RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Thursday, May 6
Schooner    (http://www.schoonermusic.com)
Birds & Arrows    (http://www.myspace.com/birdsandarrows)
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

This is the weekly Local Bands, Local Beers show. Schooner are masters 
of melancholy pop (with a sinister edge).

You may have heard rumors about a special secret third band on the bill, 
and there is one. Schooner's Maria Albani will beat me up if I say who 
they are, and she's a vicious beastie, so I'll refrain. But I'll say 
this: They're from Raleigh.



Thursday, May 6
Paleface
Holy Ghost Tent Revival    (http://www.myspace.com/hgtr)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, May 6
The Physics of Meaning    (http://www.thephysicsofmeaning.com/)
The Big Picture
Josh Mease    (http://www.myspace.com/joshmease)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

This weekend is all Physics of Meaning, all the time (in addition to 
this show, they're at the Pinhook on Saturday, and Tir Na nOg on Sunday).



Friday, May 7
John Howie, Jr. & The Rosewood Bluff 
(http://www.myspace.com/rosewoodbluff)
The Kinksmen    (http://www.myspace.com/jeffhoo)
The Darnell Woodies    (http://www.myspace.com/thedarnellwoodies)
Broad Street Cafe, Durham

Country from local master John Howie Jr, formerly of the $2 Pistols; and 
a set of Kinks covers from the Kinksmen, led by a man whose whole career 
has sometimes felt like an homage to the Davies brothers, Jeff Hart.



Friday, May 7
Billy Sugarfix    (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/billysugarfix.htm)
Chip Smoak    (http://asimpleband.net/)
Animal Alphabet
Jack Sprat Cafe, Chapel Hill

This is a comparatively rare performance by Billy Sugarfix's Carousel, 
the chamber-pop band he assembled to perform songs from his 2009 solo 
debut, "Summer Tempests."



Friday, May 7
Mount Moriah    (http://www.myspace.com/mountmoriah)
The Great White Jenkins    (http://www.tgwj.com/)
Megafaun    (http://www.myspace.com/megafaun)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Megafaun are always at their best when they've been out on the road for 
a while; this is their homecoming show after a 30-date, 6-week tour, so 
they should be freaking AMAZING.



Friday, May 7
I Was Totally Destroying It 
(http://www.reverbnation.com/iwastotallydestroyingit)
Bustello    (http://www.myspace.com/bustellomusic)
Sugar Glyder    (http://www.myspace.com/sugarglyder)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Anthemic power-poppers I Was Totally Destroying It are probably the 
hardest-working band in Triangle showbiz at present. Bustello are a 
supergroup of late-80s/early-90s Triangle vets; they make a spooky, 
reverb-drenched indie-rock that's highly reminiscent of singer/guitarist 
Ben Clarke's earlier band Metal Flake Mother.



Friday, May 7
Birds & Arrows    (http://www.myspace.com/birdsandarrows)
The Alcazar Hotel    (http://www.myspace.com/thealcazarhotel)
The Protomen    (http://www.myspace.com/theprotomen)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Friday, May 7
The Stars Explode    (http://www.myspace.com/thestarsexplode)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Friday, May 7
Gray Young    (http://www.myspace.com/grayyoung)
Citified    (http://www.citifiedband.org/)
Embarrassing Fruits    (http://www.myspace.com/embarrassingfruitsband)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Saturday, May 8
Pulsoptional    (http://www.pulsoptional.org/)
NC School of Science and Math, Durham

This is what the folks at Durham contemporary composers' collective 
Pulsoptional said about this show:

"Just a friendly reminder that in our first local spring showcase 
concert in 5 years, this Saturday, May 8th 2010 at 8:00 PM, pulsoptional 
will be presenting Music In Durham Is New , a night of exciting new 
works and local premieres. We will be returning to the beautiful ETC 
Auditorium on the campus of the North Carolina School of Science and 
Mathematics located on the corner of Club Blvd. and Maryland Ave in 
Durham. The concert is being presented as a part of NCSSM’s fine arts 
series and is FREE and open to the public.

