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Friday July 10 Olympic Ass Kicking Team Sadlack's Heroes, Raleigh Facebook event page

Friday July 10 Feeble Minded Bull City Headquarters, Durham BCHQ is Dead, long live BCHQ! The Durham Bike Co-op has taken over the space full-time, but ultimately, the mix of events -- bike work, skills-shares, various meetings, and the occasional punkrock show -- is pretty similar to how it always was. Facebook event page

Friday July 10 Vibrant Green, Heavy Hometown Nightlight, Chapel Hill music in the groovo.org player: Vibrant Green Facebook event page

Friday July 10 Red Collar, A Rooster for the Masses, Rat Jackson, The Loners Local 506, Chapel Hill Night four of the Club is Open Fest, a weeklong festival of shows at a different Chapel Hill/Carrboro club each night. They're all big nights, but this one's really big: these are all topnotch local rockbands with a ton of fans. Arrive early, and don't plan on leaving. photo: Red Collar - 305 South - Feb 4, 2006 music in the groovo.org player: Red Collar, A Rooster for the Masses, The Loners video(s) on their page(s): A Rooster for the Masses Facebook event page

Saturday July 11 Joan Jett, The Ts, Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies, Schooner, I Was Totally Destroying It Outdoors, Downtown, Raleigh This is part of the Downtown Live series in Raleigh. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts headline at 9:00 or so. Before them, there's a giant stack of local music, including the straight-up rock-n-roll of the Ts, the skewed mope-pop of Schooner, the girl-group wall-of-sound of Violet Vector, and much more. Here's the full lineup: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - 9:00 PM I Was Totally Destroying It - 7:30 PM The T's - 6:30 PM Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies - 5:30 PM The Beast - 4:30 PM Schooner - 3:30 PM Panyelo - 2:00 PM The Bleeding Hearts - 1:45 PM Warning/FYI: Panyelo are a steel-drum band. music in the groovo.org player: Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies, Schooner, I Was Totally Destroying It video(s) on their page(s): I Was Totally Destroying It Facebook event page

Saturday July 11 American Aquarium, Future Kings of Nowhere, Filthybird, Nathan Oliver Cat's Cradle, Carrboro The final night of the Club is Open Fest. photo: Future Kings of Nowhere - Bull City Headquarters Grand Opening - March 10, 2007 music in the groovo.org player: Future Kings of Nowhere, Filthybird, Nathan Oliver video(s) on their page(s): Nathan Oliver Facebook event page

Saturday July 11 The Kinksmen, Some Girls Local 506, Chapel Hill Kinks tribute band meets Stones tribute band. Two tribute bands enter; only one may leave. This show, along with the Club is Open show at the Cradle, benefits the Tisch Cancer Research Center at Duke in tribute to Cy Rawls. Facebook event page

Saturday July 11 Invisible The Pinhook, Durham Invisible are from Greensboro; they build elaborate instruments, such as a homebrew sequencer made out of a giant spinning metal disc, into which pegs are inserted to trigger sounds. Or a hybrid piano/typewriter, in which typing on the typewriter makes music, and vice-versa.

Sunday July 12 The Ex-Monkeys WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham The Ex-Monkeys began, in the late 90s, as a live trip-hop band called Friend Side Monkey. One-third of that band moved to California, and the other two took a decade or so off to regroup & retool. Now they're back. The music's a little harder-edged (distorted guitar is a frequent component) but the core is still master turntablist Eddy Winstead (though now he's using the turntables to control a giant bank of samples), and the pulsing beats & basslines of Ian Shannon. It's all live, and you can hear it at 4:00 p.m. at 88.7 FM or wxdu.org. photo: Ex-Monkeys, Troika Music Festival 2008

Sunday July 12 Gospel Years, Endless Mike and the Beagle Club, Snakes Are We All Bull City Headquarters, Durham This show, like all BCHQ shows, is all-ages.

Sunday July 12 Abe Vigoda, Whatever Brains, Talbot Tagora Nightlight, Chapel Hill Whatever Brains are Buzzcocksy, but mostly in the sense that the Buzzcocks pushed the boundaries of how much fuzz you can lay over the top of a 2-minute popsong, and now 30 years later, Whatever Brains are still pushing at that same boundary (though it has moved to a drastically different place). photo: Whatever Brains, Pinhook, Durham, Feb. 12, 2009 Facebook event page

Monday July 13 Handsome Furs, Dri, Cinnamon Band Local 506, Chapel Hill Facebook event page

Tuesday July 14 Sam Quinn + Japan Ten, Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers Local 506, Chapel Hill

Tuesday July 14 Constrictor, Blix Reservoir, Carrboro Facebook event page

Not enough for you? There are fun interactive maps to the clubs via the Google Maps API. (Last time I checked, it worked everywhere except for IE. It even halfway works in IE, except for the really kewl "get directions" part, which is broken. Maybe one day I'll care enough to fix it. Until then, get a better browser.) 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) NEW! 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.

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