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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: stuff to do, week of April 22, 2009
  • Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:59:31 -0400

Wednesday, April 22
World Inferno Friendship Society (http://www.worldinferno.com/)
Stuck Lucky (http://www.stucklucky.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Wednesday, April 22
Polynya (http://www.myspace.com/polynyapolynya)
Embarrassing Fruits (http://www.myspace.com/embarrassingfruitsband)
Veelee (http://www.myspace.com/seeveelee)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Veelee are a duo which includes half of Opening Flower Happy Bird, but which is very different from that band. Sorta hypnotic stripped-down indie-pop with female vocals.

Embarrassing Fruits are riding a wave of positive reviews of their new full-length, "Community/Exploitation."



Thursday, April 23
North Elementary (http://www.northelementary.com)
Wembley (http://www.myspace.com/wembleystadium)
Pistolero (http://www.myspace.com/pistoleroband)
The Popular Kids
Local 506, Chapel Hill

There'll be a limited-edition North Elementary/Pistolero split-7" available at this show. Will also almost certainly be free copies of either last year's awesome Wembley full-length debut, or whatever new stuff they might've recorded since then. Crucial.



Thursday, April 23
Billy Sugarfix (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/billysugarfix.htm)
Hey Penny (http://www.myspace.com/heypenny)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Billy Sugarfix's one-man show is something you'll really need to see to comprehend.



Thursday, April 23
The Proclivities (http://www.myspace.com/theproclivities)
Becca Stevens
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh



Thursday, April 23
The Nothing Noise (http://www.myspace.com/thenothingnoise)
Harmute (http://www.myspace.com/harmute)
Animal Alphabet
Jack Sprat Cafe, Chapel Hill



Friday, April 24
Heather McEntire (http://www.bellafea.com/)
Adam Price
Eric Roehrig (http://www.eriechoir.com)
Lee Waters
Love House, Chapel Hill

This is "Music on the Porch II," sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South & assembled by Reid Johnson of Schooner. Eric Roehrig (Erie Choir, Sorry About Dresden), Lee Waters (Lud, Work Clothes, Panzer, Cobra Khan), Adam Price (Comas, Mayflies USA, Hundred Air) and Heather McEntire (Bellafea, Un Deux Trois, Mount Moriah) will take turns playing songs & talking about songwriting. Free, starts at 5:00 p.m.



Friday, April 24
The Rosebuds (http://www.therosebuds.com/)
Midtown Dickens (http://www.myspace.com/midtowndickens)
Lost in the Trees (http://www.lostinthetrees.com)
Golden Belt, Durham

This is a concert (the first formal music event at the new Golden Belt mixed-use complex) & fundraiser for the Durham Arts Council. In addition to the pure pop of the Rosebuds, the brilliant mongrel freak/folk of Midtown Dickens and the emo-chamber-pop of Lost in the Trees, they'll also have OnlyBurger, that burger truck you've been stalking all over Durham for the past few months.



Friday, April 24
Mogwai (http://www.abandcalledmogwai.com/)
The Twilight Sad (http://www.myspace.com/thetwilightsad)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Friday, April 24
The Jackets (http://www.reverbnation.com/TheJackets)
Gabriel Kelley (http://www.myspace.com/gabrielkelleymusic)
Robert Sledge and the Flashlight Assembly
Pour House, Raleigh



Friday, April 24
Kataklysm (http://www.kataklysm.net/)
Toxic Holocaust (http://www.myspace.com/toxicholocaust)
Trap Them (http://www.myspace.com/trapthem)
Coliseum
Napalm Death (http://www.myspace.com/napalmdeath)
Volume 11 Tavern, Raleigh



Friday, April 24
The Vibe Killers (http://www.myspace.com/vibekillers)
The New Heathens (http://www.newheathens.com/)
Spanking Charlene
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh

This is the first night of the Slim's 10th Anniversary party weekend.



Saturday, April 25
Dillon Fence (http://www.dillonfence.com)
Katharine Whalen (http://www.mammoth.go.com/katharinewhalen/)
Jason Ross & Thomas Juliano
John Strohm (http://www.myspace.com/johnpstrohmmusic)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Two labels were founded in the Triangle circa 1989. Both had names that began with the letter 'M'. One, Merge, was founded by musicians, initially just to release their own music, but went on to release seminal indie-rock albums such as Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea," Magnetic Fields' "69 Love Songs," and the Arcade Fire's "Funeral." Still alive and kicking today, they'll be celebrating their 20th anniversary with a 5-day festival in July.

The other 1989 'M' label, Mammoth, was founded by a Duke MBA, and released a wide variety of music from the very beginning, both local (blackgirls, Vanilla Trainwreck, Dillon Fence) and non- (Blake Babies, Dash Rip Rock, Joe Henry). Over the course of the next decade, they had a pretty wild ride, releasing some brilliant records (a huge chunk of Joe Henry's amazing '90s ouvre), some not-so-brilliant (Machines of Loving Grace? Vowel Movement?) and some that more or less changed the face of modern music, however temporarily (remember the Squirrel Nut Zippers?)

