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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 January 5, 2010
  • Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:18:26 -0500

Tuesday, January 5
Jew(s) & Catholic(s) (http://www.myspace.com/jewsandcatholics)
Battle Rockets (http://www.myspace.com/battlerockets)
The Sour Notes (http://www.myspace.com/thesournotes)
Reservoir, Carrboro



Wednesday, January 6
Jew(s) & Catholic(s) (http://www.myspace.com/jewsandcatholics)
Diamond Center (http://www.diamondcentermusic.com/)
The Pinhook, Durham



Thursday, January 7
Wild Wild Geese
Liquor Store (http://www.myspace.com/liquorstorenj)
Highest Power (http://www.myspace.com/458996748)
The Pinhook, Durham

11:00 - Wild Wild Geese
10:00 - Liquor Store
9:00 - Highest Power

Here's what Craig Powell has to say: "i suggest you start yr year with another rad rock'n'roll show at the pinhook!

it's the 1st show i've been involved with booking/promoting in the new decade (the teens? tweens?) and godddamn it's gonna be a good one!

wild wild geese *- are a durham garage rock band with current/ex members of spider bags, americans in france, rongo rongo w/ a new ep on odessa records!

liquor store *- are a jersey city punk rock band with ex-members of titus andronicus, livefastdie, etc. 2 drummers, 5 guitarists...godDAMN!

highest power *- are a NJ thrash-punk-stoner "supergroup" with current/ex members of titus andronicus, liquor store, vice city rockers, cranial damage, livefastdie, acid flashbakc, touch my vagina, cosmic overkill, ss bogus."



Thursday, January 7 - Saturday, January 9
Raleigh Undercover (http://www.raleighundercover.com/)
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

Raleigh Undercover is a three-day charity rockfest that follows in the footsteps of the long-running & way-popular Kings Cover-Up: local bands (or one-off aggregations of like-minded local musicians) work up short sets of covers by a favorite band. Most of 'em get into it with some level of costume & wiggery as well.

One difference between the Cover-Up and Raleigh Undercover is that the lineups are listed in advance (though the bands being covered are not):

Thursday, January 7:
Shut Down the Machine
Free Electric State
River City Ransom
Lonnie Walker
Here Are The Young Men

Friday, January 8:
Aminal
Bright Young Things
The Tomahawks
Old Ceremony
Dry Heathens
American Aquarium

Saturday, January 9:
Dirty Little Heaters
Left Outlet
Whalewatchers
Jeff Hart & Nervous Grooms
Static Minds
Hearts and Daggers




Thursday, January 7
Malt Swagger
Simeon
Broad Street Cafe, Durham

Malt Swagger got together for the first time in a few years last week, to play NYE at the Pinhook. Looks like, as is often the case with infrequent reunions, they figured it made sense to amortize all that practice/song re-learning across multiple shows. Which is awesome, since I missed 'em at the Pinhook & I love their huge sparkling wall-o-shimmer-&-vibe.



Thursday, January 7
Applesauce (http://www.myspace.com/applesaz)
Will Dawson (http://www.myspace.com/thealcazarhotel)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Applesauce is a fairly new local duo featuring Mark Holland (ex-Jennyanykind, Jule Brown). Will Dawson is the prime mover behind freaked-out swamp-boogie act The Alcazar Hotel.



Friday, January 8 - Saturday, January 9
Elvisfest (http://elvisfest.loserville.net/index.html)
Holiday Inn, Chapel Hill

A couple of years ago, the long-running Elvisfest relocated, and it seems to be thriving in its new digs at the Time Out Sports Bar at the Chapel Hill Holiday Inn. Here's the lineup for this year's 2-day extravaganza:

FRIDAY
8:00 PM - F’n A-Holes
8:30 PM - Kitty Box & the Johnnies
9:30 PM - Straight 8's
10:00 PM - Tremors
10:30 PM - Bo-Stevens
11:00 PM - TCB '56
11:30 PM - Killer Filler
12:00 AM - John Howie, Jr. & the Rosewood Bluff

SATURDAY
8:00 PM - New Town Drunks
8:30 PM - Gojira-X
9:00 PM - Delco Nightingale
9:30 PM - Defilers
10:00 PM - Reverend D-Ray & the Shockers
10:30 PM - Mad Tea Party
11:00 PM - Kelley & the Cowboys
11:30 PM Billy Joe Winghead - Heartbreak Hotel
12:00 AM - Truckstop Preachers



Friday, January 8
Erie Choir (http://www.eriechoir.com)
Audubon Park (http://audubonpark.blogspot.com)
Butterflies (http://www.myspace.com/butterfliesnc)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Just the other day I was riding in the car thinking to myself "you know, this Girls album is kind of like if Erie Choir were younger, snottier, and gayer" and that line of thinking quickly led to "goddamn it when will Erie Choir play some shows and record a new record?" I guess I got the answer to at least half of that.

Audubon Park have been hampered somewhat over the past couple of years by the relocation of frontman David Nahm to Harrisonburg. It turns out that, contrary to a belief widely held within the band, they actually *are* less productive without him around. So this is a rare opportunity, and worth taking.



