RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

VOTE on Tuesday. Please.

til then:

Thursday, November 2
Black Elk    (http://www.blackelk.net/)
Chest Pains    (http://www.myspace.com/thechestpains)
Dark Horse    (http://cdbaby.com/cd/darkhorsemusic)
Kings, Raleigh



Thursday, November 2
Kylesa    (http://www.kylesa.com/)
Idea of Beauty    (http://ideaofbeauty.com)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Friday, November 3
Vialka    (http://vialka.com/)
Double Muslims    (http://www.doublemuslims.com/)
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem



Friday, November 3
Pulsar Triyo    (http://www.thepulsartriyo.com/)
Sweater Weather    (http://www.sweater-weather.com)
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham

Pulsar Triyo are a trio of Duke students playing funky jazz a la MMW, I 
guess. Sweater Weather are at least partially UNC students; hopefully 
there won't be a rumble.



Friday, November 3
Colossus    (http://www.myspace.com/thecolossuswillcrushyou)
Worn in Red    (http://www.myspace.com/worninred)
Hazerai    (http://www.bearsalive.com/hazerai)
Kings, Raleigh



Friday, November 3
Nathan Asher & the Infantry    (http://www.nathanasher.com/)
Bombadil    (http://www.bombadilmusic.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Friday, November 3
The Cartridge Family    (http://www.cartridge-family.com/)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh

Sloppy-fun bar-rock from a Raleigh band who hold the Stones, NY Dolls, 
and "Blonde on Blonde"-era Dylan in equally high esteem, (but don't let 
that get in the way of their good time).



Friday, November 3
Prabir and the Substitutes    (http://www.prabirandthesubstitutes.com/)
Simple    (http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomsimple)
Jen Richelson    (http://www.myspace.com/jenrichelson)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Friday, November 3
Veronique Diabolique    (http://www.veroniquediabolique.com/)
Garmonbozia
Ringside, Durham

In case you were too scared/sensible to make the trek to Local 506 on 
Halloween night, you can have a potentially even spookier time at the 
always-terrifying Ringside, with Durham French Goths Veronique 
Diabolique, and the Twin Peaks [soundtrack] tribute band Garmonbozia.



Saturday, November 4
The Physics of Meaning    (http://www.thephysicsofmeaning.com/)
des_ark    (http://www.des-ark.org)
Hope for a Golden Summer    (http://www.hopeforagoldensummer.com/)
Auxiliary House    (http://www.trekkyrecords.com/auxhouse.html)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

This show is smack in the middle of a monthlong tour for des_ark and The 
Physics of Meaning, wherein Aimee will play guitar with TPOM, and TPOM 
will play everything they variously play as part of des_ark. I know you 
all love the 2006 version of des_ark, which involves Aimee, various 
stringed instruments, and a predictable amount of tuning (and not much 
else). But if you haven't seen her songs performed with a full band, you 
don't even know.



Saturday, November 4
Bellafea    (http://www.bellafea.com/)
Ume    (http://www.umemusic.com/urgentsea/index.php)
White Rook    (http://www.myspace.com/whiterookband)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Bellafea are Heather on guitar & singing, and Nathan on drums. And 
clogging . . . lots of clogging. White Rook are a newish Chapel Hill 
band with Eddie from Fin Fang Foom, but I haven't seen 'em & have no 
details beyond that.



Saturday, November 4
Graveyard Boulevard    (http://www.thegraveyardboulevard.net/)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Sunday, November 5
Pattern is Movement    (http://www.patternismovement.com/)
Places
Megafaun    (http://www.myspace.com/megafaun)
Kings, Raleigh

Pattern is Movement are from Philadelphia; they make sorta-proggy 
postpunk with highly distinctive vocals that I used to find incredibly 
annoying, but now I find kinda catchy. Plus the guy singing those vocals 
is a really nice, albeit exceptionally weird, dude.

Megafaun is most of what's left of DeYarmond Edison.



Sunday, November 5
Jason Forrest a.k.a. Donna Summer    (http://www.cockrockdisco.com/)
The Assdroids    (http://www.myspace.com/theassdroids)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nightlight says:

The undead will rise, shave the moss off their tongue, and come out to 
enjoy the spazz-riddled land that exists between breakcore and ecstatic 
jazz. Say Assdroids aloud to experience a new kind of school lunch. 
Jason Forrest of Berlin produces records of a most rapid-fire craziness 
that exists beyond computers. The Brain of HAL 9000 gets disrupted - 
this is the only way to save the future!!!! Music to survive apocalyptic 
bowel movements. The Assdroids are the Pied Piper of cell phone ring 
tone magical energy. Two guys(?) one named Pisces Motherfucker and the 
other named Big Daddy Mugglestone. They hail from Berlin as well and 
they like to say "sleng teng". It's the password to get to level three, 
where you get the +7 high-heeled boots of Necrofreakoff. Dance music for 
bow-legged crow heads.



