RTP-area local music and culture

[Lisa Bachelder <lisa AT fuzzsonic.com>]

FYI:

Shadow --- A Groundhog Day Awareness Concert and Benefit for a Friend

The benefit previously scheduled in January (but canceled due to snow) 
has been rescheduled for this coming Sunday (March 7) at the Berkeley 
Cafe in Raleigh. Bands and schedule:

    Big Machete (featuring members of Kicking Grass) 4:30 pm

    John Howie and Billie Feathers 5:20

    Kenny Roby and Scott McCall 6:15

    Countdown Quartet 7:15

    Olympic Ass Kicking Team 8:15

The doors will open at 4 p.m., with the music scheduled to begin at 
4:30. Admission will be a minimum $10 donation for adults. All ages are 
welcome.

All proceeds from Shadow will go to assist Raleigh native Walter Massey 
with medical bills accumulated after a decade of fighting a lengthy list 
of illnesses, including myasthenia gravis, diabetes and heart disease.

Shadow is presented in large part by the generosity of several sponsors, 
including The Q-Shack of North Hills, School Kids Records, Nice Price 
Books, The Reader's Corner, The Seaboard Cafe, and Barefoot Press.

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On 3/4/10 5:07 PM, grady wrote:
> Thursday, March 4
> Ben Davis + The Jetts    (http://www.lovitt.com/artists/bendavis.html)
> Inspector 22
> Gross Ghost    (http://www.myspace.com/grossghost)
> The Smokey Littles    (http://www.youtube.com/user/smokeylittles)
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> The Smokey Littles are Ben Davis's son Rick's band, and yes, Ben is
> younger than me, and I can remember first meeting Rick when he wasn't
> yet a year old. Sigh. The kids nowadays. Anyway, they'll be playing
> early, as Ping Pong Thursday is winding down.
>
> Later in the evening you've got the taut, ever-more-danceable postpunk
> of Ben Davis&  the Jetts, as well as the power-trio indierock of Gross
> Ghost and the damaged/demented folk-blooz-noise of Inspector 22.
>
>
>
> Thursday, March 4
> The Loners    (http://www.demonbeachrecords.com/loners.html)
> The Demon Beat
> The Royal Nites
> Tir Na Nog, Raleigh
>
> This is the weekly Local Bands, Local Beers. Hammer No More the Fingers
> have toured with The Demon Beat&  they've been sending out a stream of
> enthusiastic tweets about how great they are.
>
> It's unclear to me whether there is any connection between The Royal
> Nites&  the slightly-earlier Raleigh band Sir Arthur&  His Royal Knights.
>
>
>
> Thursday, March 4
> Feeding the Fire    (http://www.feedingthefire.com/)
> Big Fat Gap    (http://www.bigfatgap.com/)
> Rocket Surgeon
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Thursday, March 4
> The Alcazar Hotel    (http://www.myspace.com/thealcazarhotel)
> Graveyard Fields
> Come Hell or High Water    (http://www.myspace.com/suzaandsheets)
> The Pinhook, Durham
>
> 11 - The Graveyard Fields
> 10 - Alcazar Hotel
> 9 - Come Hell or High Water
>
>
>
> Friday, March 5
> North Elementary    (http://www.northelementary.com)
> Aminal    (http://www.myspace.com/theaminalmusic)
> Caustic Casanova    (http://www.myspace.com/causticcasanova)
> The Pinhook, Durham
>
> 12 - North Elementary
> 11 - Aminal
> 10 - Caustic Casanova
>
> North Elementary will be heavily augmented by a new multi-screen visual
> setup provided by local filmmaker (and frequent local-music-videomaker)
> Matt Hedt, who says "Hey all y'all, I've got a pretty sweet video show
> worked out for North Elementary, based on old video games. We did the
> first run at 506 a few weeks back and, if you saw that, it will be
> similar but even better. They sound really quite amazing these days,
> great new songs and phenomenal live show."
>
>
>
> Friday, March 5
> A Rooster for the Masses    (http://www.myspace.com/aroosterforthemasses)
> Free Electric State    (http://www.myspace.com/freeelectricstate)
> Decoration Ghost
> Pour House, Raleigh
>
> Free Electric State have an album coming out in late April that sets a
> new standard for guitar-heavy radio-friendly Brit-influenced
> postpunkpop. Decoration Ghost have a new album out now, but it was so
> popular in Greensboro that it never made it over our way before selling
> out. They're a Greensboro supergroup of sorts, featuring ex-members of
> Kudzu Wish, Taija Rae&  Manamid, among others.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 5
> John Howie, Jr.&  The Rosewood Bluff
> (http://www.myspace.com/rosewoodbluff)
> Brian McGee and the Hollow Speed
> (http://www.myspace.com/mcgeehollowspeed)
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Friday, March 5
> Red Collar    (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
> Ryan Gustafson    (http://www.myspace.com/ryangustafsonmusic)
> Look Mexico
> Tir Na Nog, Raleigh
>
> Red Collar have been taking it easy this winter, for various reasons
> (recuperation from tragic shopping-cart accidents; impending
> parenthood), so any chance you get to see them, you should probably take.
>
>
>
> Friday, March 5
> Kingsbury Manx    (http://www.thekingsburymanx.com/)
> Inspector 22
> Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
>
> The Kingsbury Manx are celebrating an anniversary of sorts (their debut
> CD was released in January of 2000 -- here's the first thread about them
> on alt.music.chapel-hill:
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.chapel-hill/browse_thread/thread/cb3fcc6664ba41af/695ab6fda8389d0c
> ), so original member Kenneth Stephenson is in town&  playing with them.
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 6
> The Dynamite Brothers    (http://www.dynamitebrothers.com/)
