RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Thursday, October 12
The Village Green    (http://thevillagegreenmusic.com)
The Purrs    (http://www.thepurrs.com/)
Stratocruiser    (http://www.stratocruisermusic.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, October 12
The Vints    (http://thevints.us/)
Transportation    (http://www.myspace.com/transportation)
Kingsbury Manx    (http://www.thekingsburymanx.com/)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Thursday, October 12
Shaking Hands With Danger    (http://www.myspace.com/shakinghandswithdanger)
Fake Problems    (http://www.fakeproblems.com)
The Anchor Comes Home    (http://www.myspace.com/theanchorcomeshome)
Pistola    (http://www.pistola.us)
Wetlands, Chapel Hill

Shaking Hands With Danger are a Triad-area band with Devender from Kudzu 
Wish, and Kat Lamp from Malabaster/All Astronauts.



Thursday, October 12
Another Tombstone Dream
Kolyma    (http://www.myspace.com/kolyma)
Dirty Little Heaters    (http://www.thedirtylittleheaters.com)
Kings, Raleigh

Kolyma are a Raleigh rockband that make fucked-up swirls of noiserock 
that call to [my] mind that great defunct Raleigh band Picasso Trigger. 
Dirty Little Heaters are a gtr/drums two-piece that kinda remind me of 
The Gossip without all the 'tween-song proselytizing.



Friday, October 13
Hide and Seek    (http://www.freewebs.com/hideandseeek)
Dig Shovel Dig    (http://www.digshoveldig.com/)
Ivory Gates    (http://www.myspace.com/ivorytowerss)
Ear Pwr    (http://www.myspace.com/earpwr)
Acrobatics Macrocosm    (http://www.myspace.com/acrobaticsmacrocosm)
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem

The Werehouse is in Winston-Salem; it's an artist collective slash bar 
slash coffeehouse slash art gallery slash performance space smack on the 
sketchy edge of downtown. If you've never been it's worth a trip (it's 
way more "downtown" than anything happening in the Triangle, for what 
that's worth). And this may be the perfect show. Hide and Seek are a 
goofy/brilliant NC School of the Arts trio who broke up earlier this 
year but are already reuniting. They've got costumes and spazzing out & 
crawling on the floor, and catchy keyboard-pop.

Dig Shovel Dig are a sludgy 2-piece from Asheville. I'm not exactly sure 
about the rest.



Friday, October 13
$2 Pistols
Hickry Hawkins    (http://www.myspace.com/hickryhawkins)
The Garage, Winston-Salem

The Garage is also in Winston-Salem; maybe I'm not paying attention, but 
I'd swear lately it's easier to see the $2 Pistols out on the road than 
it is right here in the Triangle.



Friday, October 13
Dry Heathens    (http://www.myspace.com/dryheathens)
Dirty Little Heaters    (http://www.thedirtylittleheaters.com)
Stone Fox
Joe & Jo's, Durham

Dry Heathens are a vintage-style bitter-sounding indie-rock band from 
Durham. Dirty Little Heaters are a 2-pieces gtr/drums blues/garage-rock 
band whom you pretty much just gotta see to believe. Huge.



Friday, October 13
Barbarella    (www.myspace.com/barbarellach)
The Sammies    (http://www.myspace.com/thesammies)
A Rooster for the Masses    (http://www.myspace.com/aroosterforthemasses)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Barbarella have Hugo Swaso & Cam Weeks. The Sammies are on MoRisen, and 
they sound kinda like what you get when good ol' southern boys grow up 
listening to the Cult (plus a little Cure & Talking Heads for good 
measure). A Rooster for the Masses are smart political/danceable 
postpunk from Raleigh.



Saturday, October 14
Noncanon    (http://www.myspace.com/noncanon)
The Tourist    (http://www.myspace.com/thetouristnc)
Mike Dillon    (http://www.myspace.com/hollaifyaheardme)
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh

The Tourist is a singer/songwriter from Cary. Noncanon are a gtr/drums 
two-piece featuring Danny Vaughn (ex-Mothlight) and Rob Koegler (Cheap 
Heat, etc). They kinda pick up where Mothlight left off, in the sense 
that Danny plays crazy out-there blues/drone guitar that veers into 
free-jazz territory, and Rob plays exactly the right thing on the drums 
at exactly the right time. There's also singing, alternately sweet and 
squalling.



