RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <hepstyle AT gmail.com>]

Friday, June 19
I Was Totally Destroying U2
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

One of the most ambitious cover/tribute projects this area has seen for some
time, we the kids from I Was Totally Destroying It will rock 25 U2 songs
spanning just about every record U2 made, including some songs that never
made it onto an LP.  If you ever liked U2, you will want to hear this.  We
will blow your fucking mind, from An Cat Dubh to Zoo Station.  Tell your
friends.  Even the snarkiest, most jaded local music advocate would be
remiss in leaving this out of a things to do list.  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing!

Seriously, though.  Come out, sing along, bend your elbow.  We won't let you
down.



On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:48 AM, grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:

> Saturday, June 13
> des_ark    (http://www.des-ark.org)
> The Strugglers    (http://www.thestrugglers.org/)
> Mount Moriah    (http://www.myspace.com/mountmoriah)
> Embarrassing Fruits    (http://www.myspace.com/embarrassingfruitsband)
> Megafaun    (http://www.myspace.com/megafaun)
> Piedmont Biofuels, Pittsboro
>
> This is the now-annual all-afternoon TRKfest, which gets underway around
> 2:00 p.m. & includes the following artists:
>
> Butterflies
> Megafaun
> Lost in the Trees
> Ivan Rosebud
> Embarrassing Fruits
> Hammer No More The Fingers
> Des Ark
> Midtown Dickens
> The Never
> The Strugglers
> Mount Moriah
> Vibrant Green
>
> In other words, it's the local-music blowout of the season. More info
> here: http://www.myspace.com/trkfest
>
>
>
> Saturday, June 13
> Birds of Avalon    (http://www.myspace.com/birdsofavalon)
> Dark Meat    (http://www.myspace.com/darkmeats)
> One Man Machine    (http://www.myspace.com/onemanmachine)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> If you like your rock huge & psychedelic, this is the show for you.
> BoA's new single is even more spacey than the stuff on their great OUI
> EP, but live they still bring the hammer-down dual-guitar rock action.
>
>
>
> Saturday, June 13
> Fontana    (http://www.myspace.com/fontana1)
> D-Town Brass
> Tunes
> The Pinhook, Durham
>
> D-Town Brass is a new large horn-based jazz/funk instrumental outfit
> from Durham. There are photos & music up on their reverbnation page . .
> . I see a lot of familiar faces in those photos:
> http://www.reverbnation.com/dtownbrass
>
>
>
> Saturday, June 13
> Fever and the Fallin' Rain    (http://myspace.com/feverandthefallinrain)
> Son Cats
> Cabinet of Natural Curiousities
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Saturday, June 13
> The Kinksmen    (http://www.myspace.com/jeffhoo)
> Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Sunday, June 14
> Meat Puppets    (http://www.themeatpuppets.com)
> Retribution Gospel Choir    (http://retributiongospelchoir.com)
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
>
>
> Sunday, June 14
> Ryan Gustafson    (http://www.myspace.com/ryangustafsonmusic)
> Josh Moore    (http://www.myspace.com/joshuamoore)
> Twelve Thousand Armies    (http://www.myspace.com/12000armies)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Monday, June 15
> Sunset Rubdown    (http://www.absolutelykosher.com/sunsetrubdown.htm)
> Elfin Saddle
> Witchies
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Monday, June 15
> Eula    (http://www.eulamusic.com/)
> The Constellations
> Pour House, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Monday, June 15
> Zee Avi
> Matt Hires
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Tuesday, June 16
> Peaches    (http://www.peachesrocks.com)
> Drums of Death    (http://www.drumsofdeath.com/)
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
> The fact that Peaches had a "moment" at all (in part courtesy of "Lost
> in Translation, I guess) is bizarre enough on its face that I'm inclined
> to discount it entirely . . . meaning as far as I'm concerned, she's
> still fighting the good fight to nail down her weird little corner of
> turf (and *not* riding the downhill side of the cruel cruel fame curve).
>
>
>
> Tuesday, June 16
> Eula    (http://www.eulamusic.com/)
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> Eula are from NY; I really like the weird Deerhoof/Mikachu pop
> dissonances in their "Fight Riff":
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wsn8_Sbo1A&fmt=18
>
>
>
> Tuesday, June 16
> Gray Young    (http://www.myspace.com/grayyoung)
> The Bronzed Chorus    (http://www.myspace.com/thebronzedchorus)
> Unit Breed
