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- From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
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- Subject: stuff to do, week of December 14, 2007
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:45:41 -0500
In addition to their big all-or-nothing Craigslist sell-off, the good folks at 305 South are having a giant everything-must-go sale at the store this Saturday: http://www.305southdurham.com/
Friday, December 14
Jon Shain (http://www.jonshain.com)
Mark Simonsen
The Cave, Chapel Hill
This is the early show.
Friday, December 14
Ghost to Falco (http://www.purevolume.com/GhosttoFalco)
Horseback (http://www.myspace.com/horsebacknoise)
Bull City Headquarters, Durham
Horseback make a massive drone. There are four songs on their 'Impale Golden Horn' CD, each between 9 and 18 minutes long, and there was a period, shortly after it came out, when I had to struggle to resist playing more than one of them at a time on the radio.
Friday, December 14
Dom Casual (http://www.myspace.com/domcasual)
Fontana (http://www.myspace.com/fontana1)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
This is the late show. Fontana are from Durham; they're the ones with the epic 9-minute track on that 'Rockin the Blocks' compilation, the one that rhymes "axis" and "prophylaxis."
Also on the bill, the spooky stories and melancholy garage-pop songcraft of Jamie McLendon's Dom Casual.
Friday, December 14
Hope for a Golden Summer (http://www.hopeforagoldensummer.com/)
Filthybird (http://www.myspace.com/filthybird)
Lovely Leaves
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem
First chance in a little while to see Greensboro's Filthybird, whose 'Southern Skies' is gonna be on my top-10 releases of 2007, easy.
Saturday, December 15
Roman Candle (http://www.romancandlemusic.com/)
The Old Ceremony (http://www.theoldceremony.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
You know that guy you work with, the one in his mid/late-30s, the one who likes to talk about music, but who'll freely admit that he hasn't really kept up since he got married & had some kids? The one who had great musical taste when he was in college in the 80s? Send him to this show; he'll love it.
Saturday, December 15
Sorry About Dresden (http://www.sorryaboutdresden.com)
Jew(s) & Catholic(s) (http://www.myspace.com/jewsandcatholics)
Fistfight (http://www.myspace.com/thisisfistfight)
Heavy Contact (http://www.myspace.com/heavycontact)
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem
Jew(s) and Catholic(s) make gtr/bass music (on CD, at least, the drums are mostly a machine) that reminds me a bit of the brilliant '90s Chapel Hill band Spatula. The singing (yeah, Spatula had singing too, early on) is a bit more melodramatic, but the guitar rings, and when the bow hits the bass you'll hear what I mean.
Sorry About Dresden were remarkably spry at their last "don't call it a comeback" show a few months ago at the Cradle.
Saturday, December 15
Sequoya (http://www.myspace.com/sequoya)
The Scott Waite Debacle (http://myspace.com/scottwaiteisbenevolent)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
Note that this is a completely different lineup of Durham bands than the one that was posted a week ago.
Saturday, December 15
Dan Bryk (http://www.bryk.com/)
snmnmnm (http://www.snmnmnm.com/)
The Never (http://www.trekkyrecords.com/never.html)
Local 506, Chapel Hill
This is a 10th-anniversary party for snmnmnm, who often remind me of a bunch of 10-year-olds. With music degrees. Buncha other people from local bands appearing out-of-band-context as well.
Saturday, December 15
Dirty Little Heaters (http://www.thedirtylittleheaters.com)
Pistolero (http://www.myspace.com/pistoleroband)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
The new Dirty Little Heaters had their debut last month at the Local 506, and they pretty much blew away the audience, the other bands on the bill, and any last lingering memory of the old Dirty Little Heaters. New rhythm section Rob Walsh (ex-Spinns) & Dave Perry (ex-Jett Rink, ex-Fake Swedish) provide exactly the right boulder-rolling-downhill propulsion for Reese McHenry's badass yowl.
Saturday, December 15
Greg Klaiber's Grabass Revue
Can Joann (http://www.canjoann.com/)
Fighting Poseidon (http://www.myspace.com/fightingposeidon)
Hell, Chapel Hill
Sunday, December 16
The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra (http://www.trekkyrecords.com/xmasfront.html)
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham
The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra is basically everybody in all the Trekky bands, combining and recombining into various smaller ensembles to record their annual Christmas CD, and to perform at their annual Christmas show at the Cradle (this year it's on Tuesday the 19th).
Get a preview at 5:00 p.m. at 88.7 FM or wxdu.org.
Monday, December 17
Blag'ard (http://www.blagard.com/)
Dr. Powerful (http://drpowerful.googlepages.com)
Dirty Money (http://www.dirtymoneyfl.com)
Reservoir, Carrboro
Tuesday, December 18
White Rook (http://www.myspace.com/whiterookband)
Hell, Chapel Hill
Last show ever for White Rook, or so says the Hell website.
