, they've got
homemade costumes/uniforms, and that's really all you need to know,
right?

Clang Quartet is most likely the only free/improv noise/percussion
tribute to Jesus Christ currently operating in the state of North
Carolina. This puts Clang mainman Scotty Irving in the unique position
of getting wedged onto bills with out-of-town noise acts--whose fans
are likely surprised to realize that Scotty isn't joking around with
all the Jesus stickers on his gear--*and* with out-of-town Christian
acts, whose fans are, um, probably equally surprised.

Of course, Danielson don't really count in that category, as their
fanbase is about 90% college-radio DJs, and they sound more like
Deerhoof than Jars of Clay.



Monday, July 3
Tiger Bear Wolf (http://www.tigerbearwolf.com), Zuexeus
(http://zuexeus.com/html/newz.html), Dr. Powerful
(http://www.myspace.com/drpowerful), The Art of Shooting
(http://www.theartofshooting.com/)
Reservoir, Carrboro

Tiger Bear Wolf are from Greensboro; they make a heavy rock that's
about 1/4 metal, 1/2 postpunk (whatever that is) and 1/4 Southern
Rock. That's actually a formula that might've loosely described a
number of Greensboro bands over the years, including such luminaries
as Rebar (if the 1/4 metal were the Melvins, I guess) and the Mercury
Birds.

Dr. Powerful are a kinda bellowy new indie-rock band from Sanford who
include ex-Polvo drummer Eddie Watkins.

Zuexeus is the solo project of a guy named Chris Murray, who runs the
longstanding Wilmington punkrock label Assorted Porkchops, and was in
a semi-legendary (in Wilmington) band called Cornelius back in the
90s. The one time I saw Zuexeus, Chris played a set of blistering solo
metalloid guitar while wearing a giant rubber alien head and fake
hands.



Tuesday, July 4
Evil Wiener (http://www.evilwienerworld.com/)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

It wouldn't be a holiday without Evil Wiener, and that goes triple for
Independence Day. All your favorite patriotic songs (many performed on
theremin, even), plus all your favorite Evil Wiener songs, plus
costumes and a bona fide Evil Wiener Roast in the parking lot out
behind the Cave. It's a Chapel Hill tradition, one of the few that
doesn't involve setting cars on fire or peeing in the street.



Tuesday, July 4
Oh My God I Just Had the Most Amazing Year
(http://www.myspace.com/ohmygodijusthadthemostamazingyear), Portable
Corners (http://www.myspace.com/portablecorners)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Portable Corners say this about themselves: "Portable Corners is from
Oakland, CA. On this trip it will be Rob Enbom (Hale Zukas, the
Hospitals, Gang Wizard) and John Benson (Hale Zukas, Evil Wikkid
Warrior, A Minor Forest) with a small choir of folks. We play popular
music. We are a new band. We are touring in a big ass converted bus
venue that is a good place to see a show."

Oh My God I Just Had The Most Amazing Year is what happens when
Boyzone and Pykrete merge for the good of humanity. Double the
floor-rolling, double the statick processed through endless pedals,
double the screaming/moaning into cheap mics processed through still
more endless pedals.



Wednesday, July 5
Cat Power (http://www.catpowermusic.com/)
The Flying Anvil, Greensboro

This is a solo show, not one of the handful of shows Chan's playing
this summer with the Memphis Horns. I heard she/they pulled off a
pretty rousing (and glitch-free) set at Bonnaroo, so more's the pity
that she's not bringing them along. Because as I think we most-all
know by now, when she's alone on that stage, she's even *more* prone
to Catpowerism of the "does my amp sound OK? I need to stop this song
& worry about that for a while" variety. Doors at 7:00.



Wednesday, July 5
Blackstrap (http://blackstrap.org), Army of Jesus
(http://www.myspace.com/aoj), Lefty Loosie
(http://www.myspace.com/leftyloosie), Bob ücker
(http://www.myspace.com/bobucker)
Chaz's Bull City Records, Durham

Durham's own middle-aged bratpunks Blackstrap are on the bill, along
with a mixed-bag of pop-punk & punkrock from across this vast nation
of ours.