Sunday, November 5
Witchcraft    (http://witchcrafthome.com/)
Danava    (http://www.myspace.com/danava)
Leadfoot    (http://www.leadfoot.net/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Witchcraft are metal from Sweden.



Sunday, November 5
Hazerai    (http://www.bearsalive.com/hazerai)
In the Year of the Pig    (http://www.southernloveprod.com/ityotp.htm)
Worn in Red    (http://www.myspace.com/worninred)
Carol Bui    (http://www.myspace.com/carolbui)
Wetlands, Chapel Hill

Hazerai are ex-Country Bears, who were kinda Fugaziesque punk/rock. In 
The Year of the Pig are a fucking huge ferocious wall of pulsing 
throbbing "rock"/noise action. They are genius.



Monday, November 6
Vialka    (http://vialka.com/)
Dead Western    (http://www.snailonastick.com/dead_western.htm)
Alec K. Redfearn    (http://www.aleckredfearn.com/)
Inspector 22
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nightlight sez:

A two piece (guitar/drums/vox) travelling micro-circus known as Vialka 
will be making their way from their land of France to join us this 
special, special Monday night. They perform as if to deliver a tonic, a 
tonic of healing, soothing old world remedy, but wicked-fried and 
dressed to kill. Their entire musical being is an ongoing sociological 
experiment in charged pheromones and swirling intercourse, verbal and 
otherwise. They are a much-more worldly example of what S.C.O.T.S. would 
be like if they were born in Ukraine and listened to Rush. They bring 
along North East Indie Recording artist Alec K. Redfearn, who seems to 
spend his spare time passed out next to his Accordian. Alec specializes 
in pastoral contemplation and melody - a children's choir would aspire 
to beauty such as this but come up short for lack of inventiveness. 
Aforementioned Dead Western is Troy Mighty, of Antennas Erupt and album 
art fame. His illustrations have graced the presence of many beautiful 
recordings and concert posters, including a sick Erase Errata flyer that 
hung on the wall in my old house from a bygone era of Chapel Hill 
freaknasty. Dead Western is a musical entity that has a solemn quality 
to it that belies an underlying strum of hope for the future. The lonely 
guitar chords are companion to Troy's deep resonance and the complete 
sound makes me yearn for waking up too early on Sunday morning. 
Inspector 22 is Todd Emmert. Todd is one of the most talented and 
interesting folks you might meet in Chapel Hill. He and Mike Myerson 
form the core of both Mowing Lawns and Hamburgur Helpur . . .



Tuesday, November 7
White Whale    (http://www.whitewhale.us/)
Headlights    (http://www.headlightsmusic.com/)
Honored Guests    (http://www.thehonoredguests.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Vote!



Tuesday, November 7
Valient Thorr    (http://www.valientthorr.com/)
Street Sharks    (http://www.myspace.com/streetsharsk)
Order of the Dying Orchid 
(http://www.geocities.com/orderofthedyingorchid/)
Kings, Raleigh

Valient Thorr are evangelical hardrock from Venus. Vote!



Tuesday, November 7
Rotten Milk vs Bubblegum Shitface
Waterbabies
My Fairy Prince
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nightlight says:

RMVSBS = Chicago's Terry Plumming Heads, Lumpen Magazine Editor at 
Large, Nomadic garbage noise improvers with a certain TP flair for 
grotesque + scatalogical funk gestures ... WATERBABIES 
=prog/dance/noise/rock quartet featuring members of Mahjonng, BOBBY CONN 
band, Lazer Crystal & Chandeliers - MY FAIRY PRINCE =according to Rotten 
Milk, "solo noise performance gay as can be" - I bet there are some of 
you out there who like that sort of thing!

VOTE!



Wednesday, November 8
Roman Candle    (http://www.romancandlemusic.com/)
LaRocca    (http://www.larocca.ie)
The Changes    (http://www.the-changes.com)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Wednesday, November 8
Mad Happy    (http://www.madhappy.com/)
Anaturale    (http://www.myspace.com/anaturale)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Thursday, November 9
Apis Bull    (http://www.apisbull.com/)
The Cassandra Project    (http://www.myspace.com/tcpnc)
Karate High School    (http://www.karatehighschool.com)
Worst Case Scenario    (http://www.wcsband.net)
Marvell Building, Durham

Apis Bull are from New Bern; they make tight mathy metallic gtr/drums 
instrumental rock that veers between the insanely repetitious & the 
spazzy/skronky ends of things. Cassandra Project are some kind of Durham 
Supergroup (well, aren't they all?)