Friday, January 8
Double Negative (http://www.myspace.com/thedoublenegative)
Whatever Brains (http://www.myspace.com/whateverbrains)
Sunglasses
Brain Flannel
Berkeley Cafe, Raleigh

It would be entirely possible for you to go see this show, featuring two of the finest punk/HC (Double Negative) /scribble-scrobble (Whatever Brains) bands in the Southeast, and then stay home for the rest of 2010, confident in knowing that nothing would top it.



Friday, January 8
Old Bricks
Pros & Cons
The Cave, Chapel Hill

I'm told that Old Bricks have expanded, perhaps semi-permanently, from the gtr/drums duo that I saw at the Pinhook, so I dunno what they sound like now. It was impressive enough to hear them do that high, odd, kinda Grizzly-Bearish harmony thing just as a two-piece.



Friday, January 8
The Rosebuds (http://www.therosebuds.com/)
Megafaun (http://www.myspace.com/megafaun)
Lonnie Walker (http://www.myspace.com/lonniewalker)
Pour House, Raleigh

Given the rate at which these two shows sold out, you'd almost think they featured one or more bands who *don't* play multiple Triangle shows per year (or, in the case of Lonnie Walker & Saturday's Hammer No More the Fingers, per month).



Saturday, January 9
Billy Sugarfix (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/billysugarfix.htm)
Wembley (http://www.myspace.com/wembleystadium)
Now You See Them (http://www.myspace.com/nowyouseethem)
The Pinhook, Durham

12:00 - Billy Sugarfix
11:00 - Now You See Them
10:00 - Wembley

Wembley are one of my favorite bands OF ALL TIME -- delicate & earthshattering all at once.

This is a release party of sorts for a download-only Billy Sugarfix EP that he recorded at WKNC in Raleigh. I'm told that you can get the download code for free if you RSVP to the Facebook event, so get right on that: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=258595395538&index=1



Saturday, January 9
Caltrop (http://www.myspace.com/caltropband)
Wheels Family Fun Center, Durham

This is a birthday shindig for a friend of the band, but it's most emphatically open to the public. And as if the thought of skating to the massive wall-o-sludge of Caltrop weren't enough, there's this: they'll have TWO drummers for this set: current Caltrop drummer John Crouch and former Caltrop & current Valient Thorr drummer Lucian Thorr (nee Jason Aylward).



Saturday, January 9
Transportation (http://www.myspace.com/transportation)
North Elementary (http://www.northelementary.com)
The Library
Adam Price & Matt McMichaels
Local 506, Chapel Hill

The Library includes Matt Long of Mayflies USA, so between him & Adam & Matt McM, you've basically got a Mayflies reunion on your hands.



Saturday, January 9
Midtown Dickens (http://www.myspace.com/midtowndickens)
Malcolm Rollick (http://myspace.com/malcolmrollick)
Humble Tripe (http://www.myspace.com/shawnluby)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Saturday, January 9
The Rosebuds (http://www.therosebuds.com/)
Megafaun (http://www.myspace.com/megafaun)
Hammer No More the Fingers (http://www.hnmtf.com)
Pour House, Raleigh



Saturday, January 9
Puritan Rodeo (http://www.thepuritanrodeoshow.blogspot.com/)
Angela Faye Martin (http://www.myspace.com/angelafayemartin)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

Angela Faye Martin is an Ashevillian who recorded a strange & interesting album, Pictures From Home, last year with Mark Linkous. Parts of it are pretty straightforward folk-rock, but other parts are full-bore fuzzed-out weirdness. I'm most interested in the fact that Martin seems to have a perfectly good singing voice, but she & Linkous made the appealing [to me, anyway] decision to fuzz the shit out of it. Shitty fuzz beats perfectly good any damn day of the week.



Sunday, January 10
Hammer No More the Fingers (http://www.hnmtf.com)
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

It has been a couple of years since Hammer No More the Fingers visited us at WXDU, and in the interim they've released an excellent album, "Looking for Bruce," and played about 7000 shows all over the USA. They were already tight as shit, so listen for them to be TIGHTER than shit this time around.

4:00 p.m. 88.7 FM or wxdu.org



Sunday, January 10
Mysterium Tremendum (http://www.myspace.com/mysteriumtremendummetal)
Chainsaw Demons (http://www.myspace.com/chainsawdemonsrock)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Sunday, January 10
Billy Joe Winghead (http://www.winghead.com/)
Pinche Gringo (http://www.myspace.com/pinchegringoband)
Reservoir, Carrboro

This is an Elvisfest day-after-party.



Monday, January 11
Boat Burning (http://www.myspace.com/boatburning)
Goodbye, Titan (http://www.myspace.com/loudestsilenceever)
Sub Verso (http://www.myspace.com/thesubverso)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, January 12
100 Yorktown (http://www.geocities.com/onehundredyorktown/)
River City Ransom
Dark Water Rising (http://www.reverbnation.com/darkwaterrising)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



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