RTP-area local music and culture

[Karen Mann <mannsworld AT gmail.com>]

I should mention that The T's are also playing a free 7 p.m. show
Friday at Sadlack's, for those of us who hate staying out late, and
hate driving to Chapel Hill. Ross is right about my love of The T's. I
recommend y'all see them regardless of WHERE you see them.


On Aug 24, 4:58 pm, gr... AT ibiblio.org (grady) wrote:
> Friday, August 24
> Monsonia    (http://www.monsonia.com)
> Hazerai    (http://www.myspace.com/hazerai)
> Rapid Cities    (http://www.myspace.com/rapidcities)
> Know-Think    (http://www.myspace.com/knowthink)
> Bull City Headquarters, Durham
>
> It's not unusual for me to receive emails from people in bands about
> upcoming shows. It *is* unusual when the emailer isn't even in a band
> that's playing the show. I got this from Evan Rowe (The Maple Stave,
> Grappling Hook):
>
> "Hazerai and Monsonia you probably already know...local boys making the
> big loud rock...spraying all over the place,
> you-can-almost-hear-the-spit-hit-the-mic in the case of the former, and
> tightly wound, burrowing into yr forehead in the latter.
>
> Rapid Cities and Know-Think are from New Brunswick, NJ--Maple Stave
> played with Rapid Cities on tour, and I can attest to their
> rad-super-downstroke awesomeness and energy that could power much of
> Downtown Durham that night should the grid go down. Really--I thought
> their singer was going to pull down the first floor of the house we were
> playing. Strong stuff. And I met the drummer from Know-Think playing in
> an other band, and he's got some chops, people.
>
> We're not even playing and I demand you come out. I feel this strongly."
>
> Friday, August 24
> 8 Eyes    (http://www.eight-eyes.com)
> Dr. Powerful    (http://drpowerful.googlepages.com)
> Arma Secreta    (http://armasecreta.com)
> Broad Street Cafe, Durham
>
> Friday, August 24
> The Cartridge Family    (http://www.cartridge-family.com/)
> Sadlack's Heroes, Raleigh
>
> The Cartridge Family are a bar-rocking band from Raleigh with electric
> piano right out front; they sound as though they hold
> Blonde-on-Blonde-era Dylan and the New York Dolls in equally high esteem.
>
> Friday, August 24
> In the Year of the Pig    (http://www.southernloveprod.com/ityotp.htm)
> Felt Battery
> Horseback    (http://www.myspace.com/horsebacknoise)
> Rahdunes    (http://www.myspace.com/mindzoo666)
> Lakes
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Sweet blessed 200-decibel drone.
>
> Friday, August 24
> Alina Simone    (http://www.girlwithguitar.net/)
> Jennifer Gentle    (http://www.myspace.com/jennifergentle)
> The Dodos    (http://www.myspace.com/mericlong)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> Jennifer Gentle is a band, not a woman; they're a psych-rock outfit from
> Italy, in fact.
>
> Alina Simone is a woman; she's just released an album on 54-40 or Fight
> that will inevitably draw comparisons to Cat Power, albeit to the
> earlier, somewhat-more-paranoid Cat Power circa What Would the Community
> Think.
>
> Friday, August 24
> The Loners    (http://www.demonbeachrecords.com/loners.html)
> Chest Pains    (http://www.myspace.com/thechestpains)
> Tooth
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> Last week I went to a show at the Cave and there was some guy standing
> out in the alley giving away BBQ'd chicken legs. I have no plan to tie
> that story in to this blurb about the Chest Pains; I just felt like I
> had to tell somebody.
>
> The Chest Pains are three gnarly dudes--Tim Ristau (ex-Jett Rink), Eric
> Hermann (ex-Pleasant) and Greg Barbera (ex-Spectator rockcrit)--who
> probably used to think, back when they were kids, that guys in their
> mid-late 30s shouldn't play punkrock. Nowadays they'd likely take great
> pleasure in either kicking those kids' asses, or promising to buy 'em
> beer and then drinking it all themselves.
>
> This is their CD-release party.
