RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Wednesday, April 14
Roman Candle    (http://www.romancandlemusic.com/)
The Ravenna Colt    (http://www.theravennacolt.com/)
The Parson Red Heads    (http://www.theparsonredheads.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Wednesday, April 14
Aloha    (http://www.musicofaloha.com/ )
Ben Davis + The Jetts    (http://www.lovitt.com/artists/bendavis.html)
Pomegranates    (http://www.myspace.com/pomegranatesart)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Ben Davis has released three-and-a-half records under his own name 
(along with another half-dozen-plus with his former bands Sleepytime 
Trio, Milemarker and Bats & Mice). His latest, Charge It Up!, is a 
catchy, propulsive slab of postpunk, the kind that wouldn't look askance 
at you if you wanted to dance.



Wednesday, April 14
Lynn Blakey
Tim Sparks
Tim Carless
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Thursday, April 15
The Love Language    (http://www.myspace.com/thelovelanguage)
The Light Pines    (http://www.myspace.com/lightpines)
Moneybrother    (http://bladencountyrecords.com/artists/moneybrother/)
Pour House, Raleigh

Do NOT arrive late for this show! Moneybrother is a Swede named Anders 
Wendin. He's won Grammies & sold lots of records in Sweden, but he's 
thus-far mostly unknown in the US. His new album, Real Control, is his 
first domestic release; it's out on Bladen County, the Portland label 
that released the first Love Language album.

The record is pretty fucking insane; it's a dizzying mishmash of big 
anthemic Springsteen-meets-Clash rock, plus a major dose of ABBA-style 
Eurocheeze, plus some heavy Sparks-style nod-and-a-wink humor. Plus a 
few songs that touch on ska, reggae, and soul. It's quite brilliant, and 
quite mad.

Bladen County co-owner (and Raleigh expat) Matt Brown tells me "his live 
show is on fire . . . the guy's used to playing festival size shit all 
over europe. it's fun to watch him work for it in small clubs. they join 
the Against Me tour after the raleigh date."



Thursday, April 15
Now You See Them    (http://www.myspace.com/nowyouseethem)
Uncle Mountain
The Pinhook, Durham



Thursday, April 15
Bellafea    (http://www.bellafea.com/)
In the Year of the Pig    (http://www.southernloveprod.com/ityotp.htm)
The Curtains of Night    (http://myspace.com/thecurtainsofnight)
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

Two Holidays for Quince bands (plus Bellafea, fronted by HfQ co-owner 
Heather McEntire) head to Raleigh to remind all the rockers that the 
title for heaviest town in the Triangle has migrated westward. The 
Curtains of Night and In the Year of the Pig are both massive, and both 
obsessed, eternally, with tone, sustain, and the transmutational 
properties of volume.



Thursday, April 15
Gossip Grows on Trees    (http://gossipgrowsontrees.com/)
The Future is Me
The Forever Endeavor
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, April 15
Colossus    (http://www.myspace.com/thecolossuswillcrushyou)
Zardoz
Of the Sun
Reservoir, Carrboro



Thursday, April 15
Studio Gangsters    (http://www.myspace.com/studiogangsters)
Shithorse
Fuse, Chapel Hill



Friday, April 16
Deliver Me From Nowhere
NC School of Science and Math, Durham

This is a benefit for Coalition to Unchain Dogs and the Southern 
Coalition for Social Justice; what it is, is two things. First, at 7:30, 
a free screening of Terrence Malick's amazing Charlie Starkweather 
movie, Badlands (1973, Martin Sheen & Sissy Spacek).

Second, at 9:30, a tribute concert to Bruce Springsteen's NEBRASKA, 
featuring members of Red Collar, The Rosewood Bluff, Midtown Dickens, 
and Mt. Moriah.



Friday, April 16
Xiu Xiu    (http://www.epitonic.com/artists/xiuxiu.html)
tUnE-yArDs    (http://tune-yards.com/)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

tUnE-yArDs is a woman named Merrill Garbus; her debut album from 2009, 
bIrD-bRaInS, was in my top-10 of the year. It's an amazing mix of found 
sound, rudimentary beats, ukelele, random loops, and her astonishing 
voice, which can go from childlike and sing-songy to rich and soulful in 
the space of a couple of lines. The best way to explain her may be via a 
video, which sort of illustrates how she works: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqV5KzbNYIQ.

I am *SO* excited about this show. I've never seen crazy art-damaged 
formerly-SF, now-Durham band Xiu Xiu either, but for me tonight it's all 
about the tUnE-yArDs; I'm not sure I'll have any love left once they're 
finished.



Friday, April 16
Sperm Count
Front Side Drunks
Brothers Connolly
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Friday, April 16
Pinche Gringo    (http://www.myspace.com/pinchegringoband)
Grinder Nova
Midway Charmers
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Friday, April 16
A Rooster for the Masses    (http://www.myspace.com/aroosterforthemasses)
Beloved Binge    (http://www.myspace.com/belovedbinge)
Free Electric State    (http://www.myspace.com/freeelectricstate)
The Pinhook, Durham

This is a CD-release show for the long-awaited Free Electric State 
full-length, "Caress." It's guitarrrific in a chugging overdriven 
Nth-Brit-Invasiony kind of way.



Friday, April 16
Tonk
Eddie Taylor
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Saturday, April 17
Countdown Quartet    (http://www.countdownq.com/)
The Wusses    (http://thewusses.com/)
Big Fat Gap    (http://www.bigfatgap.com/)
Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh

This is a daytime Earth Day celebration at the Museum of Natural 
Sciences in Raleigh, so there'll be tons of activities (and zillions of 
kids) in addition to the bands.



Saturday, April 17
Luego    (http://luegomusic.com/)
The Tomahawks    (http://www.myspace.com/jeffcrawfordmusic)
Jon Lindsay
The Pinhook, Durham



Saturday, April 17
The Love Language    (http://www.myspace.com/thelovelanguage)
Harlem    (http://www.myspace.com/harlemduh)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

If you haven't seen The Love Language in the past couple of months, then 
you've not seen this version. The lineup changed dramatically, as 
several former members reactivated their long-dormant original band, The 
Light Pines. The new band is leaner, but no less catchy.



Saturday, April 17
Twilighter    (http://twilighter.net/)
Static Minds
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Saturday, April 17
Phosphorescent
Pinche Gringo    (http://www.myspace.com/pinchegringoband)
Grinder Nova
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham



Saturday, April 17
Max Indian    (http://www.myspace.com/maxindian)
Ryan Gustafson    (http://www.myspace.com/ryangustafsonmusic)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Sunday, April 18
Spider Bags    (http://www.myspace.com/spiderbags)
Dry Heathens    (http://www.myspace.com/dryheathens)
Titus Andronicus    (http://www.myspace.com/titusandronicus)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

I'm pretty sure the days of having to explain any of these three bands 
are probably long gone. Here's a link to a review of a recent Titus 
Andronicus show in Toronto: 
http://www.chromewaves.net/2010/04/titus-andronicus-hollerado-and-sandman-viper-command-at-sneaky-dees-in-toronto/

While you're at the show, don't forget to pick up the latest Spider Bags 
7" on Durham's own Bull City Records. It's most excellent.



Sunday, April 18
Man Will Destroy Himself
RBT
Seventh Gate
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Monday, April 19
Shawn Deena    (http://www.myspace.com/shawndeena)
Nick Howard
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, April 20
I Was Totally Destroying It 
(http://www.reverbnation.com/iwastotallydestroyingit)
Caves
The Lights Fluorescent
Reservoir, Carrboro



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