Saturday, October 14
The Furniture    (http://www.myspace.com/thefurniture)
Cassette Concret    (http://www.myspace.com/joshimusic)
Dandelion Fiction
To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie 
(http://www.myspace.com/tokillapettybourgeoisie)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nightlight sez:

A big night of interesting undescribable music tapes tapes and other 
other other. It's really justa whole night of pleasant, soothin, 
beautiful and slightly challenging HEART SOUL MIND AND BODY UNITY. The 
first three bands are traveling en masse. I must apologize, I can't find 
much info for Dandelion Fiction, but it is a beautimous name, no? 
Cassete Concret has a feel of the early Avey Tare and Panda Bear - for 
the uninitiated this means campfire songs, peyote, communion with the 
spirits, and weird noises that might make you wonder "How's he do dat?" 
Guitar strum, clever images, and sounds sounds zounds. One person who 
becomes much more than one after it's all said and done. The Furniture 
also seems to possess a mystical green energy that purports to complex 
the cortex. Imagine a guitar note, then a silent sigh, a deep breath, 
and haunting voice. That's the Furniture. Also has that Animal 
Collective Avey Tare feel. To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie come all the way 
from Minnesot, with a kranky release and 804noise comp release. There's 
a definite feel of scrape and brumble, a type of shoegaze electronica 
and church choir with wired pipe organ feel. It's a here and there kind 
of scattered smothered covered electronica. Very clever uses of drums 
and loops and melody. This show is for fans of minimalism, Animal 
Collective, Sigur Ros, Rune Grammafon, Yo La Tengo, The Residents and 
Christian Marclay. It's also all for YOU!!



Saturday, October 14
Jew(s) & Catholic(s)
Auto-Passion    (http://www.myspace.com/autopassion)
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem



Sunday, October 15
Deep Jew
Ironing    (http://www.myspace.com/ironing)
Gator Surprise    (http://www.gatorsurprise.com/)
Gay Bomb
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nightlight sez:

We are nearing peak noise saturation this month, fuck yes! We welcome 
back Florida's IRONING, self-described as "part tape collage, part 
cassette jockey, part vinyl manipulator, part keyboard pounder, part 
knob twiddler, part microcassette field recordings fetishist, part 
object rattler, part radio wrangler". DEEP JEW is what you might call a 
SCUM/THRASH/NOISE band, with members of West Coast noise orgy band MEN 
WHO CAN'T LOVE (yes please!), PRIVY SEALS, EX-JESUS, OSCILLATING INNARDS 
- - this should be very good! Gator Surprise is touring with 'Jew, he is 
but one man playing aggressive, filthy harsh noise. SC's Gay Bomb is 
Andrew of pukeattack/wake up snake solo, making good use of a Califone 
card reader, "Very hypnotic and what-the-fuck." Hey, are you a local 
noise-maker and want to play this show? Email the NL booking account!



Monday, October 16
A Problem of Alarming Dimensions 
(http://www.8088records.com/problemofalarmingdimensions/)
Transmography    (http://www.transmographymusic.com/)
Reservoir, Carrboro

Arky expats (been Chapel Hillians for a couplea years now, actually) A 
Problem of Alarming Dimensions have been laying so low for the past year 
or so that I'd taken them for dead. They make spacey echoey guitar 
movie-soundtrack rock. Good to see their name back on the marquee.



Monday, October 16
45 Grave    (http://www.dinahcancer.com/dc45g1.htm)
Trashlight Vision    (http://www.trashlightvision.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Sure, everybody loved "Party Time," but can you name *another* 45 Grave 
song? Didn't think so. I suppose one could optimistically view this as 
yr chance to rectify that.



Tuesday, October 17
Tiger Thief    (http://www.tigerthief.com/)
The Hymns    (http://www.hymnsband.com)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Tiger Thief are from Raleigh & used to be called Iconic. I seem to 
remember them being referred to as "radio-ready" or something, but I 
haven't heard 'em to know what that might mean. Port Huron Statement's 
website just told me that they've had to bail on this show, so nevermind.



Tuesday, October 17
New Lou Reeds    (http://www.newloureeds.com/)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh

Cleveland; ex-Cobra Verde/GBV.