Yet by 1998 they were a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Walt Disney Corporation, and in 2003 Disney quietly killed Mammoth, folding it into Hollywood Records (home of the Jonas Brothers).

The press coverage of Merge's 20th anniversary is going to be pretty much wall-to-wall all year long. I'm guessing there won't be much coverage of Mammoth (so far, they haven't even been footnoted in the Merge articles I've read, even though it was Merge who actually released the first SNZ 7").

And their only birthday celebration consists of this one-night-stand at the Cradle, featuring a handful of folks once connected to the label.



Saturday, April 25
The Bronzed Chorus (http://www.myspace.com/thebronzedchorus)
Battle Rockets (http://www.myspace.com/battlerockets)
The White Cascade (http://www.myspace.com/thewhitecascade)
Jack Sprat Cafe, Chapel Hill

At least two of these bands, the Triangle's Battle Rockets and Greensboro's Bronzed Chorus, are instrumental duos.



Saturday, April 25
Filthybird (http://www.myspace.com/filthybird)
Midtown Dickens (http://www.myspace.com/midtowndickens)
Auxiliary House (http://www.trekkyrecords.com/auxhouse.html)
Bull City (http://www.bullcitytheband.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is a CD-release party for the latest installment in the long-running, and utterly crucial, Compulation series. Local-music comps have come and gone throughout the long history of the local music scene, from the Mondo Montage and Comboland comps of the '80s, to the Pyloric Waves, Wifflefist and Cognitive Mapping comps of the early-mid-90s, to a whole host of one-offs that have come and gone over the past decade. But no-one else has come close to matching the hit quotient of the Compulation series.

And even a cursory glance at the tracklist (http://www.poxworldempire.org/compulation3/) for this new edition confirms that it'll be every bit as crucial as the first two.



Saturday, April 25
Killer Filler (http://www.myspace.com/killerfiller)
The Noseriders (http://www.myspace.com/thenoseriders)
The Surge (http://www.myspace.com/thesurgeinstro)
Atomic Mosquitos (http://www.myspace.com/atomicmosquitos)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

This is the second in a series of "Instro Summits" hosted by local surf/garage/lounge act Killer Filler.



Saturday, April 25
American Aquarium (http://www.americanaquarium.com/)
Red Collar (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
Holy Ghost Tent Revival (http://www.myspace.com/hgtr)
Pour House, Raleigh

Red Collar are now a month or so into their great full-time indie-rocker adventure, and are swinging back through town to recharge their batteries before heading right back out onto the road again. They were a top-notch rockband *before* spending a month on the road; I can't even imagine what they're like now.



Saturday, April 25
Monsonia (http://www.monsonia.com)
Jew(s) & Catholic(s) (http://www.myspace.com/jewsandcatholics)
Death Came Down the Mountain (http://www.myspace.com/deathcamedownthemountain)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Saturday, April 25
The Yayhoos
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh

Night two of the Slims 10th anniversary weekend.



Saturday, April 25
Goodbye, Titan (http://www.myspace.com/loudestsilenceever)
Bicycle Day (http://myspace.com/bicycleday1)
The Last Track (http://www.myspace.com/thelasttrack)
Reservoir, Carrboro



Sunday, April 26
The Spinns (http://www.thespinns.freeservers.com/)
Dirty Little Heaters (http://www.myspace.com/thedirtylittleheaters)
Pinche Gringo (http://www.myspace.com/pinchegringoband)
The Siberians (http://www.myspace.com/olafandthesiberians)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Holy crap, it's a Spinns reunion! *And* sets by the current bands of two of the three Spinns, plus Brooklyn's The Siberians. Garage-rock show of the month, at least.



Monday, April 27
Dinosaur Jr (http://www.freakscene.net/)
Mike Watt & the Missingmen (http://hootpage.com/hoot_missingmen2006.html)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

I know I don't have to write any kind of blurb for this show, so I'll just repeat what it said on the Cradle schedule, namely that you'll get a free single (or a "digital download card," but where's the fun in that?) at the door.



Monday, April 27
Hiss Golden Messenger
Muscle Babes
Daniel Francis Doyle
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, April 28
The Kills (http://www.thekills.tv/)
The Magic Wands (http://www.myspace.com/themagicwands)
The Horrors (http://www.myspace.com/thehorrors)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Wednesday, April 29
Mr. Quintron (http://www.southern.com/southern/band/QTRON/)
Miss Pussycat (http://www.eccentricneworleans.com/mr__quintron.htm)
Psychedelic Horseshit (http://www.myspace.com/psychedelichorseshit)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Last year, after a series of amazing benefit shows featuring many of the brighest lights of North Carolina music, our friend Cy Rawls, weak from chemo & from the brain cancer that would kill him soon after, told his parents he was going to see some friends, and then went to the airport, boarded a plane, and flew to New Orleans. To see Mr. Quintron.



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