RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Friday, January 18
Django Haskins    (http://www.djangohaskins.com/)
Sweater Weather    (http://www.sweater-weather.com)
Resist Not    (http://myspace.com/resistnot)
Phil Cook
Bull City Headquarters, Durham

It's a combination art-opening, benefit & show. Details:

No One Piece: Books of words, wood-stain, photos & floss by Catherine 
Edgerton / Decoupage cigar boxes by Michelle Preslik
Jan 18-Feb 15

Opening Reception:
Friday, Jan 18th 7-11pm
Donations accepted

All proceeds go to Safe Passage, whose mission is to empower the 
poorest, at-risk children of families working in the community of the 
Guatemala City garbage dump, by creating opportunities and fostering 
dignity through the power of education. This date marks the one-year 
anniversary of the untimely death of Hanley Denning, the visionary 
founder of Safe Passage.

Evening includes hors d'oeuvres; a presentation by Cassie Hoffman about 
Safe Passage; and music by Phil Cook (Megafaun), Django Haskins (Old 
Ceremony), Resist Not and Sweater Weather.



Friday, January 18
Alias Smith & Jones    (http://www.myspace.com/aliassmithandjonesband)
Sadlack's Heroes, Raleigh

Alias Smith & Jones includes a couple of ex-members of the great 
star-crossed 90s Raleigh band Vanilla Trainwreck.



Friday, January 18
Future Islands    (http://www.myspace.com/futureislands)
Glass Witch    (http://www.myspace.com/glasswitch)
The Scott Waite Debacle    (http://myspace.com/scottwaiteisbenevolent)
Lonnie Walker    (http://www.myspace.com/lonniewalker)
Swan Quarter    (http://www.myspace.com/swanquarter)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Friday, January 18
Minnie Skirt and the Bootlegs 
(http://www.myspace.com/minnieskirtandthebootlegs)
Broad Street Cafe, Durham

This is connected in some capacity to the big annual scooter rally. 
Minnie Skirt & the Bootlegs are a multi-member Stax/Volt style soul 
revue with horns.



Friday, January 18
Patty Hurst Shifter    (http://www.pattyhurstshifter.com)
The Modern Skirts    (http://www.modernskirts.com/)
Pour House, Raleigh



Friday, January 18
Opening Flower Happy Bird    (http://www.myspace.com/openingflowerhappybird)
Embarrassing Fruits    (http://www.myspace.com/embarrassingfruitsband)
Drug Rug    (http://www.myspace.com/drugrugdude)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Opening Flower Happy Bird somehow wound up with two CDs on the WXDU 
year-end top-local-releases list. Indeed, their morose-but-catchy 
blip-pop is hard to resist.



Friday, January 18
Tiger Thief    (http://www.tigerthief.com/)
The Love Language    (http://www.myspace.com/thelovelanguage)
The Booze    (http://www.myspace.com/thebooze)
Downtown Event Center, Raleigh



Friday, January 18
The Gondoliers    (http://www.myspace.com/comeseethegondoliers)
Hell, Chapel Hill

Gondoliers are about the best thing around when it comes to straight-up 
rawass 60s-style garage-rock.



Friday, January 18
Watershed
Monty Warren
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Saturday, January 19
Cuntry Kings    (http://www.geocities.com/nc_kings/)
The Old Ceremony    (http://www.theoldceremony.com/)
Old 86    (http://www.myspace.com/86music)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

This is a "Rock for Roe" benefit/celebration.



Saturday, January 19
Eberhardt    (http://www.myspace.com/eberhardtnc)
The Nothing Noise    (http://www.myspace.com/thenothingnoise)
Harmute    (http://www.myspace.com/harmute)
Israel Darling    (http://www.myspace.com/israeldarling)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Saturday, January 19
Straight 8s    (http://www.straight8s.com)
Broad Street Cafe, Durham



Saturday, January 19
Stratocruiser    (http://www.stratocruisermusic.com/)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Sunday, January 20
Bringerer    (http://www.myspace.com/bringerer)
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

Bringerer = 2 ex-members of Zen Frisbee, plus Ron Liberti (ex-Pipe, 
ex-Ghost of Rock) & a drummer named Bart. Their first CD, with a 
slightly different lineup, sounded like Cheap Trick meets early solo 
Brian Eno meets recreational drugs. I haven't heard their new stuff yet, 
but this show is in advance of an imminent CD-release shindig, so all 
will become clearer soon enough.

