RTP-area local music and culture

[Jeffrey Herrick <herrickjeffrey AT yahoo.com>]

Hi,

I seem to recall The Scaries and maybe some other bands have played 
parties/shows at Wheels of Durham (the roller rink) in the past..  A band I'm 
in is probably gonna play a party there soon and I'm trying figure out sound 
and logistics.  Is there anybody here that was in a band that played there or 
at least saw a band play there?  Where did the bands set up?  How did it 
sound?  Any idea how big the sound system was or how they pulled it off?... 
even if you haven't seen a band there.. Y'all can wax poetic about how you 
would pull it off.. if the spirit moves you..

I already emailed tomich.. but haven't heard back so far...

I'll let y'all know the details of this party as soon as there set.. if your 
interested..

Jeff
  

       
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Friday, February 15
Can Joann    (http://www.canjoann.com/)
Spider Bags    (http://www.myspace.com/spiderbags)
Rat Jackson    (http://www.myspace.com/ratjacksonmusic)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

It's gonna be one of Those Nights at the Cave, the kind where you're 
safer crawling on the floor with the dogs than trying to shove your way 
upright through the crowd. Plus down at knee-height you might be spared 
at least some of your hearing.



Friday, February 15
snmnmnm    (http://www.snmnmnm.com/)
T-Rox
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham



Friday, February 15
K-Hill
Tyler Hipnosis
Crash    (http://www.myspace.com/crashkills)
Supastition    (http://www.myspace.com/supastition)
Kooley High    (http://www.myspace.com/kooleyhigh)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is an all-local hip-hop showcase called "Love is Local". Here's the 
full lineup:

Supastition
Tyler Hipnosis
Crash
K-Hill
Big Treal
Big Remo
Kooley High
Plus DJ Forge - Raleigh



Friday, February 15
Legion of the Fallen    (http://www.myspace.com/legionofthefallen)
Tooth
Edward Teach
Jack Sprat Cafe, Chapel Hill

Tooth's 2007 debut, "Animality," was the best local metal release I've 
heard in ages (at least since Caltrop's debut of a couple of years earlier).



Friday, February 15
Sedona    (http://www.sedonarock.com/)
East Company
Audibel
Arizona
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Friday, February 15
Jason Scavone and the Noises 10    (http://www.jasonscavone.com/)
The Old Ceremony    (http://www.theoldceremony.com/)
Pour House, Raleigh



Saturday, February 16
Monsonia    (http://www.monsonia.com)
Butterflies    (http://www.myspace.com/butterfliesnc)
Deleted Scenes
Jack Sprat Cafe, Chapel Hill

Monsonia have a new record coming out, and despite a lineup change, it 
bears at least a passing resemblance to their last record, which is to 
say it's a tight package of wiry mathy postpunk, full of wryly 
aggravated vocals and periodic explosions of activity.

The Trekky folks sent a little blurb as well:

"Butterflies recently completed work on their upcoming 2008 Trekky 
release "Nothing's Personal." In preparation for the release, Josh 
Kimbrough and company are getting out there live, playing songs from the 
record as well as new songs. Deleted Scenes are a high energy band from 
DC. Monsonia are old favorites and round out the bill quite nicely."



Saturday, February 16
Betty and the Boys    (http://www.myspace.com/bettyandtheboys)
Club Awesome    (http://www.myspace.com/clubawesome)
Hell, Chapel Hill



Saturday, February 16
The Bleeding Hearts    (http://www.thebleedinghearts.net/home.html)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Sunday, February 17
Tooth
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

Tooth are the best metal band in Durham. Their debut EP, "Animality," 
was a near-perfect amalgam of all the best bits of the past 20 years of 
metal--sludgy one minute, thrashy the next, vocals hoarse & screamy but 
not absurd. Best part: the guitar solos, while great, were all mixed 
lower than the rest of the band, so you hadda fight to hear 'em. Perfect.

The show has moved up & now runs from 4-6 p.m., so tune in at 4:00 or 
you'll miss 'em. 88.7 FM or wxdu.org.



