RTP-area local music and culture

[Teresa <thevirgonine AT gmail.com>]

On May 24, 10:27=A0am, gr... AT ibiblio.org (grady) wrote:
> Saturday, May 24
> Pulsoptional =A0 =A0(http://www.pulsoptional.org/)
> Rhymes With Opera =A0 =A0(http://www.rhymeswithopera.org)
> Bull City Headquarters, Durham
>
> I got an email a couple of days ago from the Pulsoptional folks, who are
> a Durham-based contemporary/avant-garde composers' collective. It said:
>
> "pulsoptional will be joining a new and exciting "alternative" opera
> company, Rhymes WIth Opera for a show at Bull City Headquarters this
> Saturday, May 24th at 9pm.
>
> Rhymes With Opera was co-founded by our friend, composer/violinist
> George Lam and composer, Ruby Fulton. They are titling this show
> ONE-TRACK MIND.
>
> Featuring Bonnie Lander (soprano) and Robert Maril (baritone), the show
> includes two new operas: "Heartbreak Express" is about a fan obsessed
> with Dolly Parton, and "Closer to Mona" is a dissection of the real and
> ideal in the Mona Lisa. Our own Thom Limbert will be joining RWO on
> drums for "Closer to Mona.""
>
> Saturday, May 24
> Audubon Park =A0 =A0(http://audubonpark.blogspot.com)
> Le Weekend =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/leweekendleband)
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> Since Audubon Park frontman David Nahm is currently living in East
> Bumfuck, Virginia, yr chances to see Audubon Park have been seriously
> constrained. So don't snooze on this one; they're still about the best
> amalgam of brilliant pop and impenetrable melodic confusion around.
>
> Saturday, May 24
> Fin Fang Foom =A0 =A0(http://www.lovitt.com/artists/finfangfoom.html)
> Kerbloki =A0 =A0(http://www.kerbloki.com/)
> Monsonia =A0 =A0(http://www.monsonia.com)
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Two bands specializing in postpunk rumble; the third (Kerbloki) grafts
> the rhythm section from uber-heavy local metallers Caltrop onto a
> Beasties-influenced party-hip-hop band, with predictably mystifying result=
s.
>
> Saturday, May 24
> Ruscha =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/ruscha)
> Fighting Poseidon =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/fightingposeidon)
> Nightstick =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/nightstickband)
> Hell, Chapel Hill
>
> Poseidon won.
>
> Saturday, May 24
> The Needles =A0 =A0(http://www.moonrockneedles.com/)
> Dropsonic =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/dropsonic)
> Luxury Pushers
> Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
>
> Sunday, May 25
> The Sammies =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/thesammies)
> The Houstons
> Huguenots =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/thehuguenotsmusic)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> Sunday, May 25
> Jule Brown =A0 =A0(http://www.julebrown.org)
> Will West =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/willsmusic)
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> Sunday, May 25
> The Ts =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/thettttt)
> The Sugar
> Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
>
> Tuesday, May 27
> Detroit Cobras =A0 =A0(http://www.motorcityrocks.com/cobras.htm)
> X =A0 =A0(http://www.xtheband.com)
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
> Ever since Mission of Burma reunited and kicked everybody's asses up &
> down the east coast, I've found it difficult to cling to my old
> resolution to always resist reunion tours. I never saw X (opportunities
> to see the attenuated, compromised post-Billy Zoom version of the band
> never really interested me), but those first three albums are still near
> the top of my punkrock canon. So I'm taking a chance on this
> original-members reunion tour, and hoping that, if nothing else, I get
> to see Billy Zoom standing there with his feet about 7 feet apart,
> shit-eating grin on his face, nothing moving but his hands as he flings
> one classic riff after another out into the room.
>
> Tuesday, May 27
> The Karloffs
> 3 Christs =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/the3christs)
> Virgo 9 =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/thevirgonine)
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> Tuesday, May 27
> Double Negative =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/thedoublenegative)
> Logic Problem
> Chronic Seizure
> Double Down, Raleigh
>
> The Raleigh rock scene moves in mysterious ways, and thus this little
> dive bar on the fringes of the Glenwood South yuppie zone has become the
> new home of the Raleigh hardcore scene.
>
> Wednesday, May 28
> North Mississippi All-Stars =A0 =A0(http://www.nmsallstars.com/)
> Amy LaVere =A0 =A0(http://www.amylavere.com)
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
> Wednesday, May 28
> Seepeoples =A0 =A0(http://www.seepeoples.com/)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> Thursday, May 29
> Inspector 22
> Citified =A0 =A0(http://www.citifiedband.org/)
> The Tiny Meteors =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/thetinymeteors)
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
> This is part of the Cradle's ongoing "The Club is Open" free local-music
> series. Citified and Tiny Meteors are both from the Triad. Citified are
> a shoegazey/dreampoppy sort of band, and all I can remember about Tiny
> Meteors is that their former drummer emailed me to tell me he wasn't in
> the band anymore. Well OK.
>
> Inspector 22 is Todd Emmert, also of Mowing Lawns. Last time I saw him
> play, a couple of years ago at Schoolkids, he took a nap onstage for 20
> minutes while a tape played. It was awesome.
>
> Thursday, May 29
> Proof =A0 =A0(http://www.prooftheband.org)
> The Trousers
> Tir Na Nog, Raleigh
>
> This is the latest installment in Tir Na nOg's weekly Local Bands, Local
> Beers night.
>
> Thursday, May 29
> Remora =A0 =A0(http://www.silbermedia.com/remora/)
> Hotel Hotel =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/hotelhotel)
> Sons of Roswell
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Thursday, May 29
> Helio Sequence =A0 =A0(http://www.theheliosequence.com/)
> The Republic Tigers =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/therepublictigers)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> Friday, May 30
> Hammer No More the Fingers =A0 =A0(http://www.hnmtf.com)
> Caverns =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/caverns)
> Squaaks
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Friday, May 30
> Kenny Roby's Mercy Filter =A0 =A0(http://www.kennyroby.com)
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> I think Kenny is a great songwriter, but then I grew up with him, so
> maybe I'm biased. Luckily you don't have to take my word for it;
> recently Brian Walsby printed an interview and appreciation in his blog:ht=
tp://introvertedloudmouth.blogspot.com/2008/05/kenny-roby-interview...
>
> Friday, May 30
> Un Deux Trois =A0 =A0(http://www.undeuxtroisband.com/)
> The Dead Betties =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/thedeadbetties)
> MKNG FRNDZ =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/makingfriendz)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> MKNG FRNDZ is the crazy electroclash (can I still use that word?) outfit
> of former local teen lesbian Cobain-folk superstar Tami Hart. They're on
> tour from Brooklyn with their homiez the Dead Betties.
>
> Un Deux Trois are where the pretty pop songs went after Bellafea went in
> a more angry/abrasive direction. Their Lovers EP was one of my faves of
> 2007.
>
> Friday, May 30
> The Heavy Pets =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/theheavypetsraleighnc)
> Revival Times
> Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
>
> Saturday, May 31
> The Never =A0 =A0(http://www.trekkyrecords.com/never.html)
> Future Kings of Nowhere =A0 =A0(http://www.thefuturekings.net/)
> Bowerbirds =A0 =A0(http://www.bowerbirds.org)
> Embarrassing Fruits =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/embarrassingfruitsband)=

