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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 November 10, 2007
  • Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:36:25 -0500

Saturday, November 10
Red Collar (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
Future Kings of Nowhere (http://www.thefuturekings.net/)
Hammer No More the Fingers (http://www.hnmtf.com)
I Was Totally Destroying It (http://www.reverbnation.com/iwastotallydestroyingit)
Dead to Society (http://www.myspace.com/deadtosociety101)
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham

This is a CD-release party for the excellent debut CD from Hammer No More the Fingers, who manage to balance their love for 90s indie-rock with their [apparent] love for 80s Titans like U2 and The Police. Expect to see this CD in my top-10 of 2007. Your $5 at the door gets you a copy of the CD as well, so run-don't-walk.

Also on the bill, a rogues' gallery of Durham rockstars, including the emo acousticore of Future Kings of Nowhere, and the over-the-top prole-rock of Red Collar (dude! spurs?).



Saturday, November 10
$2 Pistols (http://www.myspace.com/twodollarpistols)
Eilen Jewell
Hideaway BBQ, Raleigh

The Two Dollar Pistols' new CD, "Here Tomorrow Gone Today," takes a half-step backwards from the modernity of the earlier "Hands Up," but there are still a few songs that could walk proudly onto the playlists of at least the few moderately progressive commercial-country radio stations. What's nice to hear is how easily they mesh with the harder honky-tonk numbers on the album. This is the CD where the Pistols settle into a sound that's fully their own.



Saturday, November 10
Honored Guests (http://www.thehonoredguests.com/)
Tennis and the Mennonites (http://www.tennisandthemennonites.com)
Max Indian (http://www.myspace.com/maxindian)
The Archibalds (http://www.myspace.com/thearchibalds)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

The Honored Guests & Tennis and the Mennonites play host to their Alabamatexan labelmates The Archibalds. I'm expecting huge things from the Honored Guests if/when they ever get around to recording and releasing a new CD. Their last one, Tastes Change, was full of the sound of a band fumbling towards some kind of breakthrough.



Saturday, November 10
Mr. Stonecipher (http://www.myspace.com/mrstonecipher)
Somnaphon (http://www.myspace.com/somnaphon)
Subterrene (http://www.myspace.com/subterrene)
The Thing with 2 Heads
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Sunday, November 11
Hazerai (http://www.myspace.com/hazerai)
Torch Marauder's Grappling Hook (http://home.att.net/~sandydave/torchhome.html)
Arks (http://www.myspace.com/arks)
Reservoir, Carrboro

Hazerai's second EP, whose title is a not-immediately-recallable series of digits, is yards better than last year's debut. They're still screaming and yelling, but everything's tighter, more ship-shape, and more identifiably weird in their own peculiar way. Yeah, there's still a family resemblance to muscular east-coast postpunk bands like Fugazi and Les Savy Fav, but you wouldn't dis your sister for looking like your mom, would you?

The Grappling Hook are zen masters of the mental gyrations necessary to take fantasy/space-metal Just Seriously Enough.



Sunday, November 11
IAMX (http://www.myspace.com/iamx)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Sunday, November 11
Dead to Society (http://www.myspace.com/deadtosociety101)
The Jennifers (http://www.thejennifers.com/)
Saints Will Do (http://www.myspace.com/saintswilldo)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Monday, November 12
Flicker (http://www.chapel-hill.nc.us/flicker)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Flicker is the long-running semi-regular short-film series, which features sub-20-minute movies, shot on film (they're anti-video snobs, which used to be a political stance but nowadays is probably just as likely a good excuse to not have to watch 10 million videos from every budding videographer in North America), along with prizes, cookies, and a generally awesome time.



Monday, November 12
Tanya Morgan (http://www.myspace.com/tanyamorgan)
Pens and Needles (http://www.myspace.com/pensandneedles)
Monte Smith (http://www.myspace.com/montesmith)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, November 13
The Polyphonic Spree (http://www.thepolyphonicspree.com)
Rooney (http://www.rooney-band.com)
The Redwalls (http://www.theredwalls.com)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

The Polyphonic Spree still put on a freaking amazing show, even if the music on their last couple of albums hasn't lived up to the promise of their first. Frontman Tim DeLaughter seemed to initially envision the band as some sort of perfect collective indie-rock Up With People, and so the first album is full of songs where everybody sings lead, and there's comparatively little frontman-ism.

That didn't last long. The songs on the second & now third albums are still epic in their arrangements and their reach, but DeLaughter's reedy voice is front-and-center, and both the albums and the live show have a bit more creepy ego-trip vibe about them.

It's still possible to get totally caught up in the music, and to have a nearly out-of-body experience at a Polyphonic Spree show, but you gotta work harder for it. Low point of the last show: DeLaughter begging everybody to buy the new record, so they wouldn't get dumped by another label.