Sunday, February 17
Blood on the Wall    (http://www.bloodonthewall.com)
Black Mountain    (http://www.myspace.com/blackmountain)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Sunday, February 17
Gray Young    (http://www.myspace.com/grayyoung)
Building the State    (http://www.myspace.com/buildingthestate)
The Bronzed Chorus    (http://www.myspace.com/thebronzedchorus)
Hell, Chapel Hill



Monday, February 18
Fin Fang Foom    (http://www.lovitt.com/artists/finfangfoom.html)
Joe Lally    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lally)
Edie Sedgwick    (http://www.ediesedgwick.biz/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Joe Lally played bass in Fugazi (and likely would do so again, if they 
chose to come out of indefinite hiatus). Edie Sedgwick is a 
performance/multimedia artist, or a dead '60s icon. Or both.

Fin Fang Foom are a moody local rockband.



Monday, February 18
Heather McEntire    (http://www.bellafea.com/)
Megafaun    (http://www.myspace.com/megafaun)
Bon Iver    (http://www.myspace.com/boniver)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

The two halves of DeYarmond Edison, reunited after a fashion. When the 
Wisconsin expats split last year, singer Justin Vernon retreated back to 
Wisconsin & began writing & recording as Bon Iver. Meanwhile, his 
erstwhile bandmates soldiered on, in a somewhat different direction, as 
Megafaun, and quickly became one of the bright lights of Durham's 
anything-goes collaborative antifolk/whatever scene.

Is Bellafea/Un Deux Trois frontwoman Heather McEntire the glue to bring 
them back together?



Monday, February 18
Gray Young    (http://www.myspace.com/grayyoung)
Stella By Starlight    (http://www.myspace.com/stellabystarlightband)
Anthems for Odyssey    (http://www.anthemsforodyssey.com)
Pour House, Raleigh



Tuesday, February 19
MoDenA    (http://www.modenamusic.com)
Anthems for Odyssey    (http://www.anthemsforodyssey.com)
The Tender Fruit    (http://www.myspace.com/thetenderfruit)
Hell, Chapel Hill

The Hell website claims this begins at 8:00 p.m., which seems highly 
improbable, knowing Hell.



Tuesday, February 19
Sequoya    (http://www.myspace.com/sequoya)
Sawteeth McTweety and the Particles
Dain's Place, Durham



Tuesday, February 19
Sequoya    (http://www.myspace.com/sequoya)
Sawteeth McTweety and the Particles
Dain's Place, Durham



Tuesday, February 19
Honored Guests    (http://www.thehonoredguests.com/)
The Sammies    (http://www.myspace.com/thesammies)
Future Kings of Nowhere    (http://www.thefuturekings.net/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

This is "Cancer Sucks '08," a benefit for Relay for Life. And for once 
this is a perfect benefit bill. Every time I go to one of these 
benefits, the crowd is half-full of benefit-attendees who're there to 
support the cause, or their friends who support the cause, and they 
spend the whole time yakking and ignoring the bands.

But that can't happen here, because both the Sammies & Future Kings of 
Nowhere are so high-energy, so effortlessly painlessly appealing, that 
the benefit goers are not only going to pay attention, they're gonna 
wind up huge honkin' Future Kings of Nowhere fans by the end of their 
third song.



Tuesday, February 19
Leslie and the Lys    (http://www.leslieandthelys.com)
Robo Sapien    (http://www.gorobosapien.com/)
Totally Michael    (http://www.myspace.com/totallymichael)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Leslie & the Lys are the brainchild of Leslie Hall, aka the Gem Sweater 
lady. They're more than a band, they're a multimedia extravaganza. The 
one time I saw them, at Nightlight a couple of years ago, the 
extravaganza was having some issues, in the form of a DVD that really 
didn't want to play correctly, but that was OK, because they were 
already so mindblowing that I was pretty sure nobody would've survived 
had they been firing on all cylinders.



Tuesday, February 19
Clang Quartet    (http://www.myspace.com/clangquartet)
Glass Witch    (http://www.myspace.com/glasswitch)
vaginateeth/jesusteeth    (http://myspace.com/vaginateethjesusteeth)
Lucas Abela
Panicsville
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, February 19
Spider Bags    (http://www.myspace.com/spiderbags)
The Blue Moon Revue    (http://myspace.com/thebluemoonrevue)
Can Kickers    (http://www.myspace.com/cankickers)
Reservoir, Carrboro



Wednesday, February 20
Can Joann    (http://www.canjoann.com/)
The Longshoremen    (http://www.myspace.com/thelongshoremen)
Grappling Hook    (http://www.myspace.com/torchmaraudersgrapplinghook)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Back when I first moved to the Triangle, the Cradle had a Tuesday-night 
local-bands thing, which was the first place I saw a lot of the bright 
local lights of the '90s. So I'm psyched to see them resurrect that, 
after a fashion, with these periodic "The Club Is Open" free local shows.