Wednesday, October 18
Bull City    (http://www.bullcitytheband.com/)
Maple Stave    (http://www.maplestave.com)
Honored Guests    (http://www.thehonoredguests.com/)
A Rooster for the Masses    (http://www.myspace.com/aroosterforthemasses)
Joe & Jo's, Durham

Night 1 of the 2006 Troika Music Festival. The little note on the Troika 
website says "all ages, smoke free and food." Here's the lineup:

Bull City, 7:30 pm
Maple Stave, 8:30 pm
A Rooster for the Masses, 9:30 pm
The Honored Guests, 10:30 pm

Bull City are a Durham rockband featuring former members of The Balance 
and Dillon Fence. Maple Stave are a taut post-rock 3-piece whose new EP 
should hopefully be available at this show. A Rooster for the Masses is 
a weirdo keyboardy UK-disco-political-postpunk danceband. The Honored 
Guests are an indie-rock band.



Wednesday, October 18
Okkervil River    (http://www.okkervilriver.com/)
David Karsten Daniels    (http://www.davidkarstendaniels.com/)
Elvis Perkins    (http://www.elvisperkins.net/)
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham

Night 1 of the 2006 Troika Music Festival. The Duke Coffeehouse is 
non-smoking, all-ages, and BYOB. Here's the lineup:

David Karsten Daniels, 9:30 pm
Elvis Perkins, 10:00 pm
Okkervil River, 11:00 pm

David Karsten Daniels is a member of the Bu Hanan collective whose 
[presumably-]excellent new album (I've heard a few rough mixes on DKD's 
blog, and I've heard 'em played live, and it has all been great) was 
just picked up by the UK label Fat Cat.

Okkervil River are one of the festival headliners, and the Duke 
Coffeehouse is a Small Venue, so be prepared for some potential 
crowding, I guess.



Wednesday, October 18
Steel Train    (http://www.steeltrainmusic.com)
House of Fools    (http://www.purevolume.com/houseoffools)
Cities    (http://www.citiesmusic.com)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, October 19
Can Joann    (http://www.canjoann.com/)
Midtown Dickens    (http://www.myspace.com/midtowndickens)
Joe Romeo    (http://www.myspace.com/joeromeomusic)
Dirty Little Heaters    (http://www.thedirtylittleheaters.com)
Bellafea    (http://www.bellafea.com/)
Joe & Jo's, Durham

Night 2 of the 2006 Troika Music Festival. One pass gets you into every 
show, or there are individual tickets available, I guess. Note, of 
course, (should be obvious looking at these shows) that there is a ton 
of overlap, so you're going to have to pick your intinerary carefully.

Can Joann, 7:00 pm
Midtown Dickens, 8:00 pm
Joe Romeo & The Orange County Volunteers, 9:00 pm
The Dirty Little Heaters, 10:00 pm
Bellafea, 11:00 pm

Can Joann are an indie-rock band. Midtown Dickens are a Durham 
guerilla/anti-folk band; armed with banjo, accordion, and trumpet, 
they'll play anywhere. Joe Romeo used to front Fake Swedish; his Orange 
County Volunteers are a more countryish concern than his former band. 
The Dirty Little Heaters are an explosive gtr/drums 2-piece; see 'em 
soon, before they outgrown this tiny town. Bellafea are *also* a 
gtr/drums two-piece, but they're less like a bomb & more like a stiletto 
between the ribs.



Thursday, October 19
Bombadil    (http://www.bombadilmusic.com/)
Jew(s) & Catholic(s)
Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan    (http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com)
Kolyma    (http://www.myspace.com/kolyma)
Chaz's Bull City Records, Durham

Night 2 of the 2006 Troika Music Festival. Chaz's floor is verging on 
collapsing into the chic boutique below him, so step lightly.

Bombadil, 7:00 pm
Jew(s) and Catholic(s), 8:00 pm
Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan, 9:00 pm
Kolyma, 10:00 pm

Bombadil are a cutesy band with matching hats; they're labelmates of the 
Avett Bros. Jew(s) and Catholic(s) are from the Triad. Cantwell Gomez & 
Jordan are the tightest loosest band in North Carolina; they play music 
that's impossible to cover--even their covers. Kolyma are from Raleigh; 
they make spiraling freakout rockmusic with ranty female vocals.