The compositions on the program, bringing together electric strings, 
woodwinds, piano, drums, marimba and live electronics are:

Sidney Boquiren: Doves (2007) — joyous grooves, floating peace and the 
mourning in between.

marc faris: Smile and Nod Knowingly (2008) — math rock sensibility, drum 
and bass aesthetic all in a whirlwind

John Mayrose: Monophony (2005) — anti-counterpoint meets fibonacci. 
TapOut (2008) — digital delay lines performed by live players.

Sigur Rós (arr. Todd Hershberger): Ì Gær (1999/2008) — Icelandic 
soundscape prog excursion.

Carrie Shull: Bell chimes and drums (2008) — candle light 
tintinnabulation and free improv drum drones.

And the local premiere of Aaron Brooks' Quintet (2008), a pulsoptional 
commission from a young North Carolina composer now in the doctoral 
composition program at University of Pittsburg. The piece is Brooks' 
attempt "to find a happy union of experimental rock and modern chamber 
music," obviously a good fit for pulsoptional.

As a tribute to the city that pulsoptional likes to call home, the 
concert will be accompanied by visual projections of stunning historic 
images from the Digital Durham Project as well as inspired city images 
by local photographers and visual artists."



Saturday, May 8
Citified    (http://www.citifiedband.org/)
Shawn Luby
Free Electric State    (http://www.myspace.com/freeelectricstate)
Broad Street Cafe, Durham

The evening kicks off around 8 with Humble Tripe frontman Shawn Luby; 
the rock proper commences at rocktime (10:00, 10:30, whatever) with 
Greensboro shoegazers Citified, followed by Durham guitar-wallbuilders 
Free Electric State.



Saturday, May 8
The Moaners    (http://www.themoaners.com/)
Spider Bags    (http://www.myspace.com/spiderbags)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

There's a big article in this week's Indy about this show, and the 
rock-n-roll documentary that will be shot, in part, at it.

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/40-nights-of-rock-and-roll/Content?oid=1409772

But all you really need to know is that Spider Bags will fuckin slay you 
dead.



Saturday, May 8
American Bang    (http://www.americanbang.net)
Alberta Cross    (http://www.myspace.com/albertacross)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Saturday, May 8
Mosadi Music    (http://www.mosadimusic.com/)
The Physics of Meaning    (http://www.thephysicsofmeaning.com/)
Humble Tripe    (http://www.myspace.com/shawnluby)
The Pinhook, Durham



Saturday, May 8
Blood Red River    (http://www.myspace.com/bloodredriver)
Thee Dirtybeats    (http://www.myspace.com/ampsdofurnisharoom)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Sunday, May 9
The Physics of Meaning    (http://www.thephysicsofmeaning.com/)
Monologue Bombs    (http://www.myspace.com/themonologuebombs)
Magic Babies    (http://www.myspace.com/themagicbabies)
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

Special Sunday-night show at Tir Na nOg, featuring chamber-pop from the 
Physics of Meaning, tragic accordion-fueled tales of woe from Monologue 
Bombs, and Badfingery power-pop from the Magic Babies.



Sunday, May 9
Yip Yip    (http://www.yip-yip.com)
Cheezface
All Leather    (http://www.myspace.com/allleather)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, May 11
Earl Greyhound    (http://www.myspace.com/earlgreyhound)
OK Go    (http://www.okgo.net/)
Robert Francis
Lincoln Theater, Raleigh



Tuesday, May 11
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings 
(http://www.daptonerecords.com/pages/stable_sharon.html)
Fitz and the Tantrums    (http://fitzandthetantrums.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Tuesday, May 11
715 Collective
Teepee    (http://www.myspace.com/teepeease)
Standard Minerals
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, May 11
Jessica Lea Mayfield    (http://www.myspace.com/jlmayfield)
The Futurebirds    (http://www.myspace.com/thefuturebirds)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, May 11
Systems
Lord Mantis    (http://www.myspace.com/lordmantis)
Sons of Tonatiuh    (http://www.myspace.com/sonsoftonatiuh)
Reservoir, Carrboro



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