RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Saturday, July 4
Blag'ard    (http://www.blagard.com/)
Virgo 9    (http://www.myspace.com/thevirgonine)
Battle Rockets    (http://www.myspace.com/battlerockets)
Goodbye, Titan    (http://www.myspace.com/loudestsilenceever)
Free Electric State    (http://www.myspace.com/freeelectricstate)
Sadlack's Heroes, Raleigh

This is the Let Feedback Ring festival, an all-afternoon affair put 
together by the gtr/drums instrumental duo Battle Rockets. The complete 
lineup (probably not in order, but I'm unsure):

Goodbye, Titan
Irata
The White Cascade
Free Electric State
Battle Rockets
The Virgo 9
Blag’ard
Once and Future Kings
Spy Satellite

Starts around 1:30; should be over in time to make it to the Red Collar 
show at Tir Na nOg.



Saturday, July 4
Evil Wiener    (http://www.evilwienerworld.com/)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

It's the 8th Annual Evil Weiner Roast hosted by Evil Wiener (only 8th? 
seems like longer). There is nowhere I'd rather be on a July 4th than at 
the Cave, listening to Evil Wiener's skewed takes on all the patriotic 
classics, plus more.



Saturday, July 4
Red Collar    (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
Caverns    (http://www.myspace.com/caverns)
The Demon Beat
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

Red Collar are a leaner, meaner rock&roll machine, thanks to a few 
months of near-nonstop touring. They are an American success story, 
regardless of how much "success" they actually attain.



Sunday, July 5
The Curtains of Night    (http://myspace.com/thecurtainsofnight)
Invisible    (http://www.myspace.com/invisiblesounds)
Trophy Wife    (http://trophywifetheband.blogspot.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill's Curtains of Night & DC's Trophy Wife are kindred spirits, 
for sure (or twins separated at birth): big screamy all-women 
guitar-drums duos. They're joined here by the bizarre/wonderful 
Greensboro band Invisible, whose homebrew instruments are equal parts 
musical instruments & art-objects. Here's a great flash slideshow from 
the N&O. http://blogs.newsobserver.com/multi/creators-invisible



Sunday, July 5
Clang Quartet    (http://www.myspace.com/clangquartet)
Peter Woods
Instinct Control
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Sunday, July 5
Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls 
(http://www.myspace.com/richardbacchus)
The Cheats
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh

Richard Bacchus is a wicked elf, a denim-clad rock-n-roll showman, the 
kind of man who might just comb his hair with beer even when he's *not* 
onstage.



Monday, July 6
Mount Weather
Japandroids    (http://www.myspace.com/japandroids)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Show of the week: Japandroids are from Vancouver. Yes, they're yet 
another gtr/drums duo, but you wouldn't know it from the great washes of 
guitar (and huge tom-heavy drum sounds) coming off their debut, 
Post-Nothing. It's summertime music (lotta songs about girls) but 
fuzzed-out, exploded, pushed through a filter of Vancouver drizzle and 
Sonic Youth crackle.

Check out Heart Sweats for a taste of their more beat-heavy/aggro side 
(but note the strategic "oooh"s as well). 
http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/12641-heart-sweats/



Tuesday, July 7
Wild Wild Geese
Crackow Now    (http://www.myspace.com/crackownow)
The Pinhook, Durham

Wild Wild Geese are a new band with members of Americans in France and 
Spider Bags, so they're pretty much guaranteed to be fucked-up (in a 
good way). Crackow Now are a new Durham organ/drums duo.



Tuesday, July 7
Middle Distance Runner    (http://www.myspace.com/middledistancerunner)
Drink Up Buttercup    (http://www.myspace.com/drinkupbuttercupband)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, July 7
Blag'ard    (http://www.blagard.com/)
Pinche Gringo    (http://www.myspace.com/pinchegringoband)
Simeon
Reservoir, Carrboro

This is the first night of the Club Is Open Festival, which is in its 
2nd year. 5 nights of local music at 5 different clubs across Chapel 
Hill & Carrboro. All proceeds benefit the Tisch Cancer Research Center 
at Duke Hospital, via CyTunes.org.
http://www.myspace.com/theclubisopen09



Wednesday, July 8
Butterflies    (http://www.myspace.com/butterfliesnc)
Birds & Arrows    (http://www.myspace.com/birdsandarrows)
Morrow    (http://www.myspace.com/weatherprophets)
Reed Benjamin
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, July 8
Hammer No More the Fingers    (http://www.hnmtf.com)
Pneurotics    (http://www.myspace.com/pneurotics)
Pink Flag    (http://www.myspace.com/pinkflagnc)
Players, Chapel Hill

Night Two of the weeklong Club is Open Fest. Power-trio night, with the 
bouncy indie-rock of HNMTF, the angular 
postpunk-meets-riot-meets-whatever avant-pop of Pink Flag, and the 
straight-up Pneurotics.
http://www.myspace.com/theclubisopen09



Wednesday, July 8
Wild Wild Geese
The Toddlers    (http://www.myspace.com/thetoddlersmusic)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Thursday, July 9
Ascetic Parade    (http://www.asceticparade.com)
10-4 Eleanor    (http://www.myspace.com/104eleanor)
The Pinhook, Durham



Thursday, July 9
Dry Heathens    (http://www.myspace.com/dryheathens)
Aminal    (http://www.myspace.com/theaminalmusic)
On the Beach    (http://www.myspace.com/onthebeachrock)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Night three of the Club is Open Fest, proceeds from which go to benefit 
the Tisch Cancer Research Center at Duke, which cared for our friend Cy 
Rawls last year during his battle with brain cancer.
http://www.myspace.com/theclubisopen09



Thursday, July 9
The Loners    (http://www.demonbeachrecords.com/loners.html)
The Last Tall Boy
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

It's another in the weekly Local Bands, Local Beers series. What you see 
is what you get with the Loners, assuming you're seeing a 40-story 
fire-breathing guitar-playing thunder lizard where Eddie's standing.



