RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Saturday, May 29
The Moaners    (http://www.themoaners.com/)
Puritan Rodeo    (http://www.thepuritanrodeoshow.blogspot.com/)
New Town Drunks    (http://www.newtowndrunks.com/)
Dirty Little Heaters    (http://www.myspace.com/thedirtylittleheaters)
John Howie & the Sweethearts
The Cave, Chapel Hill

This is a wedding party *and* a rockshow:

8PM John Howie & the Sweethearts 
9PM New Town Drunks 
10PM Puritan Rodeo 
11PM The Moaners 
12PM Dirty Little Heaters 



Saturday, May 29
The Ts    (http://www.myspace.com/thettttt)
Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls
   (http://www.myspace.com/richardbacchus)
Doco
Multiples
Five Gallon Pale
Pour House, Raleigh

This is a benefit for folks flooded out in Nashville:

Midnight - Doco
11 pm - The T's
10 pm - Richard Bacchus & The Luckiest Girls
9 pm - Multiples
8pm - Five Gallon Pale



Saturday, May 29
Systems
Converge    (http://www.convergecult.com/)
Gaza    (http://www.myspace.com/gaza)
Black Breath    (http://www.myspace.com/blackbreath)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Saturday, May 29
Luego    (http://luegomusic.com/)
The Tomahawks    (http://www.myspace.com/jeffcrawfordmusic)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Saturday, May 29
Pneurotics    (http://www.myspace.com/pneurotics)
Lonnie Walker    (http://www.myspace.com/lonniewalker)
The Sweet Sacrifice    (http://www.myspace.com/thesweetsacrifice)
The Pinhook, Durham



Saturday, May 29
Goner    (http://www.gonertheband.com/)
North Elementary    (http://www.northelementary.com)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Sunday, May 30
The Light Pines    (http://www.myspace.com/lightpines)
She Wants Revenge    (http://www.shewantsrevenge.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Sunday, May 30
I Was Totally Destroying It
   (http://www.reverbnation.com/iwastotallydestroyingit)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is I Was Totally Destroying U2, the IWTDI tribute to U2. They're
really really good at it.



Tuesday, June 1
Jukebox the Ghost    (http://www.myspace.com/jukeboxtheghost)
Miniature Tigers    (http://www.myspace.com/miniaturetigers)
Free Energy    (http://www.myspace.com/freeenergymusic)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, June 1
The Hag    (http://www.myspace.com/thehagmusic)
Droids Attack    (http://www.myspace.com/droidsattack)
Reservoir, Carrboro



Wednesday, June 2
Of Montreal    (http://www.angelfire.com/ga/ofmontreal/)
Noot D'Noot    (http://www.nootdnoot.blogspot.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

This year's Of Montreal career rehab is coming via an unlikely (but
awesome) source: their collaboration with Janelle Monae on "Make the
Bus," an unlikely-but-awesome bit of Bolan/Bowieism from her new album
The Archandroid.



Wednesday, June 2
919Noise Showcase
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Nightlight says: "order to be determined... Sin Ropas (Chicago) / Bitter
Squarelips (aka Massive Masses but with an electro-noise bent to their
Southern blues) / Joe Hendrix (solo) / Drew Robertson (1/2 of Phon but
solo)"



Wednesday, June 2
Workday/School Night
Drink Up Buttercup    (http://www.myspace.com/drinkupbuttercupband)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Wednesday, June 2
Gambling the Muse    (http://www.myspace.com/gamblingthemuse)
Jeremy Blair from Effingham
Anna Rose Beck
Jack Sprat Cafe, Chapel Hill



Thursday, June 3
Lost in the Trees    (http://www.lostinthetrees.com)
ArtsCenter, Carrboro

This is a Planned Parenthood benefit.



Thursday, June 3
Cracker    (http://www.pitchatent.com)
Reverend Horton Heat    (http://www.reverendhortonheat.com/)
Legendary Shack*Shakers    (http://www.cockadoodledont.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Thursday, June 3
American Aquarium    (http://www.americanaquarium.com/)
Bright Young Things
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, June 3
Butterflies    (http://www.myspace.com/butterfliesnc)
Organos
Beard    (http://beardband.com/)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Thursday, June 3
Filthybird    (http://www.myspace.com/filthybird)
Monologue Bombs    (http://www.myspace.com/themonologuebombs)
The Tomahawks    (http://www.myspace.com/jeffcrawfordmusic)
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

Monologue Bombs are a side-project of Goner singer/keyboardist Scott
Phillips - they started as a solo accordion-and-voice thing, but have
since expanded significantly.

Filthybird used to be from Greensboro, but now they call the wilds of
Alamance home (guitarist Brian Haran & singer Renee Mendoza own a guitar
shop in downtown Graham). Their second full-length, Songs for Other
People, will be out in October on Holidays for Quince.



