RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Holy crap, the Congress apparently decreed that Daylight Savings Time 
starts this weekend. Spring Forward! It's gonna be fuckin' dark at 7:00 
Monday when my alarm goes off. Presumably Congresspeople don't get up 
'til like 9:30 most days, so they'd never know. Fuckers.


Friday, March 7
Chatham County Line    (http://www.chathamcountyline.com/)
Everybodyfields    (http://www.theeverybodyfields.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

This is a Chatham County Line CD-release party.



Friday, March 7
The Scott Waite Debacle    (http://myspace.com/scottwaiteisbenevolent)
Pedals on Our Pirate Ships 
(http://www.myspace.com/pedalsonourpirateships)
Dan Mac and the Bullet    (http://www.myspace.com/danmacandthebullet)
Bull City Headquarters, Durham



Friday, March 7
Mowgli    (http://www.myspace.com/mowglimowgli)
Audrey Ryan    (http://www.myspace.com/audreyryan)
Hell, Chapel Hill



Friday, March 7
RTX    (http://www.truxrox.com/)
Black Skies    (http://blackskies.us/)
Double Negative    (http://www.myspace.com/thedoublenegative)
Downtown Event Center, Raleigh

RTX is the Jennifer Herrema half of Royal Trux, I believe. Double 
Negative is the best hardcore band in the Southeast, I reckon. Black 
Skies are gonna challenge RTX to see who can stand with legs furthest 
apart without splitting their pants.



Friday, March 7
Hammer No More the Fingers    (http://www.hnmtf.com)
Born Ruffians    (http://www.bornruffians.com)
Cadence Weapon    (http://www.myspace.com/cadenceweapon)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Can random MP3 blogs across the USA generate enough heat to alter the 
arc of HNMTF's career? That is to say, everybody who hears 'em seems to 
instantly like 'em, and thanks to Teh Internets (and a few strategic 
freely-available mp3s), now everybody can hear 'em.



Friday, March 7
Gray Young    (http://www.myspace.com/grayyoung)
Citified    (http://www.citifiedband.org/)
Tin Star
Jack Sprat Cafe, Chapel Hill



Friday, March 7
Microkingdom    (http://www.myspace.com/microkingdom)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Friday, March 7
The Cartridge Family    (http://www.cartridge-family.com/)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Saturday, March 8
Kenny Roby    (http://www.kennyroby.com)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Saturday, March 8
The Ex-Members    (http://www.myspace.com/theexmembers)
Men    (http://www.myspace.com/mrandmrsmen)
Hey Willpower    (http://www.myspace.com/heywillpower)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

I got an email the other day stating that this was to be Ex-Members' 
LAST SHOW EVAR. Dave & Shirle' are looking to focus on their art & their 
cheffing (cheffery?), respectively. Drummer Melissa Buffington is still 
looking to rock out, though, so if your band is looking for one of the 
best drummers in the Triangle, this may be your lucky day, depending on 
your level of tolerance for bad jokes from behind the kit.

Men would appear to include the 2/3rds of Le Tigre that aren't Kathleen 
Hanna (JD Samson & Johanna Fateman, that is).



Saturday, March 8
A is Jump    (http://www.myspace.com/aisjump2)
The Binary Marketing Show    (http://www.myspace.com/thebinarymarketingshow)
The Swimmers
The Stationary Set
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Saturday, March 8
The Apes    (http://www.selfstarterfoundation.com/apes.html)
An Albatross    (http://www.analbatross.com)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Sunday, March 9
The Gay Blades    (http://www.myspace.com/gayblades)
Phoebe's Carousel    (http://www.myspace.com/phoebescarousel)
johnnydirtyshoes    (http://www.myspace.com/johnnydirtyshoes)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Monday, March 10
Reid Johnson
Jen Richelson    (http://www.myspace.com/jenrichelson)
Ponieheart    (http://www.myspace.com/ponieheart)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

The Cave's website says this begins at 8:00. Reid Johnson fronts Schooner.



Monday, March 10
Ten Penny
Lonesome Departed
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is a Local 506 Free For All (free admission over 21).



Tuesday, March 11
The Ghost of Saturday Nite 
(http://www.myspace.com/theghostofsaturdaynite)
Alias Smith & Jones    (http://www.myspace.com/aliassmithandjonesband)
The Ts    (http://www.myspace.com/thettttt)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is another 506 Free For All. Alias Smith & Jones contain half of 
the core lineup of the great early-90s Raleigh rockband Vanilla 
Trainwreck, plus Danny Kurtz (ex-Backsliders) and a guy named Isaac Lake.

As if that weren't enough '93 Raleigh action for you, The Ghost of 
Saturday Nite is the new band featuring Ethan Smith (ex-Orifice).

Rounding it out are the Ts, aka Karen A. Mann's (herself a mid-'90s 
Raleigh fixture) favorite Raleigh band.



Tuesday, March 11
Hazerai    (http://www.myspace.com/hazerai)
Sightings    (http://www.myspace.com/sightings)
Bells
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

I'm down with this return to single-word bandnames. Less typing.



Wednesday, March 12
Velvet    (http://www.velvetpop.com)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Thursday, March 13
des_ark    (http://www.des-ark.org)
Environmental Youth Crunch 
(http://www.myspace.com/environmentalyouthcrunch)
Tubers    (http://www.myspace.com/tubers)
Bull City Headquarters, Durham

It's a rockshow! It's a vegan meal!



Thursday, March 13
Craig Hilton
Pulsoptional    (http://www.pulsoptional.org/)
Phon
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Craig Hilton has been noise/freaking in the Triangle for a decade or 
more, both in various bands (including a stint in Thor's punkrock 
side-project Thor and the Ass Boys) and with the Center for 
Transgressive Behaviors, who for a brief period were cropping up all 
over the Triangle with their multimedia extravaganzas of nun-fucking, 
live onstage birth & coprophagy.

