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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 May 18, 2007
  • Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 20:37:11 -0400

Friday, May 18 - Saturday, May 19
Soundscape Movement Fest (http://www.soundscapefest.org/)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

The Soundscape Movement Fest is an ambitious weekend-long festival of dance, movement, music, art & the intersection of all those things. Bands, DJs, dancers, performance artists, etc: http://www.soundscapefest.org



Friday, May 18
Django Haskins (http://www.djangohaskins.com/)
The Sammies (http://www.myspace.com/thesammies)
Bull City (http://www.bullcitytheband.com/)
305 South, Durham

This is a CD-release party for the new Bull City CD, "Guns & Butter." It's Southern in a broad sense that encompasses bits of Neil Young (yeah yeah, Canada, yadda yadda), Big Star & Wilco. Good stuff. Also on the bill, Charlotte's Sammies, who're southern-rock meets 80s-UK-postpunk. And Django Haskins, leader of the Old Ceremony.



Friday, May 18
The Vibe Killers (http://www.myspace.com/vibekillers)
The Cartridge Family (http://www.cartridge-family.com/)
The Bleeding Hearts (http://www.thebleedinghearts.net/home.html)
Pour House, Raleigh

The Vibe Killers are the nasty bar-rock band of Backsliders frontman Chip Robinson. The Cartridge Family are just about exactly midway between Blonde On Blonde-era Dylan & the New York Dolls, with just a dollop of Elton John on top.



Friday, May 18
North Elementary (http://www.northelementary.com)
Schooner (http://www.schoonermusic.com)
*SONS (http://www.myspace.com/sonsofthesun)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is a CD-release party for North Elementary. Schooner have a CD in the can, but due to complicated label release schedules (it's being released by 54-40 or Fight), you'll have to wait until August, although I think you can order it online now. *SONS already released their new CD, ~3 weeks ago; it's a big echoey slab of psych-rock, part Syd Barrett & part wah-drenched freakout.



Friday, May 18
Spider Bags (http://www.myspace.com/spiderbags)
The Gondoliers (http://www.myspace.com/comeseethegondoliers)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Gondoliers are the ultra-mack garage band who spawned within the still-warm corpses of The Spinns & the Young Idea. Spider Bags are a buncha foul-mouthed drunken motherfuckers who never heard a copy of Exile on Main Street they didn't like.



Friday, May 18
Thunderlip (http://www.thunderlip.com/)
Colossus (http://www.myspace.com/thecolossuswillcrushyou)
Volume 11 Tavern, Raleigh



Saturday, May 19
Language Arts (http://www.languageartsmusic.com)
Bull City Headquarters, Durham

This is a benefit for Youth Noise Network, a joint project of the Center for Documentary Studies and WXDU, which trains local high school students to make audio documentaries & then airs the results on the radio. Here's what Tennessee sent out:

Youth Noise Network Benefit Show and Fish Fry

Featuring Durham hip hop heroes Language Arts, Dasan Ahanu, and an eclectic mix of jazz, hip hop and rock performed by local youth
Saturday, May 19, 2007, 4–10 p.m.
Bull City Head Quarters
723 N. Mangum Street
Durham, North Carolina 27701

$5–$10 suggested donation
For more info: tjwatson AT duke.edu or 919.660.3696

Meet YNN producers, groove on live music, grub on crispy fried fish (and vegetarian goodness), make your own YNN t-shirt and contribute to this important project that supports Durham teens!!!

Based at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, Youth Noise Network (YNN) is Durham's only youth radio project. Armed with minidisc recorders and microphones, YNN producers make audio documentaries about issues that matter to teens. We broadcast Sundays 2 – 3 p.m. on WXDU Durham 88.7 or streaming on the web at wxdu.org.

www.myspace.com/youthnoisenetwork
www.youthnoisenetwork.blogspot.com



Saturday, May 19
The Never (http://www.trekkyrecords.com/never.html)
Bowerbirds (http://www.bowerbirds.org)
Deleted Scenes
Zachary Gresham
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh

It's Bickett Gallery's last weekend on earth, and this is how they're going out:

Bickett Gallery presents a night of melodic Indy music featuring Zachary Gresham of the critically acclaimed Athens Ga. band, The Summer Hymns, Raleigh's Bowerbirds, who performed first at Bickett Gallery and has just released a new record, under Raleigh label BurleyTime Records, The Never of Chapel Hill (Trekky Records) and Deleted Scenes from Washington, DC . Doors open at 7pm. Performances begin at 8pm. Cost is $7.