Thursday, October 19
Red Collar    (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
Pleasant    (http://www.pleasantmusic.com)
Jennifer O'Connor    (http://www.jenniferoconnor.net/)
Portastatic    (http://www.portastatic.com)
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham

Night 2 of the 2006 Troika Music Festival. Portastatic are another of 
the headliners of the festival, and the Coffeehouse is still a 
[nonsmoking, all-ages, BYOB] Small Venue, so if your heart is set on 
seeing the full-band Portastatic (he promised as much after his acoustic 
set at the Cradle last month), show up early.

Red Collar, 8:30 pm
Pleasant, 9:30 pm
Jennifer O'Connor, 10:30 pm
Portastatic, 11:30 pm



Thursday, October 19
Shawn Deena
Leah Magner    (http://www.myspace.com/leahmagner)
Eberhardt    (http://www.myspace.com/eberhardtnc)
Charles Latham    (http://www.myspace.com/sircharleslatham)
En Garde    (http://www.myspace.com/engardemusic)
Francesca's, Durham

Night 2 of the 2006 Troika Music Festival, although this is a free show 
for everybody. Site also says "all ages and smoke free, food." The lineup:

Shawn Deena, 7:00 pm
Leah Magner, 7:30 pm
eberhardt, 8:00 pm
Charles Latham, 8:30 pm
En Garde, 9:00 pm

All I know about eberhardt is that it's Colin's band; you know Colin if 
you've been to a rockshow in Durham anytime in the past 2 years, even if 
you don't know you know him. Charles Latham is a skinny smart-mouthed 
punk who plays acid-tongued folk music. En Garde features a bunch of 
local indie-rockers cashing in, emo-style.



Thursday, October 19
Shakermaker    (http://shakermaker.org/)
Vibrant Green    (http://vibrantgreen.iuma.com)
The Cassandra Project 
(http://www.swiftbennett.com/photowerx/index.cfm?cid=175&gal=PERFORMANCES)
The Longshoremen    (http://www.myspace.com/thelongshoremen)
Cosmic Cantina Lounge, Durham

Night 2 of the 2006 Troika Music Festival. This is a free show for 
everybody. The Lineup:

Shakermaker, 8:00 pm
Vibrant Green, 9:00 pm
The Cassandra Project, 10:00 pm
The Longshoremen, 11:00 pm

I've only heard one Shakermaker song, and it starts out kinda Stonesy 
before veering more indie-rocky. Vibrant Green are the longtime project 
of Stephen Tunnell, whose brothers play in The Never. The VG are kinda 
anthemic in a U2/Smashing Pumpkins kind of way--if those bands were one 
guy from Chapel Hill, that is. The Cassandra Project all perform in 
evening gowns.



Thursday, October 19
Mondo Topless    (http://www.mondotopless.com/)
Jimmy & The Teasers    (http://www.geocities.com/booze1031/teasers.html)
Pulpit Red    (http://www.myspace.com/pulpitred)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Thursday, October 19
Hazerai    (http://www.bearsalive.com/hazerai)
Worn in Red    (http://www.myspace.com/worninred)
Reservoir, Carrboro

Hazerai contain former members of the Fugazi-influenced Chapel Hill band 
the Country Bears.



Friday, October 20
Future Kings of Nowhere    (http://www.thefuturekings.net/)
The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers 
(http://www.prayersandtears.com/)
The Mountain Goats    (http://www.themountaingoats.net/)
Man Man    (http://www.wearemanman.com)
Olympic Ass Kicking Team    (http://www.terryandersonrocks.com/)
305 South, Durham

It's Night 3 of the 2006 Troika Music Festival. They say of 305 South: 
"all ages, smoke free, BYOB" The lineup:

The Future Kings of Nowhere 7:00
Shipwrecker 8:00
The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers 9:00
The Mountain Goats 10:00
Man Man 11:00
Terry Anderson & the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team 12:00

The Future Kings of Nowhere are rip-snorters, or at least the one song 
I've heard is. Shipwrecker play lopey country-rock, sitting down. 
PATOADS are part of the Bu Hanan collective; they make impassioned rock 
music with stabs of strings (real or fake, no matter). Mountain Goats 
are so damn proud of Durham it just makes yr heart crimp, just a little. 
Man Man aren't from around here; they make a sort of gimpy carnivalesque 
Tom Waitsy cabaret-rock. Terry Anderson's Olympic Ass-Kicking Team can't 
get mentioned anywhere without somebody bringing up the Georgia 
Satellites, which has also been true of any other band Terry's been in, 
ever since he wrote "Battleship Chains."



