RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Sunday, January 25
Bicameral Mind    (http://www.myspace.com/bicamind)
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

We kick off our 2009 live-music season with a set by local noise/drone 
outfit Bicameral Mind, aka Bryce Clayton Eiman (himself, various 
one-offs, Horseback) & Shaun Sandor (Promute). 4:00 p.m. @ 88.7 FM or 
wxdu.org.



Sunday, January 25
Stratocruiser    (http://www.stratocruisermusic.com/)
Colourmusic    (http://www.myspace.com/colourmusic)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Monday, January 26
The Ghost of Saturday Nite 
(http://www.myspace.com/theghostofsaturdaynite)
Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls 
(http://www.myspace.com/richardbacchus)
Joe Coffee    (http://www.myspace.com/joecoffeenyc)
Broad Street Cafe, Durham



Monday, January 26
Paper Scissors Rocketpack!    (http://www.myspace.com/paperrocketpack)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, January 27
The Ghost of Saturday Nite 
(http://www.myspace.com/theghostofsaturdaynite)
Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls 
(http://www.myspace.com/richardbacchus)
Joe Coffee    (http://www.myspace.com/joecoffeenyc)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, January 28
Thought Speak
Fever and the Fallin' Rain    (http://myspace.com/feverandthefallinrain)
On Photon    (http://myspace.com/onphotonmusic)
Marvell Building, Durham



Wednesday, January 28
Pneurotics    (http://www.myspace.com/pneurotics)
Pinche Gringo    (http://www.myspace.com/pinchegringoband)
The Naked Hearts    (http://www.myspace.com/thenakedhearts)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Thursday, January 29
Max Indian    (http://www.myspace.com/maxindian)
The Modern Skirts    (http://www.modernskirts.com/)
Josh Moore    (http://www.myspace.com/joshuamoore)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, January 29
Pattern is Movement    (http://www.patternismovement.com/)
Hammer No More the Fingers    (http://www.hnmtf.com)
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

Despite this being the weekly Local Bands, Local Beers night, only one 
of these two bands, the Durham indie-rock power trio Hammer No More the 
Fingers, are locals. Pattern is Movement are an awesome(ly weird) 
prog-rock duo from Philly, who are very much a love-em or hate-em type 
of outfit. Or in my case, kind of both at once, but in a good way.



Thursday, January 29
Dexter Romweber    (http://www.dexterromweber.com)
Stu Cole
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Thursday, January 29
Virgo 9    (http://www.myspace.com/thevirgonine)
Lollipop Factory    (http://www.myspace.com/lollipopfactory)
Aminal Music    (http://www.myspace.com/theaminalmusic)
Reservoir, Carrboro



Friday, January 30
Maple Stave    (http://www.maplestave.com)
Gray Young    (http://www.myspace.com/grayyoung)
Leaving Venus
Armadillo Grill @ the Bryan Center, Duke W. Campus, Durham

This is another in the Duke Campus Concert Series, meaning it's free, 
and it starts somewhere around 5:30 at the Armadillo Grill located 
inside Duke's Bryan Center, aka the student union building.

Maple Stave you're probably familiar with by now: they make propulsive 
mathy gtr/bass/drums indie-rock, with the occasional blurted vocal.

Gray Young are on the vanguard of the New Shoegaze movement; their songs 
either start slow and build, or start fast and decelerate.



Friday, January 30
Lake Inferior    (http://www.myspace.com/lakeinferiormusic)
Lafcadio    (http://www.myspace.com/lafcadiorocks)
Apollo    (http://www.myspace.com/apolloandrewrooney)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is a CD-release party for the first batch of releases from the UNC 
student-run Vinyl Records (student-run, as far as I know, in the same 
sense that Duke's Small Town Records is: as official student 
organizations, with on-campus office space). What does it mean that two 
of the Triangle's large universities have spawned record labels within 
the past 2 years, two of the darkest years for "the music business" 
since the invention of sound recording?



Friday, January 30 - Sunday February 1
Raleigh Undercover    (http://www.raleighundercover.com/)
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

This is a festival inspired by the classic Great/Kings Cover-Up, wherein 
many fine local bands donned ridiculous wigs & moustaches and learned 
short sets by some of *their* favorite bands. Punches were rarely 
pulled: over the years, the Cover-Up saw blistering sets by such 
supposed untouchables as Big Black, Danzig, Jesus Lizard and Fugazi, as 
well as more standard tribute-band fare such as Tom Petty & Eddie Money 
(and, inexplicably, a year of two Cures).

