RTP-area local music and culture

[dj golf <mcass AT mindspring.com>]

On Mar 10, 1:09=A0pm, DJ Golf <djg... AT mindspring.com> wrote:
> Sightings' "Through The Panama" is my favorite record of 2008 so far.
> It's kind of like the pop version of Swans' "Filth." =A0Gtr bass &
> drums, maxo distorto so you can't really even tell what's what but in
> a good way. =A0More melody & song structure than, say, Wolf Eyes
> (really?) but not too much so. =A0Vocals are a bit more restrained than
> those of most of the US noise underground stuff - you can occasionally
> understand a lyric or two. =A0And they do a Scott Walker cover.
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> It's been a long time since I bought something directly as a result of
> a review in the Independent, but this was just that.
>
So, did anybody go see Sightings (heh - a Sightings sighting) and the
other two no doubt fine bands that accompanied them?  I did not go,
due to my suckness and lameness making it difficult for me to get out
on a weeknight.


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> > Hazerai =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/hazerai)
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> > Nightlight, Chapel Hill
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