5:00 p.m. (last week at this time! henceforth at 4:00 p.m.!) 88.7 FM or 
wxdu.org.



Sunday, January 20
The Scene of the Crime Rovers 
(http://www.myspace.com/sceneofthecrimerovers)
Michael Zerang    (http://www.michaelzerang.com)
Broad Street Cafe, Durham

This is the rare indoor, non-marching show for the Scene of the Crime 
Rovers. The occasion is this visit to the Triangle by Chicago-based 
percussionist Michael Zerang. A quick blurb:

"Percussionist, improvisor and composer Michael Zerang was born in 1958 
in Chicago, Illinois. He has co-founded and performed with the musical 
groups Liof Munimula, The Neutrino Orchestra, Trio Troppo, The 
Wonderfuls, The Blue Angels, Sam Pappas' Tumbling Strains, Frozen Lucy, 
The Quirt Quintet, Musica Menta, The Vandermark Quartet, Dream Cheese, 
The Sputter Ensemble, In Zenith, and Broken Wire. In addition to these 
ensembles, Zerang currently performs with many innovative musicians 
including AACM co-founder Fred Anderson, Mats Gustafsson, Raymond Strid, 
Sten Sandell, Don Meckley, Jaap Blonk, Daniel Scanlan, Peter Brötzmann, 
Kent Kessler, Barre Phillips, Jim Baker, Hamid Drake, Ken Vandermark, 
Luc Hautkamp, and Fred Lonberg-Holm. He has recorded for Okka Disc, 
boxMEDIA, Kontrans, Southport, Quinnah, Eighth Day Music, Garlic, and 
Platypus, labels as well as many others."



Sunday, January 20
Noncanon    (http://www.myspace.com/noncanon)
Future Islands    (http://www.myspace.com/futureislands)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh

Future Islands are a kind of unsettling synth-pop band from the 
Greenville area. Noncanon are also unsettling, but more in the 
"uncanny/unearthly" sense. They're one of my favorite bands in state, in 
fact.



Sunday, January 20
Dirty Little Heaters    (http://www.thedirtylittleheaters.com)
Those Darlins    (http://www.myspace.com/darlins)
Reservoir, Carrboro

The new 3-piece Dirty Little Heaters will take your head clean off. If 
you don't have a "bands to watch in 2008" list yet, grab a post-it & 
write their name at the top of it.



Monday, January 21
Flicker    (http://www.chapel-hill.nc.us/flicker)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Flicker is the long-running local periodic short-film showcase. There 
are generally 90 minutes' worth of short films (<20 minutes), plus 
raffles & cookies. Cookies!



Monday, January 21
To the Republic
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is one of Local 506's regular "Free for All" free shows.



Monday, January 21
Tooth
Lex Vegas    (http://myspace.com/lexvegas)
Reservoir, Carrboro

Lex Vegas are from Harrisonburg, and that's all I know about 'em. Tooth 
are from Durham, and their debut EP "Animality" easily made it onto my 
top-20 of 2007.



Tuesday, January 22
Salt to Bitters    (http://www.myspace.com/salttobitters)
The Howlies    (http://www.myspace.com/thehowlies)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, January 22
Adam and the Weatherfords    (http://www.myspace.com/adamandtheweatherfords)
International Grapevine 
(http://www.myspace.com/theinternationalgrapevine)
Justin and the Cosmics
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, January 23
Boyzone    (http://www.myspace.com/boyszone)
Six Organs of Admittance    (http://www.sixorgansofadmittance.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, January 24
Brother Henry    (http://www.myspace.com/brotherhenry)
Max Indian    (http://www.myspace.com/maxindian)
Jeff Crawford
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Friday, January 25
Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan    (http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com)
Calabi Yau    (http://www.calabiyau.org)
All the Saints
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

All-too-rare visit by Charlotte spazz/freakout band Calabi Yau, (and 
it's a strange anti-coincidence that Asheville-based kindred spirits 
Ahleuchatistas are playing tonight as well, but way over in Raleigh at 
Slim's). If you like your power-trio "rock" to involve lots of 
scribble-scrabbly noises & some high-pitched mumbling, you've come to 
the right place. Factor in the mighty Cantwell Gomez & Jordan (all of 
the above, plus punkrock) and you've got the Show of the Week!