Can Joann are an indie-rock band, plain & simple. The Grappling Hook are 
far less simple: Torch Marauder fronts the band, with his capes & masks 
& songs of swords & giant reptiles & god knows what else. Backing him up 
are half of the brilliant band Analogue [II], plus Maple Stave drummer 
Evan Rowe. They are a rock juggernaut.



Wednesday, February 20
Dead to Society    (http://www.myspace.com/deadtosociety101)
Feff    (http://myspace.com/feffmusic)
Spotlight Effect    (http://myspace.com/spotlighteffect)
Marvell Building, Durham



Wednesday, February 20
Patty Hurst Shifter    (http://www.pattyhurstshifter.com)
The Ts    (http://www.myspace.com/thettttt)
Blend, Chapel Hill

Fairly rare chance to see Karen Mann's favorite band, Raleigh's The Ts, 
in Orange County.



Wednesday, February 20
Blag'ard    (http://www.blagard.com/)
Scarlet Rider    (http://www.myspace.com/thescarletrider)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Blag'ard is the brainchild of '90s Chapel Hill veteran Joe Taylor 
(ex-Capsize 7). If you stripped '90s bands like Capsize 7 and the 
Archers down to a single fucked-up guitar, they'd be Blag'ard.



Thursday, February 21 - Sunday, February 24
International Pop Overthrow Festival 
(http://www.internationalpopoverthrow.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

The International Pop Overthrow Festival is a huge 4-day modern pop 
extravaganza. Here's the lineup as posted 2/15/08:

Thursday:

7:30 Down By Avalon
8:00 The Love Willows
8:30 Love Jones
9:00 Airspace
9:30 Midnite Sun
10:00 We Know, Plato
10:30 Brett Harris
11:00 SNMNMNM

Friday:

8:00 Broadfield Marchers
8:30 The Fire Apes
9:00 GogoPilot
9:30 In Technicolor
10:00 The Treasury
10:30 Michael Slawter & The Saving Graces
11:00 Stratocruiser
11:30 Terry Anderson and the Olympic Ass-Kicking Team

Saturday:

8:00 Admit One
8:30 The Young Sons
9:00 The Huguenots
9:30 The Stars Explode
10:00 Absolutely The Maybes (featuring Chris Stamey and Matt McMichaels)
11:00 The Above
11:30 Mondo Topless
12:00 The Gondoliers

Sunday:

4:00 Tony Low
4:30 Dan Bryk
5:00 Leisure McCorkle
5:30 The Frauds
6:00 The Sketches
6:30 Shame Idols
7:00 James Deem
7:30 Ed James
8:00 Velvet



Thursday, February 21
Heads on Sticks    (http://www.thisisstrange.org/)
Monologue Bombs    (http://www.myspace.com/themonologuebombs)
The Love Language    (http://www.myspace.com/thelovelanguage)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Since the Love Language are performing in their solo configuration, this 
is actually an entire set of one-man Raleigh bands. Love Language is 
masterminded by Stu McLamb, late of the great Raleigh pop-rock band the 
Capulets. Heads on Sticks is the solo thing of Dave Mueller (Strange, 
Birds of Avalon). And Monologue Bombs is the solo (accordion+voice) 
thing of Scott Phillips (Goner).



Thursday, February 21
Hearts and Daggers    (http://www.heartsanddaggers.com/ )
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

This is the weekly Local Bands/Local Beers show at Tir Na Nog. This week 
it's Raleigh cowpunkers Hearts and Daggers.



Thursday, February 21
Your Black Star    (http://www.yourblackstar.com)
Brass Bed    (http://www.myspace.com/brassbed)
Swagger
Jack Sprat Cafe, Chapel Hill



Friday, February 22
$2 Pistols    (http://www.myspace.com/twodollarpistols)
Dom Casual    (http://www.myspace.com/domcasual)
Broad Street Cafe, Durham

The Two Dollar Pistols are winding down what has been a long & 
illustrious career, so be sure you see 'em once or a dozen more times 
before they're gone.