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Bronzed Chorus are a gtr/drums/keyboards instrumental duo from the
> Triad. Gray Young are members of the ever-growing local shoegaze-revival
> movement.
>
>
>
> Tuesday, June 16
> The Cotton Jones Basket Ride
> (http://www.myspace.com/thecottonjonesbasketride)
> The Antlers    (http://www.myspace.com/theantlers)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Wednesday, June 17
> Megafaun    (http://www.myspace.com/megafaun)
> Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham
>
> This summer's Duke Performances Music in the Garden series is a true
> whos-who of the most interesting/innovative local bands currently
> working. Megafaun in particular have carved out a unique niche for
> themselves, one that merges a true & deep love & appreciation for gospel
> & oldtime, with an equally deep love for improv, avant-garde music &
> musique concrete. The fact that they're able to blend all these
> disparate elements, seemingly effortlessly, is a testament to
> *something* (talent? stubbornness?). I've never seen another band win
> over an audience faster than these three wild-haired bearded dudes.
>
> These shows begin at 7:00, and you're welcome (encouraged, even) to
> bring chairs, blankets, and picnics (but no dogs, a fact that they've
> twittered about enough to make me think they've had issues with it . . .)
>
>
>
> Wednesday, June 17
> In the Year of the Pig    (http://www.southernloveprod.com/ityotp.htm)
> Caltrop    (http://www.myspace.com/caltropband)
> Pontiak    (http://www.myspace.com/pontiak)
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> The absurdity is undeniable: two of the biggest/heaviest bands in the
> Triangle, plus Virginian masters of the space/psych riff, Pontiak, all
> crammed into the 2nd-tiniest club in Chapel Hill. This is gonna go so
> far past teeth-rattling; you should prepare, as best you can, for your
> marrow to dribble out the ends of yr bones, and your cartilage to
> liquefy and puddle on the floor.
>
> I saw Pontiak open for Harvey Milk, and I vaguely remember enjoying it
> quite a bit. Vaguely, because any specific thoughts I may have had were
> subsequently obliterated by HM.
>
>
>
> Wednesday, June 17
> John Vanderslice    (http://www.johnvanderslice.com/)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Thursday, June 18
> Armored Uprise    (http://www.reverbnation.com/armoreduprise)
> Double Dagger    (http://www.myspace.com/doubledaggersucks)
> The Pinhook, Durham
>
> Show of the week (possibly the month). Baltimore's Double Dagger
> recently released their third album (and first for Thrill Jockey),
> "More," and it has spent most of the past 6-8 weeks locked on repeat in
> my car CD player.
>
> There are many things I love about this album. I love how it's like a
> catalog of "great fucking punk/indie bass tones." There's that sorta
> huge metallic tone that Laura Ballance sometimes used to get in
> Superchunk, and the bigger/rounder sorta classic fuzz/distorted bass
> tone, and this kind of earth-crushing one that I, for reasons more to do
> with personal history than anything else, associate with CopShootCop.
> And the "holy shit we're all gonna die" wall of sludge of, say,
> godheadSilo. And a really high shrill scree of overtones and
> almost-uncontrolled feedback that goes a long way towards explaining how
> a bass/drums/vox trio can sound so much, at times, like Fugazi.
>
> Vocalist Nolen Strals mostly rants (as opposed to actually singing) and
> thus it's hard to avoid thinking about Les Savy Fav (which is not a bad
> thing). But there are moments of more matter-of-fact statement-izing,
> such as on the Big Hit "The Lie/The Truth" where he reveals the
> Minutemen influence that lies at the heart of so many great bands. Until
> the chorus kicks in (Future Islands singer Sam Herring provides the
> actual melodic backing vox there) & it goes all massive rock anthem.
>
> This record is about life & death & all the good stuff (check out "Vivre
> Sans Temps Mort": "I wrote my first will when I was 9 years old. He
> wrote his memoirs at 12 so those who followed would know. Just in case
> we died."). It glances at epic-ness, but I don't think it's via
> aspiration so much as just via a right-place/right-time confluence of
> moment+talent. Either way, it walks that line between "punk" and
> "profound" that I associate with my favorite Sonic Youth & Fugazi
> albums, but stays a little more firmly on the "punk" side of it.
>
> Note bene: Double Dagger are NOT playing last. Arrive on time.
>
>
>
> Thursday, June 18
> An Horse    (http://www.myspace.com/anhorse)
