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Thursday February 9 Grohg, Man Will Destroy Himself, HOG Tir Na Nog, Raleigh Local Band Local Beers goes full-on metal this week. photo: HOG at Troika 2011 permalink

Thursday February 9 Bleached, The Black Belles, Boykiller The Pinhook, Durham If you think there should be more space in local indie-pop for people to figure stuff out on their own, more room for simple melodies & goofy energy & songs about sex and eating, then Boykiller are the band you've been waiting for. If you ever loved a band on K Records, then Boykiller will melt your heart all over again. And then stomp on it while it's nice & gooey. photo: Theresa Stone - Boykiller - December 9, 2011 permalink

Thursday February 9 Sol Driven Train, Dangermuffin Pour House, Raleigh

Thursday February 9 Archbishops of Blount Street, The Tim Smith Band The Casbah, Durham

Thursday February 9 The Ill Family, Yandrew, The Hill and the Wood Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Thursday February 9 Big Daddy Love, The Real Nasty Local 506, Chapel Hill

Friday February 10 Stephanie's Id, The Old Ceremony Pour House, Raleigh The Old Ceremony's Django Haskins still writes songs of jaded lovers, ennui and cold calculation -- there's a reason the band is named after a Leonard Cohen album. But he also writes of passion, inspiration and hope in a decidedly non-world-weary manner. Hard not to be hopeful when fronting a band this great. photo: Django Haskins of The Old Ceremony - Hopscotch Music Festival - September 11, 2010 music in the groovo.org player: The Old Ceremony permalink

Friday February 10 Reptar, Casual Curious, Wowser Bowser, Other Colors Kings, Raleigh

Friday February 10 R. Mutt, Teenage Mysticism, Oh By Jingo Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Friday February 10 The Jealous Sound, Almost People Local 506, Chapel Hill

Friday February 10 P-90s, The Raging Nipple The Cave, Chapel Hill

Friday February 10 Harvey Dalton Arnold Blues Band The Casbah, Durham

Friday February 10 Gross Reality, Eugenic Death DIVEbar, Raleigh

Not enough for you? There are fun interactive maps to the clubs via the Google Maps API. Other ways to get this info: 1) The handheld-optimized version of the site, or a new simplified text version of this page, for you lo-fi fans. 2) An RSS feed. AND! A weekly oggcast! (OK, it's just my WXDU radio show.) 3) An iCal feed of all the listed shows, updated nightly. 4) This listing is posted once or twice a week to ch-scene, the mailing list which is itself a mirror of alt.music.chapel-hill. 5) For you web 2.0 fans, we have a facebook app *and* a Twitter account. 6) This amuses me:

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