The demise of Kings left a lot of raw nerves *and* giant gaping hole 
where the Cover-Up used to be. This festival (renamed Raleigh Undercover 
in deference to those raw nerves) is taking its best shot at filling 
some of that gaping hole. Here's the lineup (as always, who's covering 
whom is a closely-guarded secret):

Friday Jan. 30
Embarrassing Fruits
Bright Young Things
Whalewatchers
Left Outlet
Valient Thorr

Saturday Jan. 31
I Was Totally Destroying It
Static Minds
The Nevers
The T’s
Hearts and Daggers

Sunday Feb. 1
Mike Roy
Gray Young
Skillet Gilmore/Marc Smith/Bartholomew Brothers
one more act TBA.



Friday, January 30
Kingsbury Manx    (http://www.thekingsburymanx.com/)
Schooner    (http://www.schoonermusic.com)
The Pinhook, Durham

Schooner make a strange & beautiful form of indie-pop that's evenly 
split between morose croony beauty and sped-up spazzy yelping, sometimes 
within the same song. It works, and well.

The Kingsbury Manx have been around for the better part of a decade, 
making stretched-out pastoral indie-pop -- lots of repeating arpeggios, 
sustained organ notes, and whispery vox. It's gorgeous, and immediately 
recognizable as their own.

Between bands, there'll be DJ sets.



Friday, January 30
Scott Miller and the Commonwealth    (http://www.thescottmiller.com/)
Dave Wilson    (http://www.myspace.com/davewilson1974)
Berkeley Cafe, Raleigh



Saturday, January 31
Annuals    (http://www.myspace.com/annuals)
Jessica Lea Mayfield    (http://www.myspace.com/jlmayfield)
What Laura Says    (http://www.whatlaurasays.com)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Saturday, January 31
The Loners    (http://www.demonbeachrecords.com/loners.html)
Dry Heathens    (http://www.myspace.com/dryheathens)
The Homewreckers    (http://www.myspace.com/jackandjillhomewrecker)
The Pinhook, Durham

The big news of 2008 (some of it, anyway) was the announcement that 
Durham's Churchkey Records had corralled the Loners into recording & 
releasing a follow-up to their debut, which came out back in the dark 
ages of ~2002 or so. Tonight they join their Churchkey labelmates the 
Dry Heathens (a band whose fondness for the Replacements can truly be 
listed as a plus), and fellow Durhamites the Homewreckers.



Saturday, January 31
Transportation    (http://www.myspace.com/transportation)
The Travesties    (http://www.myspace.com/travestiesnc)
Fan Tan    (http://www.myspace.com/fantanrock)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

The Travesties are Tim, Vespah & Viva from the original Jett Rink 
lineup, plus Doug White on keys and Chuck Garrison on drums. They're a 
little less spazzy & a little more soulful than Jett Rink.

Transportation you've probably seen or heard of by now. Fan Tan started 
in Chapel Hill but then relocated to New York.



Saturday, January 31
Clang Quartet    (http://www.myspace.com/clangquartet)
Boat Burning    (http://www.myspace.com/boatburning)
ODIST    (http://www.myspace.com/enjoyodist)
Douglas Ferguson    (http://www.myspace.com/douglasferguson)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Boat Burning's Andy Fekete sent this info about the show:

Boat Burning brings together musicians from Chapel Hill's Amps Do 
Furnish A Room collective, Killer Filler and The Old Ceremony for 
intense live instrumental improvisation using prepared electric guitars, 
cello and drums.

Focusing exclusively on live free-form composition, Boat Burning eschews 
set pieces, which means we are essentially working without a net each 
time we play out. What you'll hear will be unique, created entirely in 
the moment ... and then after you've heard it, gone forever. Like so 
many good things, the music -- spacey/edgy, delicate/brutal, 
noisy/beautiful "hard ambiance" -- is totally, 100% ephemeral.



Saturday, January 31
The Howlies    (http://www.myspace.com/thehowlies)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Sunday, February 1
Caltrop    (http://www.myspace.com/caltropband)
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

Caltrop return to WXDU after a triumphant 2008, which saw the release of 
their debut full-length "World Class," a near-perfect showcase of their 
fusion of metal wallop and psych/stoner expansiveness. They're one of my 
favorite bands, and they never fail to astonish in a live setting. Be 
astonished: 4:00 p.m. 88.7 FM or www.wxdu.org.



Monday, February 2
Dry Heathens    (http://www.myspace.com/dryheathens)
The Howlies    (http://www.myspace.com/thehowlies)
Pinche Gringo    (http://www.myspace.com/pinchegringoband)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

The Howlies are a garage-rock band from Atlanta, I believe. Pinche 
Gringo is the sometimes-1-man, sometimes-2 band of Josh from the Spinns. 
The Dry Heathens are pissed off, and they're from Durham.



Monday, February 2
Man Will Destroy Himself
Call the Paramedics
Waiting Mortuary
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



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