Wednesday, December 19
Portastatic (http://www.portastatic.com)
The Moaners (http://www.themoaners.com/)
Sweater Weather (http://www.sweater-weather.com)
The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra (http://www.trekkyrecords.com/xmasfront.html)
Hammer No More the Fingers (http://www.hnmtf.com)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
This is the now-annual Trekky Records holiday party, featuring the Trekky Yuletide Orchestra (essentially everybody in every band on the label), plus a ton of other local bands and fractional bands, all taking turns playing short sets of holiday music. Skim the video page (http://www.trianglerock.com/video) for footage from last year's show, from folks like Ben Davis, Prayers and Tears of ADS, and Mountain Goats.
Here's the full lineup of this year's show:
The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra
Portastatic
Annuals
Ivan Rosebud
The Moaners
Midtown Dickens
I Was Totally Destroying It
Hammer No More The Fingers
Schooner
Robo Sapien
Sweater Weather
Proceeds benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Wednesday, December 19
The Scott Waite Debacle (http://myspace.com/scottwaiteisbenevolent)
Skywire (http://www.myspace.com/skywire)
Derrick Acker (http://www.myspace.com/derrickacker)
Marvell Building, Durham
Wednesday, December 19
Western Civ. (http://westerncivrock.com)
The Longships (http://www.myspace.com/thelongships)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
Western Civ. moved here not too long ago from Alabama. Between them & fellow Alabaman Jerstin Crosby (Tennis & the Mennonites), there's now apparently enough of a critical mass of Alabamans to draw the attention of other itinerant Alabamans, such as The Longships, who might otherwise have driven right by on 40/85 without even slowing down.
Thursday, December 20
Calico Haunts (http://www.myspace.com/calicohaunts)
Gambling the Muse (http://www.myspace.com/gamblingthemuse)
Brandon Herndon
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
Thursday, December 20
Lam! Lam! (http://www.myspace.com/lamlamband)
Virgo 9
Somebody Sam
Broad Street Cafe, Durham
Friday, December 21
Jule Brown (http://www.julebrown.org)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
This is the early show, with the beautiful demented blues-drone of Jule Brown.
Friday, December 21
Jeffrey Dean Foster (http://www.jeffreydeanfoster.com/)
Don Dixon (http://www.myspace.com/dondixonsmusic)
The Garage, Winston-Salem
Friday, December 21
Dexter Romweber (http://www.dexterromweber.com)
Jimmy & The Teasers (http://www.geocities.com/booze1031/teasers.html)
Sister Fanny
Pneurotics (http://www.myspace.com/pneurotics)
Local 506, Chapel Hill
The 506 website lists this as "Christmas Jam 2007," so consider yourselves warned.
Friday, December 21
DJ Nasty Boots
Southern Man
Black Congo (http://www.myspace.com/blackcongonc)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
The earlier part of the evening is a free Nightlight holiday party (come out & grill Alexis on all the changes afoot); the later part is the the return of the semi-prodigal Nightlight founder Isaac Trogdon's Southern Man.
Friday, December 21
Evil Wiener (http://www.evilwienerworld.com/)
The Cave, Chapel Hill
What's that you say, there's a holiday upon us? Must be time for an Evil Weiner show, then. The Weiner boys have allowed themselves to become so associated with various holidays that you may even have forgotten that frontman Billy Sugarfix is a bona-fide popsong-writing genius. Be sure to request one of his secular classics, like "Silver Dollars" to remind yourself.
And don't forget to listen to their classic Christmas single (conveniently streaming from MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/evilwiener) for the holidays) 'n' brush up on the words to "Secret Santa" so you can sing along.
Saturday, December 22
Accelerators
Hideaway BBQ, Raleigh
Gerald Duncan's Accelerators were one of the great regional success stories of the mid-80s, at least from where I was sitting in Upstate South Carolina (both Gerald and then-guitarist Brad Rice were SC boys who'd moved to Raleigh & made good). The reality was a little more down-to-earth (and sadly predictable): a strong debut on local label Dolphin, a couple of follow-ups on Profile Records . . . but then Profile closed its doors, the band found itself homeless, and eventually broke up.
Or rather went on extended hiatus, broken briefly a few years ago by a resurrection, a new album, and then another period of dormancy.
This year they released a career-spanning retrospective, Road Chill, so if you haven't met 'em yet, now's yr chance.
Saturday, December 22
Ghost to Falco (http://www.purevolume.com/GhosttoFalco)
Secret Boyfriend (http://www.myspace.com/scrtboyfriend)
Horseback (http://www.myspace.com/horsebacknoise)
Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III (http://corneliusv.podomatic.com/)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
Horseback is Jenks Miller's [sometimes-] pastoral-drone outfit; their album "Impale Golden Horn" is one of my faves of 2007.
Saturday, December 22
The Loners (http://www.demonbeachrecords.com/loners.html)
Suburban Sweethearts
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
The Loners are the Triangle's leading purveyors of stomp-n-shout gtr/drums garage-rock.
Sunday, December 23
Big Fat Gap (http://www.bigfatgap.com/)
Jeff Crawford
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
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- stuff to do, week of December 14, 2007, grady, 12/14/2007
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