>
> Friday, August 24
> Colossus    (http://www.myspace.com/thecolossuswillcrushyou)
> Downtown Event Center, Raleigh
>
> Saturday, August 25
> Erie Choir    (http://www.eriechoir.com)
> North Elementary    (http://www.northelementary.com)
> Schooner    (http://www.schoonermusic.com)
> The Strugglers    (http://www.thestrugglers.org/)
> Wes Phillips    (http://www.myspace.com/wesleydongeroga)
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
> This is a CD-release party for the great new Schooner album, "Hold On
> Too Tight," and they've invited a bunch of their friends, who happen to
> be some of the best songwriter-led bands in the Triangle, to join them.
>
> Saturday, August 25
> Alvarez Painting    (http://www.trekkyrecords.com/alva/index.html)
> Straight No Chaser    (http://trekkyrecords.com/snc.html)
> Ender    (http://www.myspace.com/6188953)
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> It's a Trekky Records showcase of sorts. Alvarez Painting are fast
> becoming the old men of the label; their yelpy-voiced indie-rock is the
> missing link between 90s-style Chapel Hill indie-rock, and the
> 21st-century large-ensemble artpop that the label is fast becoming known
> for.
>
> Sunday, August 26
> Bull City    (http://www.bullcitytheband.com/)
> WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham
>
> Bull City put out a great record, "Guns and Butter," earlier this year.
> Soundwise it falls somewhere between Alex Chilton, Jeff Tweedy and Neil
> Young; we'll see where it lands when it's played live on the air. 5:00
> p.m. at 88.7 FM or wxdu.org.
>
> Sunday, August 26
> Midtown Dickens    (http://www.myspace.com/midtowndickens)
> Screaming Females    (http://www.screamingfemales.com)
> The Drowsies    (http://www.drowsies.com/)
> Bull City Headquarters, Durham
>
> Wednesday, August 29
> DJ Nasty Boots
> Robo Sapien    (http://www.gorobosapien.com/)
> Nicky Click    (http://www.nickyclick.com)
> Diamond Beats    (http://www.myspace.com/diamondbeatsmusic)
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Thursday, August 30
> Clang Quartet    (http://www.myspace.com/clangquartet)
> The Whole World Laughing    (http://www.myspace.com/twwl)
> Double Muslims    (http://www.doublemuslims.com/)
> Diagram A
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Clang Quartet is Scotty Irving, making noise about Jesus. Scotty also
> plays drums in The Whole World Laughing, accompanied by Dave Cantwell on
> the basstar.
>
> Thursday, August 30
> Transistor Sun    (http://www.transistorsun.net/)
> The Ts    (http://www.myspace.com/thettttt)
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> The Ts are a Raleigh rock-n-roll band.KarenMannalways says good
> things about them, and I get the impression from her that they're a
> straight-up rock-n-roll band, as opposed to all that metal that she also
> likes.
>
> Transistor Sun are the current outlet of one Mr. Eric West, who has been
> slaving away in the trenches of alt-rock for the past 15 years or so. I
> first met him when he was playing guitar in a jangly little Connells-ish
> outfit called The Fishermen, 'round about '93 or so. Since then he's had
> any number of other bands, all loosely affiliated with the
> power-pop/alt-rock nation. Transistor Sun is his heaviest yet; they've
> got more than a little Motley Crue peeking through the pop hooks.
>
> Friday, August 31 - Sunday September 2
> Local Wildlife Weekend    (http://myspace.com/localwildlifeweekend)
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
> This is a big three-night festival/benefit put together primarily by
> Frank Heath and Ben Davis. Monetary proceeds go to the Piedmont Wildlife
> Center; less-tangible benefits accrue to *you* as you get caught up on a
> broad array of what's been happening in local music over the past few years.
>
> Little bit of everything here, from the indie-pop/rock of Shakermaker,
> Butterflies, Embarrassing Fruits, Fin Fang Foom, Red Collar and the
> Never; to the hip-hop of Dirty5Thirty; the country/americana of The
> Strugglers, Big Fat Gap, and Roman Candle; and the blue-eyed soul of
> Hobex and Transportation.