> Magic Babies    (http://www.myspace.com/themagicbabies)
> Static Minds
> Berkeley Cafe, Raleigh
>
> This is a record-release party for the new Static Minds 7", which was
> reviewed in this week's Indy.
> http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:411961
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 6
> Jeff Hart&  The Ruins    (http://www.jeffhartweb.com/)
> Sea Cow
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 6
> Slugnut    (http://www.slugnut.com)
> Double Negative    (http://www.myspace.com/thedoublenegative)
> Plague    (http://www.myspace.com/plaguenc)
> DRI    (http://www.dirtyrottenimbeciles.com/)
> Volume 11 Tavern, Raleigh
>
> Yes, *that* DRI, aka Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, aka the band whose logo was
> on everybody's skateboard in 1984. I don't want to talk trash about
> hardcore bands who're still together after 27+ years (and in the case of
> DRI, they've pretty much been at it throughout that whole time, albeit
> with a variety of lineup changes).
>
> Doesn't matter either way, as the 20 minutes of Double Negative you'll
> get will be the best thing you'll hear all month; everything else is gravy.
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 6
> The Ghost of Saturday Nite
> (http://www.myspace.com/theghostofsaturdaynite)
> Richard Bacchus&  the Luckiest Girls
> (http://www.myspace.com/richardbacchus)
> Pink Flag    (http://www.myspace.com/pinkflagnc)
> Broad Street Cafe, Durham
>
> The Ghost of Saturday Nite is a little bit punkrock, a little bit
> powerpop, which isn't so surprising when you learn that their drummer is
> Ethan Smith (frontman for the brilliant art-damaged rockband Orifice in
> the early 90s)&  their bassist is Eric West, of an endless series of
> jangle- and then power-pop bands over the past 15 years.
>
> Richard Bacchus is your best entertainment value, if you like jean
> jackets&  charismatic frontmen. I know I do.
>
> Pink Flag are young&  mean&  ready to mess you up!
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 6
> DJs Mothersbrothers
> Future Islands    (http://www.myspace.com/futureislands)
> DJ Family Vacation    (http://1200problems.org)
> Wizzerds of Rhyme
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> It's a 7th-anniversary party for Nightlight! The featured entertainment
> is Future Islands, a weird, funny, hardworking (and hirstute)
> synthpop/dance band who used to be called Art Lord&  His Self-Portraits
> &  used to live in Greenville. Now they live in Baltimore&  have a new
> record out on Thrill Jockey. Time flies in all directions.
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 6
> Django Haskins    (http://www.djangohaskins.com/)
> Mary Johnson Rockers    (http://www.myspace.com/maryjohnsonrockers)
> Austin Lucas    (http://www.myspace.com/austinlucas1)
> The Pinhook, Durham
>
>
>
> Saturday, March 6
> Straight 8s    (http://www.straight8s.com)
> The Tremors    (http://www.tremorsrockabilly.com/)
> Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Sunday, March 7
> Bear in Heaven    (http://www.myspace.com/bearinheaven)
> Cymbals Eat Guitars    (http://www.myspace.com/cymbalseatguitars)
> Freelance Whales    (http://www.myspace.com/freelancewhales)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> Blog Sensation Show of the Week (it's early March, so we're getting the
> annual SXSW-travel fallout shows).
>
>
>
> Sunday, March 7
> Kittie    (http://www.myspace.com/officialkittie)
> God Forbid    (http://www.myspace.com/godforbid)
> Periphery    (http://www.myspace.com/periphery)
> Age of Despair    (http://myspace.com/ageofdespairband)
> Volume 11 Tavern, Raleigh
>
> Kittie are one of the first post-Title 9 metal bands -- they're all
> women (they formed the band when they were still in high school, in
> 1997, an eternity ago by metal standards), but there's a big
> thrash/death influence in the music, all double-kick blastbeats and
> classic guttural death-metal growl-vocals. They don't play down their
> gender, but they don't feel overly obligated to play it up either, or at
> least not to the extent that earlier generations of all-woman metal
> bands had to.
>
>
>
> Monday, March 8
> Goes Cube    (http://www.myspace.com/goescube)
> The AAs
> Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Tuesday, March 9
> Filthybird    (http://www.myspace.com/filthybird)
> Mount Moriah    (http://www.myspace.com/mountmoriah)
> The Sandwitches    (http://www.myspace.com/thesandwitches)
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Mount Moriah started quite a few years ago as an outlet for Jenks
> Miller's quieter/folkier material. It went dormant while Jenks focused
> on Horseback, until his partner in Holidays for Quince Records Heather
> McEntire started writing country-er songs (too country for her band
> Bellafea) and resurrected the band. They have a new album in the works
> for later this year.
>
>
>
> Tuesday, March 9
> Slow Death    (http://www.myspace.com/prettyboythorson)
> Mikey Erg    (http://www.myspace.com/mikeyerg)
> The Pinhook, Durham
>
> The Slow Death is a couple of dudes who used to be in Chaz's favorite
> band of all time, Pretty Boy Thorson.
>
>
>
> Tuesday, March 9
> Awesome Color    (http://awesomecolor.net)
> Tyvek    (http://www.myspace.com/tyvekmusic)
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Tuesday, March 9
> Pegasus
> Death Came Down the Mountain
> (http://www.myspace.com/deathcamedownthemountain)
> Music Hates You    (http://www.musichatesyou.com)
> Reservoir, Carrboro
>
>
>
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