Thursday, November 9
The Black Angels    (http://www.theblackangels.com)
Black Keys    (http://www.theblackkeys.com/entersite.htm)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Thursday, November 9
The Mountain Goats    (http://www.themountaingoats.net/)
The Flying Anvil, Greensboro



Thursday, November 9
Caltrop    (http://www.myspace.com/caltropband)
Building the State    (http://www.myspace.com/buildingthestate)
Tiger Bear Wolf    (http://www.tigerbearwolf.com)
Reservoir, Carrboro

Two of the best heavy bands in central NC, Caltrop & Tiger Bear Wolf, 
plus some outta town dudes. Caltrop contain ex-members of Continent & El 
Sucio; they make great huge slowly rotating slabs of Sabbathy sludge. 
Tiger Bear Wolf are from Greensboro & they're kinda like Southern Rock 
meets Motorhead.



Thursday, November 9
Juan Huevos    (http://www.myspace.com/juanhuevos)
The Dynamite Brothers    (http://www.dynamitebrothers.com/)
Pink Motor Monsters    (http://www.myspace.com/pinkmotormonsters)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Friday, November 10
Charalambides    (http://www.flash.net/~whother/artist.html)
Josephine Foster    (http://www.100songsising.com)
Chuck Johnson
Datahata
DJ One Duran
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nightlight says (hey! I just got an email that said they're going 
NONSMOKING! fuckin'-A awesome!):

Charalambides features Christina Carter, who turned our heads back on 
Sunday Sept 17th, that fateful day. Christina Carter and Tom Carter 
explore a singular form of interplay amongst spiritual soul-lifting 
forms and formlessness through developed interplay and a respect for 
chance. Songs get worked for skeletal structures to include and then 
exclude the haunting vocalizations of Christina while the masterful 
guitarwork of Christina and Tom is laid bare between and amongst slight 
noises like bells and wind. A true treat for the Nightlight faithful. We 
also have Chuck Johnson, who is a local treasure, but I heard he's 
moving to NYC, so this might be one of your last chances to see Chuck so 
accessibly. Chuck has offered a "mystical drone set", which sounds very 
Middle-Earth to me. Elves, dwarves, and Chuck's masterful work at 
creating and sustaining subtly nuanced yet very pronounced musical 
passages using whatever he pleases, including but not limited to guitar, 
homemade electronic devices, and a mysterious suitcase. [. . .] After we 
relax and get unspooked from Chuck and Charalambides, a special 
appearance by former Chapel Hill resident/now ASHEVILLE party lover ZEKE 
GRAVES, who will be rolling down from Asheville to twiddle our 
dee-lite-alicious twizzler dispenser. One Duran spins your fucking hed 
off. Right round the turntable out comes thick deep beats and funky ass 
hip-hop glory. Markus Maerk - organized Signal Music Fest and now we get 
him for a night.



Friday, November 10
Maple Stave    (http://www.maplestave.com)
Red Collar    (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
In the Year of the Pig    (http://www.southernloveprod.com/ityotp.htm)
Joe & Jo's, Durham

This is the beginning of the weekend-long celebration of Chaz's one-year 
anniversary as a music purveyor in Durham. It's also a Maple Stave 
CD-release party (finally!) for their EP Two. And of course you also get 
the Fugazi-influenced prole-rock of Red Collar, and the tiny-animal-hat 
wearing wall-of-throb noisejam that is In The Year of the Pig.



Friday, November 10
Erie Choir    (http://www.eriechoir.com)
Audubon Park    (http://audubonpark.blogspot.com)
Pleasant    (http://www.pleasantmusic.com)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is a dual CD-release show for both Audubon Park & Erie Choir; 
perhaps more remarkably, both CDs are apparently full-lengths, rather 
than the EPs that both bands have made their names/reputations with over 
the past 2-3 years. Can either one sustain "the mood" for more than 4-5 
songs running? Show up, pay yr $10, and take home yr complimentary 
copies of both discs so as to find out.

In case that last paragraph wound up mis-construable: Erie Choir & 
Audubon Park are two of my favorite bands in the Triangle, and the 6 EPs 
(if you count Erie Choir's contribution to the 3x4 comp) they've 
released between them have been among my very favorite CDs of the past 
few years. They've managed to avoid giving me advance copies of the new 
discs, but even without having heard them I'll wager that a couple of 
slots on my year-end top-10 list will be filled tonight.



Friday, November 10
Weisstronauts    (http://www.weissy.com/weisstronauts/)
Killer Filler    (http://www.myspace.com/killerfiller)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

A double dose of instrumental garage/surf/whatever mayhem from Boston's 
Weisstronauts & locals Killer Filler.