Saturday, May 19
Blood Red River (http://www.myspace.com/bloodredriver)
Motorbilly (http://www.myspace.com/motorbilly)
Brenna & the Blacktones (http://www.myspace.com/brennaamptheblacktones)
305 South, Durham



Saturday, May 19
Ben Davis + The Jetts (http://www.lovitt.com/artists/bendavis.html)
The Rosebuds (http://www.therosebuds.com/)
Noncanon (http://www.myspace.com/noncanon)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

The Rosebuds are heading out on the road after this, to play their new wave disco hits for the masses. The new CD, in case you've been avoiding all mention of it, has a lot of danceable beats & a heavy bass presence. It has all the fetishistic guitar-pop fanatics all panty-wadded, but I think it's A-OK. Kelly sings on a couple of numbers in a low menacing voice that's just about the best thing ever.

Ben Davis & the Jetts are such a huge rockband nowadays, they ruled the school at their split-CD release party even though Ben had a broken foot & had to play half-seated.

Noncanon are just plain sexxxy.



Saturday, May 19
The Wusses (http://thewusses.com/)
Bringerfits
Local 506, Chapel Hill

How can you not love The Wusses? When you get a big live band (with or without wigs & moustaches) playing soft-rock hits onstage, the end result rocks a lot harder than you woulda thought possible.



Saturday, May 19
Embarrassing Fruits (http://www.myspace.com/embarrassingfruits)
Adam Thorn & the Top Buttons (http://www.myspace.com/thetopbuttons)
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem

Adam Thorn used to be the frontman for Kudzu Wish. The Top Buttons are a little more buttoned-up new-wave/postpunk pop-style. He still has a dirty mouth, though. This is their CD-release party.



Saturday, May 19
Transportation (http://www.myspace.com/transportation)
Adult Film Makers (http://www.myspace.com/adultfilmmakers)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

If all the bars were filled with bar-rock bands this good, nobody would ever get any work done, and the world would be a happier place. Adult Film Makers feature Bad Checks drummer Rock Forbes getting his Mick on out in front of the band. Transportation put their Queen & Wings LPs (along with dashes of T. Rex, Allmans & maybe a little Sweet Baby James) to good use.



Sunday, May 20
Filthybird (http://www.myspace.com/filthybird)
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

Filthybird are from Greensboro. They're fronted by Renee Mendoza, who used to sing for this really weird acidtronic band called Ashrae Fax. Filthybird is nothing like that, though; it's all about Renee and her electric piano and this band of sort of lurching crashing country-rockers backing her up. It veers from jazz-era Joni Mitchell to soul/gospel to I dunno. Find out: 5:00 p.m. 88.7 FM or wxdu.org



Sunday, May 20
Heads on Sticks (http://www.thisisstrange.org/)
Charles Latham (http://www.myspace.com/sircharleslatham)
Monologue Bombs (http://www.myspace.com/themonologuebombs)
*SONS (http://www.myspace.com/sonsofthesun)
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh

It's Bickett's very last day, and they've planned a long one:

Bickett Gallery will have an extended day event opening at 4pm. The afternoon will begin with a screening of Who Gets to Call it Art? a film by Peter Rosen about curator Henry Geldzahler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art's first contemporary art curator.

Featuring Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Jackson Pollock, Larry Poons and many more mid-century visual artists. The film also features The Velvet Underground. The film depicts the New York art scene of the 1960's and the man who made it POP! Screening is at 5pm.

Performances by a number of local musicians will begin in the evening. Charles Latham, *Sons, Heads on Sticks, Monologue Bombs among others will play. 7pm. Cost: $7



Sunday, May 20
Sara Bell
The Cave, Chapel Hill

This is the early (7:30) show. Sara Bell fronts Regina Hexaphone, plays in Shark Quest, and was in Dish & the Angels of Epistemology.