Phon make their ambient glitchtronica with a massive array of pedals and 
processors, which can be viewed in glorious hand-drawn detail here (PDF).

Pulsoptional are a composers' collective from Durham -- yeah, a buncha 
academics, who may not like the term "21st-century classical" but are 
fairly likely to have a well-formed opinion about it, anyway. Their 
debut CD was also one of the best local releases of 2007, regardless of 
genre.



Thursday, March 13
American Aquarium    (http://www.americanaquarium.com/)
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh



Thursday, March 13
The Never    (http://www.trekkyrecords.com/never.html)
Parachute Musical
Mount Weather
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Thursday, March 13
Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls 
(http://www.myspace.com/richardbacchus)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Friday, March 14
Table    (http://www.myspace.com/table)
Sadlack's Heroes, Raleigh



Friday, March 14
Hobex    (http://www.hobex.com)
Lynn Blakey
Great Big Gone    (http://www.greatbiggone.com)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

This is a benefit for the Woods Charter School.



Friday, March 14
Skeptic Tank
Pneurotics    (http://www.myspace.com/pneurotics)
Sea Cow
Marla Vickers
Broad Street Cafe, Durham

This is a benefit for a Broad St. employee whose house burned, injuring 
her husband in the process.



Friday, March 14
Citified    (http://www.citifiedband.org/)
Noncanon    (http://www.myspace.com/noncanon)
Tin Star
The Garage, Winston-Salem

In case you missed Citified during their recent Triangle jaunt (or if 
you're gonna be passing through Winston-Salem anyway . . . hey, it could 
happen!) here's another chance to see 'em, along with freaked-out 
blooz-droners Noncanon.



Friday, March 14
Fan-Tan    (http://www.myspace.com/fantanrock)
The Love Language    (http://www.myspace.com/thelovelanguage)
Max Indian    (http://www.myspace.com/maxindian)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Friday, March 14
Joe Romeo & the Orange County Volunteers 
(http://www.myspace.com/joeromeomusic)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Friday, March 14
The Loners    (http://www.demonbeachrecords.com/loners.html)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh

The Loners are Raleigh's favorite gtr/drums bang-stomp garage-rock combo.



Saturday, March 15
Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan    (http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com)
A New Dawn Fades    (http://www.anewdawnfades.cherubrecords.com/)
Untied States    (http://www.untiedstates.us/)
Woman
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Cantwell Gomez & Jordan are teetering on the brink of a releasing a new 
CD (I believe it's due out April 5th), so expect new songs, I suppose, 
and some encouragement to check out the CD-release show in a few weeks.



Saturday, March 15
Olympic Ass Kicking Team    (http://www.terryandersonrocks.com/)
The Ts    (http://www.myspace.com/thettttt)
Pour House, Raleigh



Sunday, March 16
Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan    (http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com)
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

Last time CGJ played on the radio for us, it was Halloween and they did 
an entire set of covers, in their own brilliantly screwy way. This time 
around, they're just a few weeks away from releasing a new CD (their 
first in what seems like eons, and is probably more like 2 years), so 
while there'll likely be a cover or two, you oughta also expect a 
sneak-preview of the New Stuff. 4:00 p.m. 88.7 FM or wxdu.org.



Sunday, March 16
Flicker    (http://www.chapel-hill.nc.us/flicker)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Flicker is the long-running short-film festival that turns the Cradle 
into a salon of the Super-8 cinematographic arts every 6-8 weeks. Plus 
cookies!



Sunday, March 16
Mr. Quintron    (http://www.southern.com/southern/band/QTRON/)
The Black Lips    (http://www.bomp.com/BlackLips.html)
Miss Pussycat    (http://www.eccentricneworleans.com/mr__quintron.htm)
The Gondoliers    (http://www.myspace.com/comeseethegondoliers)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Holy crap, what a show. Anytime New Orleans' own Mr. Quintron makes an 
appearance, you know you've been blessed. You get a freaky puppet show 
from Miss Pussycat *and* the spookiest organ-playing in the history of 
the North American continent, and that's a mighty long time.

Add in Atlanta's Black Lips *and* Chapel Hill's mighty Gondoliers, and 
you've got simply way too much entertainment for a Sunday night. There's 
probably a Blue Law against this show.



Monday, March 17
Midtown Dickens    (http://www.myspace.com/midtowndickens)
Tilly and the Wall    (http://www.tillyandthewall.com)
Capgun Coup    (http://www.myspace.com/capguncoup)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, March 18
New Town Drunks    (http://www.newtowndrunks.com/)
Paris Falls    (http://www.myspace.com/parisfalls)
Geva Avalon
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, March 18
Impossible Arms
Polynya    (http://www.myspace.com/polynyapolynya)
Waumiss    (http://www.myspace.com/waumiss)
Hell, Chapel Hill

Impossible Arms is the new thing from Mike Meyerson (Mowing Lawns). 
Waumiss is the new thing from Clarque & Caroline (Shallow Be Thy Name, 
plus Clarque is or has been in Kingsbury Manx, Chuck Chuck Goose & 
Goatthrower). Speaking of Goatthrower, Clarque says Waumiss will be 
covering one of their songs.

Polynya is the new/old thing featuring members of Fashion Design, 
Roxotica & many others.



Tuesday, March 18
Red Collar    (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
Holy Fuck    (http://dependentmusic.com/a_holyfuck.htm)
A Place to Bury Strangers    (http://www.myspace.com/aplacetoburystrangers)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, March 18
Dr. Powerful    (http://drpowerful.googlepages.com)
Your Favorite Assassin    (http://www.myspace.com/yourfavoriteassassin)
Reservoir, Carrboro



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