Friday, October 20
Vedere Rosso    (http://www.myspace.com/vedererosso)
The Heist and the Accomplice 
(http://www.myspace.com/theheistandtheaccomplice)
Spider Bags    (http://www.myspace.com/spiderbags)
Schooner    (http://www.schoonermusic.com)
Marvell Building, Durham

Night 3 of the 2006 Troika Music Festival. The Marvell Building/Event 
Center is on Main St. in Durham, and it's usually the home of 
Thursday-night hardcore shows, plus the occasional hip-hop show. Here's 
tonight:

Vedere Rosso, 7:45 pm
The Heist & the Accomplice, 8:30 pm
Spider Bags, 9:30 pm
Schooner, 10:15 pm

Spider Bags make Stonesy country with filthy, filthy mouths. Schooner 
are from Chapel Hill & they make swoony pop that drives the girls (and 
boys) wild.



Friday, October 20
Like a Bear    (http://www.myspace.com/likeabear)
The Fake Accents    (http://thefakeaccents.com)
The Ex-Members    (http://www.myspace.com/theexmembers)
Homemade Knives    (http://www.myspace.com/homemadeknivesrva)
des_ark    (http://www.des-ark.org)
Joe & Jo's, Durham

Night 3 of the 2006 Troika Music Festival:

Like A Bear, 8:00 pm
The Fake Accents, 9:00 pm
The Ex-Members, 10:00 pm
Homemade Knives, 11:00 pm
Des Ark, Midnight

Some of these bands are new, or from out-of-town. This may be the 
long-delayed Durham debut of the Ex-Members, who used to be in Gerty & 
the Butchies, and who took a long unscheduled hiatus when drummer 
Melissa York had spine surgery.

des_ark are just moments away from releasing a split CD with Ben Davis, 
which will only knock you on your ass if you haven't seen her lately; 
cuz if you had, you'd already be down there.



Friday, October 20
The Nein    (http://www.thenein.com/)
Black Taj    (http://www.amishrecords.com/ami021.html)
The Moaners    (http://www.themoaners.com/)
Embarrassing Fruits    (http://www.myspace.com/embarrassingfruits)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is another installment in the periodic WXYC Backyard BBQ show 
series. Black Taj contains half of Polvo, along with Grant Tennille, who 
guested on the last Polvo album, "Shapes." They sound somewhat like the 
more straight-ahead "rock" moments from that album.

The Nein have undergone some lineup changes lately -- bassist Casey 
Burns moved to the West Coast, and he's been replaced by Josh Carpenter 
(ex-Piedmont Charisma). At the last show Chuck Johnson was sitting in on 
guitar & loops/noise; later somebody told me Dale Flattum was moving to 
the upper midwest.

The Moaners are Melissa Swingle (ex-Trailer Bride) and Laura King 
(ex-Gerty, ex-Grand National); guitar, drums, no fuckin' around.



Friday, October 20
Beloved Binge    (http://www.myspace.com/belovedbinge)
Torch Marauder's Grappling Hook 
(http://home.att.net/~sandydave/torchhome.html)
The Whole World Laughing    (http://www.myspace.com/twwl)
Veronique Diabolique    (http://www.veroniquediabolique.com/)
Colossus    (http://www.myspace.com/thecolossuswillcrushyou)
Ringside, Durham

Night 3 of the 2006 Troika Music Festival. In case you hadn't figured 
out, tonight's the big night, and all the venues are arrayed in & around 
Downtown Durham, to encourage you to race madcap from show to show. This 
one will be a toughy to skip out on:

Beloved Binge, 8:30 pm
The Gates of Beauty, 9:00 pm
The Veldas, 9:30 pm
Torch Marauder's Grappling Hook, 10:00 pm
North Elementary, 10:30 pm
The Whole World Laughing, 11:00 pm
Véronique Diabolique, 11:30 pm
Colossus, Midnight
Un Deux Trois, 12:30 am

Beloved Binge are a kinda K-Records style DIY husband/wife duo; they 
moved here last year from Seattle. The Gates of Beauty are the 
long-awaited new band featuring Wendy Spitzer from Eyes to Space, Anne 
Gomez (Cantwell Gomez & Jordan, America's Next Top Models), and Shannon 
Morrow (Scene of the Crime Rovers, ex-Bicentennial Quarters). Anne & 
Shannon used to play together in the Special Agents of Her Majesty's 
Secret Service. The lineup is Bass, Bass, Drums. Yowza.