Sunday, May 20
Flicker (http://www.chapel-hill.nc.us/flicker)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Flicker is the long-running short-film series. I believe this is the 2nd or 3rd annual "Bars and Tone" theme-night, which consists of music-video-type movies (as opposed to the frequent Flicker occurrence of random footage set to random music). Doors around 8, things underway around 8:30. Cookies.



Sunday, May 20
Midtown Dickens (http://www.myspace.com/midtowndickens)
Beloved Binge (http://www.myspace.com/belovedbinge)
The Pharmacy
Bull City Headquarters, Durham

Midtown Dickens just released their debut album, 'Oh Yell!' and it's a doozy. You knew they were a goofy & bratty street-folk band, but maybe you didn't know that over the past year or so, they've written a bunch of really great songs. Plus they love playing together, so they do it all the time, which has led to them getting good, in that way that makes people who haven't seen 'em lately walk up to you and say "damn, they've gotten really good."

Beloved Binge have matching sneakers that are about the most adorable thing ever. And a song about hating people, which I'm totally down with.



Tuesday, May 22
Clang Quartet (http://www.myspace.com/clangquartet)
Z'EV (http://www.rhythmajik.com/)
Sikhara (http://www.radoncollective.org/artists/sikhara/home.html)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Z'EV plays homebrew found-metal industrial percussion music, and has been doing so since the 1970s. He hasn't played the US outside of NYC & LA for 20+ years. He's a superstar of the under-underground variety. He's playing three shows in NC: some place in Hickory on the 20th, a warehouse in Greensboro (400 Medley St) on the 21st, and this show.



Wednesday, May 23
RTX (http://www.truxrox.com/)
Totimoshi (http://www.totimoshi.com/)
Black Skies (http://www.myspace.com/losblackskies)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, May 23
Ruscha (http://www.myspace.com/ruscha)
Verso (http://www.myspace.com/VERSOVERSO)
Thieves (http://www.myspace.com/thievestildeath)
Reservoir, Carrboro



Thursday, May 24
Cursive (http://www.saddle-creek.com)
I Was Totally Destroying It (http:/www.myspace.com/iwtdi)
These Arms are Snakes (http://www.thesearmsaresnakes.org)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Thursday, May 24
Future Kings of Nowhere (http://www.thefuturekings.net/)
3 Christs (http://www.myspace.com/the3christs)
The Drowsies (http://www.drowsies.com/)
Marvell Building, Durham

The Marvell Event Center is on W. Main St in Durham. The Future Kings of Nowhere are somewhere between a *really* hyper antifolk band, and an acoustic-guitar-based pop-punk band.



Thursday, May 24
Conshafter (http://www.conshafter.com/)
The Sammies (http://www.myspace.com/thesammies)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, May 24
Dead Elephant Bicycle (http://www.myspace.com/deadelephantbicycle)
Embarrassing Fruits (http://www.myspace.com/embarrassingfruits)
Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? (http://www.myspace.com/whyarewebuildingsuchabigship)
Elefante Elegante (http://www.myspace.com/elefanteelegante)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill





Thursday, May 24
tommygun (http://www.tommygunrock.com)
Dr. Powerful (http://drpowerful.googlepages.com)
The Mitchells (http://www.myspace.com/themitchellsrock)
Reservoir, Carrboro

Ex-New Radiant Storm King, ex-Polvo, ex-Capsize 7.



Friday, May 25
Regina Hexaphone (http://www.reginahexaphone.com)
Sadlack's Heroes, Raleigh

Shows at Sadlack's occur outside, and in the eveningtime. Have a sandwich and a beer, avoid the ire of the surly aging crusty leatherpunks and tired dirty grad students, and enjoy the evening, assuming there's not a hippie drum circle across the street at the belltower.



