RTP-area local music and culture

[Ross Grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Wednesday, December 8
Crooked Fingers    (http://www.crookedfingers.com/)
Mount Moriah    (http://www.myspace.com/mountmoriah)
The Cotton Jones Basket Ride 
(http://www.myspace.com/thecottonjonesbasketride)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Per Heather, Mount Moriah this time out will be her, Jenks, Lee Waters, 
Phil Cook, Casey Toll, and Will Hackney. So don't miss it. NEVER miss a 
chance to see Lee play drums, in fact.



Wednesday, December 8
Jukebox the Ghost    (http://www.myspace.com/jukeboxtheghost)
The Meligrove Band
Dynamite Walls
The Casbah, Durham



Thursday, December 9 & Friday, December 10
Stroke It, Noel    (http://bigstarthird.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

These two shows were put together by Chris Stamey, whose career was 
clearly profoundly impacted by Big Star, from the dBs to his own time 
spent backing up a solo Alex Chilton, to so much of what he's done since.

So what this is, is a fully orchestrated play-through of Big Star's 
Third (Sister Lovers), featuring a bunch of local folks, plus Big Star 
drummer Jody Stephens, Mitch Easter, one or more REMers, etc.

Chris has been blogging about the experience of putting it all together 
at bigstarthird.com.



Thursday, December 9 - Saturday, December 11
The Great Cover-Up    (http://www.kingsbarcade.com)
Kings, Raleigh

This is it, the main reason that many people were so excited about the 
return of Kings. Raleigh in December just wouldn't be Raleigh in 
December without a bunch of local bands getting together to play short 
tribute sets to their own favorite bands. And the Cover-Up wouldn't be 
the Cover-Up without at least a half-assed stab at keeping the details 
of who's playing what, when, a secret. So I don't know anything else.



Thursday, December 9
Wylie Hunter    (http://www.myspace.com/wyliehunter)
Crowfield    (http://www.myspace.com/crowfieldmusic)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Thursday, December 9
Double Negative    (http://www.myspace.com/thedoublenegative)
Devour
9 Fingered Thug
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

Double Negative you know about. Nine Fingered Thug features ex Picasso 
Trigger bassist Sam Mintu, plus (I think) former members of Krapper 
Keeper & the Nein.



Thursday, December 9
Lost Trail
Nick Coward and the Last Battle    (http://www.myspace.com/nickcoward/music)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Thursday, December 9
Lam! Lam!    (http://www.myspace.com/lamlamband)
Heart of Glass
The Pinhook, Durham

This is a benefit for Girls Rock NC, which runs rock-n-roll summer camps 
for girls in the Triangle. Lam! Lam! is the one-woman pop-rock-a-thon of 
Pink Flag's Betsy Shane. Heart of Glass is THE Durham Blondie tribute band.



Friday, December 10
Tom Maxwell    (http://www.tommaxwell.com)
The Breaks    (http://www.reverbnation.com/thebreaksofpittsboro)
Bustello    (http://www.myspace.com/bustellomusic)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Bustello are the great twangy/reverby indierock band with Ben Clarke 
from Metal Flake Mother, local recordist extraordinaire John Plymale, 
and Jody Maxwell (ex-Gumption, a whole bunch of other bands).

The Breaks are also a bunch of longtime veterans, including tube-amp 
mastermind Steve Carr & ex-What Peggy Wants frontman John Ensslin.



Friday, December 10
Pipe    (http://www.mrg2000.com/merge/bio.html?id=pipe)
Caltrop    (http://www.myspace.com/caltropband)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Oh my. Heavy dirty messy beery oldschool punkrock from Pipe, plus heavy 
dirty stonery bluesy metal from Caltrop.



Friday, December 10
Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan    (http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com)
Jew(s) & Catholic(s)    (http://www.myspace.com/jewsandcatholics)
Thy Mighty Contract    (http://www.myspace.com/thymightycontract)
The Pinhook, Durham

Cantwell Gomez & Jordan are my favorite local band of all time. Nobody 
else is as lovably screwy. Nobody.



Friday, December 10
Thee Dirtybeats    (http://www.myspace.com/ampsdofurnisharoom)
The Old One Two    (http://www.reverbnation.com/theoldonetwo)
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Friday, December 10
Righteous Fool
Black Thai
DIVEbar, Raleigh



Saturday, December 11
Billy Warden & the Floating Children
Gene Ween    (http://www.ween.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Not just one of a handful of Billy Warden & the Floating Children shows 
since they broke up 20+ years ago, but an *acoustic* Billy Warden & the 
Floating Children show. The mind reels.



Saturday, December 11
Transportation    (http://www.myspace.com/transportation)
Fan Modine    (http://www.grimsey.com/fanmodine.html)
Wesley Wolfe
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Fan Modine is primarily a guy named Gordon Zacharias, who makes utterly 
disarming mid-fi bedroom pop that owes a clear (and freely admitted) 
debt to the Magnetic Fields. Not a bad place to begin. In a live 
context, it may or may not also include such local luminaries as Lee 
Waters, Ash Bowie, Michael Holland, and I dunno who-all else.



Saturday, December 11
American Aquarium    (http://www.americanaquarium.com/)
Motorco Music Hall, Durham



Saturday, December 11
Uncle Woody Sullender    (http://www.deadceo.com/unclewoody/)
Seamus Cater    (http://seacater.com/)
The Caribbean    (http://www.myspace.com/thecaribbean)
John Le Sueur
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Saturday, December 11
Kooley High    (http://www.myspace.com/kooleyhigh)
Carlitta Durand    (http://www.myspace.com/missdurand)
King Mez
HaLo    (http://mrbenready.tumblr.com)
Pour House, Raleigh



Monday, December 13
Justin Townes Earle    (http://www.justintownesearle.com/)
Caitlin Rose    (http://www.thecaitlinrose.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Monday, December 13
Wild Wild Geese    (http://www.myspace.com/wildwildgeesemusic)
The Young    (http://yyyooouuunnnggg.blogspot.com/)
Prisms    (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prisms/149546605087293)
2702 Lawndale, Durham



Tuesday, December 14
Elf Owl    (http://www.myspace.com/ohelfowl)
Barron    (http://www.myspace.com/barronnc)
Ryan Trauley    (http://www.myspace.com/ryantrauley)
Kings, Raleigh



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