>
> Here's a tentative lineup:
>
> FRIDAY, AUG 31
>
> * SHAKERMAKER
> * BUTTERFLIES
> * THE STRUGGLERS
> * DIRTY5THIRTY
>
> SATURDAY, SEPT 1
>
> * EMBARRASSING FRUITS
> * BIG FAT GAP
> * HOBEX
> * TRANSPORTATION
> * FIN FANG FOOM
>
> SUNDAY, SEPT 2
>
> * SHIPS
> * DROWSIES
> * RED COLLAR
> * BOXBOMB
> * NEVER
> * ROMAN CANDLE
>
> Friday, August 31
> Blag'ard    (http://www.blagard.com/)
> Hazerai    (http://www.myspace.com/hazerai)
> Fighting Poseidon    (http://www.myspace.com/fightingposeidon)
> Laserhead    (http://myspace.com/laserhead)
> Bull City Headquarters, Durham
>
> If you're curious about the current state of the art in local
> punk-derived indierock, this is the show for you. Blag'ard are the
> traditionalists; despite being a gtr/drums duo, they come out sounding a
> lot like '90s local-heroes Capsize 7 (no surprise really, since
> guitarist Joe Taylor was in Capsize 7).
>
> Fighting Poseidon guitarist EricMannwas in the supertight Greensboro
> postpunk/hardrock band Kudzu Wish, and the new band doesn't stray far
> from that formula; think Les Savy Fav if they paid attention to song
> structure, and practiced more.
>
> Hazerai sprung from the ashes of the short-lived Country Bears, and
> they're doing that post-Fugazi/screamo thing.
>
> Friday, August 31
> The Busy World    (http://www.myspace.com/thebusyworld)
> The Nothing Noise    (http://www.myspace.com/thenothingnoise)
> Hello Bright Futures    (http://www.myspace.com/hellobrightfutures)
> Harmute    (http://www.myspace.com/harmute)
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Saturday, September 1
> Direct Control    (http://www.deepfrybonanza.com/directcontrol/)
> Double Negative    (http://www.myspace.com/thedoublenegative)
> Wasted Time    (http://www.myspace.com/wastedtimesucks)
> Cross Laws    (http://www.myspace.com/crosslaws)
> Life Trap
> Bull City Headquarters, Durham
>
> This is being billed as Dennisfest. What it is, is hardcore, and if
> Double Negative actually show up & play, it'll be about the best damn
> hardcore you're going to see all year.
>
> Saturday, September 1
> The Rosebuds    (http://www.therosebuds.com/)
> Downtown Event Center, Raleigh
>
> The Downtown Event Center used to be the Martin St/Raleigh Music Hall.
> It's being booked nowadays by Mike Dillon, who used to work the door at
> Kings, which explains why the schedule finally contains something other
> than the occasional open mic and/or freestyle contest.
>
> I don't have to tell you about the Rosebuds, I assume.
>
> Saturday, September 1
> Weedeater    (http://www.berserkerrecords.com)
> Caltrop    (http://www.myspace.com/caltropband)
> The Curtains of Night    (http://myspace.com/thecurtainsofnight)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> Heaviosity abounds. Weedeater are from Wilmington & you get three
> guesses what they sound like. Caltrop are from here, and they make huge
> lumbering metallo-stoner anthems. Curtains of Night are a new-ish Chapel
> Hill gtr/drums duo; I haven't seen 'em, but the song I heard contained
> an impressive amount of racket to have come from just 2 people.
>
> Sunday, September 2
> Numbers
> Eberhardt    (http://www.myspace.com/eberhardtnc)
> Rahdunes    (http://www.myspace.com/mindzoo666)
> Duke Coffeehouse, Durham
>
> Whoo-hoo, the Coffeehouse is back & ready for bidness! Is it perhaps the
> only good thing about the students returning? Certainly possibly the
> only thing directly causally related to the students returning, anyway.
> The cooler weather, I'm told, happens regardless. At least it will if it
> does.
>
> Sunday, September 2
> Hammer No More the Fingers    (http://www.hnmtf.com)
> The Cinematics    (http://www.myspace.com/thecinematics)
> Carina Round    (http://www.myspace.com/carinaround)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
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