Friday, February 22
Dexter Romweber    (http://www.dexterromweber.com)
Sadlack's Heroes, Raleigh



Friday, February 22
Straight 8s    (http://www.straight8s.com)
Defilers    (http://www.defilers.net/)
The Bo-Stevens    (http://www.thebostevens.com/)
Jem Crossland & the Hypertonics    (http://www.jemandtonics.com)
The Garage, Winston-Salem

This is night one of Cash Bash 6, the Garage's annual Johnny Cash 
celebration.



Friday, February 22
Sleepsound    (http://www.sleepsound.org/)
Lovecraft    (http://www.myspace.com/lovecraftnc)
Stella By Starlight    (http://www.myspace.com/stellabystarlightband)
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham



Friday, February 22
Bellafea    (http://www.bellafea.com/)
Mountain High    (http://myspace.com/themountainhigh)
Coyote
Peterson and Shillace
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Friday, February 22
Mowgli    (http://www.myspace.com/mowglimowgli)
Dry Heathens    (http://www.myspace.com/dryheathens)
Mas y Mas
Jack Sprat Cafe, Chapel Hill



Friday, February 22
The Men    (http://www.myspace.com/themenproject1)
Hi-Rollers    (http://www.myspace.com/hirollershirollers)
Hell, Chapel Hill



Friday, February 22
ANTiSEEN    (http://www.antiseen.com)
Dead to Society    (http://www.myspace.com/deadtosociety101)
Oppressed Logic
Scheisse Minnelli    (http://www.myspace.com/scheisseminnelli)
The Despised
Volume 11 Tavern, Raleigh

Charlotte's Confederacy of Scum founding members ANTiSEEN are every bit 
as tenacious, and still relevant, as George Romero's zombies.



Saturday, February 23
$2 Pistols    (http://www.myspace.com/twodollarpistols)
Hearts and Daggers    (http://www.heartsanddaggers.com/ )
Hickry Hawkins    (http://www.myspace.com/hickryhawkins)
Reverend D-Ray and the Shockers 
(http://www.myspace.com/revdrayandtheshockers)
Pee Wee Moore & the Awful Dreadful Snakes    (http://www.peeweemoore.com/)
The Garage, Winston-Salem

This is night two of the Garage's annual Cash Bash.



Saturday, February 23
Midtown Dickens    (http://www.myspace.com/midtowndickens)
Bowerbirds    (http://www.bowerbirds.org)
Lost in the Trees    (http://www.lostinthetrees.com)
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham

You probably don't need any encouragement nowadays to check out 
Bowerbirds, or Midtown Dickens; 2008 is going to be their year, both of 'em.

Lost in the Trees is the solo thing of Ari Picker (ex-Never), and his 
2008 is, according to the Indy, going to involve taking orchestral music 
to the masses.



Saturday, February 23
The Dynamite Brothers    (http://www.dynamitebrothers.com/)
Killer Filler    (http://www.myspace.com/killerfiller)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Garage-surf mayhem with Killer Filler, plus more generalized spazz-out 
speed-blues mayhem with Dynamite Brothers.



Saturday, February 23
Joe Swank and the Zen Pirates 
(http://www.myspace.com/joeswankandthezenpirates)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Saturday, February 23
Salt to Bitters    (http://www.myspace.com/salttobitters)
Western Civ.    (http://westerncivrock.com)
Trophy Wives    (http://www.myspace.com/trophywivesmusic)
Hell, Chapel Hill



Sunday, February 24
Mountain High    (http://myspace.com/themountainhigh)
Grass Widow    (http://www.myspace.com/grasswidow)
Coyote
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Monday, February 25
Jule Brown    (http://www.julebrown.org)
Pour House, Raleigh



Tuesday, February 26
Spider Bags    (http://www.myspace.com/spiderbags)
The Selmanaires    (http://www.myspace.com/theselmanaires)
Anna Kramer & the Lost Cause    (http://www.myspace.com/annakramer)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, February 26
Hard Luck Stories    (http://www.myspace.com/hardluckstoriesmusic)
Tiger Piss    (http://www.myspace.com/tigerpissrock)
Hell, Chapel Hill



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