RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Saturday, September 20
The Showteens    (http://www.myspace.com/theshowteens)
Aminal Music    (http://www.myspace.com/theaminalmusic)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Saturday, September 20
Red Collar    (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
Gaslight Anthem    (http://www.myspace.com/thegaslightanthem)
American Steel    (http://www.myspace.com/amsteel)
Polar Bear Club    (http://www.myspace.com/polarbearclub)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Saturday, September 20
Lonnie Walker    (http://www.myspace.com/lonniewalker)
Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls 
(http://www.myspace.com/richardbacchus)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Sunday, September 21
Sawteeth McTweedy and the Particles 
(http://www.myspace.com/sawteethmctweedy)
Scientific Superstar    (http://www.myspace.com/scientificsuperstar)
Batata Doce    (http://www.myspace.com/batatadoce)
Gary Eddy    (http://www.myspace.com/garyeddyonline)
Bull City Headquarters, Durham



Monday, September 22
Western Civ.    (http://westerncivrock.com)
Throw Me the Statue    (http://www.myspace.com/throwmethestatue)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, September 23
Regina Hexaphone    (http://www.reginahexaphone.com)
Band of Annuals    (http://www.bandofannuals.com/)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, September 23
Rahim    (http://www.rahimrahim.org/)
Win Win Winter    (http://www.myspace.com/winwinwinter)
Reservoir, Carrboro



Wednesday, September 24
Peelander-Z    (http://www.peelander-z.com/p-z_e/home_e.html)
TsuShiMaMiRe    (http://www.myspace.com/tsushimamirejapan)
Bakubeni    (http://www.myspace.com/bakubeni)
Quaff    (http://www.myspace.com/quaffjapan)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is an entire package tour of wildly-dressed dyed-hair Japanese 
rock-n-rollers.



Thursday, September 25
Mount Moriah    (http://www.myspace.com/mountmoriah)
Pontiak    (http://www.myspace.com/pontiak)
Horseback    (http://www.myspace.com/horsebacknoise)
Bull City Headquarters, Durham

Mount Moriah and Horseback are two different facets of local guitarist 
Jenks Miller.



Thursday, September 25
Black Kids    (http://blackkidsmusic.com)
The Virgins    (http://www.thevirgins.net)
The Magic Wands    (http://www.myspace.com/themagicwands)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

The Black Kids are from Florida, and if you haven't heard their hit, 
"I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You," then you 
must be *really* sheltered, because *I've* heard it, and I never listen 
to anything but local music.



Thursday, September 25
Resist Not    (http://myspace.com/resistnot)
Pistolero    (http://www.myspace.com/pistoleroband)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Resist Not are a folk/punk band from Durham, who sport a near-perfect 
balance of sincere protest-song anger and self-deprecation.



Thursday, September 25
Embarrassing Fruits    (http://www.myspace.com/embarrassingfruitsband)
Lonnie Walker    (http://www.myspace.com/lonniewalker)
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

This is another installment in Tir Na nOg & WKNC's weekly Local Bands, 
Local Beers show series.



Thursday, September 25
Hammer No More the Fingers    (http://www.hnmtf.com)
The Broken West    (http://www.thebrokenwest.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, September 25
Whale Watchers
Bright Young Things
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Friday, September 26 & Saturday, September 27
Come the Freak ON Festival    (http://www.screwmusicforever.com/?page_id=17)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Per Nightlight:

A convergence of artists and bands involved in the early ' 90s Tampa 
Bay/Gainesville, Florida based artists/musicians collective known as 
SCREWMUSICFOREVER. Since the '90s the participants have mostly 
transplanted themselves to points north and west of Florida, but still 
meet once a year for this festival. In years past it has been held in 
Tampa or NYC - but this year for the first time it will be convened in 
Chapel Hill at NIGHTLIGHT on Sept.26 and 27.

The festival will be hosted by The Kingsbury Manx/WAUMISS's Clarque and 
Caroline Blomquist, who grew up in the Tampa Bay Area before moving to 
Chapel Hill in 1998. Bands slated to perform include HOME (NYC), Errant 
Strike (Baltimore MA), WYE OAK (Baltimore MA), Flexxehawke 
(St.Petersburg FL), Masik (Gainesville FL), Impossible Arms (Carrboro, 
but 2/3 born and raised in St.Pete FL), WAUMISS, The Kingsbury Manx, 
LEELS (St.Pete/NY), Disbelief Street (Brooklyn), Warmingtons (Pittsburg 
PA), and more! The music will begin promptly at 9:30 pm each night, so 
get there early!