Torch Marauder's Grappling Hook is the Torch's full-blown metal band. 
North Elementary make woozy druggy popmusic with great hooks buried 
'neath the noise. The Whole World Laughing are a supergroup featuring 
Dave Cantwell on bass & Scotty "Clang Quartet" Irving on drums.

Veronique Diabolique sing in French; Un Deux Trois don't (they're 
Heather (Bellafea) McEntire's new band with Jenks Miller). Colossus will 
rip yr face off.



Friday, October 20
Ethereal Planes Indian    (http://www.myspace.com/etherealplanesindian)
Venison Whirled    (http://www.myspace.com/venisonwhirled)
Esperanto Bat
MC Trachiotomy    (http://www.myspace.com/mctrachiotomy)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nightlight sez, semi-coherently:

This show is shaping up to be one of those nights that lulls you into 
complete trance mode and then thrusts you out into the corridor with a 
warmth from within that heats up your leftovers and carries you on. 
Ethereal Planes Indian is a novel of chimes, timbre, musique concrete, 
and chords that weaves a dream of spicier dementia. This may very well 
be an inaugural performance in NC, I'll get back to you on that one. 
With releases on Beta-Lactam Ring Records and Twilight Flight Sound, EPI 
is B.C Smith, who performed with Shawn McMillan in Iron Kite and in Eric 
Arn's Primordial Undermind. Venison Whirled is Lisa Cameron, drum 
thumper of ST37 and 3 Day Stubble and former member of Glass Eye and 
Brave Combo. Hailing from Central Texas, the sound is purported to be 
more Big Bend, less Dallas, with a dash of El Paso? Releases available 
through Volcanic Tongue. Venison Whirled is actually a covert Buddhist 
Monk, fresh from the taxidermy in a salivating earthquake of pos/neg 
anti-matter disposal. The name emerges from a real life establishment of 
similar name - sub whirled for world and you get the idea. Regardless, 
expect more tricky relaxation and thought-provoking sound collage. 
Esperanto Bat returns with a post-Quisp toodle-ooo. See, Esperanto Bat 
was Chuck Johnson, Randy Pelosi, and Ethan Clauset. Then they added Jane 
Allen for one show I remember. Then they did some other lineups as well. 
Well, this time, we definitely have Randy and Ethan, plus maybe Jane, 
but no Chuck. So perhaps you have never seen this band before? 
Regardless, expect demon cello, program jello, and a whole lot of weird, 
weird sounds. With the addition of MC Trachiotomy we are left with a 
confusing reminder that nothing is sacred or meant to be understand. He 
hails from NOLA and I was introduced to his second release w/Love from 
Tahiti by Jim, the guy that played bass for Mike Watton when Haunted 
House was still in the Frigid North. He's like Bill Cosby and Old Dirty 
Bastard with very little Bottle Smashing and more intelligability. Or 
rather it is not. His tour is in support of his new album Rowdy Life, a 
collaboration with Quintron. The new stuff sounds different that the 
Tahiti record, less bizarre and more meaningful, like maybe that bigass 
hurricane made him wonder. The Love Boat smokes bones in the staircase. 
Someone out there will bring us a segue. I wouldn't want your deep 
trance to get knocked too far off kilter.



Friday, October 20
Electric Sunshine
The Naughts
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Saturday, October 21
Erie Choir    (http://www.eriechoir.com)
Wigg Report    (http://www.synchronizedswim.org)
Strange    (http://www.thisisstrange.org)
Summer Set    (http://www.summersetworld.com )
Ben Davis + The Jetts    (http://www.lovitt.com/artists/bendavis.html)
305 South, Durham

The Grand Finale of the 2006 Troika Music Festival. Will there be 
LocoPops, and fried Oreos, and tasty Indian food like last year? More 
importantly, can they possibly stick to this absurdly optimistic 
band-every-30-minutes schedule? Only one way to find out:

Ace of You, 4:00 pm
Rock Camp, 4:30 pm
The Dry Heathens, 5:00 pm
The Capitols, 5:30 pm
the Octobers, 6:00 pm
The Rose Marie, 6:30 pm
Erie Choir, 7:00 pm
Grasshopper, 7:30 pm
Wigg Report, 8:00 pm
Dom Casual, 8:30 pm
The Experts, 9:00 pm
Strange, 9:30 pm
Summer Set, 10:00 pm
The Moaners, 10:30 pm
Ben Davis & the Jetts, 11:00 pm
Two Ton Boa, 11:30 pm
Asobi Seksu, 12:30 am



Saturday, October 21
David Bazan    (http://www.davidbazan.com/)
Bowerbirds    (http://www.myspace.com/bowerbirds)
The Strugglers    (http://www.thestrugglers.org/)
The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers 
(http://www.prayersandtears.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

David Bazan (Pedro the Lion) plays an early show (~7:30 p.m.) for $8.00, 
and then Bowerbirds, Strugglers, and the Prayers and Tears of Arthur 
Digby Sellers play a free show at 10:00. Is Bazan going to play for 3 
hours, or will all his fans have cleared out by the time the truly 
brilliant Bowerbirds take the stage? Hell, extend "brilliant" to the 
Strugglers as well, and if I were more open to overwrought emotion, you 
could probably tag the PATOADS that way too. This is the show to beat, 
and I say that knowing full well that there are 400 bands playing on the 
last night of Troika over at 305 South. At my age, 3 brilliant bands 
back-to-back are infinitely preferable to 6 or 8 great bands intermixed 
with 6 or 8 others.



Saturday, October 21
A is Jump    (http://www.myspace.com/aisjump2)
Chest Pains    (http://www.myspace.com/thechestpains)
tommygun    (http://www.tommygunrock.com)
Joe & Jo's, Durham

Night 4 of the 2006 Troika Music Festival. If you're terrified by the 
thought of 87 bands and 8700 people at the Main Event over at 305 South, 
the Troika folks have thoughtfully provided this smaller show, featuring 
newish Durham band A is Jump, old Durham punx the Chest Pains, and 
Winston-Salem shoegazers tommygun:

a is jump, 9:00 pm
The Chest Pains, 10:00 pm
tommygun, 11:00 pm



Saturday, October 21
I Broke My Robot    (http://www.myspace.com/ibrokemyrobot)
Nauseous Youth Future    (http://www.brokenfadercartel.com)
Alex Polzien    (http://www.myspace.com/alexpolzien)
Production Unit Xero    (http://www.myspace.com/productionunitxero)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

In case you're disinterested in all the various styles of ROCK being 
played around the Triangle tonight, the Nightlight has a showcase of 
members of Asheville's Broken Fader Cartel, who specialize in blips, 
bloops, glitches & busted loops. They say, via the Nightlight website:

Production Unit Xero - "Frequencies that transform the space and time 
around you into an ethereal dream scape, flowing from ambient and 
soulful to hard , in your face madness. " So say the PUX hisself. Based 
on what I know, if you took an open-face roast beef sandwich with extra 
gravy and then put that shit that made the Ninja Turtles on it, a 
monster would spring up out of the toast and it's spitting and snarling 
would sound like PUX.

Alex Polzien- Winston Salem/Asheville - melodic/distorted. A founding 
member of Broken Fader Cartel, he manipulates bobbleheads and beats with 
ORANGE CRUSH keyboards and computer. Part Grover, Part Oscar, ALL BIG BIRD!

Nauseous Youth Future- cut-up and mash machine guns and funk into one. 
Blitzkrieg via WLAN, Midi controlled humans, pouco raunchy IDM, - 
glitchtronica tonic inducing zombie vs JIMBO IN HELL dance moovez. Guest 
appearance by sqrt(ur mother).

i broke my robot- blip-tastic speed frenzy. In this case broken robot 
means robot is coming to eat your cold lamb sandwich backwards thru the 
hoop of ungreased fleece.



Saturday, October 21
MC Trachiotomy    (http://www.myspace.com/mctrachiotomy)
Grampa Bampa 
(http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=15725863)
Clik Clak
Kings, Raleigh

Grampa Bampa was the wheelchair-bound member of Krapper Keeper. MC 
Trachiotomy is from New Orleans.



Saturday, October 21
Stratocruiser    (http://www.stratocruisermusic.com/)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



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