RTP-area local music and culture

[Ross Grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Thursday, February 10
Tapes'N'Tapes    (http://www.tapesntapes.com/)
Oberhofer    (http://www.myspace.com/oberhofermusic)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro



Thursday, February 10
Brian Blade    (http://www.brianblade.com/)
The Pinhook, Durham

Brian Blade is best-known as a jazz & session drummer who has played 
with folks like Bill Frisell, Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan & Joni Mitchell. 
He's played with Wayne Shorter for over a decade, and that's why he's in 
town this week.

But he's also recently written and recorded a suite of songs which mark 
his debut on guitar. And since he's been friends & worked with Daniel 
Lanois for ages, the album, Mama Rosa, sounds gorgeous. He'll be singing 
& playing songs from it (solo, I think) tonight.



Thursday, February 10
Birds of Avalon    (http://www.myspace.com/birdsofavalon)
Whatever Brains    (http://www.myspace.com/whateverbrains)
NAPS
Arbor Myst
Kings, Raleigh

This is the first of a two-night release party for the new DiggUpTapes 
Cassingles box set, which you can stream here. 
http://cassinglesvol1.bandcamp.com/

Each band listed will be doing an "experimental" set, including a 
promised "New Wave Set" from Whatever Brains. I dunno, they're already 
pretty fuckin New Wave.



Thursday, February 10
Americans in France    (http://www.myspace.com/americansinfrance)
Joe Hall
Motorco Music Hall, Durham

Joe Hall plays guitar for Hammer No More the Fingers. Not sure if he'll 
be 100% solo or if he has something else in mind.

Americans in France have been on a little bit of a hiatus from live 
shows, presumably in order to write/record. Hope that means we'll have 
an album from them this year; their thoroughly skewed debut, 
Pretzelvania, was one of my absolute favorites of 2009.



Thursday, February 10
Fan Modine    (http://www.grimsey.com/fanmodine.html)
Gray Young    (http://www.myspace.com/grayyoung)
The Big Picture
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

This week's Local Bands, Local Beers is focused on a particular beer: 
Fullsteam's new First Frost persimmon beer.



Thursday, February 10
Baths    (http://www.myspace.com/bathsmusic)
Braids    (http://www.myspace.com/braidsmusic)
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham



Thursday, February 10
Lud    (http://www.ludland.com/)
The Bastages    (http://www.reverbnation.com/thebastages)
Secular Joy
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

One of the most satisfying (and longest running) live bands in North 
Carolina, Lud, making one of their increasingly rare live appearances. 
And the debut of Secular Joy, featuring Mark Edwards and Billy Buckley 
(My Dad is Dead), Zeno Gill (The Sames), and Rob Koegler (Noncanon). 
Plus the Bastages, featuring a bunch of grizzled old punks who've been 
bashing out those three chords in one band or another since the 80s.

So damn glad that neither the old folks nor the young folks nowadays 
seem to buy into that bogus "rock is only for the young" notion.



Friday, February 11
Filthybird    (http://www.myspace.com/filthybird)
John Howie & the Sweethearts
The Honeycutters
Sarah Shook and the Devil
Billie Feather and the Hallway Waltz
The Cave, Chapel Hill



Friday, February 11
Birds & Arrows    (http://www.myspace.com/birdsandarrows)
ArtsCenter, Carrboro

This is a sort of "behind the music" play-through of the songs from the 
upcoming Birds & Arrows album, complete with interview/conversation 
hosted by Tom Maxwell.



Friday, February 11
Embarrassing Fruits    (http://www.myspace.com/embarrassingfruitsband)
Lonnie Walker    (http://www.myspace.com/lonniewalker)
Fat Camp    (http://fatcampband.blogspot.com)
Bubbly Mommy Gun
Kings, Raleigh

Second of a two-night release party for the DiggUpTapes Cassingles box 
set. Yes, cassingles. For now, at least, you can also listen to a 
digital stream here. http://cassinglesvol1.bandcamp.com/



Friday, February 11
Fontana    (http://www.myspace.com/fontana1)
Shipwrecker    (http://www.myspace.com/shipwreckermuzak)
Phil Cook and his Feat
The Casbah, Durham

In classic Durham fashion, the Casbah seems to be settling into a dual 
role: home of brutal, blistering Metal, and home of alt-country & weird 
Americana like tonight's bill. They seem to be doing well at both, so by 
god, more power to 'em.