Friday, January 25
Jen Richelson    (http://www.myspace.com/jenrichelson)
Prabir and the Substitutes    (http://www.prabirandthesubstitutes.com/)
Simple    (http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomsimple)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Friday, January 25
Ahleuchatistas    (http://www.ahleuchatistas.com/go.php)
Grass Widow    (http://www.myspace.com/grasswidow)
Sir Arthur and His Royal Knights 
(http://mannsworld.blogspot.com/2007/08/sir-arthur-his-royal-knights.html)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh

Asheville's Ahleuchatistas attack their gtrs/basses/drums with the 
fervor & discipline of dead-serious improv-jazzmen. Seriously wiggy.

Sir Arthur & his Royal Knights are also seriously wiggy, but more in the 
"I can't believe they're wearing velvet smoking jackets" kind of way.



Saturday, January 26
Warm in the Wake    (http://www.warminthewake.com/)
Luego    (http://luegomusic.com/)
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham



Saturday, January 26
Red Collar    (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
Megafaun    (http://www.myspace.com/megafaun)
I Was Totally Destroying It 
(http://www.reverbnation.com/iwastotallydestroyingit)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Red Collar and I Was Totally Destroying It are all about the anthemic 
sing-along choruses and high-energy jumping-around antics. Megafaun are 
all about the burly beards & the equal doses of oldtime/bluegrass and 
outer-space hiss-and-fuzz. What do they all have in common? Durham.



Saturday, January 26
Fin Fang Foom    (http://www.lovitt.com/artists/finfangfoom.html)
Caltrop    (http://www.myspace.com/caltropband)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

This is quite honestly way too much volume to fit inside the Cave. Best 
vantage point may very well be the sidewalk up at street-level. Fin Fang 
Foom bring layers & precision & half-buried emotion to their 
sturm-und-drang. Caltrop's layers are more like a thick smoky haze, but 
there's so much thunder underneath you don't need to see 'em to know 
they're there.



Saturday, January 26
I, Crime    (http://www.icrime.us/)
Ill Eagle
Weather Machine
Jon Mackey
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Ill Eagle as in the occasional Al Burian (Milemarker) solo project, not 
the Cleveland rapper.



Sunday, January 27
Kimya Dawson    (http://www.kimyadawson.com/)
Midtown Dickens    (http://www.myspace.com/midtowndickens)
Angelo Spencer    (http://www.myspace.com/angelospencer)
Bull City Headquarters, Durham

Everybody loved Kimya Dawson's music on the Juno soundtrack (OK, well, 
the big hit is actually a Moldy Peaches song, of which Kimya was half, 
but the other original music is all Kimya). I mean everybody: my 
clean-cut and non-indie-rockin' coworker came in last week ranting about 
how he'd been dragged to Juno and loved it, & the music especially.

But just how much of everybody actually stuck around through the closing 
credits to catch Ms. Dawson's name? I guess we'll find out at this show. 
If BCHQ is full of 875 people, there's some justice in the world after all.



Sunday, January 27
Ships
The Nothing Noise    (http://www.myspace.com/thenothingnoise)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is a 506 Free For All show.



Monday, January 28
Fujiyama Roll    (http://www.myspace.com/fujiyamaroll)
Triple Overhead Cam    (http://www.myspace.com/3ohc)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is a 506 Free For All.



Tuesday, January 29
Super Furry Animals    (http://www.superfurry.com/)
The Fiery Furnaces    (http://thefieryfurnaces.com/)
Holy Fuck    (http://dependentmusic.com/a_holyfuck.htm)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Tuesday, January 29
Asylum Street Spankers    (http://www.asylumstreetspankers.com/)
Berkeley Cafe, Raleigh

The Asylum Street Spankers are oldtime/gypsy-style buskers from Austin. 
Their gimmick is/was that even at club shows, they play sans PA. My 
friends who love them *really* love them.



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