Tuesday, November 13
Legendary Shack*Shakers (http://www.cockadoodledont.com/)
Pine Hill Haints (http://www.myspace.com/pinehillhaints)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, November 14
Simple (http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomsimple)
Betty and the Boys (http://www.myspace.com/bettyandtheboys)
Aaron Ward
Marvell Building, Durham



Wednesday, November 14
Enon (http://www.seethrubroadcasting.com/enon/)
The Ex-Members (http://www.myspace.com/theexmembers)
Love of Diagrams (http://www.loveofdiagrams.com)
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham



Wednesday, November 14
The Busy World (http://www.myspace.com/thebusyworld)
The Nothing Noise (http://www.myspace.com/thenothingnoise)
Harmute (http://www.myspace.com/harmute)
Blend, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, November 14
Yip Yip (http://www.yip-yip.com)
Future Islands (http://www.myspace.com/futureislands)
Tron Valdez
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, November 14
Bang! Bang! (http://www.bangbangband.com/)
Beloved Binge (http://www.myspace.com/belovedbinge)
Barbarella (www.myspace.com/barbarellach)
Reservoir, Carrboro

I started out typing a series of B's, and then I realized it's not far from the sound of a raspberry to the sound of jowling (http://www.jowlers.com/).



Thursday, November 15
David Kilgour (http://www.mergerecords.com/bands/kilgour/bio.html)
Minchia (http://www.myspace.com/minchianc)
Euros Childs (http://www.myspace.com/euroschilds)
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham

David Kilgour helped spread the gospel of New Zealand to the rest of the world in the 80s with his band The Clean. The folks at Merge were huge early converts, and they've returned the favor by releasing the last few Kilgour solo albums, as well as a Clean retrospective, "Anthology." Which is part explanation of why the NZ legend comes through the Triangle as often as he does.



Thursday, November 15
Michael Hurley (http://www.snock.com)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Michael Hurley is one of those semi-legendary/damaged folksingers from the 60s (put out his first album in '65 on Folkways, even). Similarity: his new one is on Gnomonsongs, the label run by Banhart & Cabic. Difference: it's his 17th album, give-or-take one or two. He's not one of those who recorded once & then got a straight job. Hope nobody younger than him is claiming to have [re-]discovered him.



Friday, November 16
Can Joann (http://www.canjoann.com/)
Saints Will Do (http://www.myspace.com/saintswilldo)
The Alphabetical Order
Broad Street Cafe, Durham



Friday, November 16
The Loners (http://www.demonbeachrecords.com/loners.html)
Adult Film Makers (http://www.myspace.com/adultfilmmakers)
Dirty Little Heaters (http://www.thedirtylittleheaters.com)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is the debut performance of the newly-reconstituted, newly-3-piece Dirty Little Heaters (Reese McHenry, plus Rob Walsh (ex-Spinns) and Dave Perry (ex-Jett Rink, ex-Fake Swedish, ex-etc.)) Add in the gtr/drums garage-stomp of Raleigh's Loners, and the Bad Checks side-project Adult Film Makers, and you've got the garage-rock-n-roll show of the week. Of the month, even.



Friday, November 16
Murder Mystery (http://www.myspace.com/murdermysterymusic)
Brass Bed (http://www.myspace.com/brassbed)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Friday, November 16
Proof (http://www.prooftheband.org)
Fighting Poseidon (http://www.myspace.com/fightingposeidon)
Dropsonic (http://www.myspace.com/dropsonic)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Saturday, November 17
Mike Tamburo (http://www.miketamburo.com)
The Hem of His Garment (http://www.myspace.com/thehemofhisgarment)
R. Keenan Lawler (http://www.myspace.com/keenanlawler)
Horse Operas (http://www.myspace.com/horseoperas)
Gerrard Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill

Aaron Smithers of Hem of His Garment/In the Year of the Pig helped put this one together, and he wrote:

All are welcome at an evening concert of experimental, electroacoustic, folk, and rock improvisation in historic Gerrard Hall on UNC's campus on Saturday November 17 at 7:30 PM. Performers include: R. Keenan Lawler, Mike Tamburo, Horse Operas, and The Hem of His Garment. Gerrard Hall, originally built in 1822 as a campus chapel, will provide an inspired setting for an evening of tonal and melodic exploration. The concert is FREE with a UNC One Card; general admission is $5.00. Presented by the Carolina Union Activities Board [CUAB], the UNC Curriculum in Folklore, and WXYC 89.3 FM.



Saturday, November 17
Stratocruiser (http://www.stratocruisermusic.com/)
Nantucket (http://www.myspace.com/nantucketband)
Parmalee
SwampdaWamp
Lincoln Theater, Raleigh

If you grew up around here in the 70s, then you undoubtedly remember Nantucket, North Carolina's highest-profile entry into the Southern Rock sweepstakes. They never quite caught the brass ring, but they didn't succumb to a Southern Rock Tragedy, either. So here they are.



Saturday, November 17
American Aquarium (http://www.americanaquarium.com/)
Future Kings of Nowhere (http://www.thefuturekings.net/)
The Payola Reserve (http://www.thepayolareserve.com)
The Black (http://www.theblackmusic.com)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill





Saturday, November 17
Clang Quartet (http://www.myspace.com/clangquartet)
Cass McCombs (http://www.monitorrecords.com/CASS/cass.html)
Ariel Pink (http://www.arielpink.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill





Sunday, November 18
The Soft Company (http://www.myspace.com/softcompany)
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

I've seen Soft Company exactly once, so maybe it's a bit irrational of me to be so excited about this show. Or not completely irrational; the members of Soft Company have played, together or separately, in many of my favorite bands of this century to date, including Piedmont Charisma, Razzle, Hotel Motel, Erie Choir, and Audubon Park.

5:00 p.m. 88.7 FM or wxdu.org.



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