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  • From: James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: stuff to do, week of March 30, 2007
  • Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:23:38 -0700 (PDT)

The Keep decided they were too big for the show on
saturday and have taken themselves off the bill. They
have been replaced by a much cooler Pacific Before
Tiger.


--- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:

> Friday, March 30
> Phon
> Opening Flower Happy Bird
> (http://www.myspace.com/openingflowerhappybird)
> OK Bird
> 305 South, Durham
>
> This is a free show that commences at 8:00 p.m.
> Opening Flower Happy
> Bird are half-Carrboro, half-Richmond; their rig
> consists of a couplea
> drumkits, a guitar, and a laptop, and with those
> they make cute
> rattletrap melancholy dancepop.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 30
> Ted Leo + Pharmacists
> (http://www.gernblandsten.com/ted/intro)
> Love of Diagrams (http://www.loveofdiagrams.com)
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
>
>
> Friday, March 30
> Jeff Hart & The Ruins
> The Hanks (http://www.thehanks.com/)
> Killer Filler
> (http://www.myspace.com/killerfiller)
> Broad Street Cafe, Durham
>
> The Hanks were a Raleigh rockband that included Ron
> Bartholomew and Jeff
> Hart; they were around from '87 until I dunno
> exactly. They were of the
> generation upon whom Arrogance were a huge
> influence, and in fact played
> some gigs backing that band's Robert Kirkland once
> he went solo. But
> they could also be a little more "punk" or at least
> "new wave,"
> especially on the genius "Cigarette," which is now
> on their MySpace page
> (and in the player. It may be the best song to come
> out of Raleigh circa
> '88.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 30
> BQs
> A Rooster for the Masses
> (http://www.myspace.com/aroosterforthemasses)
> Blag'ard (http://www.blagard.com/)
> Kings, Raleigh
>
> Only two more weekends left at the current version
> of Kings . . .
>
>
>
> Friday, March 30
> des_ark (http://www.des-ark.org)
> Nathan Asher (http://www.nathanasher.com)
> Monologue Bombs
> (http://www.myspace.com/themonologuebombs)
> Bickett Gallery, Raleigh
>
> This used to be listed for 3/23, but now it's listed
> for 3/30. Sorry for
> the confusion. Monologue Bombs is the solo
> accordion-and-voice
> side-project of Goner's Scott Phillips. He has
> duetted once or twice, at
> the Kings Love Hangover, with des_ark's Aimee Argote
> (and his other band
> has been known to toss off the occasional des_ark
> cover as well). No
> word yet on when Aimee's gonna work up that Goner
> cover. I believe this
> is a CD-release for Monologue Bombs.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 30
> Regina Hexaphone (http://www.reginahexaphone.com)
> Casados (http://myspace.com/casadosmusic)
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Friday, March 30
> Eyes to Space (http://www.eyestospace.net/)
> Senryu (http://www.senryutheband.com/)
> Invasion (http://www.myspace.com/invasionmusic)
> Sleepsound (http://www.sleepsound.org/)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> This is a CD-release party for uber-nerd band Eyes
> to Space.
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 31
> The Moaners (http://www.themoaners.com/)
> Spider Bags (http://www.myspace.com/spiderbags)
> Un Deux Trois (http://www.undeuxtroisband.com/)
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
> This is a CD-release party for the Moaners'
> brand-new CD _Blackwing
> Yalobusha_, which is a lot like their first CD, only
> moreso, albeit
> perhaps more slowly, which shouldn't necessarily
> surprise given that it
> was recorded in Mississippi.
>
> Warning to whomever wants to listen: last time I
> tried to see the Spider
> Bags at the Cradle, smack in the middle of a
> multi-band bill, they took
> like 40 minutes to set up their shit, and then all
> adjourned to the bar.
> I left at the 1-hour mark, so I dunno exactly when
> they finally managed
> to get their asses onstage. Bring a book; it'll give
> you something to
> throw at them.
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 31
> Schooner (http://www.schoonermusic.com)
> Tennis and the Mennonites
> (http://www.tennisandthemennonites.com)
> Bull City (http://www.bullcitytheband.com/)
> The Tiny Meteors
> (http://www.myspace.com/thetinymeteors)
> Sugar in the Dirt
> (http://www.myspace.com/sugarinthedirt)
> Kings, Raleigh
>
> This say this one starts right at 9:30, and with 5
> bands, you'd perhaps
> best hope so. Schooner have signed up with 54-40 or
> Fight, the label
> that released the two proper Ticonderoga CDs. Tennis
> & the Mennonites
> released a CD last year called _Quilt Noise_,
> although I'm not sure they
> ever got around to sending it to press & radio.
> Insert tree/forest joke
> here.
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 31
> The Keep (http://www.purevolume.com/thekeep)
> Embarrassing Fruits
> (http://www.myspace.com/embarrassingfruits)
> Hammer No More the Fingers (http://www.hnmtf.com)
> I Was Totally Destroying It
> (http:/www.myspace.com/iwtdi)
> 305 South, Durham
>
> I Was Totally Destroying It is a new band with John
> Booker (En Garde,
> ex-Strunken White), James Hepler (Sorry About
> Dresden), and a couple of
> folks from the young Durham band A-OK. This is their
> first show.
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 31
> Wigg Report (http://www.synchronizedswim.org)
> Chest Pains
> (http://www.myspace.com/thechestpains)
> Red Collar
> (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
> Bull City Headquarters, Durham
>
> Is this punk rock? Your average 14-year-old Green
> Day fan would
> emphatically disagree, but the DIY spirit, the
> stripped-down sounds, the
> urgency, the anger, the politics & the sense of
> humor all point to yes.
> Shit, Wigg Report may be an acoustic "antifolk" band
> with a drummer who
> plays snare standing up, but they totally rock the
> Agent Orange cover.
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 31
> Boxbomb
> Barbarella (www.myspace.com/barbarellach)
> Stone Fox
> Slow Motion Crash
> (http://www.myspace.com/smctheband)
>
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