RTP-area local music and culture

[Ross Grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Friday, January 21 - Saturday, January 22
Death to False Hope Records Anniversary Party 
(http://motorcomusic.com/death-to-false-hope-schedule)
Motorco Music Hall, Durham

Death to False Hope Records is a free download-only web label. This is 
their giant 2nd-anniversary weekend extravaganza, taking place at the 
MotorCo and at Fullsteam. There's an article in the Indy this week about 
it. 
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/death-to-false-hope-records-scotty-sandwich-just-wants-youand-your-kidsto-listen/Content?oid=1966080

Here's the full lineup. http://motorcomusic.com/death-to-false-hope-schedule

Local highlights include Maple Stave, Red Collar, Hammer No More the 
Fingers, I Was Totally Destroying it & Sorry About Dresden playing 
back-to-back (they share a drummer, James Hepler), Last Year's Men, the 
Pneurotics and Pink Flag. Plus about 50 out-of-town punk bands.



Friday, January 21
Holy Ghost Tent Revival    (http://www.myspace.com/hgtr)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Friday, January 21
Megafaun    (http://www.myspace.com/megafaun)
The Tender Fruit    (http://www.myspace.com/thetenderfruit)
Kings, Raleigh

This is the first night of a 2-night stand for Megafaun at Kings, and 
also marks the debut of their new 4-piece lineup with the addition of 
ex-Ticonderoga / sometime Bowerbirds member Mark Paulson.



Friday, January 21
Clang Quartet    (http://www.myspace.com/clangquartet)
Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan    (http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com)
Remora    (http://www.silbermedia.com/remora/)
Boyzone    (http://www.myspace.com/boyszone)
Teeny Bopper
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

This is a party celebrating the 14th anniversary of the Clang Quartet. 
Scotty has been a drummer for a whole lot longer than that, but Clang is 
his longest-running, and clearly most dearly-held, project.



Friday, January 21
Heron    (http://www.reverbnation.com/heronrock)
Orobourus
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Saturday, January 22 - Sunday, January 23
Yo La Tengo    (http://www.yolatengo.com/)
William Tyler 
(http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/10/a-brief-history-of-william-tyler.html)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

This is a doubleheader for Yo La Tengo, and if you bought tickets for 
both nights, you're in luck, because the first YLT set of each night 
will consist of one of any number of concepts, selected at random by the 
spin of a giant Wheel of Fortune. Really. Read all about it at their 
website. http://www.yolatengo.com/news/november-3-2010/

Guitarist William Tyler is the adorably page-boy'd and be-hatted guitar 
player in Lambchop.



Saturday, January 22
Filthybird    (http://www.myspace.com/filthybird)
The Small Ponds
Mollybond
Pour House, Raleigh

Filthybird & the Small Ponds complement each other beautifully; they 
both make gorgeous, 70s-California influenced artpop, but where 
Filthybird tend to the psychedelic, dreamy, elegiac, the Small Ponds are 
more acerbic, like if Joe Henry wrote & performed duets. Highly recommended.



Saturday, January 22
Megafaun    (http://www.myspace.com/megafaun)
Cloudlines    (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cloudlines/127287017334676)
Kings, Raleigh

This is night two of a 2-night stand for Megafaun (and their second show 
overall as a newly-minted quartet w/Mark Paulson of Ticonderoga & 
Bowerbirds). Tonight is also the debut performance by opening band 
Cloudlines, who are a mix of old Triangle pros & fresh-faced 
"newcomers," one of whom has already caused an internet sensation with 
her electropop cover of Iron Maiden's "Wasted Years".

http://www.covermesongs.com/2010/11/mountain-goat-wife-gets-maidens-wasted-years-to-electropop.html



Saturday, January 22
Mandolin Orange    (http://www.myspace.com/mandolinorange)
Sinful Savage Tigers    (http://www.myspace.com/sinfulsavagetigers)
Alex Hall
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Saturday, January 22
The Hag    (http://www.myspace.com/thehagmusic)
Sadplant
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Saturday, January 22
Blood Red River    (http://www.myspace.com/bloodredriver)
The Villains
The Independents
DIVEbar, Raleigh



Sunday, January 23
The Jackets    (http://www.reverbnation.com/TheJackets)
Motorco Music Hall, Durham

This is another afternoon performance by current MotorCo 
artists-in-residence the Jackets; today they'll be joined by Django 
Haskins of the Old Ceremony.



Sunday, January 23
Barron    (http://www.myspace.com/barronnc)
Prisms    (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prisms/149546605087293)
Little Victory
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Monday, January 24
Spermcount    (http://spermcountspermcount.angelfire.com/)
Cerebral Ballzy    (http://www.myspace.com/cerebralballzy)
MUtX
Jenny and the Holzers    (http://www.myspace.com/jennyandtheholzers)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

One part of the Nightlight website says that this show starts at 11, but 
another part says that Monday Night Trivia is canceled due to this show, 
which would suggest it starts earlier.

In any case, you should know that Jenny and the Holzers are a NY 
poppy/punky/riot-grrly band who are 1/4 Dorothy Gambrell, the comix 
genius behind Cat and Girl (http://catandgirl.com/ ) as well as her 
remarkable & long-running catalog of stuff she bought with people's 
donations, Donation Derby. (http://catandgirl.com/dderby/ ) AND they are 
also 1/4 Mister Chen, Dorothy's partner-in-crime and designer of strange 
& remarkable t-shirts http://catandgirl.com/?page_id=71 (scroll down!).

Which means, among other things, that they should have some pretty boss 
t-shirts at the merch table.



Wednesday, January 26
A/V Geeks    (http://www.avgeeks.com)
Kings, Raleigh

Skip's theme this month sounds particularly juicy: "Temptations of a 
Christian Teen"



Wednesday, January 26
The Jackets    (http://www.reverbnation.com/TheJackets)
Motorco Music Hall, Durham

The Jackets continue their MotorCo residency.



Wednesday, January 26
Lonnie Walker    (http://www.myspace.com/lonniewalker)
Twin Tigers
The Toddlers    (http://www.myspace.com/thetoddlersmusic)
Local 506, Chapel Hill





Wednesday, January 26
Bear Hands    (http://www.myspace.com/bearhandsband)
Gentle Robot
The Pinhook, Durham



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