RTP-area local music and culture

[Evan Rowe <evanrowe AT fastmail.fm>]

To clarify, this is a loud rock band show--

=Evan

grady wrote:

> Thursday, January 15
> des_ark    (http://www.des-ark.org)
> Polar Opposite Bear
> Ava Luna    (http://www.myspace.com/avalunaband)
> The Pinhook, Durham
>
> des_ark are currently a modified power-trio, with Aimee Argote and Noah 
> Howard (ex-Strunken White) on guitars, and Evan Rowe (Maple Stave) on 
> drums. Unless this is an Aimee-solo show, in which case you can probably 
> figure that out.
>
> Ava Luna are from Brooklyn, and the demo they sent is a weird (WEIRD) 
> mix of stripped-down electro beats, kinda-overbearing frontman dude-vox, 
> and a multi-woman choir of girl-group-style backup singers. I couldn't 
> really handle it on CD for more than a few minutes, but I did think to 
> myself "this'd probably be pretty fucked-up live." So we'll see.