Friday, February 11
Blood Red River    (http://www.myspace.com/bloodredriver)
The Nondenoms
Bad Idea
Southern Hostility    (http://www.reverbnation.com/southernhostilitync)
Motorco Music Hall, Durham



Friday, February 11
Pipe    (http://www.mrg2000.com/merge/bio.html?id=pipe)
The Breaks    (http://www.reverbnation.com/thebreaksofpittsboro)
The Bastages    (http://www.reverbnation.com/thebastages)
Local 506, Chapel Hill

Since the kids are all busy playing artpop with flutes & violins & shit, 
it's apparently up to the old fogeys -- those of us who remember the 
Reagan Administration -- to keep the punkrock dream alive. Or something 
like that.



Friday, February 11
Brand New Life    (http://www.myspace.com/thebrandnewlife)
Lizzy Ross    (http://www.reverbnation.com/lizzyross)
Diali Cissohko    (http://www.koraanddrums.com/)
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Friday, February 11
Lam! Lam!    (http://www.myspace.com/lamlamband)
Janzig    (http://www.facebook.com/janzigxo)
The Pinhook, Durham

What do a lady-Danzig cover band and Pink Flag guitarist Betsy-Shane's 
dancey-pop solo project Lam!Lam! have in common? This show.



Friday, February 11
North Elementary    (http://www.northelementary.com)
The Moaners    (http://www.themoaners.com/)
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh



Friday, February 11
Static Minds
The Campaign 1984    (http://www.myspace.com/thecampaign1984)
DIVEbar, Raleigh



Saturday, February 12
The Sammies    (http://www.myspace.com/thesammies)
I Was Totally Destroying It 
(http://www.reverbnation.com/iwastotallydestroyingit)
Free Electric State    (http://www.myspace.com/freeelectricstate)
Wesley Wolfe
Motorco Music Hall, Durham

It's IWTDI keyboardist/singer Rachel Hirsh's 21st birthday. Please to 
request their electro-pop cover of "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary 
Craft." I can only assume that once she's drunk enough, they'll play it.



Saturday, February 12
The Infamous Sugar    (http://www.myspace.com/theinfamoussugar)
Rocket Cottage
Natural Science
Kings, Raleigh



Saturday, February 12
Gross Reality
Possessor
DIVEbar, Raleigh



Sunday, February 13
The Mason's Apron
Motorco Music Hall, Durham

This kicks off a new Artist-in-Residence cycle with a new local 
bluegrass supergroup, or something, The Mason's Apron. Also a food 
trailer outside with duck-fat tater tots. Rocker-brunchtime, which is to 
say around 2pm.



Sunday, February 13
Juan Huevos    (http://www.myspace.com/juanhuevos)
Motor Skills
Veelee    (http://www.myspace.com/seeveelee)
Kings, Raleigh

Second anniversary of Veelee's debut. They've had quite a run so far, 
and they just keep getting better. Their full-length debut, 2010's "The 
Future Sight," is one of those that just keeps getting deeper the more 
you listen. Repetition = good, in all senses, with Veelee.



Sunday, February 13
Sugar Glyder    (http://www.myspace.com/sugarglyder)
The Ethnographers    (http://www.myspace.com/theethnographers)
Hadwynn    (http://www.myspace.com/hadwynn)
Future Ghosts    (http://www.myspace.com/futureghosts)
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Monday, February 14
Shannon Wright    (http://www.southern.com/southern/band/SHAWR/)
Yann Tiersen    (http://www.yanntiersen.com/)
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Shannon Wright has been making great mysterious uncompromising music for 
the past 15-20 years. Yann Tiersen is from France & has apparently been 
doing the same in his home country, though it's only the past 5-10 that 
anyone in the US has noticed. He & Shannon recorded an album together in 
2004.



Monday, February 14
Darwin Deez
The Toddlers    (http://www.myspace.com/thetoddlersmusic)
Friends
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Tuesday, February 15
Love Hangover
Kings, Raleigh

One of the longer-running musical traditions in the Triangle, the Love 
Hangover was started by Richard Alwyn & some of his buddies back in the 
90s sometime. Says on the web that this is the 12th Annual. The basic 
concept is that of duets, frequently new/novel pairings, and songs that 
may be about love, but maybe not about the parts of love that people 
write songs about.

The pairings:
Ashley Carter & Jeff Crawford
Abby Nardo & Seamus Kenney
Christy Smith & Patrick Phelan
Billie Karel & Scott Phillips
Caroline Mamoulides & Dave Kepford



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