RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Thursday, February 25
The Tender Fruit    (http://www.myspace.com/thetenderfruit)
Nervous But Excited    (http://www.myspace.com/nervousbutexcited)
Humble Tripe    (http://www.myspace.com/shawnluby)
The Pinhook, Durham

11 - Humble Tripe
10 - Nervous but Excited
9 - Tender Fruit

I so dearly love The Tender Fruit . . . singer/songwriter Christy Smith 
combines a deep twang with a wicked writer's sensibility. Things are 
rarely exactly what they appear to be in her songs; listen closely & 
they prove to be both weirder & more wonderful.



Thursday, February 25
Starmount    (http://www.myspace.com/starmountmusic)
The Jackets    (http://www.reverbnation.com/TheJackets)
The Small Ponds
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

Starmount are a strangely spacey instrumental outfit from Raleigh, who 
mix pedal steel & electronics to make highly distinctive soundtracks to 
deep-space FutureTV.

Small Ponds are the new-ish project of Tres Chicas' Caitlin Cary and the 
Proclivities' Matt Douglas.



Thursday, February 25
Free Electric State    (http://www.myspace.com/freeelectricstate)
The Toddlers    (http://www.myspace.com/thetoddlersmusic)
Pros & Cons
The Station, Carrboro



Thursday, February 25
Birds & Arrows    (http://www.myspace.com/birdsandarrows)
Katharine Whalen's Lucky    (http://www.myspace.com/ncluckyband)
Mandolin Orange    (http://www.myspace.com/mandolinorange)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, February 25
919Noise Showcase
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

This month's lineup:

Smell the Rott - http://www.myspace.com/smelltherott
Gringo - http://www.myspace.com/gringoraleigh
Cheezface - http://www.myspace.com/cheezfacemusic



Thursday, February 25
Lonely H. (http://www.myspace.com/thelonelyh)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Friday, February 26
Huguenots    (http://www.myspace.com/thehuguenotsmusic)
Saint Solitude    (http://saintsolitude.com/)
Armadillo Grill @ the Bryan Center, Duke W. Campus, Durham



Friday, February 26
Trio Slicnaton    (http://www.slicnaton.com)
Marsh Woodwinds, Raleigh



Friday, February 26
Killer Filler    (http://www.myspace.com/killerfiller)
Papa Mojo's Roadhouse, Durham



Friday, February 26
Mosadi Music    (http://www.mosadimusic.com/)
Shipwrecker    (http://www.myspace.com/shipwreckermuzak)
Knives and Daggers    (http://www.myspace.com/knivesanddaggersmusic)
The Pinhook, Durham

12 - Shipwrecker
11 - Mosadi Music
10 - Knives and Daggers

Shipwrecker are Durham's masters of rocking-and-rolling, 
yawing-and-pitching seafaring country weirdness.



Friday, February 26
Rat Jackson    (http://www.myspace.com/ratjacksonmusic)
I Was Totally Destroying It 
(http://www.reverbnation.com/iwastotallydestroyingit)
River City Ransom    (http://www.myspace.com/rivercityransomband)
Broad Street Cafe, Durham

Thanks in part to booker Rusty Sutton, the Broad Street Cafe is quickly 
becoming the destination for live local music in Durham. Here's a 
snapshot of highlights from their next few weeks, ripped shamelessly 
from Rusty's Facebook status:

"Sets by I Was Totally Destroying It, The Love Language, The Loners, 
Pink Flag, Richard Bacchus and the Luckiest Girls, The Pneurotics, A 
Rooster for the Masses, The Dry Heathens, Bustello, D-Town Brass, The 
Travesties, Rat Jackson, Simeon and so many more..."