Friday, November 10
Hearts and Daggers    (http://www.heartsanddaggers.com/ )
The Tripple Twins
The Della Rounds
Spader    (http://www.myspace.com/spadermusic)
Kings, Raleigh



Friday, November 10
The Bleeding Hearts    (http://www.thebleedinghearts.net/home.html)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Saturday, November 11
Wigg Report    (http://www.synchronizedswim.org)
Beloved Binge    (http://www.myspace.com/belovedbinge)
Charles Latham    (http://www.myspace.com/sircharleslatham)
Chaz's Bull City Records, Durham

This is an all-afternoon extravaganza; in addition to the bands I've 
listed, Chaz is also promising solo sets by Sean Murphy & Jamie McLendon 
(both of Dom Casual), plus food & god knows what else, all as part of 
his 1st Anniversary party for himself and the shop.



Saturday, November 11
Richard Buckner    (http://www.richardbuckner.com/)
Two Dollar Guitar 
(http://www.smellslikerecords.com/artists/tdg/index.html)
The Flying Anvil, Greensboro

This is an early (7:00 p.m. and they mean that) show. Richard Buckner 
has been making his sparse singer/songwriter music for 20-odd years; the 
last couple have been on Merge, and he's been getting more into creating 
ambient guitar soundscapes. I saw Two Dollar Guitar once, but it was 
from the street outside the Lizard and Snake, so really all I saw was 
the back of Steve Shelley's head.



Saturday, November 11
Across the Elementary    (http://www.myspace.com/acrosstheelementary)
Ingenue
European Ambulance
Above the Ground    (http://www.myspace.com/abovetheground)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nightlight says this one is all acoustic & most/all solo, and it starts 
at 8:00 (you're encouraged to get a sammich, and I have to heartily 
concur with that).



Saturday, November 11
Gob Iron    (http://66.113.175.214/discs/index-gobiron.htm)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Gob Iron is the name of the new collaboration between Jay Farrar (Uncle 
Tupelo, Son Volt) and Anders Parker (Varnaline, ex-Raleighite); it's all 
about revising/re-imagining the American folk songbook, or something.



Saturday, November 11
Natasha    (http://www.myspace.com/natashatheband)
Le Weekend    (http://www.myspace.com/mattwkalb)
Noncanon    (http://www.myspace.com/noncanon)
Torch Marauder's Grappling Hook 
(http://home.att.net/~sandydave/torchhome.html)
The Scene of the Crime Rovers 
(http://www.myspace.com/sceneofthecrimerovers)
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham

This is the annual WXDU Fall Benefit. Every year we (OK, well, mostly 
Herrick) struggle mightily to overcome the convoluted overbooked work 
schedules of the Triangle's musicians in order to bring you the freshest 
possible lineup of bands your friends will be asking you about 9 months 
from now. I'd give you a list of bands who've played previous benefits, 
but it'd be so long & so studded with the names of yr favorite bands 
that you'd probably collapse in tears for having missed 'em.

This year we've got Natasha, who formed 2 years ago at Carolina Friends 
School, played a handful of gigs, recorded and released a knockout CD of 
crazy low-fi Le Tigre-style synth party/punk jams, and promptly broke 
up. Later they realized the horrible error of their ways, and now 
they're devoted to rocking you into & out of pants, yours or someone else's.

Le Weekend is the brand new (as in, this is their first or maybe second 
gig, depending on who you ask) band of Matt Kalb, who plays guitar in 
Audubon Park & who sang & wrote half the songs in the late lamented 
Hotel Motel. He's got various local rock superstars backing him on this, 
so if sparks don't fly, it's probably not our fault.

Noncanon are a gtr/drums duo featuring Danny Vaughn (ex-Mothlight) and 
Rob Koegler (Cheap Heat). Danny sings and plays guitar that veers from 
blues to free jazz to Chrome shards and back again. Rob plays 
jazz-inflected drums with a light touch & a good ear for where Danny 
might be wandering.

Torch Marauder's Grappling Hook is the culmination of everything the 
Caped One has been working for all these years. He's traded in the TV 
sets for Evan Rowe (Maple Stave), Jenny Greer & Dave Heller (both 
ex-Analogue, Cheap Heat), and the consensus seems to be that all the 
scifi/fantasy subject matter is elevated from confusing/amusing dadaist 
prank to the level of genuine emotional resonance, however improbable 
that may seem.

As if that weren't enough, we've been promised a visit by Durham's own 
avant-garde marching band, the Scene of the Crime Rovers.



Saturday, November 11
Jimmy & The Teasers    (http://www.geocities.com/booze1031/teasers.html)
The Cogburns    (http://www.cogburns.com/)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Saturday, November 11
Detroit Cobras    (http://www.motorcityrocks.com/cobras.htm)
The King Khan & BBQ Show    (http://marksultan.com/kingkhanandbbqshow.html)
Taylor Hollingsworth    (http://taylorhollingsworth.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



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