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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: stuff to do, week of April 27, 2007
  • Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:51:15 -0400

Friday, April 27
Straight 8s (http://www.straight8s.com)
The Belmont Playboys (http://www.thebelmontplayboys.com/)
Hideaway BBQ, Raleigh

Belmont Playboys are from Charlotte, and have been doing the rockabilly-revivalist thing since 1989 or so, with a few years off here & there for good behavior.



Friday, April 27
Dan Melchior (http://danmelchior.com/)
Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies (http://www.myspace.com/violetvectorandthelovelylovelies)
Bull City Headquarters, Durham

The Bull City HQ website says "Garage Night in Durham," and mebbe that's an apt description. Back in the '90s sometime, Durham's (well, at the time England's) Dan Melchior went fairly abruptly from playing in an obscure garage band, to a multi-year stint playing & recording with Holly Golightly. He moved to the USA in 2000. Not sure when he wound up in Durham, but he released a crazed little acid-damaged DIY bedroom blooz-folk-rock 7" a couple of months ago, and he has a band, Das Menace, with Kuki & some other folks.

Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies are total girl-group exhilaration. I'd give them 1800 stars (out of a possible 5), only all their songs are about twice as long as they ought to be. Gotta dock them 1796 stars for that.



Friday, April 27
The Port Huron Statement (http://www.porthuronstatement.com/)
North Elementary (http://www.northelementary.com)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Friday, April 27
Snatches of Pink (http://www.snatchesofpink.com/)
Dexter Romweber (http://www.dexterromweber.com)
Reservoir, Carrboro

It's a CD-release show for Snatches of Pink, to celebrate the release of "Love is Dead." Snatches have left Charlotte's MoRisen Records, and have finally/once again struck out on their own: the CD is being released by 8th House Records, a new label founded by Snatches frontman Michael Rank and drummer (and $2 Pistols frontman) John Howie Jr.

Opening the show: the Dexter Romweber Duo, which hopefully still includes Dex's sister (and former Snatches drummer) Sara Romweber.



Saturday, April 28
Schooner (http://www.schoonermusic.com)
Kapow! Music (http://kapowmusic.net)
The Never (http://www.trekkyrecords.com/never.html)
The Physics of Meaning (http://www.thephysicsofmeaning.com/)
Sweater Weather (http://www.sweater-weather.com)
Southern Village Square, Chapel Hill

This is a benefit for Battling AIDS in Africa ( http://www.battlingaids.org/ ). Tripp Cox of Schooner says:

For $5 you'll get a few hours of great live music in a great outdoor setting with great people and hopefully great weather! Music goes from noon til 7 pm.

Lineup is something like this:
12:15-1:00pm- Sweater Weather
1:15-2:00pm- Hinkley (Rochester, NY)
2:15-3:15pm- Kapow! Music
3:30-4:15pm- Laura Reed
4:30-5:30pm- The Never
5:45-6:30pm- Pick Up. Set Down.
(6:30-6:40pm-speaker Amadou Touray)
6:45-7:45pm- Schooner
8:00-9:00pm- The Physics of Meaning



Monday, April 30
Six Parts Seven (http://www.6parts7.com)
Deerhunter (http://www.notownsound.net/deerhunter/)
A is Jump (http://www.myspace.com/aisjump2)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Monday, April 30
Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan (http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com)
Dig Shovel Dig (http://www.digshoveldig.com/)
Celestial Business (http://www.searchwielder.com/celestialbusiness.php)
Reservoir, Carrboro

Dave Cantwell sent along this precis of the two Asheville bands on the bill; I'll let his sense of humor stand in for a blurb about his band:

DIG SHOVEL DIG=Our crazy mountain pals: truly, deeply strange funk/punk/dub/spazzoid duo from Asheville. Drums, bass, toe-played keyboard. Difficult to describe, but very easy to enjoy. (Tip: Last time we had a show booked with them, they cancelled because they "couldn't find a ride from Asheville," which is pretty much the awesomest excuse ever.)

CELESTIAL BUSINESS=Is a one-man-band from Asheville. I know almost nothing about them except that they are touring with DigShovelDig (and presumably are DSD's ride) and have at least one tape out on DSD's label. That's right, I said "tape."