Friday, February 26
The Invisible Hand    (http://www.myspace.com/adamsmith)
Americans in France    (http://www.myspace.com/americansinfrance)
Naked Gods    (http://www.myspace.com/nakedgods)
Whatever Brains    (http://www.myspace.com/whateverbrains)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Two of the bestest weirdest rockpoprock bands of 2009, Americans in 
France & Whatever Brains, have apparently survived into the 2010. Glory 
Hallelujah. With the Southern Rock (with a dash of spacenoize) stylings 
of Boone's Naked Gods.



Friday, February 26
Wild Wild Geese    (http://www.myspace.com/wildwildgeesemusic)
Wooden Toothe    (http://www.myspace.com/woodentoothe)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Friday, February 26
Blag'ard    (http://www.blagard.com/)
Michael Rank    (http://www.sleazegrinder.com/teensleazehanoi.htm)
Rosie Hellfire and The Red Hot Rebelettes 
(http://www.myspace.com/redhotrebelettes)
Reservoir, Carrboro

This is a CD-release for the new Blag'ard disc, Mach II. I haven't heard 
it, but I *did* get a copy of the never-released 1996 album by guitarist 
Joe Taylor's other band, Capsize 7. Still one of the most distinctive 
guitar tones/styles to ever come from Chapel Hill



Friday, February 26
Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls 
(http://www.myspace.com/richardbacchus)
Michael Burgin & Drinkers Union
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh





Saturday, February 27
The Breaks    (http://www.reverbnation.com/thebreaksofpittsboro)
Simeon    (http://www.myspace.com/simeonberkley)
Bustello    (http://www.myspace.com/bustellomusic)
Broad Street Cafe, Durham

One of the strengths of the Triangle music community is that, by and 
large, there aren't age-limits, upper or lower, on participation. Sure, 
there are plenty of college-aged bands . . . but more than a few locals 
(including John Booker of I Was Totally Destroying it, and all three 
members of Hammer No More the Fingers) were rocking local stages when 
they were in high school.

The same is true on the upper end as well. Some bands--Superchunk & Lud, 
for instance--have been around in one form or another for 15-20 years.

Others, such as all three bands on tonight's bill, are new combinations 
of longtime local veterans. Bustello pairs the twangy guitar & 
distinctive voice of Ben Clarke (Metal Flake Mother) with veteran rhythm 
section Jody Maxwell & John Plymale (Sex Police, many more). Simeon is 
the brainchild of Simeon Berkeley (Mind Sirens, many more) & Robbie 
Breitweiser (Ruebarb, many more), and features Groves Willer (Bobo the 
Amazing Rubberfaced Boy, Evil Weiner, Shark Quest) on drums.

And the Breaks feature Steve Carr & Brunson Hoole (Emperors of Ice 
Cream) with What Peggy Wants singer John Ensslin out front. They're a 
sharp, lean, ultra-focused powerpop machine.



Saturday, February 27
The Strugglers    (http://www.thestrugglers.org/)
Felix Obelix    (http://www.myspace.com/felixobelix)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

There's a nice big article about Wendy Spitzer & Felix Obelix in this 
week's Indy, along with some song samples, so I'll wait while you go 
check it out. http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:411556

Along with a rare Felix Obelix live performance (one listen to the 
record & you'll understand: this stuff is tricky to play), Wendy will 
provide you with a stamped envelope, so you can write a letter to your 
future self. She'll hang onto the letters and then mail them in October 
2010.

Rare, as well, is this opportunity to see Randy Bickford's Strugglers 
augmented with a string quartet ... especially now that Randy has moved 
to the DC area. May be a while before he graces a local stage again.



Saturday, February 27
Aminal    (http://www.myspace.com/theaminalmusic)
The Whisky Smugglers
Saint Solitude    (http://saintsolitude.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Monday, March 1
Pretty and Nice    (http://www.myspace.com/prettyandnice)
Title Tracks
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, March 2
The Hem of His Garment    (http://www.myspace.com/thehemofhisgarment)
Make    (http://www.myspace.com/thebandmake)
White Suns    (http://www.myspace.com/whitesuns)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill





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