> Megafaun =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/megafaun)
> Piedmont Biofuels, Pittsboro
>
> It's called TRKfest, and it's an all-day (2pm - midnight or so) festival
> put on by the folks at Chapel Hill's Trekky Records. Here's the complete
> lineup:
>
> The Never
> Bowerbirds
> Endless Mic
> Megafaun
> Embarrassing Fruits
> Hammer No More the Fingers
> Butterflies
> Barghest
> The Future Kings of Nowhere
> Wil Donegan and the Americans
> Vibrant Green
> Sweet By & By
>
> Saturday, May 31
> Patty Hurst Shifter =A0 =A0(http://www.pattyhurstshifter.com)
> Sadlack's Heroes, Raleigh
>
> Saturday, May 31
> Red Collar =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
> Dirty Little Heaters =A0 =A0(http://www.thedirtylittleheaters.com)
> Dry Heathens =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/dryheathens)
> James Joyce, Durham
>
> This is a CD release party for the new Dry Heathens CD. They're
> somewhere between a punkrock band and a plain old dirty bar-rock band.
> Not quite as old & crotchety as Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, but
> the attitude is similar.
>
> I think the email I got about this show said it would be outdoors, which
> is good, because the James Joyce is far too small to contain Red Collar.
>
> Saturday, May 31
> Joe Romeo & the Orange County Volunteers
> (http://www.myspace.com/joeromeomusic)
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> Saturday, May 31
> Salt to Bitters =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/salttobitters)
> Western Civ. =A0 =A0(http://westerncivrock.com)
> Mass Solo Revolt =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/masssolorevolt)
> Hell, Chapel Hill
>
> Sunday, June 1
> The Dead Betties =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/thedeadbetties)
> MKNG FRNDZ =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/makingfriendz)
> Bull City Headquarters, Durham
>
> Second Triangle stop for this tour featuring MKNG FRNDZ, the new
> Brooklyn-based electroclash duo with former Durham queer acousticore
> superstar Tami Hart.
>
> Sunday, June 1
> Robo Sapien =A0 =A0(http://www.gorobosapien.com/)
> Americans in France =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/americansinfrance)
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> Monday, June 2
> Flowers Forever =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/flowersforever)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> Tuesday, June 3
> The Wading Girl =A0 =A0(http://www.thewadinggirl.com)
> Jokes & Jokes & Jokes =A0 =A0(http://www.myspace.com/jokesjokesjokes)
> Reservoir, Carrboro
>
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Thanks for mentioning us!
-Teresa