Flexxehawke
Wye Oak
Kingsbury Manx
Errant Strike
Home
Masik
Waumiss
Warmingtons
Impossible Arms
Thruster
Leels
Disbelief St.



Friday, September 26
Future Kings of Nowhere    (http://www.thefuturekings.net/)
Pneurotics    (http://www.myspace.com/pneurotics)
Lam! Lam!    (http://www.myspace.com/lamlamband)
Paleface
Armadillo Grill @ the Bryan Center, Duke W. Campus, Durham

This is another in a series of mostly-local shows sponsored by a 
committee of the Duke Union. Future Kings of Nowhere are the hugely 
popular acoustic pop-punk band from Durham. Lam! Lam! supposedly went on 
indefinite hiatus a couple of weeks ago. Or maybe this show is the start 
of that hiatus? Or maybe now we know the definition of "indefinite hiatus".



Friday, September 26
Ratatat    (http://www.ratatatmusic.com/)
Panther    (http://www.jyrk.com/panther/)
E*Rock    (http://www.e--rock.com)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Friday, September 26
The Holy Ghost    (http://www.deathtrapbaby.com/theholyghost/default.html)
The Juan MacLean    (http://www.thejuanmaclean.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Friday, September 26
Patty Hurst Shifter    (http://www.pattyhurstshifter.com)
Austin Collins
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Saturday, September 27
Bombadil    (http://www.bombadilmusic.com/)
The Proclivities    (http://www.myspace.com/theproclivities)
Holy Ghost Tent Revival    (http://www.myspace.com/hgtr)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Saturday, September 27
The Loners    (http://www.demonbeachrecords.com/loners.html)
Sir Arthur and His Royal Knights 
(http://mannsworld.blogspot.com/2007/08/sir-arthur-his-royal-knights.html)
The Cy Rawlsters
Here Lies
Pour House, Raleigh

This is a benefit for Cy Rawls, who is currently en route to kicking the 
ass out of his brain tumor. The Cy Rawlsters are a supergroup made up of 
just a tiny percentage of Cy's friends in various local bands (Rosebuds, 
Birds of Avalon, Polvo, Magic Babies and more, it says).



Saturday, September 27
Gambling the Muse    (http://www.myspace.com/gamblingthemuse)
Pneurotics    (http://www.myspace.com/pneurotics)
Oscar Begat    (http://www.reverbnation.com/oscarbegat)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Saturday, September 27
Transportation    (http://www.myspace.com/transportation)
Inspector 22
Spider Bags    (http://www.myspace.com/spiderbags)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is a CD-release party for the new Transportation CD -- their FIRST, 
after, what, a dozen or more years? They are crazy motherfuckers -- it's 
full of their trademark vocal harmonies and their blend of 70s soft-rock 
melodies and the occasional hardrock bombast, but there are also a 
couple of songs about robots. Is it a concept album, or just a 
distillation of a dozen years of ideas? Either way, long time coming.



Saturday, September 27
The Invisible Hand
Order of the Dying Orchid 
(http://www.geocities.com/orderofthedyingorchid/)
Whatever Brains    (http://www.myspace.com/whateverbrains)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Sunday, September 28
Carrboro Music Festival    (http://carrboromusicfestival.com/)
nearly everywhere, Carrboro

The Carrboro Music Festival has been happening yearly for the past 11 
years (including the first few years under the Fete de la Musique 
moniker). As usual, there are way too many bands and venues for me to go 
into detail, but you can get all the info you need at the website. 
http://carrboromusicfestival.com/2008Schedule.html

If I were making the trek, though, I'd be scanning the schedule for some 
or all of the following: John Howie Jr, Brett Harris, Killer Filler, 
Roxcetera, Jeff Hart, Violet Vector & the Lovely Lovelies, Midtown 
Dickens, Evil Weiner, des_ark, Aminal Music, Dexter Romweber, The 
Breaks, Joe Romeo & the Orange County Volunteers.



Monday, September 29
Stereolab    (http://www.stereolab.co.uk/)
Atlas Sound    (http://deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Tuesday, September 30
A. A. Bondy    (http://www.myspace.com/aabondy)
The Felice Brothers    (http://www.myspace.com/thefelicebrothers)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



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