RTP-area local music and culture

["Jenks Miller" <nightlightbooking AT gmail.com>]

*This week includes Ariel Pink/Clang Quartet on Sunday 8/3, Extreme Animals
on Monday 8/4, and Great Lakes (of Montreal, Circulatory System, Neutral
Milk Hotel - affiliated) on Saturday 8/9!!  Plus lots more!!

Sunday, 8/3, 8pm ($6)**
ARIEL PINK + HAUNTED GRAFFITI Band* <<< addictive lo-fi neon rainbow

smorgasboard of all your favorite kinds of pop music, disremembered,
expanded with a full live band. You and all the other ugly people in
the world singing these songs together, is a beautiful thing

*CLANG QUARTET* <<< You know Clang -ecstatic noise for Jesus, since
1997! ♥ ♥ ♥

*UNICORNICOPIA* <<< Susie Simpson's ex roommate BFF and sometime R
Stevie Moore collaborator Natalie Weiss's highly performative
one-woman event has manifested itself as everything from a full length
musical, complete with 14 singing dancing puppeteers, to one-woman
electronic sound sculpture, turning countless audience members onto
Jesus + emotion(!)

* AMI DANG* <<<classically trained in North Indian classical music in
Delhi, Ami projects alternating particles of Indian and American
sounds through sitar, vocals, and electronics . . . she's done some
recent work with No Neck Blues Band's Dave Nuss and MV Carbon of
Metalux. Real dreamy stuff!

*BOYZONE* <<< the battery light of the metal zone pedal growing dimmer

* CHAIRLIFT* <<< Blind date

*Monday, 8/4, 9:30pm ($6)*
*Extreme Animals* - From the Independent:  Extreme Animals' tantalizing
music dices up that cracked electronics sound. They seem to be having way
too much fun doing it. Their slightly crazed gaze asserts that old gamer
quandary of wondering if the current stage may be the kill screen, when the
feeble game's memory overloads.

*Fortress of Amplitude* - From Wow Cool:  an ancient druidic guitar sorcery
from suburban depths

*Secret Boyfriend* - Disco noize for prowlers in their yards.

*DJ Nasty Boots* - Deep disco from the FrequeNC Records camp.


*Thursday, 8/7, 9:30pm ($5)*
*Br'er* - BR'ER is the result of leaving things unsaid. BR'ER is collection
of apologies for fucking things up and recollections of fucked up things.
BR'ER lived in the brain of BEN SCHURR until the encouragement he received
from close friends & drunken acquaintances. these close friends played
instruments and became BR'ER. the drunken acquaintances played instruments
too. they joined BR'ER and EVERYONE became close friends. IT'S TRUE: MISERY
<3'S COMPANY.
the fully-realized line-up is very new. so watch out, kids.

*Hermit Thrushes* - From Philadelphia Weekly:  Tucking freaky pop inside
knotty indie rock, Hermit Thrushes are best known for their live shows,
during which they swap mean-spirited banter with each other, wear
color-coded outfits and brandish a trumpet when needed... Hermit Thrushes
offer more proof that our city's newest generation of indie bands can
colorfully defy genres while happily erupting all over the place.

*The Groves* - Rock and roll, like the way The Who played rock and roll.
From Cary.


*Friday, 8/8, 9:30pm ($5)*
*The Seed and the Sprawl* - From their website:  time +
tea (michael) +
coffee (jay) +
rice +
beans +
more time +
basement +
self-loathing +
manic excitement +
lead poisoning (possibly)

*Ash Hopkins* - Is in the band Run Dan Run.  From Audio Overflow:  Run Dan
Run is an indie pop/rock quartet from Charleston, South Carolina, fronted by
Dan McCurry.  On the band's debut album, Basic Mechanics, the group does an
impressive job of displaying their wide range of talent and influences.
 Everybody from The Postal Service to Broken Social Scene gets evoked in
some way or another over the course of the album, but the band never submits
to pigeonholing - always changing directions and moods unexpectedly.

*Scarlet Virginia* - Folk rock from Raleigh.  Two female singerz.

*
Saturday, 8/9, 9:30pm ($5)*
*Great Lakes* - From their website:  Great Lakes formed in Athens, Georgia
around the songwriting partnership of lyricist Dan Donahue and composer Ben
Crum. Heavily inspired in their early days by the Elephant 6 scene in Athens
(Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control, and the loose collective of
psychedelicly-minded artists and home recording avatars that grew up around
them), the band has had many members, all of them notable for their work in
other musical projects, including: Jamey Huggins, Dottie Alexander, Kevin
Barnes, Bryan Poole (all from Of Montreal), Heather McIntosh (Olivia Tremor
Control, The Circulatory System, Japancakes, and, more recently, Gnarls
Barkley), Derek Almstead (Elf Power), Jeff Baron (The Essex Green), and
Scott Spillane (Neutral Milk Hotel). The current line-up includes Kyle
Forester (The Ladybug Transistor), Kevin Shea (Storm & Stress), and Jay
Israelson (Mice Parade).

Together now for a decade, the band last toured the US opening for The
Clientele in the summer of 2006, and went on to tour Sweden, Norway,
Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and the UK in January 2007. They've played at
South by Southwest and the CMJ festival, opened for Belle & Sebastian, and
appeared at the Emmaboda Festival in Sweden and the Quart Festival in
Norway.

Their songs were featured in director Michael Tully's film Cocaine Angel,
and Crum penned original music for director Craig Zobel's Sundance favorite
Great World of Sound.

The band are currently based in New York and are working on their 4th album.

*Shakermaker* - From the Independent:  SHAKERMAKER's weightless pop floats
on a strange breeze. It's all wooden and rustic until the '60s psych guitars
whip through your hair, and those sunburned melodies take hold. Like a
modest Shins, 'verb bagged up and quirk transformed, Mitch Eubanks and Jesse
Moorefield understand the understated but aren't scared to add proper
garnish or let a guitar shout when it should...
*
Actuaries* - Jangly indie-rock from Boone, NC.


*Coming Next Week:  New American Folk Hero Festival 2008 (featuring Mike
Tamburo of Meisha/Arco Flute Foundation, etc), Burma Film Night,
avant-rockers Remora/Irata/Electric Bird Noise, and much more!!  Stay
tuned!!

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