Friday, May 25
A New Dawn Fades (http://www.anewdawnfades.cherubrecords.com/)
The Whole World Laughing (http://www.myspace.com/twwl)
The Gates of Beauty (http://www.myspace.com/gatesofbeauty)
Belles
Bull City Headquarters, Durham

The Whole World Laughing is Dave Cantwell on basstar & Scotty "Clang Quartet" Irving on drums. The phrase "dynamic duo" was coined for Batman & Robin but God intended it for TWWL.

The Gates of Beauty are a 2-bass, 1-drums local supergroup whose aggregate resume would be so long that your browser would crash.



Friday, May 25
Marijuana Wolf (http://www.myspace.com/marijuanawolf)
Hammer No More the Fingers (http://www.hnmtf.com)
I Was Totally Destroying It (http:/www.myspace.com/iwtdi)
Broad Street Cafe, Durham



Friday, May 25
Boyzone (http://www.myspace.com/boyzone)
Little Howlin' Wolf (http://www.thetruevinerecordshop.com/little%20howlin%20wolf%20band%20info.htm)
Kohoutek (http://claviusproductions.alkem.org/kohoutek/index.html)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Little Howlin' Wolf ( http://white-rose.net/mystere12.html ) is a six-foot-nine Polish-American dude from Chicago who plays sax & everything else he can find, and who has been self-recording & releasing his crazed outsider blooz-skronk for the past 25 years. Once again, not the sort of cat you'd really imagine coming to NC that often, and yet he's coming to Nightlight.



Friday, May 25
des_ark (http://www.des-ark.org)
Dead Elephant Bicycle (http://www.myspace.com/deadelephantbicycle)
Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? (http://www.myspace.com/whyarewebuildingsuchabigship)
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem

Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? are from New Orleans; they're a 9-piece accordion-and-horns band. Yes! No more questions! They are playing multiple shows in NC 'round about now, so you don't have to drive to Winston-Salem to see them, but if you're in the neighborhood . . .



Saturday, May 26
Dead Elephant Bicycle (http://www.myspace.com/deadelephantbicycle)
The Scene of the Crime Rovers (http://www.myspace.com/sceneofthecrimerovers)
Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? (http://www.myspace.com/whyarewebuildingsuchabigship)
Bull City Headquarters, Durham

Uh-oh, it's a showdown between the New Orleans brass-and-accordion band Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? and the Durham avant-marching band Scene of the Crime Rovers . . . check out this video of what happened last time the SOCRovers dusted it up with a rival marching band: http://video.groovo.org/oediv/?flvfile=http://video.groovo.org/oediv/socrovers-halloween2006-showdown.flv



Saturday, May 26
Portastatic (http://www.portastatic.com)
des_ark (http://www.des-ark.org)
Work Clothes (http://www.workclothesmusic.com/)
The Strugglers (http://www.thestrugglers.org/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Holy crap, it's four of my favorite bands, all on one bill. This is a Save Darfur benefit. I hate the fact that there even has to be a benefit involving the "situation in Darfur," as the radio news people like to call it. Why are people such fucking beasts to one another, and why is the west so averse to intervening in Africa, but so thrilled to stick its nose in everywhere else?

(Actually, I just read "Black Hawk Down," so I have a pretty good idea, but it's fucked up regardless.)



Saturday, May 26
Kick the Future
The Real Reubens (http://www.myspace.com/realreubens)
Hideaway BBQ, Raleigh

Kick the Future is the on-again, off-again band of Robert Kirkland, who was in Arrogance all those years ago.



Saturday, May 26
Zeno Gill
Wembley (http://www.myspace.com/wembleystadium)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

This is the debut of Wembley, which is a band new band featuring Neven J Carswell (Regina Hexaphone, ex-Laramie UK). Zeno Gill used to front the Sames, and is co-owner of Pox World Empire records of Durham.



Saturday, May 26
Dan Deacon (http://www.dandeacon.com/)
Future Islands (http://www.myspace.com/futureislands)
Video Hippos (http://www.videohippos.com)
Adventure (http://www.myspace.com/adventuresound)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Saturday, May 26
tommygun (http://www.tommygunrock.com)
Jew(s) & Catholic(s)
Lovecraft (http://www.myspace.com/lovecraftnc)
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem



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