> Telekinesis    (http://www.myspace.com/telekinesismusic)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> In one corner, we have An Horse, Australian sensations & MP3-blogger
> faves. In the other corner, recent Merge signee/19-year-old bedroom-pop
> wunderkind Telekinesis. I initially thought Bonnaroo was likely to blame
> for this week's indiepop-heavyweight convention in Chapel Hill (this
> show, plus John Vanderslice, plus Camera Obscura) but none of 'em are
> playing Bonnaroo (and goddamn, none of the Bonnaroo peeps I'd want to
> see, namely Santogold & Janelle Monae, are playing here, either). All
> hail the 85/95 corridor, I guess.
>
>
>
> Thursday, June 18
> Gray Young    (http://www.myspace.com/grayyoung)
> Citified    (http://www.citifiedband.org/)
> Tir Na Nog, Raleigh
>
> The dual ringleaders of the local shoegaze revival -- hushed/high/absent
> vox, lots of reverb, a general swirliness. Local bands, local beers.
>
>
>
> Thursday, June 18
> Inspector 22
> Impossible Arms
> Quasar Abode
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Friday, June 19
> Mayflies USA    (http://www.bigshoe.com/mayflies)
> The Connells    (http://www.theconnells.com/)
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
> There's a particular variety of sweet melodic southern pop that, for a
> lot of folks in the 80s, epitomized the Triangle area, and the Connells
> were its chief exponent. Moving into the 90s, the same was true of
> Mayflies USA.
>
>
>
> Friday, June 19
> House of Fools    (http://www.purevolume.com/houseoffools)
> Lonnie Walker    (http://www.myspace.com/lonniewalker)
> Motel Motel    (http://www.myspace.com/motelmotel)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Friday, June 19
> Citified    (http://www.citifiedband.org/)
> The Scott Waite Debacle    (http://myspace.com/scottwaiteisbenevolent)
> The Pinhook, Durham
>
>
>
> Saturday, June 20
> Camera Obscura    (http://www.camera-obscura.net/)
> Anni Rossi    (http://www.4ad.com/anni-rossi/)
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
>
>
> Saturday, June 20
> Shipwrecker    (http://www.myspace.com/shipwreckermuzak)
> Battle Rockets    (http://www.myspace.com/battlerockets)
> Free Electric State    (http://www.myspace.com/freeelectricstate)
> The Pinhook, Durham
>
> 12:00 - Free Electric State
> 11:00 - Shipwrecker
> 10:00 - The Battle Rockets
>
> F.E.S. are the new band with Dave & Shirle of Ex-Members, plus Pinhook
> co-owner Nick Williams, and local drummer-about-town Tony Stiglitz (Jett
> Rink, Doleful Lions, literally 4000 other bands). Shipwrecker are
> Durham's own lurching country-and-nautical outfit. Battle Rockets are an
> instrumental duo.
>
>
>
> Saturday, June 20
> Puritan Rodeo    (http://www.thepuritanrodeoshow.blogspot.com/)
> The Alcazar Hotel    (http://www.myspace.com/thealcazarhotel)
> Jack Sprat Cafe, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Saturday, June 20
> Birds & Arrows    (http://www.myspace.com/birdsandarrows)
> Mystery Road    (http://mysteryroadband.com)
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Saturday, June 20
> Colossus    (http://www.myspace.com/thecolossuswillcrushyou)
> Static Minds
> Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Sunday, June 21
> Twilighter    (http://twilighter.net/)
> The Moaners    (http://www.themoaners.com/)
> Kitty Box & the Johnnys
> (http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A40789)
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> The Cave's website bills this as "Chatham County Pajama Party at the
> "Ski Lodge" w/ The Moaners, Twilighter, Taz Halloween's Kittybox & The
> Johnnys"
>
>
>
> Sunday, June 21
> The Paper Chase    (http://www.thepaperchaseband.com/)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Sunday, June 21
> Princess and the Criminals    (http://myspace.com/princessandthecriminals)
> Death Came Down the Mountain
> (http://www.myspace.com/deathcamedownthemountain)
> The Trampskirts    (http://www.myspace.com/trampskirts)
> Reservoir, Carrboro
>
>
>
> Monday, June 22
> Americans in France    (http://www.myspace.com/americansinfrance)
> Whatever Brains    (http://www.myspace.com/whateverbrains)
> Francis Harold and the Holograms
> (http://www.myspace.com/francisharoldandtheholograms)
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> Oh man, the two best art/punk/what-the/don't-give-a fuck bands currently
> playing in the Triangle, Americans in France and Whatever Brains,
> together in the same subterranean grotto? Call in sick Tuesday.
>
>
>
> Tuesday, June 23
> Femme Covert    (http://www.femmecovert.filcoproductions.com/)
> Death Domain
> Masses Masses
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
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