Thursday, June 3
En Serenade    (http://www.myspace.com/enserenade)
Supervision
Michael and His Garden    (http://www.myspace.com/michaelandhisgarden)
The Pinhook, Durham



Thursday, June 3
Pros & Cons
Phatlynx
The Station, Carrboro



Friday, June 4
Mono    (http://www.canal.ne.jp/~sound/mono/e_bio.html)
The Twilight Sad    (http://www.myspace.com/thetwilightsad)
Golden Belt, Durham

Tickets for this show are available via eTix. Longtime local soundman
John Koelle has been talking about booking shows into Golden Belt for a
long time now, but as far as I know this is his first major attempt in
that direction.

https://www.etix.com/ticket/online/venueSearch.jsp?venue_id=7106&h=eb016

Mono are epic instrumentalists from Japan; The Twilight Sad are from
Scotland and are at the noisy end of the shoegaze spectrum, I guess.



Friday, June 4
Birds & Arrows    (http://www.myspace.com/birdsandarrows)
Jordan & the Sphinx    (http://www.myspace.com/servant4good)
Humble Tripe    (http://www.myspace.com/shawnluby)
The Pinhook, Durham

The current state of the art in young local indie-influenced acoustic
music.



Friday, June 4
The Loners    (http://www.demonbeachrecords.com/loners.html)
Red Collar    (http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic)
Temperance League    (http://www.myspace.com/brucehazel)
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

It's First Friday, so Tir Na nOg doubles your weekly dose of local bands
with the unstoppable anthemic shout-along rock of Red Collar, plus the
death-defying garage-stomp of gtr/drums duo the Loners, along with
Charlotte's Temperance League.



Friday, June 4
Jucifer    (http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Vine/6452/)
Transient
Gloominous Doom    (http://www.myspace.com/lotsofdeadkids)
Casualty    (http://www.myspace.com/casualtyrocks)
Volume 11 Tavern, Raleigh



Friday, June 4
Gollum    (http://www.myspace.com/gollum)
Predecessor
DIVEbar, Raleigh



Saturday, June 5
Eyehategod    (http://members.nbci.com/travismitch/eyehategod/main.htm)
Black Tusk    (http://www.myspace.com/blacktusk)
Nachtmystium    (http://www.myspace.com/nachtmystium)
Withered    (http://www.myspace.com/withered)
Graves of Valor    (http://www.myspace.com/FROMGRAVESOFVALOR)
Volume 11 Tavern, Raleigh

Plus Haarp and Stripmines.



Saturday, June 5
Blood Red River    (http://www.myspace.com/bloodredriver)
Beloved Binge    (http://www.myspace.com/belovedbinge)
Sequoya    (http://www.myspace.com/sequoya)
Scientific Superstar    (http://www.myspace.com/scientificsuperstar)
Jeremy Blair from Effingham
The Pinhook, Durham

This is billed as "Misbehaved Faves Fast: A Benefit for Chris Pope" &
also features Somerset Frisby, Bitterman Barron and Mighty Good Ship
(formerly Princess and the Criminals), and Burlesque by: Hellcat Vixens.



Saturday, June 5
Erie Choir    (http://www.eriechoir.com)
D-Town Brass
Bustello    (http://www.myspace.com/bustellomusic)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

A cross-section of what makes Durham music so great: brass-heavy
dance-band meets reverb-laden gtr/bass/drums indierockabilly band of
veterans, meets heart-heavy troubadour.



Saturday, June 5
The Moaners    (http://www.themoaners.com/)
Holly Golightly    (http://www.hollygolightly.com/)
Pinche Gringo    (http://www.myspace.com/pinchegringoband)
The Cave, Chapel Hill

This show is about fifty times too big to really fit the Cave, in every
sense. 



Sunday, June 6
Anal Cunt    (http://www.myspace.com/analcuntband)
Wretched    (http://www.myspace.com/wretchednc)
Slaves to Addiction    (http://www.myspace.com/slavestoaddiction)
Squall    (http://www.myspace.com/squallband666)
Good Guy Dolls
Volume 11 Tavern, Raleigh

I'm kind of amazed to see Anal Cunt on the bill, given that frontman
Seth Putnam spent a big chunk of 2004-05 in a drug-induced coma (and/or
paralyzed in his bed after waking up). But then they've never been the
types to go down easy.

One of my favorite Chapel Hill moments of all time happened at an Anal
Cunt show, at the Lizard and Snake. At that time, the L&S had a partial
wall dividing the space down the middle, and near the front door there
was a sort of window/counter thing with a couple of barstools (it was a
small space, so Andy stuck seating anywhere he could).

Anal Cunt were onstage, doing their thing (30-second blast-bursts of
drums-and-guitar, with Seth jabbering nonsense into the mic), and a
fairly nicely-dressed couple came in & sat down at the stools there at
the little window/counter, directly facing the stage.

Before anyone knew exactly what was happening, Seth launched himself
from his perpetual onstage crouch, somehow managed to flip himself over
in midair, and landed on his back right in the middle of that
window/counter, whereupon momentum carried him across the counter and
into the laps of the couple, whose stools immediately dumped them over
backwards onto the floor, with sweaty gibbering insane Seth Putnam on
top of them.

It was awesome.



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