Wednesday, July 5
Watersports (http://whitetapes.8m.com/watersports.html), Iovae,
Nunfucker
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nunfucker = Jason Crumer (facedowninshit, American Band, Aluminum
Noise) + Ryan Martin (Boyzone, Oh My God I Just Had The Most Amazing
Year)



Wednesday, July 5
Bound Stems (http://www.boundstems.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, July 6
The Sibling Project (http://www.thesiblingproject.com/), Sparrows
Swarm and Sing (http://www.swarmandsing.com/), Single Spies
(http://www.singlespies.com/), Worn in Red
(http://www.myspace.com/worninred)
Chaz's Bull City Records, Durham



Thursday, July 6
God's Temple of Family Deliverance
(http://www.the-stripe.com/godstemple/)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Thursday, July 6
Stratocruiser (http://www.stratocruisermusic.com/), Noah's Apathy
(http://www.noahsapathy.com), Fake Problems
(http://www.fakeproblems.com)
Wetlands, Chapel Hill



Friday, July 7
Goner (http://www.gonertheband.com/), des_ark
(http://www.des-ark.org), Brian Walsby (http://www.brianwalsby.com)
Kings, Raleigh

This is a book-release party for Brian Walsby's second book of comix
(no, he's not gonna be busting out a half-hour-long drum solo, at
least not as far as I know). Goner are from Raleigh and they make
emotional rockmusic with bass & keyboards as the melodic anchors,
rather than guitar. Des_ark is whatever Aimee wants it to be at any
moment. She's been known to do the occasional duet with Goner's Scott
Phillips, so expect the unexpected.



Friday, July 7
Erie Choir (http://www.eriechoir.com), Joe Romeo
(http://www.myspace.com/joeromeomusic), Adam Arcuragi
(http://www.adamarcuragi.net/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

The other day I was watching Joe Romeo play a solo set (this one
tonight should be with his full band the Orange County Volunteers),
and a couple of times he'd start a song & I thought he was about to
cover an Erie Choir song. He & Erie Choir mainman Eric Roehrig seem to
have some of the same DNA, even as Joe's songs inevitably wind up
veering off in some multipartite baroque direction that's fairly
dissimilar to Eric's straighforward melancholy tunes of quiet regret.



Saturday, July 8
TV Knife (http://www.myspace.com/tvknife)
Kings, Raleigh

This is the Kings 7th Anniversary Weekend, and all they need you to
know about this show is this:

TV KNIFE PRESENTS: "Love Delux...a Tribute to the Music of Sade"



Saturday, July 8
Double Negative (http://www.myspace.com/thedoublenegative), Battletorn
(http://www.battletorn.net), Triac (http://www.myspace.com/triac)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh

Double Negative is the oldschool-style Raleigh Hardcore band made up
of a bunch of guys from various 80s/90s Raleigh punk/indie bands who
came out of semi-retirement because, I guess, they got tired of just
complaining about how much of the current punkrock sucks, and decided
to do something about it. Actually it was sort of the opposite; they
saw some local bands who *didn't* suck, and it lit a fire under them.
Either way a heartwarming tale of hardcore bringing the generations
together.



Saturday, July 8
snmnmnm (http://www.snmnmnm.com/), Neil Hamburger
(http://www.dragcity.com/bands/hamburger.html)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Sunday, July 9
Dexter Romweber (http://www.dexterromweber.com), Legendary
Shack*Shakers (http://www.cockadoodledont.com/), The Tremors
(http://www.tremorsrockabilly.com/)
The Flying Anvil, Greensboro



Sunday, July 9
Thor (http://www.thorcentral.com), Morbid Ramblers
(http://www.hollowbunny.com/bands/morbidramblers.html), Destroy
Destroy Destroy (http://www.destroydestroydestroy.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

The Morbid Ramblers are a country band who perform in full skull
makeup; they feature the primary fuck-shit-up noisemaking contingent
from that classic 90s band Pine State, along with the perennial
year-in, year-out star of the Kings Cover-Up.

Thor is one of those crazy lion-maned bodybuilding
hot-water-bottle-inflating minor beefcake stars of the 70s, who has
managed to sustain a career in metal for the past 30 years. I saw him
play a house-show once in Raleigh & he fucking ruled, actually.



Monday, July 10
The Heuristic (http://theheuristic.com/), Wetnurse
Local 506, Chapel Hill



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