Tuesday, May 1
Spider Bags (http://www.myspace.com/spiderbags)
The Selmanaires (http://www.myspace.com/theselmanaires)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, May 2
Thad Cockrell (http://www.thadcockrell.com/)
American Aquarium (http://www.americanaquarium.com/)
Joshua Moore (http://www.myspace.com/joshuamoore)
Lincoln Theater, Raleigh

Thad Cockrell used to be from around here, but he set off to make his fortune in Nashville a couplea years ago. It's hard to keep track of folks who venture into that morass, so it's good that he crawls back out every so often to say hello. He's a phenomenal country singer & songwriter.



Wednesday, May 2
Monsonia (http://www.monsonia.com)
Hazerai (http://www.myspace.com/hazerai)
Awesome Color (http://awesomecolor.net)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Hazerai sprung from the ashes of the Chapel Hill band the Country Bears. They make noisy postpunk, maybe like Milemarker after they got good but before they went synth.

Monsonia are a lean mathy (yeah, Slinty, I guess) gtr/bass/drums band. They're great.



Wednesday, May 2
The Winter Sounds (http://www.thewintersounds.com)
Ghetto Pony (http://zebox.com/ghettopony)
Blend, Chapel Hill



Thursday, May 3
Cashmere Jungle Lords (http://cashmerejunglelords.com)
The Blue Moon Revue (http://myspace.com/thebluemoonrevue)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Cashmere Jungle Lords are a southern surf band from Richmond.



Thursday, May 3
Greg Klaiber's Grabass Revue
Captured! By Robots (http://www.capturedbyrobots.com/)
Teddy Bear Orchestra
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, May 3
Bull City (http://www.bullcitytheband.com/)
Pontiak (http://www.myspace.com/pontiak)
Pneurotics (http://www.myspace.com/pneurotics)
Reservoir, Carrboro

Bull City are just about to release their debut album, and it's a good 'un. Early demos sounded like a pop band in search of an angle, but in the year or so since, they've found their footing & have recorded a great record of southern country-rock that starts out all Crazy Horse, but then veers into weirdo smartass Alex Chilton/Big Star territory, to great effect.



Friday, May 4
Heather McEntire (http://www.bellafea.com/)
Bowerbirds (http://www.bowerbirds.org)
Megafaun (http://www.myspace.com/megafaun)
Horseback (http://www.myspace.com/horsebacknoise)
305 South, Durham

If I'm reading these tea leaves correctly, this is a CD-release party for the new Burly Time label, operated in part by Independent Weekly staffer Grayson Currin. Their first two releases are CDs from Bowerbirds (brilliant gorgeous nervy pastoral art-folk from former Ticonderoga member Phil Moore & his lady Beth Tacular) and Horseback (quiet bedroom drone-folk from Jenks Miller (In The Year of the Pig, The Hem of His Garment, Mount Moriah, Un Deux Trois, etc)).



Friday, May 4
Thad Cockrell (http://www.thadcockrell.com/)
The Old Ceremony (http://www.theoldceremony.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Thad Cockrell is an exceptional honky-tonk (and gospel) singer-songwriter from NC, though he's been duking it out in Nashville for a year or two now.

The Old Ceremony are a big baroque piano-art-pop band with a heavy debt (for more than just the bandname) to Leonard Cohen.



Friday, May 4
Twilighter (http://twilighter.net/)
Hammer No More the Fingers (http://www.hnmtf.com)
Salt With Bitters
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Twilighter have been around for a few years, but their earlier recordings were more country-pastoral than their latest release, which acquired a welcome jolt of Feelies/VU nervous tension from someplace-or-other. Plus the album-closing "Pick Up," featuring Sonar Strange on lead vox, is one of the best things I've heard in years.

Hammer No More The Fingers are a new indie-rock band touching all the classic old touchstones, most notably the screwy guitars of our misspent youth.



Friday, May 4
Man Will Destroy Himself
The Ts
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Saturday, May 5
Annuals (http://www.myspace.com/annuals)
Blonde Redhead (http://www.blonde-redhead.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

I haven't seen or heard Blonde Redhead since they went all sugary a couple of records ago (isn't that what I read? Everything I know about music I get from The Internets). Annuals, of course, are stuck in that 21st-century limbo between Pitchfork hyping your debut and then whatever's supposed to happen *after* Pitchfork hypes your debut.



Saturday, May 5
The Mountain Goats (http://www.themountaingoats.net/)
The Public Good
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is an anniversary party for Local 506. Dunno which anniversary it is specifically, but there's no harm in celebrating. The Public Good features former members of the Popes, which might only be meaningful to you if you lived here in the late 80s.



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