Thursday, July 9
Harmute    (http://www.myspace.com/harmute)
Israel Darling    (http://www.myspace.com/israeldarling)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Thursday, July 9
Whale Watchers    (http://www.myspace.com/thewhalewatchers)
Simple    (http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomsimple)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Friday, July 10
Olympic Ass Kicking Team    (http://www.terryandersonrocks.com/)
Sadlack's Heroes, Raleigh



Friday, July 10
Feeble Minded
Bull City Headquarters, Durham

BCHQ is Dead, long live BCHQ!

The Durham Bike Co-op has taken over the space full-time, but 
ultimately, the mix of events -- bike work, skills-shares, various 
meetings, and the occasional punkrock show -- is pretty similar to how 
it always was.



Friday, July 10
Vibrant Green    (http://vibrantgreen.iuma.com)
Heavy Hometown
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Friday, July 10
The Loners    (http://www.demonbeachrecords.com/loners.html)
A Rooster for the Masses    (http://www.myspace.com/aroosterforthemasses)
Red Collar    (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
Rat Jackson    (http://www.myspace.com/ratjacksonmusic)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Night four of the Club is Open Fest, a weeklong festival of shows at a 
different Chapel Hill/Carrboro club each night. They're all big nights, 
but this one's really big: these are all topnotch local rockbands with a 
ton of fans. Arrive early, and don't plan on leaving.
http://www.myspace.com/theclubisopen09



Saturday, July 11
Schooner    (http://www.schoonermusic.com)
Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies 
(http://www.myspace.com/violetvectorandthelovelylovelies)
I Was Totally Destroying It 
(http://www.reverbnation.com/iwastotallydestroyingit)
The Ts    (http://www.myspace.com/thettttt)
Joan Jett    (http://joanjett.com/)
Outdoors, Downtown, Raleigh

This is part of the Downtown Live series in Raleigh. Joan Jett & the 
Blackhearts headline at 9:00 or so. Before them, there's a giant stack 
of local music, including the straight-up rock-n-roll of the Ts, the 
skewed mope-pop of Schooner, the girl-group wall-of-sound of Violet 
Vector, and much more. Here's the full lineup:

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - 9:00 PM
I Was Totally Destroying It - 7:30 PM
The T's - 6:30 PM
Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies - 5:30 PM
The Beast - 4:30 PM
Schooner - 3:30 PM
Panyelo - 2:00 PM
The Bleeding Hearts - 1:45 PM

Warning/FYI: Panyelo are a steel-drum band.



Saturday, July 11
American Aquarium    (http://www.americanaquarium.com/)
Filthybird    (http://www.myspace.com/filthybird)
Future Kings of Nowhere    (http://www.thefuturekings.net/)
Nathan Oliver    (http://www.nathan-oliver.com)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

The final night of the Club is Open Fest.
http://www.myspace.com/theclubisopen09



Saturday, July 11
Some Girls    (http://www.somegirlshaveallthefuck.com/)
The Kinksmen    (http://www.myspace.com/jeffhoo)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Kinks tribute band meets Stones tribute band. Two tribute bands enter; 
only one may leave. This show, along with the Club is Open show at the 
Cradle, benefits the Tisch Cancer Research Center at Duke in tribute to 
Cy Rawls.



Saturday, July 11
Invisible    (http://www.myspace.com/invisiblesounds)
The Pinhook, Durham

Invisible are from Greensboro; they build elaborate instruments, such as 
a homebrew sequencer made out of a giant spinning metal disc, into which 
pegs are inserted to trigger sounds. Or a hybrid piano/typewriter, in 
which typing on the typewriter makes music, and vice-versa.



Sunday, July 12
The Ex-Monkeys    (http://www.myspace.com/theexmonkeys)
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

The Ex-Monkeys began, in the late 90s, as a live trip-hop band called 
Friend Side Monkey. One-third of that band moved to California, and the 
other two took a decade or so off to regroup & retool.

Now they're back. The music's a little harder-edged (distorted guitar is 
a frequent component) but the core is still master turntablist Eddy 
Winstead (though now he's using the turntables to control a giant bank 
of samples), and the pulsing beats & basslines of Ian Shannon.

It's all live, and you can hear it at 4:00 p.m. at 88.7 FM or wxdu.org.



Sunday, July 12
Endless Mike and the Beagle Club    (http://www.myspace.com/beagleclub)
Snakes Are We All
Gospel Years
Bull City Headquarters, Durham

This show, like all BCHQ shows, is all-ages.



Sunday, July 12
Whatever Brains    (http://www.myspace.com/whateverbrains)
Abe Vigoda    (http://www.myspace.com/abevigoda)
Talbot Tagora
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Whatever Brains are Buzzcocksy, but mostly in the sense that the 
Buzzcocks pushed the boundaries of how much fuzz you can lay over the 
top of a 2-minute popsong, and now 30 years later, Whatever Brains are 
still pushing at that same boundary (though it has moved to a 
drastically different place).



Monday, July 13
Handsome Furs    (http://www.myspace.com/handsomefurs)
Dri
Cinnamon Band    (http://www.myspace.com/cinnamonband)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, July 14
Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers 
(http://www.myspace.com/samanthacrain)
Sam Quinn + Japan Ten    (http://www.reverbnation.com/samquinnjapanten)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, July 14
Constrictor    (http://www.myspace.com/constrictorva)
Blix
Reservoir, Carrboro



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